Talk:1766 Istanbul earthquake

Requested move
1766 Istanbul earthquake → 1766 Constantinople earthquake – The name "Istanbul" is anachronistic and need be changed to reflect the reality during the period. A historical event should not use the name that didn't exist at the time. Fv21fiv (talk) 07:16, 21 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Following WP:COMMONNAME, which states "Wikipedia ....... prefers the name that is most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in a significant majority of independent, reliable English-language sources)", it is clear from looking at Google generally (removing wikipedia + clones mostly) and both Google Books (although note that only a few of those listed actually mention the earthquake - Google Books produces odd search results sometimes) and Google Scholar that the current title is how this event is known in reliable sources. A general google search on "1766 Constantinople earthquake" gets a solitary hit and that is to a search page that returned no results, so can be ignored. I do agree that the current mixture of "Istanbul" and "Constantinople" in the current text needs to be sorted out. When referring to the city at the time of the earthquake then we should probably use "Constantinople" and restrict the usage of "Istanbul" to anything (such as in the "Tectonic setting" section) that refers to the city as it is now. Mikenorton (talk) 11:52, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
 * When I wrote the article, the first problem which I met was the title; should be it called "Constantinople" or "Istanbul" earthquake? As Mike did, I first checked google, getting the same results; after reading all the references, I realized that all the papers written by seismologists (included Nicholas Ambraseys, who was a Greek) use the expression "1766 Istanbul earthquake" . Anyway, I used "Constantinople" together with "Istanbul" in the "Damage" section of the text (as Robert Mantran in his "Vie quotidienne" does), but as Mike suggests and if everyone agrees I can substitute Istanbul with Constantinople in the Damage section (although "Stambul", one of the common names in English for the historical peninsula - today's Fatih- would also be correct for most of the citations).  Alex2006 (talk) 12:07, 21 December 2019 (UTC)