Talk:Main (river)

message: Is the confluence at Mainz or near Mainz? Rich Farmbrough 15:16, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The funny thing is, it was once within the Mainz city limits, but in 1945, the city was split in two halves administratively, and Mainz was reduced to the neighborhoods on the left bank of the Rhine, the right bank and the last miles of the river Main fell to other communities. So, today, the confluence of the river Main is right opposite the historic city center, but outside the city limits. --Magadan (?!) 10:50, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: At or near

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Main (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RM bot 02:15, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: *"The name derives from the Latin Moenus or Menus": more likely, the name derives from Common Germanic Mainaz and was recorded as Moenus or Menus by invading Romans. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:37, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology

message: :The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: move. Between pipes and rivers, consensus is there is no primary topic. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 06:01, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Comment. You make a good point which ought to be more widely discussed as it causes problems in other disambiguation discussions. Where there is no other contender for the actual article title, as here, it should be de facto the primary topic, even if it is not universally known. Otherwise we open the debate up to all sorts of spurious contenders: there are hundreds of phrases with "main" in them, but only one topic that has "Main" as its proper name. And it is a pretty significant waterway, we are not talking about a little-known stream! --Bermicourt (talk) 08:52, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
3854751748 2403:FBC0:1000:0:0:0:0:1094 (talk) 16:18, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: I would like to remind all those who supported the move in the discussion above that there are many links to be fixed, as per WP:FIXDABLINKS.  Over 400 other Wikipedia pages contain links to "Main", most of which (but probably not all) refer to the river because that was the topic associated with this title until earlier today.  All those pages need to be reviewed and the links retargeted to the correct article.  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 12:21, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to be fixed 

message: The opening section names the Main as the longest tributary of the Rhine with 525 km (en; german Wikipedia says 527). But the Moselle seems to be slightly longer: en:546, de: 544; not to mention sometimes even the much longer Meuse is considered a tributary of the Rhine. So the Main should rank at 2nd odr 3rd position. It is, however, the longest tributary from the right side. I2003:CF:3728:8B00:E928:FF1A:90D6:C572 (talk) 22:42, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length