Talk:Aksu Deresi

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The result of the move request was: page not moved per discussion below. - GTBacchus(talk) 20:11, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Aksu Deresi → Aksu Rivulet — Relisted. Vegaswikian (talk) 08:06, 18 November 2010 (UTC) User:Nedim Ardoğa 23:25, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * From the image in the article it looks too big to be called a rivulet. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:22, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

The title is composed of a proper and a common noun. Aksu is the proper noun and Deresi is the possessive form of the noun Dere which means small river. (In Turkish there are about 5 different nouns for different size rivers). So literally the title is small river of Aksu. Although the proper noun (Aksu) is untranslatable, the common noun (Deresi) is quite translatable and in English Wikipedia it must be translated. In fact in the titles of most rivers in Turkey, the noun river is used instead of its Turkish equivalent. ( Sakarya River, Gediz River, Berdan River etc.) That's why I insist in using the English noun instead of the noun Deresi. Of course River is also OK. (Since that title has already been used for two other rivers, it would be Aksu, Giresun) Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 06:48, 11 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose Does it have to be translated - Rio Grande (literally big river) springs to mind as does Shatt al-Arab. If there is no commonly used English name for these rivers then there is no need it seems to try and translate and move. Pahari Sahib   20:34, 17 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Support renaming But I prefer Aksu Creek. The name "Aksu Creek" is more descriptive. --Bejnar (talk) 19:25, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

It seems to me this is one of two rivers called Aksu in Turkey - are we sure the other one is significantly more notable? If not, I would call both of them Aksu River (I'd prefer just "Aksu", but let's say Aksu River to stay in line with the other Turkish rivers), and then disambiguate them by region.--Kotniski (talk) 13:37, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment are terms like "Aksu Rivulet" or "Creek" used? I wouldn't expect so, and can't find any results on Google; I can find some examples of "Aksu Deresi". Overall I'm inclined to go with Pahari. &mdash;innotata 20:30, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
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