Talk:Somme (department)

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ganduInsert non-formatted text here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.60.127 (talk) 16:35, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology

I wonder if Somme is derived from something. A quick google found nothing expect this: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/somme /Tense (talk) 19:32, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

IT derives from a celtic word meaning tranquility, according to the Somme river article.Republikaner (talk) 04:24, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the move request was: consensus to move the pages, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 03:08, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Somme → Somme (department)
Somme (disambiguation) → Somme

– I think that the department isn't more important than the river. In French isn't either so. Vivaelcelta {talk · contributions} 00:18, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support I think the river would be more likely to be the primary topic in English -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 01:10, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
My first instinct is to say yes, but then I think of situations like Mississippi River vs Mississippi and I'm less sure. Some input from French editors would be helpful.--Yaksar (let's chat) 01:13, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- The primary topic in English can be different than the primary topic in French, so any French editors will have to take that into account (France is not an English speaking locality). -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 03:50, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Battle of the Somme is enough to confuse the obvious primary, and that is after the river apparently — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.131.80.54 (talk) 20:20, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose; this is virtually a WP:TWODABS situation (there being only two topics of great importance), for which the topics are not entirely unrelated (the department is so named because the river runs through it, not by pure coincidence. A disambiguation page is merely a navigational device to get readers to the article they are seeking. If they are looking for the department, they are already there. If they are looking for the River Somme, it is prominently mentioned in the lede of the article, and they are no further from it than they would be if they had to search the disambiguation page for it. bd2412 T 19:18, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Only two topics? And what of the battle of the Somme? — AjaxSmack 01:24, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Not a TWODABS situation and the department is not primary. — AjaxSmack 01:24, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support The river is geographically and historically important, so there is no clear primary topic, and the battle is often referred to informally as "the Somme" in Britain. —innotata 21:12, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Why no matching change in category name?

Is there a different standard applied to category names? It normally makes sense to have the pagenames identical (to simplify templated links, if nothing else). Robin Patterson (talk) 05:25, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]