Talk:Narva

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Tammbeck in topic American English

POV linking edit

"Russian residents nowadays are happy with their status as Estonian citizens and live peacefully alongside their compatriots.[15]"

This is clearly POV and link 15 sources an opinion piece. There is no place for this on Wikipedia.

90.191.38.239 (talk) 14:46, 7 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

Untitled edit

There should be ethnic statistics from before Estonian independence, as Narva, in my understanding anyway, was a predominantly Slavic city for quite a long period of time. - Crocodilicus — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.62.63.6 (talkcontribs) 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Russian equivalent edit

Should we give it? On the one hand, Estonian is the sole official language. On the other, some 90% of inhabitants speak and think of Нарва, not Narva. Thoughts? Biruitorul 07:43, 25 October 2006 (UTC)Reply


The claim that Narva had a Russian majority before WW2 is incorrect. According to 1934 census the share of ethnic Russians in the then city of Narva (including both today's Narva and Ivangorod) was 29.7%. --3 Löwi 19:56, 7 June 2007 (UTC)Reply


Table 5: THE POPULATION OF ESTONIA'S MAJOR CITIES BY ETHNIC GROUP; 1934

City Estonians Russians Germans Jews TOTALS

Tallinn 85.8 5.8 4.8 1.6 100%* (137,792)

Tartu 88.0 4.5 4.6 1.6 100%* (58,876)

Narva 64.8 29.7 2.1 0.8 100%* (23,512)

Pärnu 90.8 2.3 4.3 1.2 100%* (20,334)

Valga 82.4 3.4 1.3 2.4 100%* (10,842)

Total Urban Population* 85.5 6.9 4.1 1.3 100%* (323,007)

   * Note: Columns will not total to 100% because not all ethnic groups are shown in the table.

Also, not all cities in Estonia are shown in the table. Source: Riigi Statistika Keskbüroo, Rahvastikuprobleeme Eestis [Volume 4, 1934 census]

The HIV epidemic in Narva should be mentioned. 10% of the city's youth are infected with HIV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.137.148.230 (talk) 13:47, 15 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

American English edit

Estopedist1 has moved the "American English" tag from the talk page to the main article with a hidden message that this needs to be checked by a "language expert". The article is indeed written using American spellings such as "favorable", "center" and "defenses". If there are no objections I propose to restore the tag to its more usual site on the talk page. Tammbecktalk 06:36, 4 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Tammbeck: rather overwrite these few words and we can delete this ugly infoclutter (= template:American English) at all--Estopedist1 (talk) 06:41, 4 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Estopedist1 I would have no objection to that. Tammbecktalk 06:55, 4 September 2021 (UTC)Reply