Talk:Orlické Mountains

Requested move
move to Orlické hory. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:19, 26 March 2009 (UTC) Better name is Orlicke hory (Eagle Mountains). Thank You. SAgic from Czech Republic --  193.108.106.20 13:50, 31 October 2005


 * The article was founded as Orlice Mountains by Clapaucius in August 2005. This is a correct but unusual name
 * In February 2006 User:Sicherlich renamed it to Orlické Hory, which is a Czech name written with English ortography of proper nouns.
 * In August 2006 User:Primator renamed the article to correct, but Czech name ("Orlické hory").
 * In November 2006 User:Lysy renamed the article to Orlicke Mountains, which is a nonsensical hybrid name, neither Czech nor English.
 * In January 2007 User:Darwinek moved the article to Orlické Mountains. This name is queer as well.

The Czech word "Orlické" (or a Polish word "Orlickie") is a declinable adjective derived frome the proper name "Orlice" ("Orlica" in Polish). English language doesn't know such kind of adjective, but it is used the noun as adjective. The mountains has their name after this river, whereof name is "Orlice". The name of the river may be derived from "orel", which is an eagle, or from "orlice", which is female of eagle (by the way, a female of eagle is the national emblem at coats of arms of Moravia, Silesia and Poland). Inasmuch as this mountains are situated in Sudetenland, the German name "Adlergebirge" can be taken into account as well.

There are several possibilities of correct article name:
 * Orlice Mountains – the name is derived from the untransladed Czech river name according to English grammar.
 * Eagle Mountains - the name is a close translation of the German "Adlergebirge", but this English name is more established for some Californian mountains
 * Orlické hory is the correct Czech name, Góry Orlickie is the correct Polish name, Adlergebirge is the correct German name (politically incorrect)

The names as Orlické Hory, Orlicke hory, Orlicke Mountains, Orlické Mountains etc. are uncorrect hybrids only. --ŠJů (talk) 21:05, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Which name is most used in English?--Aervanath (talk) 05:59, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, what do English-language reliable sources call the mountains? -GTBacchus(talk) 14:41, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Simple Google test:
 * Orlice Mountains = 3,890 English hits
 * Eagle Mountains = 3,690 English hits
 * Orlické hory = 6,410 English hits
 * So it seems that Orlické hory is the most common. Any objections to moving it there?--Aervanath (talk) 04:55, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Requested move 8 April 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: page moved. FromCzech (talk) 19:17, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Orlické hory → Orlické Mountains – Orlické is the most common name in English, but it is a common convention to translate the georelief type, and therefore the current name is inconsistent with other names in Central Europe. See Category:Mountain ranges of Poland, Category:Mountain ranges of Slovakia, Category:Mountain ranges of the Czech Republic. FromCzech (talk) 07:26, 8 April 2022 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support. It's not perfect, but it's better than the current title. Rreagan007 (talk) 19:59, 8 April 2022 (UTC)