Talk:Wildlife of the Gambia

RfC: The Gambia or the Gambia
There is currently a request for comments at Talk:The Gambia on whether to capitalize the definite article in the country name. Feel free to participate in the discussion. Jafeluv (talk) 05:38, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 00:33, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Wildlife of The Gambia → Wildlife of the Gambia – per all other Gambian subarticles. — kwami (talk) 05:21, 7 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Support. This accords with one strong choice in common usage, and in such cases MOSCAPS explicitly prefers lower case. Evidence from Google ngrams shows how close the variants are, and it is skewed because some of the instances will come at the start of a sentence, or in a title or a heading. Contrast "The Hague", which is a truly exceptional case discussed in grammars like CGEL. We can say "my Gambia visit"; but *"my Hague visit" would be very rare. N oetica Tea? 06:28, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support - Consistency. Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 20:20, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.