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requested move

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the . Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Result: Limited evidence/support for new title "Lake Müritz", restoring previous title "Müritz". 8 March 2008 -- User:Docu


just "Müritz" seems to be the more common english name.

google scholar hits:

"lake-Müritz water -waren -röbel -graal -hydro-jet" : 8 [1]
"Müritz water -waren -röbel -graal -hydro-jet" : 106 [2]

This query actually includes a number of "Müritz basin"-like results, so I would like to see a comment of a native english speaker (without COI) here. Yaan (talk) 19:28, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    • Incorrect. As per wiki guidelines, the name should be in English. It even refers to the name in the article. More information can be found here, where it states It is Wikipedia convention to emphasize alternate names at first use, normally in the first line. It is customary to bold the article title name, and its frequently used English language synonyms, and to italicize foreign or historic names represented in Roman script On a side note, there is not such resistance from Spanish or Italian users to have lake names under "Lago" - because proper translation is to "Lake" Rarelibra (talk) 15:35, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Care to tell where one can find the "see" in "Müritz"? Btw. the language is called "German". Yaan (talk) 11:53, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Google Books gives practically equal results for Lake Müritz and the Muritz. Google Scholar favors the Müritz over Lake Müritz. Many of the former are references to the Müritz National Park, which not known as Lake Müritz National Park. Given the lack of overwhelming evidence, my recommendation is to restore the previous title. Olessi (talk) 01:52, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.