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[edit]- Finnish exonyms (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Indiscriminate mostly unreferenced list of proper names, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Other such articles have recently been deleted, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/French exonyms. toweli (talk) 23:37, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Language, Geography, Lists, Europe, and Finland. toweli (talk) 23:37, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: Finnish names for random places around the world are not encyclopedic; however, Finnish names for parts of Russia that used to be a part of Finland are encyclopedic, and the same might pertain to Sweden and Norway - Finns/Kven are a recognized minority in Norway and some places in Norway e.g. Porsanger have official Finnish names. Indeed, there is a Finnish exonyms for places in Norway. Perhaps there also should be a Finnish exonyms for places in Russia, and maybe Sweden, and this main Finnish exonyms page be an index for those two/three. Remove the rest. Geschichte (talk) 06:43, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- There are also a few nontrivial entries in the Baltic States. —Tamfang (talk) 05:20, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
- It might be better to have an article about Toponymy in Karelia instead of focusing on the exonym aspect, as it might be difficult to separate Finnish and Karelian names, and Karelian names are not exonyms anyway. There could also be an article about Toponymy in the Karelian Isthmus, which is a special case, since the all the names were changed there in the 1940s. This would discuss both the old Finnish/Karelian names and the Soviet replacement names. See for example the book reviewed at https://agricolaverkko.fi/review/karjalankannaksen-toponyminen-katastrofi/ Jähmefyysikko (talk) 06:06, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
- Keep It is reasonable to cull exonyms that are simply a matter of spelling rules (in effect, a transliteration). But the rest are useful. There has been an attempted stealth cull of these pages. There should have been an announcement at least on Talk:Endonym and exonym.OsFish (talk) 05:39, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Comment. There are some good sources discussing Finnish exonyms here:
- I don't think there is that much useful content in the current article, but a new article could probably be written based on these sources. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 05:56, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Doczilla Ohhhhhh, no! 05:23, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
- Trim: A few names in the list are evidently not cognate to the respective endonyms, and I'd preserve these. Otherwise, delete as trivial; each language adapts foreign words to its own phonology and orthography, okay, we get it. —Tamfang (talk) 23:57, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
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- Wikipedia:WikiProject Finland/Article alerts, a bot-maintained listing of a variety of changes affecting Finland related pages including deletion discussions