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Is "Tavastia Proper" the name normally used in English for this subdivision of Finland?. To me it sounds like a typical "Mic invention" And, as I expected, this article was started in 2004 by User:Mic. He was very fond of creating his own latinized names. This one has survived over a decade. But it is really correct? -- Vedum ( talk) 12:28, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved as proposed. No prejudice to requesting North/South not be translated in the future. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Mdaniels5757 ( talk) 18:07, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
– The current English article names for these Finnish regions seem to have been invented for Wikipedia when these articles were created in 2004 (by the same user), and the names are not supported by the references of the articles, nor are they used by reliable English-language sources. The new suggested names are the official English names as published by the Finnish government [1] and used by e.g. Statistics Finland [2], and all of the 15 other Finnish regions already use the official names in English Wikipedia. Names of the Finnish regions are generally not very notable internationally, and e.g. Encyclopedia Britannica does not include them, so the official names seem to be the best option, certainly better than Wikipedia-invented ones. Google search results for the current article names contain mostly content that seems sourced from Wikipedia itself. I was not able to find any original references to the current article names that predate the Wikipedia articles themselves. Anssi~enwiki ( talk) 03:05, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
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Is "Tavastia Proper" the name normally used in English for this subdivision of Finland?. To me it sounds like a typical "Mic invention" And, as I expected, this article was started in 2004 by User:Mic. He was very fond of creating his own latinized names. This one has survived over a decade. But it is really correct? -- Vedum ( talk) 12:28, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved as proposed. No prejudice to requesting North/South not be translated in the future. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Mdaniels5757 ( talk) 18:07, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
– The current English article names for these Finnish regions seem to have been invented for Wikipedia when these articles were created in 2004 (by the same user), and the names are not supported by the references of the articles, nor are they used by reliable English-language sources. The new suggested names are the official English names as published by the Finnish government [1] and used by e.g. Statistics Finland [2], and all of the 15 other Finnish regions already use the official names in English Wikipedia. Names of the Finnish regions are generally not very notable internationally, and e.g. Encyclopedia Britannica does not include them, so the official names seem to be the best option, certainly better than Wikipedia-invented ones. Google search results for the current article names contain mostly content that seems sourced from Wikipedia itself. I was not able to find any original references to the current article names that predate the Wikipedia articles themselves. Anssi~enwiki ( talk) 03:05, 3 June 2020 (UTC)