Talk:Bakaara Market

Merger proposal
I propose that Bakara Market be merged in to Bakaara Market. As evidenced by a quick Google search, Bakaara pulls up many more relevant results (including a Google Plus page and a Facebook page) whereas a search for Bakara results in the Wikipedia article and many irrelevant pages Coffeerain (talk) 16:29, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm not familiar with what the consensus on such debates is. While "Bakara" seems to be the common name, that Wikipedia page also says "the term or name most typically used in reliable sources is generally preferred" and a quick search on [scholar.google.com] (Bakaara Bakara) shows that "Bakaara" seems to be the main spelling used for papers but is one that people seem to not tend to use/type colloquially. Coffeerain (talk) 19:02, 15 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Oppose - While "Bakaara" is the Somali spelling, "Bakara" is the Anglicized spelling. "Bakara" also appears to be the WP:COMMONNAME per Google Trends and Google Scholar ( vs. ; vs. ). Middayexpress (talk) 17:12, 14 October 2014 (UTC)