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So...what does Longyearbyen mean? My guess is "Town of the Long Year", but the article says it was named after John Longyear, which is English...so is it "The Longyear Town"? Does anyone know? Tomer TALK 21:39, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
I changed the first line to read "population of about 1900" from 1700 based on the Gov. of the Islands official website. rhmoore 08:49, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps the Longyearbyen lokalstyre (local government) coat of arms should be added together with an infobox? -- Nidator 11:37, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
I updated the population of Alert, NU, Canada and added a reference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ftcnt ( talk • contribs) 16:05, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
90,000 passengers in a year? Is there a source for this? It seems very high for such a small population. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.99.59 ( talk) 13:49, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Statistics from Avinor can be found here: http://avinor.no/en/avinor/traffic/10_Traffic+statistics —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.191.4.66 ( talk) 10:39, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7501691.stm
I would have thought the fact that dying is illegal in this town should be mentioned —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.68.137.253 ( talk) 14:20, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Someone do not trust the BBC, I say they should provide a more reliable source saying it is legal to die there. if not I will put the sentence back in the artcile.
Ok, i took the 3 minutes to email the office of the Governor of Svalbard asking for clarification and this is response i received.
From: xxx@sysselmannen.no Subject: VS: Question concerning statutes on Longyearbyen Date: February 17, 2009 11:18:06 AM CEST To: loki@xxxx Hello Loki Thank you for your email. I will try to answer it: It is not forbidden to die in Longyearbyen. But the Norwegian government does not wish to organize the community so that people, who are so old that they need help and nursing, can stay here. There is no public domiciliary care here. All inhabitants in Longyearbyen have to keep an address on the main land, and when they get old and need help and nursing from the society, they have to move back to the main land. Med vennlig hilsen / Best regards Liv Asta Ødegaard Informasjonsrådgiver/Information Adviser -----Opprinnelig melding----- Fra: loki der quaeler [mailto:loki@xxx] Sendt: 16. februar 2009 17:32 Til: Firmapost Emne: Question concerning statutes on Longyearbyen Hello, I'm attempting to edit a Wikipedia article concerning Longyearbyen and there is some dispute concerning a BBC article done in July, 2008 which stated that "It is forbidden to die in the Arctic town of Longyearbyen.". Could you provide some clarification on this? Is there an actual current law which makes the act of dying in that town a criminal action? If so, could you point me to an online link giving the text of the law (Norsk would be acceptable, though of course English would be preferable). Thank you for any assistance, loki
So it looks like this is a non-issue; it's not forbidden to die (so, also, do not edit Prohibition of death). Quaeler ( talk) 11:00, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
The Longbearbyen Municipal Council was set up. There is a website. Some section about this should be put in. Also in the Svalbard article. Thank you- RFD ( talk) 17:02, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
I have checked the average daily high in Longyearbyen in July, using the data from Norwegian Meteorological Institute, which has made their data available at eKlima for everyone, you only need to establish an account. I used data for Longyearbyen from 1961-1976 (discontinued) and Svalbard airport 1977 -1990 (the airport is close to the town, 1961-90 is the internationally agreed base period). These are the official weather stations, and the data showed that: The average daily high in July for these 30 years was 8.6 C on average (see Geography of Norway). Warmest year was 1979, with average high of 11.7 C and the coldest was 1963 with average high of 6.6 C. Some of the latest years have been very warm so a later base period would almost certainly give warmer average high. So, why is the table wrong? Is it based on data from other weather stations, like Sveagruva? Orcaborealis ( talk) 19:53, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Grandiose ( talk · contribs) 20:29, 19 April 2012 (UTC) Fortunately I won't be able to say much: the article is in very good shape. I've tweaked the lead, please review these changes if you can.
If you could just give other sources a look, then I'm happy to pass. (On hold.) Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 20:29, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
The article states "The congregational hall is 126 km2 (49 sq mi) while the sitting room is 112 km2 (43 sq mi).". 126 square km sounds a bit large for a church. Pictures of it seem to show a church of fairly normal size, but I can't find any reference on the exact size. Could it perhaps be 126 square _meters_? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mreftel ( talk • contribs) 13:41, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
I'll just leave this right here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/world/europe/a-harsh-climate-calls-for-banishment-of-the-needy.html Gamaliel ( talk) 18:59, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Eleven of the houses in the main picture of this article were destroyed by an avanlance that killed two people on December 19th 2015 (the two rows to the right, closest to the mountain side), so it should probably be replaced with a more up to date image.
Source: http://svalbardposten.no/index.php?page=vis_nyhet&NyhetID=6732 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.150.57.114 ( talk) 21:13, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
The article says "20 residents of the town are members of the Liverbirds Svalbard and regularly meet in the Svalbar on match days during the winter months." Could this sentence be amended to explain what the "Liverbirds Svalbard" is? Not everybody would know. I didn't. Sadiemonster ( talk) 03:29, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
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The IPA transcription in this article seems off, as I've never heard it pronounced like [jiː], only [jeː]. Can anyone confirm this pronunciation?
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I have made a weather box with the new official 1991-2020 climate normals, data from met.no I also changed the claim about mildest part of Svalbard, as it is the west coast (not just Nordenskiold land) that is mildest (except for Bear Island). I hope the avg high/low will soon be released so they can be added. Also I suggest the 2000-2017 weather box be removed, and the last one with precipitation, as those have no purpose any longer, and there are too many weather boxes here now. Orcaborealis ( talk) 17:20, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
The bibliography was removed in 2016 with this edit. That was over 4 years ago. I put it back in a "new" references section. I moved the existing "references" to "notes."
The question is, how did this manage to not be sent to good-article-review with many of the references/notes rendered meaningless by the missing bibliography? davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 05:22, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
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The infobox map seems to be glitching and showing Longyearbyen in the wrong place. It also seems to change location based on which map you show/hide. Is that happening for anyone else? Relinus ( talk) 21:27, 9 August 2023 (UTC)