Talk:Durin

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[edit] Durin (Norse mythology)

There needs to be a separate article on the Durin of Norse mythology (at the moment a number of Norse mythology articles link to this article, which is essentially about the Tolkien character) -- Picapica 21:09, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

This should really be renamed to Durin (Middle-earth) and all the references updated. I'll add it to the Tolkien to-do list. Thu 08:46, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

The way it usually works is that if there is one article for a give name then that name is given to that article regardless of how many other things in all existence (without articles) share the same name. If there are two or more articles on things with the same name then if one of them is clearly more likely to be searched for than all the others combined then it appears at the page with that name and a 'hatnote' linking to the other articles or a disambiguation page (if there are several) is inserted at the top of the article. If there are multiple articles and none is overwhelmingly more likely to be searched for than the others then the base article name is itself the disambiguation page.

So, all that being said... someone needs to actually create a Durin (Norse mythology) page. Even then I don't think it is likely to be searched for often and could become just a hatnote on this current page and the Norse mythology links updated to go there instead. --CBDunkerson 11:31, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I deleted the reference to Durin IV being a part of the Last Alliance. That just isn't true - I had to edit that bit out on the Last Alliance page as well. --Username911

Calling the Old Norse original dwarf Durinn with the nominative case marker -n is a better way of naming him than the cumbersome Durin (norse mythology), IMHO.--Berig 17:20, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Durin II, IV, and V

Do we really need to list these separately? Nothing was written about them, that I know of. The information under Durin II belongs rather under Dwarf (Middle-earth) or Durin's Folk. The blurb for Durin IV is completely unsupported, and the one for Durin V is nothing but speculation. I propose removing all three. Elphion (talk) 03:25, 27 March 2008 (UTC)