Talk:Vestfjorden

Name

Should't the article name, and the name used in the body of the text, be Vestfjorden or the Vestfjord instead of just Vestfjord? --213.236.196.39 (talk) 11:33, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

The name is Vestfjorden in Norwegian. I move the page.--Eivindgh (talk) 15:29, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. 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.

The result of the move request was: promote Vestfjorden (Norway) to primary topic for Vestfjorden. Since the dab page has been expanded, it will be retained and renamed to Vestfjorden (disambiguation). Favonian (talk) 20:00, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

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Vestfjorden (Norway) → Vestfjorden – This is much more known than the Vestfjorden at Svalbard. The disambiguation page is not necessary, just incl. a link at the top to Vestfjorden (Svalbard). relisted--Mike Cline (talk) 11:54, 5 March 2012 (UTC) Eivindgh (talk) 16:05, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

• Support. Geschichte (talk) 07:31, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

• Oppose. Has anyone looked at the pageview data for these articles? I've never anything so sparse, at any RM discussion. To the point of vanishing. What could possibly be gained, for the thousands clamouring to glean information on either forlorn fjord, if an obviously useful qualifier is dropped, where the confusable topics vie so energetically for obscurity? Give us (as they say) a break. Noetica^Tea? 08:25, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

• Support Per nom—the Nordland fjord is by far the most notable and clearly the primary topic. And if this article if not chosen as PT, it would need to be moved to Vestfjorden (Nordland), as Svalbard is also part of Norway. Arsenikk ^(talk) 09:39, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

• Comment "Forlorn", heh, how do you think they keep out the riff-raff. There are quite a few more West Fjords, though, at least by the Norsk (bokmål) dab page. But is it "Western Fjord", "Vestfjorden", "Vestfjorder", "Vestfjord"...? The English wikimapia and googlemaps show "Vestfjord" for the huge Nordland one near Lofoten. Norwegian seems to have more than one unique word for fjord that lets them set up their dab page a little differently under "Vestfjorden" and choose one fjord at "Vestfjord" to be the most notable. But which one? For some reason, maybe the alignment of the planets, I can't seem to see pageviews today...in any language. Neotarf (talk) 10:39, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
• Support. I was going to oppose on the grounds that no case for a primary topic was made since most months this article seems to get zero hits, but then I saw that until very recently ago this article was at Vestfjord. On Feb 26, 2012 it was moved to Vestfjorden, and then almost immediately to Vestfjorden (Norway). Per the statistics it got several hundred hits per month, while Vestfjorden (Svalbard) was just created on Feb 26, 2012 [1]. So far this month the page views are comparable, but most are probably coming from this RM request. Since Vestfjorden (Svalbard) was not even notable enough to have an article until a week ago, it appears that the original use is the primary topic, and so should be at Vestfjorden. Per WP:TWODABS we can then get rid of the dab page currently at Vestfjorden and hatnote link to Vestfjorden (Svalbard) from this article. --Born2cycle (talk) 08:44, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
• Support. Britannica has an entry for the Nordland fjord, but nothing about the one in Svalbard or any of the other fjords on the DAB. Kauffner (talk) 20:41, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
• Support - Vestfjorden (Nordland) IS the primary topic. To find some proof, I entered the Norwegian wiki (all fjords are Norwegian) and watched the page view statistics over there: All the other "Vestfjords" have less then 1 hit per day (15-29 total) for the last 30 days, while the Nordland-Vestfjord got 240 hits, which is approx 10 times as many hits in the same period. Mentoz86 (talk) 19:53, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

• Nice work. I'll give the links. In the last 90 days, there were 556 page views for the Nordland fjord, 43 for Svalbard. We don't have English-language articles on the other Vestfjorden, but Nordkapp/Finnmark got 63 views, while Nøtterøy/Vestfold got 56. Kauffner (talk) 03:01, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. 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.