Talk:Fell

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In my opinion, these two pages should be merged into the Fell article, which is one of the terms commonly used to translate the word tunturi from Finnish into English. The Tunturi article does not contain enough information to warrant its own article and could instead be made into a subsection of the Fell article. In addition, the word fjeld should disambiguate to this article and not Scandinavian Mountains as it does now. I'm still debating as to whether these pages should all just be merged into the Mountain article under local definitions. -Yupik 08:16, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I tend to agree. This article is really just a dicdef. --Mais oui! 08:43, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I certainly agree that they should be merged. This page is a bit of a mess which I've been meaning to tackle for some time, but don't have the knowledge to do so without some research. As I understand it, in the Lake District the original meaning of fell (before it was hijacked by fellwalkers) is uncultivated grazing land above the intake wall, and each valley or community would have its own Fell (called Coniston Fell, Torver Fell, Seathwaite Fell etc) for common grazing. Wainwright has a bit of a discourse about it in The Southern Fells I think. If the article could be expanded along these lines it would have more grounds for existence than it does at the moment. --Blisco 12:31, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I've added a little along these lines; I hope it's reasonably clear. The article needs more information about the Scandinavian meaning though; I tried to glean a little from the German article but my German's not nearly good enough. --Blisco 13:46, 1 October 2006 (UTC)