Talk:Chile

Edit request on 6 April on 2013

By might or by right is bullshit! It is By Reason or by Strength, the needlessly long comment below explains that.

_This is a signature FFS_ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.203.23.219 (talk) 00:52, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Taken care of.

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The motto is gravely mistranslated/EDIT REQUEST something...

I know little about how Wikipedia works, so excuse me if I do something wrong, but I can easily see when wikipedia does something wrong, which is another thing...

"Por razon o por fuerza". Simply means by reason or by strength. How can the translator(s) not understand that reasoning is completely different than "by right", you can claim right to the world, while reasoning relates far more to common sense and the rights it alone incorporates.

As for fuerza, it means strength rather than might, and while might is a far menacing "warlike" word and associated as such, strength means everything from the strength to stand together, to help each other, and even the strength to refrain from war and rather work out things by reasoning.

Wikipedia, I expect better, Chile`s motto has nothing to do with "by right or might" which is a common English expression but simply that it will use reasoning and strength to achieve its goals, which is FAR different.

The page is locked and I have no idea how to unlock it, but feel free to change it after confirming my claims, and understand that while I was born in Norway, and know little about Chile, I am a acclaimed Spanish teacher and my genes and half of my soul belongs to Chile.

Please confirm my claims and change it afterwards, as I can assure you that I know what I am talking about, and cannot help but to feel offended, that is my fault, but unnecessary by both what Wikipedia represents, and even more important, its standards.

Edit: To further assist in changing this, I can reveal that By right, is properly translated "por derecho", while might is properly translated "poder", and unless the Spanish meaning is gravely mistranslated, well... we can all see that it does not say "Por derecho, O poder" in the spanis motto does it?

My point is that this miss-translation makes it sound like Chile will either claim right to whatever, and if that does not work, it will use raw power to get said "claim"... excuse my language but HELL NO! It is saying it will use reason, or strength, please understand, and please get it right, I never knew I cared about a country I have only seen on tv, but this also makes me doubt Wikipedia, which is new to me.

Fix it, for wikipedia, for Chile, for understanding, or should I say, for reason and strength... heheh... enough of me thank you in advance.

80.203.23.219 (talk) 10:21, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Easter Island

A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai (play /ˈmoʊ.aɪ/), created by the early Rapanui people. It is a World Heritage Site (as determined by UNESCO) with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park. In recent times the island has served as a cautionary tale about the cultural and environmental dangers of overexploitation. Ethnographers and archaeologists also blame diseases carried by European colonizers and slave raiding[4] of the 1860s for devastating the local peoples.

Easter Island is claimed to be "the most remote inhabited island in the world"

Easter Island shares with Juan Fernández Islands the sui generis constitutional status of "special territory" of Chile, granted in 2007. As of that time a special charter for the island was under discussion: therefore it continued to be considered a province of the Valparaíso Region and containing a single commune (comuna). This is unique in Chile, since all other provinces consist of more than one commune. Both the province and the commune are called Isla de Pascua and encompass the whole island and its surrounding islets and rocks, plus Isla Salas y Gómez, some 380 km (236 mi) to the east.

See also: list of islands of Chile Provinces of Chile

Note - The Chile Article does not have any live links to the Easter Island article. If a section to Chile is not added for Easter Island then at least the references should be made as active links to the Wiki article.

Edit request on 12 January 2013

Under the history of this page, towards the end, when the article discusses the current status of the chilean government, there is a spelling error of the word "communist" . It is currently "communisty"

Eoxixis (talk) 17:25, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for catching it. --Jnorton7558 (talk) 17:37, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Edit Request: Update on Free Trade Agreements

I am preparing a case study on Chile and the Free Trade Agreements of Chile look like out-dated.

For example, in 2011, there is a new Free Trade Agreement between the Republic of Turkey and the Republic of Chile which was signed on 14 July 2009 in Santiago and entered into force on 1 March 2011.

http://www.economy.gov.tr/index.cfm?sayfa=tradeagreements&bolum=fta&country=CL&region=0

Area

The addition of the 53 provinces (withour Antarctica) = 788,323.7 km². The area of Chile in the Wikipedia main article is 756,096.3 km². Which area is correct? (User: Gary) 23:03, 29 March 2013 (UTC+1) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.218.0.117 (talk)

i don't know

Update needed

The information of the 2012 census has been published so this article needs to be updated in many ways. http://www.censo.cl Here is everything. --Tommy The Wise (talk) 23:56, 2 April 2013 (UTC) "Demographics" need particulary update.

The ethnicity of the Chilean people.

In the ethnic groups section of the article I'd like to request a change to: Chile white and white-Amerindian 95%, Amerindian 3%, other 2%

The percentages change every day due to birth and immigration, so I think it best to adjust the ethnicity to White and White-Amerindian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foxpoligraphic (talk • contribs) 19:17, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Read more: Ethnicity and Race by Countries | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0855617.html#ixzz2PsOhmZDJ

Edit Citation.

Citation number 17 returns a broken link that redirects to the Hoempage of the UN or the UN human developement homepage or whatever. I believe the page that was originally cited was moved to here: http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/CHL.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frazier90 (talk • contribs) 02:10, 6 May 2013 (UTC)