Talk:Palatine Forest (Rhineland-Palatinate)

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[edit] Palatine Forest or Pfälzer Wald

This article was renamed by User:Rex Germanus from Pfälzer Wald to Palatine Forest, with the comment English Wikipedia.

But as both are proper names, I don't think is quite so clear cut as we are writing for the English Wikipedia, so lets use the more English sounding name, which is what I read that comment as meaning. (Rex, if you meant something else, please do say).

A Google search on the two names, in both cases specifying English pages only, gave the following results:

Pfälzer Wald - 917

Palatine Forest - 437

It is true that some of the pages on Pfälzer Wald were in German, despite asking for English only. But it is also true that some of the pages on Palatine Forest were about a place in Illinois.

My feel from looking at the Google results was that Pfälzer Wald is the more natural name for an English speaker to use, but I admit that the evidence is not overwhelming. So I'm not reverting the change (yet), but asking for other editor's opinions. -- Chris j wood 20:41, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Again ... lets not just base matters on google searches. I don't know which edition you used, but the English version gives:

Pfälzer Wald - 637,000

Palatine Forest - 1,250,000

Rex 21:15, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Palatine Forest: 549 hits

Palatinate Forest: 15,700 hits

Pfälzer Wald: 484,000 hits

Pfälzerwald: 512,000 hits

If you take these results and if you take into account the recent tendency of avoiding the use of exonyms, I must say that I have a clear preference for Pfälzer Wald or Pfälzerwald. Unoffensive text or character 14:13, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Rex, Matthead and others, can we please discuss this further before engaging in another revert war? Though I thought yesterday that the no. of Google hits spoke clearly against "Palatine Forest", I have definitely now changed my mind, as I found "Palatine Forest" in Encyclopaedia Britannica. And that should, to my mind, definitely be sufficient ground for renaming the article. Unoffensive text or character 09:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I support Palatine forest, who knows what Pfälzer Wald does mean. ≈Tulkolahten≈^≈talk≈ 22:04, 27 February 2007 (UTC)