Talk:Codru (forest)

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Not questioning the correctness of the rewritten article, I would like to see the comment about the term Codri Hills (Podişul Codrilor) while filling this gap in the article Geography of Moldova. In fact I created this (as you say wrong) stub from the supposedly reputable source, EB article. If EB is wrong, ours may be added to our hall of fame it this tug-of war WP vs EB :-). And to edit Geography of Moldova correspondingly. `'юзырь:mikka 23:23, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Podişul Codrilor is ok in Romanian, b/c literaly it means the plateau of the Codri (plateau not in the sense of "flat" but of "elevated"). The best translation in English would be indeed Codri Hills, but it's a game of chicken and egg, who's first :-) I do not oppose the existence of an article Codri Hills if it is shorter and gives a reference for more details to a much longer Codri. But I searched, and WP does not have one, so instead of creating a new one, I simply renamed the old. I can recreate the old one if you want, I have no preference whether there should be 1 or 2 articles. Only, the absense of an article Codri altogether was a little odd, esp given that Codri Hills existed.

I do not know how BE is organized exactly, but it appears to me that they have an article "physiography of Moldova", and some kind of key word search Codri Hills would point there. Also, a simple search of both codri and codri hills on BE site gives 2 sub-articles of Moldova - "Plant and animal life" and "Relief". I'm guessing it's like Polessie (I do not know much about Polessie) - is it known first for the marshland or first for being a flat lowland? Humans did not necessarely gave names in the same order as 21st century geographers would do - first by terain, then by vegetation.

Also, you are right, "Montains in Moldova" sounds very funny. Unlike in Russian, we don't call anything below 1000 m mountains (munţi), just hills (dealuri). I'm not sure if the 1000m is also valid for English, but I sincerely doubt at 429m. Maybe it is "relative", not "absolte". But still, they don't stand each alone that much to be called mountains in any sense. :Dc76 23:58, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Ya, it's a small mess in Geography of Moldova. What they refer to Codri Hills there is the part of the Codri that was mostly preserved. There is no such thing as Balti steppe, there are only hills, but they are a little more gentlier than 70 km to the south, and (important) mostly unforested. Also "gentlier" is relative, since if you are near a river (even a small one), it can be very steep. I'll think how to fix it. :Dc76 00:07, 8 June 2007 (UTC)