Talk:Allegheny River
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[edit] Name origin and spelling
I rewrote a recently added bit about the origin of the word "Allegheny". A blog was used as a reference, which goes against WP:RS. I also moved the info to the intro rather than a "trivia" section. The name's origin doesn't seem trivial to me, specially since it gave rise to many hundreds of other places and regions named Allegheny.
I also added a "citation needed" to the claim that the river is sometimes spelled "Allegany". While there are several ways of spelling the word, they apply to other things with that named -- counties, mountains, and so on. The river itself is just the Allegheny River as far as I know. Every map I can find shows the name as "Allegheny", including New York specific maps. The USGS GNIS placename database usually lists variant names, but gives none at all for the Allegheny River.[1]
I also added a References section -- the page could use some! Pfly 05:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
