Talk:Koitajoki

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Koita River[edit]

There seems to be no proper reference to the usage of a term "Koita River". While the Swedish company Vattenfall on its website uniquely uses the term "Lower-Koita River", this clearly (a) is not the same term and not a valid reference "Koita River", (b) refers to another concept (the lower part of Koitajoki), (c) in itself seems to be bad English (to me, by the hyphenation), indicating it does not represent a relevant authority of English language. Koitajoki is the term in English text produced by those knowledgeable of Finnish geography (which I believe Vattenfall is not, but this is prejudice). Sorry about arguing of these again. --Martenz (talk) 22:06, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The English language has many intricacies, just as Finnish does. WP:HYPHEN provides an overview of [many] ways in which hyphens are used within English. For the given example of "Lower-Koita River", the hyphen serves to separate the adjective from the name, in order to prevent ambiguity: "(Lower Koita) (River)" verses "(Lower)-(Koita River)"; English tends to avoid making up compounds. —Sladen (talk) 22:57, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the move request was: not done Skomorokh 17:47, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Koitajoki → Koita River — WP:ENGLISH. Similar case to discussion surrounding the move of Kollasjoki to Kollaa River. Page was moved from english name, without discussion, in December 09. - Relisting Ronhjones ^(Talk) 20:49, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

—Labattblueboy (talk) 06:22, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Koitajoki seems well enough used in English. I'd need decent evidence that "Koita River" is more commonly used. Knepflerle (talk) 04:12, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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