Talk:Daugava

message: It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. 
Request was:
* Talk:Daugava — Daugava → Western Dvina – Should be moved to the more commonly used name, which is translation of local river name (its longest part) Monkbel 06:47, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I dispute this closing; 60% should be rough consensus, when half the opposing votes are weak. Septentrionalis 23:00, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What you call "60% consensus" was a temporary vote tally of 3-2, which was previously 2-2 and has now changed even further.  See below for more details. -- Curps 20:14, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This vote has been a little messy, but, with extra time, the votes are in at 3 for/5 against the move. As consensus for the move hasn't been reached, the page stays where it is. Consensus is only needed to support the motion, failure to reach consensus results in the maintenance of the status quo. As those in favour of the move didn't achieve a  majority of the votes, there cannot be a claim that the majority are being overridden. --Gareth Hughes 20:53, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

text: When I listed this vote after closing on WP:RM, it really was 60% for move (3-2 (with 1 of 2 votes against being weak oppose) after more than 2 weeks of voting!) so it could be called consensus and the page should have been moved. But it stayed and now after vote closing it is 5-5... --Monkbel 19:29, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

text: However I do think the onus is on the person reopening the request to put the move template on the talk page and to copy the new request as worded on the WP:RM page to the top of the Requested moved section in line with the WP:RM three step guidelines so people know what the new proposed name is. Philip Baird Shearer 16:18, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

text: And that's assuming I discounted the other issues involved (comments past deadline etc.) here. Ryan Norton T | @ | C 21:18, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Decision

message: Once you have resolved the issue of the most popular English name for this river, the title of the Infobox should really match the title of the article. If there are other names, different versions of the name(s) in other languages, etc., that's fine, but that belongs in the body of the article. Thank you, —Papayoung ☯ 15:06, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox Title

message: please remove photo from Arhangelsk to relevant article - that about Severnaya Dvina. clearly here's been confusion between Zapadnaya and Severnaya Dvina (one point for official name Daugava - less confusing; peoples around Baltic See definitely call it Daugava). wanted to delete it, but nice photo, might do well in relevant place. 'm afraid i cannot do it nicely, technically.BirgittaMTh (talk) 21:57, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arhangelsk is not anywhere near Daugava 

message: I'm no expert on this, but my thoughts immediately went to old river names from Iranian languages, once spoken in Eastern Europe like Scythian, Sarmatian, Alan, Ossetian and what have you. These people must have lived in the vicinity of the early Balts (whose languages have some archaic features) and there may be an archaic relationship to names that come from "Danu" (water) in old Iranian languages spoken in Eastern Europe. We still have the Danube, Don, Dnjestr, Dnjepr etc. Gerard von Hebel (talk) 15:04, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Usually english version is not a crap, but this is a complete mess. Daugava has nothing to do with Danu and etymology is known: Daug + ava == Many + springs. It is oldest name. Livonian name Vēna means river - simply - there are many names, that are based on this etynology. Slavic & german names for river are based on livonian version, simply because germans and scandinavians met livonians first and this was the name that was written in chronicles. And it is similar to wiki - once there is something written in wiki, it is absolute truth... unless you do proper research.90.195.8.59 (talk) 07:20, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

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