Talk:Alba County
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Move to Alba County
harmonize, see: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Subnational_entities/Naming#Current use
other counties of Albania are already in that form.
Tobias Conradi 22:58, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Hi Tobias! Moving a page is not the whole story. See Talk:Geography of Romania. Regards Gangleri | Th | T 16:31, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
- It's called Alba, not Alba County so I oppose the move. violet/riga (t) 20:38, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. violet/riga (t) 20:38, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
should be Alba County, compare other county articles at: Category:Counties of Romania Tobias Conradi (Talk) 10:24, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
- I agree to rename the article to Alba County to have an uniform namespace for the counties in Ro. --Orioane 10:41, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)
in accordance with Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) page,
paragraph 2.
The lead: The title can be followed in the first line by a list of alternative names in parenthesis: {name1, name2, name3, etc.}. Any archaic names in the list (including names used before the standardization of English orthography) should be clearly marked as such, i.e.: (name1 arch.). Relevant foreign language names[3] are permitted and should be listed in alphabetic order of their respective languages, i.e.: (Armenian: name1, Belarusian: name2, Czech: name3). Alternatively, all alternative names can be moved to and explained in a names section immediately following the lead. In this case, the redundant list of the names in the article's first line should be replaced with the following text: (known also by several alternative namesNames). Once such a section or paragraph is created, the alternative English or foreign names should not be moved back to the first line.
Definition
^ The geographic location is considered to have a single widely accepted English name in modern context (swaEn) if the following two conditions are satisfied simultaneously: The English-language encyclopedias (Encyclopedia Britannica, Columbia Encyclopedia and Encarta) consistently use this name in all articles where the corresponding location is mentioned in modern context. This name obtains the largest number (75% or more of total hits considering all possible variants) of Google Scholar and Google Books hits (count only articles and books, not number of times the world is used in them) when searched over English language articles and books where the corresponding location is mentioned in modern context. If the name of the location coincides with the name of another entity, care should be taken to exclude inapropriate pages from the count.
internet hits returned 11.800 results of "Hargita county" and 154 000 results of "Harghita county". English encyclopedias consistently use the name "Harghita county"
there was a voting meant to settle this problem, concluded with 5 votes in favour of providing the HU names against 2. the relevancy of that vote is reduced to 7 people voting,
considering the relevancy of English Encyclopedias and Wikipedia naming conventions
i here by remove the names of hungarian administrative divisions provided as alternates for names of romanian administrative divisions from the lead of the article. refer to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) for any debate on this matter Criztu 08:27, 10 July 2006 (UTC)criztu
[edit] Derivation of the name
Does anybody know the derivation or etymology of the name "Alba"?--William Thweatt Talk | Contribs 04:30, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- See Etymological list of counties of Romania. Khoikhoi 04:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
