Talk:List of Latin place names in Iberia

message: It appears that, yesterday, Nuno Tavares unilaterally decided to split the relatively small article List of Latin place names in Iberia into two smaller articles: List of Latin place names in Spain and List of Latin place names in Portugal. I have undone this split. I would like to remind Wikipedia contributors and users of this and other Template:Latin place names articles that the only reason the original article List of Latin place names in Europe was split into five sections (Balkans, Continental, Iberia, Italy and Malta, and British Isles) is that the article had become too big. But that does not mean that individual articles should be created for each country.
The only reason Nuno Tavares decided to split List of Latin place names in Iberia into two articles seems to be that the Portuguese Wikipedia has two corresponding articles: pt:Topónimos romanos na Espanha and pt:Topónimos romanos em Portugal. I am sorry, but that is not a good enough reason.  Pasquale 01:11, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nuno Tavares' unnecessary split 

message: I don't really understand this article. Indeed the majority cities names of Spain and Portugal, don't have a Latin origin! Like: 
 - Cadíz (Gades) or Málaga (Malaca), which are names of phenician origin. 
 - Barcelona (Barcino) or Cartagena (nova cartago) of Carthaginian origin. 
 - Adra, Albacete, Algeciras, Almería, Calatayud, Córdoba, Granada, Jaén, Madrid, Medina-Sidonia, Valladolid... and much of others are of Arab origin.
Thus I would like more precision on the direction of this article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.164.3.178 (talk) 00:42, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iberians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Arabic origins, of cities names of the iberic peninsula ! 

message: This is way out of my normal editing path, so I'm just going to leave a note here and if anyone is interested they can work on it or contact me if they have questions. This list is very confusing in the way that it links both the Latin and the native name, and the two links often go to different articles, when theoretically they're supposed to be the same town. For example:
* Salacia and Alcácer do Sal
* Sinus and Sines
* Tritium and Covilhã
These are just a sampling from a few links in one of the sections, there are many more. In my opinion, it would be best to delink all of the Latin names, and leave the links to the proper Iberian towns on the native name side of the list. Exceptions could be made when the Latin name does have a relevant article - for example, Vila Cardílio leads to an article about the Roman ruins. Just my thoughts. Drop a note on my talk page if you have any questions. Dana boomer (talk) 02:40, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It has been standard practice in this and related articles to include links as long as separate articles exist. Often the ruins of the ancient town are found outside the modern town, so that they don't correspond exactly. In other cases, there is a historical discontinuity between the ancient town and the modern town, etc. Therefore, personally, I think things are just fine as they are.  Pasquale (talk) 19:22, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion 

message: I'm from Elvas and in school my teacher taught me the city name was, in the Roman times, "Helvis", and then Helvas, never Dipo. Today was the first time I saw this. Could this be a mistake? Plus, the "Dipo" shortcut redirects to an article about something of Ghana, Africa.
Tuggaboy (talk) 16:00, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elvas / Dipo ???