Talk:Calgary

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The cutoff for a warm-summer humid continental climate (Dfb) is to have the warmest month be below 22 degrees. The cutoff for a no-dry-season subarctic climate (Dfc) to have 1-3 warm months above 10 degrees. Considering Calgary’s warmest month (July) is 16.5 degrees. How would that not make the whole city be in a warm-summer humid continental climate? (16.5 is closer to 22 than 10.) The source shown describing Calgary’s climate is of Springbank Airport, which is not the normal place that the city measures temperature, and if we use the Calgary International Airport, it shows the July temperature being 16.5 degrees. NameStuffs (talk) 18:58, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

@NameStuffs 16.5 being closer to 10 than to 22 is irrelevant; that's not really how the Köppen system works. As you said, the city needs to have at most 3 months over 10C to qualify for a subarctic climate. Calgary Int. Airport has 4 months over, so it's not Dfc. And it wouldn't matter if another station had a mean temp of 16.5: If it also has temps above 10C for 4 months, it's not subarctic. The second station in the article does in fact have 3 months, and so does qualify. Uness232 (talk) 17:24, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Fair enough, but as a note, when the 1991-2020 temperature data for Springbank Airport is (released?), the climate classification may change also to a Dfb climate, if May and/or September become warmer than 10 degrees. NameStuffs (talk) 18:41, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

I am sorry because it may appear that I am constantly wondering about this page, but an issue I noticed is that according to Environment Canada at this page, they are not publishing the climate data for Springbank Airport. NameStuffs (talk) 19:10, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Do not mind this; I will place this in the talk page for Springbank’s weatherbox instead. NameStuffs (talk) 22:18, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

The word "Largest" is mentioned FOUR times in first paragraph alone. It comes off as insecure, sad, and desperate. I get it, local editors are proud of their city and maybe they are trying to "pump up its tires" a bit. But it is very excessive, especially for a city which really isn't that large. 2607:FEA8:C264:100:34:921A:B61A:4E5 (talk) 04:08, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Agree sounds like it's written for a child we can do much better then making it sound like a pop culture icon ...the best the biggest the largest etc. we'll take a stab at this in the next few days. Moxy🍁 04:37, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

I’m an editor who does live here, and I do agree with these changes, but I feel that the lead itself should be reworded, except I’m not sure what. Should we redo the entire lead? For example, Edmonton doesn’t even mention population until a few paragraphs in. NameStuffs (talk) 19:15, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Recently, I uploaded an audio file of my voice to Calgary's Wikipedia page to help with pronunciation. Unfortunately, my edit was removed by CodeTalker because it was different from the given IPA. I'm not really sure what IPA means, but I felt strongly that this page needed to let readers know how to pronounce "Calgary" correctly. Also, CodeTalker said I threw in the audio in without explanation. Obviously, that's not true. If you look at my edit, you can clearly see that I did give an explanation: "Added an audio file that teaches readers how to pronounce “Calgary” properly". Idrinkpetrol45 (talk) 02:17, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

IPA is the International Phonetic Alphabet. The article already has a pronunciation using the IPA (/ˈkælɡəri/), and that pronunciation has a reference to dictionary.com. That is the 3-syllable pronunciation most commonly used by non-natives. When I said that the audio file was added "without explanation", I meant that there was no explanation in the text of the article. After your addition, a reader would see the 3-syllable IPA pronunciation, and then if they clicked on the audio file, they would hear a 2-syllable pronunciation that is different from the IPA. There was no explanation of why there were two different pronunciations given. I don't object to adding the audio file, but if it is added, there should also be a matching IPA (thus two IPAs) and there should be a sourced explanation of why there are two different pronunciations (for example, to something like . Neither pronunciation is "incorrect"; both are in common use. CodeTalker (talk) 16:09, 23 September 2025 (UTC)