Talk:Heijō

Requested move 24 March 2018

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The result of the move request was: disambiguation page moved as proposed per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 04:54, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Heijo (disambiguation) → Heijō – Heijō in English seems to refer more to the the 8th-century Japanese capital in Nara (i.e. Heijō-kyō, literally "Heijō Capital") than to Pyongyang, one can verify this by Googling Heijō. One should also realize that Heijō is just the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese characters corresponding to Pyongyang, so in a technical sense Pyongyang did not change its native name during the Japanese colonization period. Certainly no English speaker calls Pyongyang "Heijō" any more? I just don't know if we should dab Heijō or simply redirect it to Heijō-kyō. Timmyshin (talk) 20:11, 24 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Support either of the nominator's proposals. —  AjaxSmack  03:23, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
 * It doesn't seem clear what the proposals are.--Jack Upland (talk) 07:32, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Support moving Heijo (disambiguation) to Heijō; there's no primary topic. The Heijo and Heijō redirects get a tiny amount of page views so clearly people are not using them to find Pyongyang. As an added bonus, the Pyongyang article loses one of its ugly hatnotes. &mdash;Xezbeth (talk) 18:29, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Support but better simple Heijo without macron, which is not used in English to refer to anything but "Nara (also called Heijo) is commonly known as Japan's first permanent capital". Certainly shouldn't be redirecting to Pyongyang. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:23, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * NB Oppose alternative Heijō-kyō because the dab page also should list (and now does) Heijō-tennō, the 51st emperor of Japan. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:30, 26 March 2018 (UTC)


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