Talk:Halve Maen

message: Come on, seriously?! Halve Maen? Wikipedia guidelines I believe encourage the naming of articles after the most common name. The ship is known in English as the Half Moon.  The current official replica of the ship is called the Half Moon. The weathervane in the picture is called Half Moon, not the weathervane of the Halve Maen. Use this title for the Dutch version, but this is the English version of wikipedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.182.142.254 (talk) 07:49, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: From Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)- "Use the most commonly used English version of the name of the subject as the title of the article, as you would find it in verifiable reliable sources (for example other encyclopedias and reference works). This makes it easy to find, and easy to compare information with other sources." No one looking up the Half Moon would think to type Halve Maen. I will be looking into moving this article to Half Moon (ship) or whatever is more convenient available name.Camelbinky (talk) 00:07, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
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message: Apologies to Albany, NY civic boosters aside, the true Largest Working Weathervane in North America is at the airport in Whitehorse, YT, Canada. It is the hulk of an actual DC-3 airplane placed on a pivot.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:447:C000:DB08:B8B5:4B59:BB1B:467F (talk) 21:22, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
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message: I cannot believe that the very capable sea-faring Dutch would be looking for an eastern route to China in the vicinity of New York. Surely they were looking for a western route. --ChrisJBenson (talk) 03:26, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It was commissioned to find an eastern route, and then changed plan.--MWAK (talk) 07:59, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Really? Commissioned to find an eastern route to Asia? In the 1600's? It was far too late for that by then.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.240.50.204 (talk) 22:28, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Eastern route north around Norway and through the Arctic. Which it was not too late, but instead too early. They needed to wait for some global warming!Camelbinky (talk) 18:31, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a potential EASTERN route to China 

message: :::Agree re Half Moon. This ship is famous mainly in the U.S., where it is exclusively known by its English name. The Half Moon is an icon of national legend in the U.S., where no one's ever heard of the Halve Maen. Get real!
:::Nothing against the Dutch. But change it!
:::Dank u wel. Sca (talk) 13:34, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: NoCamelbinky (talk) 18:31, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree with this as well as above. Hudson "Half Moon" gets 44,900 book results. Hudson "Halve Maen" gets 4,320 book results (with quite a bit of overlap re: they call it the "Half Moon" but mention at some point its Dutch name, the "Halve Maen". Looks like overwhelming WP:ENGLISH for "Half Moon"). Looks like complete consensus here so filling out WP:RM. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 16:10, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Besides  and , noted this article was in fact moved by  diff for "Common English name". It was moved back two years later by  for, well, no valid reason I can see. Missed a con-comment by  or ?, hard to tell, maybe a technical result of WP:VANISH?. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 21:39, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming Conventions, Shmaming Conventions!