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I intend to move this article back to House of Erik. "Erican Dynasty" may be a WP:MADEUP term. Anyway, "dynasty" is hardly an appropriate term in an elective monarchy. / Pieter Kuiper ( talk) 22:34, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Move. There is clearly consensus to move. Also, the naming convention supports this consensus, as the expression "Erican Dynasty" is not in common in English. A large proportion of the uses of it I have found are in Wikipedia, mirrors of it, or other information derived from it. The article was originally titled "House of Eric" and moved by one editor without discussion. Wikipedia articles are supposed to use the name most commonly used in English, and what it is called in Swedish or any other language is irrelevant. We do not need "a perfectly correct etymological English translation of Erikska": we need an actual English word in common use. A quick search indicates that "House of Eric" is vastly more common than "Erican Dynasty". Clearly it should be moved back to its original title. The only reason given in favour of "Erik" is the suggestion that Google books shows that as more common. however, my Google books searches give 214 hits for "House of Eric" and 78 for "House of Erik". Likewise general Google searches for give 31,700 hits for "House of Eric" and 12,400 for "House of Erik". Similar remarks apply to more specific searches, such as "House of Eric" Sweden. JamesBWatson ( talk) 21:20, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
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Erican Dynasty → House of Erik — "Erican dynasty" seems to be a novelty. "Dynasty" is not really correct for the elective monarchy that Sweden was in the Middle ages. Pieter Kuiper ( talk) 19:09, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
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I intend to move this article back to House of Erik. "Erican Dynasty" may be a WP:MADEUP term. Anyway, "dynasty" is hardly an appropriate term in an elective monarchy. / Pieter Kuiper ( talk) 22:34, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Move. There is clearly consensus to move. Also, the naming convention supports this consensus, as the expression "Erican Dynasty" is not in common in English. A large proportion of the uses of it I have found are in Wikipedia, mirrors of it, or other information derived from it. The article was originally titled "House of Eric" and moved by one editor without discussion. Wikipedia articles are supposed to use the name most commonly used in English, and what it is called in Swedish or any other language is irrelevant. We do not need "a perfectly correct etymological English translation of Erikska": we need an actual English word in common use. A quick search indicates that "House of Eric" is vastly more common than "Erican Dynasty". Clearly it should be moved back to its original title. The only reason given in favour of "Erik" is the suggestion that Google books shows that as more common. however, my Google books searches give 214 hits for "House of Eric" and 78 for "House of Erik". Likewise general Google searches for give 31,700 hits for "House of Eric" and 12,400 for "House of Erik". Similar remarks apply to more specific searches, such as "House of Eric" Sweden. JamesBWatson ( talk) 21:20, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
It was proposed in this section that
House of Eric be
renamed and moved to
House of Erik.
The discussion has been closed, and the result will be found in the closer's comment. Links:
current log •
target log |
Erican Dynasty → House of Erik — "Erican dynasty" seems to be a novelty. "Dynasty" is not really correct for the elective monarchy that Sweden was in the Middle ages. Pieter Kuiper ( talk) 19:09, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
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