Talk:Amur

Northeast
Re: ... across northeast Asia for over 4400 km (2,700 mi), from the mountains of northeastern China to the Sea of Okhotsk (near Nikolayevsk-na-Amure).

Isn't this supposed to be northwestern China &mdash; it's all in North China, but traces an arc concave down from the East at the Sea, Westwards to Mongolia. User:Fabartus || Talkto_FrankB 29 June 2005 03:50 (UTC)
 * No, it is definitely northeastern China. China as it exists today extends well west of Mongolia, the Amur watershed includes eastern Mongolia and most of what was known as Manchuria. Fire Star 29 June 2005 03:53 (UTC)

This link seems to be down:

http://www.prognozadvisor.ru/pages/amurobleng.html

Is it better to check it? --82.58.202.136 21:16, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Requested move
This page was moved from Amur River to Heilong-Amur River without prior discussion. I am requesting that the page should be moved back to Amur River on the grounds that this is the most widely accepted name in English. "Heilong-Amur River" is not a widely used name.

Bathrobe (talk) 11:42, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

The following is a discussion about the move of the page which occurred before the Request for Move notice was posted:

Why was this page moved without discussion? I personally have never seen the river referred to as the "Heilong-Amur River". Was this name made up by the editor moving? Or does it have wider acceptance? (A quick Google actually suggests that Amur-Heilong is more common than Heilong-Amur). Also, I would like to challenge the notion that the name changes part way down the river. There is a big stretch where it could arguably be called by both names, Chinese and Russian. The usual name in English is the Russian one. There seems to be no reason (other than some kind of sentiment that "this is a Chinese river, it should be called by the Chinese name) to start calling it the Heilong. Bathrobe (talk) 08:22, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It's the only way to contain both names. List of medieval Mongolian tribes and I didn't use the name because Heilong river is located in the upper reaches (though not riverhead). --虞海 (Yú Hǎi) (talk) 10:29, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I think we should use an aboriginal name - Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, all are ok, because all of these people has lived with this river for a long history and cultivated related cultures - all of these names are cultural name except Amur. --虞海 (Yú Hǎi) (talk) 10:32, 13 March 2009 (UTC)


 * It doesn't really matter whether you think that "we should use an aboriginal name". As far as I understand, the policy on Wikipedia is to use the name that is generally used in English. That means that, no matter how unsatisfied you may be with the way things are or how well reasoned the grounds for your preference are, you can't impose your own personal ideas on Wikipedia articles. You need sources to show that "Heilong-Amur" is the generally accepted name in English.


 * A quick Google search (which only gives a rough approximation of English usage but is a useful start) shows:


 * Amur River: 77,600
 * Heilong River: 4,060 (includes "Amur/Heilong River")
 * Heilongjiang River: 5,860 (Chinese web sites are rather prominent)
 * Amur-Heilong River: 832
 * Amur-Heilongjiang River: 102
 * Heilongjiang-Amur River: 409
 * Heilong-Amur River: 61


 * No matter how you cut it, Amur River is the dominant name. I propose that this page should be reverted to its original name.


 * Bathrobe (talk) 11:02, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry I missed this discussion when I was moving the article back, but after reviewing the comments above, I stand by my decision. The river is predominantly known in English as Amur; that's the only name listed in every major English dictionary one would care to consult, so that's the only name that truly complies with WP:UE.  If anyone disagrees with this assessment of mine, please file a move request from "Amur River" to "Heilong-Amur River", not move it unilaterally and then have people jump through the hoops trying to move it back where it belonged in the first place.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 03:18, March 14, 2009 (UTC)

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Etymology
I notice that the article makes a point of mentioning that the river would often just be called "water" and that multiple nearby languages have similar words for that. However, the Mongolian word "mörön" is more commonly translated as "river", not just "water" ("us" is usually cited as the word for "water"). Does/did "mörön" carry that simpler meaning too, or is the writer of that part of the article trying to make associations of words with similar as opposed to identical meaning (in which case the wording would be wrong, since not all three words mean "water")? It might be worth noting that the source was published in 1980 and that the Altaic theory was still very much alive back then.

Also, on a slightly related topic, the etymology given in the infobox is nowhere to be found in the article, so that might require some clarification.

AnonymousMusician (talk) 20:53, 27 August 2018 (UTC)