Talk:Padang Panjang

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Oh please! im soo tired to change padangpanjang city name into the right written name as it should be.Everytime i change it into the right names, administrators always canceled it and instantly it become "Padang Panjang" again (separated)...this is wrong!.

Padangpanjang city should be written NOT separated, as "Padangpanjang"...this is the right written of Padangpanjang.

Padangpanjang should NOT written separated as "Padang Panjang"...thats wrong!.

Please look to [indonesian wikipedia] for further recommendation about padangpanjang written names!.

Since i am not administrator in this en.wikipedia, please somebody help me to change the name into the right one it should be, there's so much pages written to the wrong name....it shoud be refer to "Padangpanjang", this is the right name.Somebody plz help to clear this case.

Thanks for your cooperation.Hendry Allen 06:25, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The official Indonesian government websites refer to the city as "Padang Panjang" not "Padangpanjang" - see http://www.bps.go.id/~sumbar/govern11.html , http://www.bps.go.id/~sumbar/ujiweb/UHOME/UINDEX.CFM?UHOME=111 and http://www.sumbarprov.go.id/home/detail.asp?iData=64&iCat=297&iChannel=28&nChannel=1.%20Profile%20Daerah. for example. In addition, this seems true of newspapers like The Jakarta Post - see http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20041122.F04 (Caniago 09:16, 23 March 2006 (UTC))[reply]

How about rewording the opening sentence to

Padang Panjang (or Padangpadang in Bahasa Indonesia, literally, "'long field'") is located in the cool highlands of West Sumatra.....

--Dodo bird 12:43, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've made a similiar type of change to the document to list Padangpanjang as an alternate spelling.

--Caniago 13:14, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]