Talk:Fox Glacier
Latest comment: 4 months ago by SHB2000 in topic Banner
does any 1 know how big fox glacier is tall
if u do fanx
Rename to Fox Glacier / Te Moeka o Tuawe edit
In line with all of our NZ articles that are dual named. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 10:02, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- Are you sure? Should we have dual names for everyplace in Quebec, too, in that case? This is, after all, English-language Wikivoyage. Which of those two names is most used in English? That's the governing principle of Wikivoyage:Naming conventions. Ikan Kekek (talk) 12:17, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- The situation isn't comparable to Quebec, because the official name includes both the Maori and the English name side by side (so Aoraki / Mt Cook, Stewart Island / Rakiura etc.), regardless of whichever language it's in. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 12:39, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- Our policy is to use common names, not official names: Florence, not Firenze; Cairo, not al-Qāhirah; Dublin, not Baile Átha Cliath; Munich, not München; Czech Republic, not Czechia. These are the names by which English-speaking travellers know these places. The official names should be mentioned in the lead paragraph. If the commonly used name changes, we will change the article title. Haida Gwaii is now much more common than Queen Charlotte Islands, so we use that. Frobisher Bay is now commonly known as Iqaluit. Ground Zero (talk) 13:35, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- My understanding is that usually when you're at the place, it has the dual naming, because technically that's the actual place name. It's different in speech though. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 20:20, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- How visible is the Te Moeka o Tuawe name on the ground? The map uses Fox Glacier / Te Moeka o Tuawe for the glacier, but the village is Fox Glacier. Streetview shows just Fox Glacier on the roadsigns. I was in Hokitika in 2019, and I only saw Fox Glacier being used on bus timetables etc. AlasdairW (talk) 21:57, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- My understanding is that usually when you're at the place, it has the dual naming, because technically that's the actual place name. It's different in speech though. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 20:20, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- Our policy is to use common names, not official names: Florence, not Firenze; Cairo, not al-Qāhirah; Dublin, not Baile Átha Cliath; Munich, not München; Czech Republic, not Czechia. These are the names by which English-speaking travellers know these places. The official names should be mentioned in the lead paragraph. If the commonly used name changes, we will change the article title. Haida Gwaii is now much more common than Queen Charlotte Islands, so we use that. Frobisher Bay is now commonly known as Iqaluit. Ground Zero (talk) 13:35, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- The situation isn't comparable to Quebec, because the official name includes both the Maori and the English name side by side (so Aoraki / Mt Cook, Stewart Island / Rakiura etc.), regardless of whichever language it's in. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 12:39, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
Banner edit
Current seems a bit grainy. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 02:58, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
- The current banner looks grainy, but it is hard to figure out what Banner 1 is showing, even though I've been to Fox Glacier. Ground Zero (talk) 03:56, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
- It isn't easy to find something that screams Fox Glacier, though. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 04:06, 30 November 2023 (UTC)