Talk:Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
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English name seems to be Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Searching Google (English pages only):
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: 7,830 hits (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&cr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Mecklenburg-Western+Pomerania%22&lr=lang_en)
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 38,200 hits (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&cr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Mecklenburg-Vorpommern%22&lr=lang_en)
-- Nico 04:27, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Unfortunately it took a rather long time until I realised this page move.
- 1. Counting Google hits is not a sufficient basis for this decision. Britannica calls it Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, almost every serious English source calls it either Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania or Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.
- 2. Doing such a massive page move should be done after some talk only. There were numerous links pointing to MWP and dozens of pages calling the state MWP.
- 3. You did the page move via cut and paste what is generally a bad procedure.
- -- Baldhur 13:29, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)
It was discussed (with Adam Carr, i think). You should also see Talk:Vorpommern Nico 14:26, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is confusing, because Polish Voivodship around Stettin/Szczecin is also called Western Pomerania. 62.104.210.101 15:08, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)