Talk:List of national capital city name etymologies

Why do we have this article?
The page is overly long, and duplicates content properly located in their respective articles. --Paul_012 (talk) 06:31, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

This is the only list I can find online of city etymologies. Something I would have thought there would be 100's of sites off. I used it to make a world map where you can hover over a city and read the etymology and I think many people use it. JurijFedorov (talk) 14:02, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Copying
I have removed numerous embedded footnote numbers of the format [1], which indicate copying and pasting. Without attribution this is a copyright violation even if the source was another Wikipedia article. I also found sections with embedded newlines, another indication of copying and pasting, and some badly translated material; for example the section on Lomé derived from fr:Lomé. There is still potentially copyvio material in the article, and the sourcing is very bad, in many places non-existent, so we are restating scholarly or other published opinions without attributing them. If you can add a reference (perhaps by identifying where else in Wikipedia a passage was taken from and identifying the source given there), please do. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:29, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on List of national capital city name etymologies. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20081209024956/http://www.liis.lv/latval/Valoda/Teksts/1nodalja/Citati/10.htm to http://www.liis.lv/latval/Valoda/Teksts/1nodalja/Citati/10.htm
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20060517163858/http://faculty.oxy.edu/richmond/csp8/history_of_moscow.htm to http://faculty.oxy.edu/richmond/csp8/history_of_moscow.htm
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140409161819/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Barcelona to http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Barcelona

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 11:00, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 10 external links on List of national capital city name etymologies. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added tag to http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.0:1:390.hobson
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160621011658/http://www.angola-saiago.net/cidmae15.html to http://www.angola-saiago.net/cidmae15.html
 * Added archive https://www.webcitation.org/6DevdlcRr?url=http://en-maktoob.yahoo.com/?p=xa to http://seenjeem.maktoob.com/question?category_id=4&level=L2&question_id=9510
 * Added archive https://www.webcitation.org/6DeveznDi?url=http://ejabat.google.com/ejabat/thread?tid=6981074380f32f74 to http://egabat.google.com/ejabat/thread?tid=6981074380f32f74
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20091106132830/http://osabordaspalavras.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/070932.html to http://osabordaspalavras.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/070932.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20041107052608/http://www.mdc.hr/osijek/eng/10-zavicaj/10-01zavicaj.html to http://www.mdc.hr/osijek/eng/10-zavicaj/10-01zavicaj.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110823142818/http://www.ljubljana.si/file/32485/ljubljana_l13_st_08-09_2008.pdf to http://www.ljubljana.si/file/32485/ljubljana_l13_st_08-09_2008.pdf
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090427125617/http://www.colonialvoyage.com/ceylonP.html to http://www.colonialvoyage.com/ceylonP.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20071016183314/http://defonseka.com/hist_kotte01.htm to http://www.defonseka.com/hist_kotte01.htm
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090202115116/http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/03/08/10109658.html to http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/03/08/10109658.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090826001504/http://www.citypaper.com/printStory.asp?id=2478 to http://www.citypaper.com/printStory.asp?id=2478

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 21:20, 31 December 2017 (UTC)