Talk:Big Pasture Plateau
Latest comment: 5 years ago by Doremo in topic Why is the name in English?
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The full article is found here: Velika Planina. Please combine between them and create a Redirext.
84.228.189.173 (talk) 20:19, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- This is a misunderstanding. Velika Planina is a settlement and the Big Pasture Plateau (Slovene: Velika planina) is a geophysical feature on which the settlement is located. Combining them would be like combining New York State and New York City. Doremo (talk) 16:00, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Why is the name in English? edit
Why is this article titled "Big Pasture Plateau"? Geographic names are not typically translated unless that translation is well-established, and in this case, practically no English-language sources use (or have ever used) "Big Pasture Plateau." Clearly, the article should be reverted to the original "Velika Planina (plateau)."
After all, we do not refer to the Sahara as the "Great Desert," the Altai as the "Mountains of Gold," the Sierra Nevada as the "Mountains of Snow," etc. 142.147.59.201 (talk) 16:24, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
- The article cites sources (including one from the prominent journal Acta geographica Slovenica) for the English name used in this English WP article. There appear to be plenty of other instances of the English name online. As for Sahara etc., see WP:OTHERSTUFF (as counterexamples, we refer to Dōng Hú as East Lake, Hóng Hé as the Red River, and Bādiyat al-Shām as the Syrian Desert). Doremo (talk) 16:39, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
- Acta Geographica Slovenica is published in Slovenia and does not necessarily reflect the common or the preferred use in English-language sources. Virtually no English-language sources outside Slovenia, whether popular or scholarly, use the term "Big Pasture"; in fact, the translated form appears to be a rather obscure neologism. This is in stark contrast to place names such as Red River, which are well-established in English. 142.147.59.201 (talk) 16:50, 21 April 2019 (UTC)