Talk:Somme (department)

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The result of the move request was: consensus to move the pages, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 03:08, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Somme → Somme (department)
• Somme (disambiguation) → Somme

– I think that the

• Support I think the river would be more likely to be the primary topic in English -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 01:10, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• My first instinct is to say yes, but then I think of situations like Mississippi River vs Mississippi and I'm less sure. Some input from French editors would be helpful.--Yaksar (let's chat) 01:13, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • The primary topic in English can be different than the primary topic in French, so any French editors will have to take that into account (France is not an English speaking locality). -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 03:50, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Battle of the Somme is enough to confuse the obvious primary, and that is after the river apparently — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.131.80.54 (talk) 20:20, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose; this is virtually a
  River Somme, it is prominently mentioned in the lede of the article, and they are no further from it than they would be if they had to search the disambiguation page for it. bd2412 T 19:18, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply
  ]
  • Only two topics? And what of the battle of
    the Somme? —  AjaxSmack  01:24, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply
    ]

• Support per nom. Not a TWODABS situation and the department is not primary. —  AjaxSmack  01:24, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Support The river is geographically and historically important, so there is no clear primary topic, and the battle is often referred to informally as "the Somme" in Britain. —innotata 21:12, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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