Talk:List of alternative names for European rivers

message: I have posted an extensive Explanation about the usefulness and purpose of this article on Mikkalai's talk page, should anyone be interested.  Pasquale 00:39, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not there now. Pity. —Tamfang (talk) 23:23, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

text: And you couldn't find such paths by looking at the inter-language links from river Somme? —Tamfang (talk) 04:12, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: On the usefulness and purpose of this article

message: I disagree with Dbachmann's statement that "only genuinely different names should be listed, not stuff like "Aar" vs. "Aare", "Danube" vs. "Donau" etc.)". If that were the case, it would be entirely a matter of opinion, and completely subjective. It seems to me that his argument is unsupportable. I recommend a prompt removal of his  notice.  Pasquale (talk) 20:54, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I am removing Dbachmann's cleanup notice, as the position he takes clearly does not reflect consensus.  Pasquale (talk) 21:59, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

text: I'd have thought that there exists, for most pairs of names, a scholarly consensus on whether they are independent in etymology.  It's obvious that each language adapts foreign names to its own phonology; what is noteworthy about an example, or a list of examples? (See also List of [language] exonyms ad nauseam.)  —Tamfang (talk) 04:17, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

text: Can we at least assume that the name of a river in a language that was never native to anywhere near that river is not independent? —Tamfang (talk) 09:10, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh? 

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because the introduction is entirely non-controversial and requires no sourcing.  Statements like "This is a list of rivers" etc. don't need sourcing and indeed can't be attributed to sources outside of Wikipedia.  All the names of the individual rivers should be supported in their separate articles;  no purpose would be served by copying all the references in those separate articles back into this one. --Doncram (talk) 22:42, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
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message: See ongoing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Latin names of rivers, where there is suggestion that List of Latin names of rivers might be merged to here. --Doncram (talk) 23:35, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal and AFD for [[List of Latin names of rivers]]