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RM, Majorca → Mallorca, moved, 16 May 2017, discussion
RM, Mallorca → Majorca, not moved, 29 August 2021, discussion
Requested move 29 August 2021
Latest comment: 4 years ago16 comments9 people in discussion
The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Mallorca → MajorcaMajorca – Majorca is used by major English sources such as Britanica[1], Trip Advisor[2], Tui[3], The Telegraph[4] and the BBC[5]. Besides the reason most commonly given to move the article to 'Mallorca' in the first place was 'consistency with Menorca'. This is irrelevant because:
A) Wikipedia uses the most common name; whether or not it is consistent doesn’t always matter.
B) A lot of English sources Majorca and Menorca together such as the BBC article I have referenced.
Oppose: I was in the mood to make a table. From what I found, there's not really any preference towards either name. And actually, I found this article in The Times that suggests "Majorca" is the British spelling of the island whereas "Mallorca" is the rest-of-the-world spelling of the island. Bait30 Talk 2 me pls?02:55, 30 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
Bait30's assortment of reliable sources, search terms, and number of results
Oppose. Moved here 3 years ago, cherry-picked sources in the nomination are unimpressive. Evidence presented by Bait30 as well as in the previous RM suggests that both names are in similar circulation, so the consistency argument pulls a significant weight. And WP:TITLECHANGES. No such user (talk) 08:53, 30 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
You presented evidence showing that there's "not really any preference towards either name". In that case, let's use English in line with policy. — AjaxSmack03:04, 31 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
I don't know any medieval Latin, but my modern translation dictionary (which reads "Revised and Updated for the 21st Century") only gives "Majorca" for the modern English and Mallorca for the modern Spanish. See image over here. — AjaxSmack16:26, 31 August 2021 (UTC) →Reply
Oppose - Support because the name sounds better and it's what everyone's used to calling it. Oppose because under Google News "Majorca" has 139,000 results[1], Mallorca has 28,500,000 [2]. As much as I really want to there's no valid reason to support moving other than preference. –Davey2010Talk14:00, 31 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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In the section for the island's history during the period of Late Antiquity, it states that Geiseric is the son of Gunderic when this is not the case. Geiseric was a half-brother of Gunderic. The father of Geiseric, although illegitimate, is Godigisel as you can see on Geiseric's main article in his family relations. MementomoriDG (talk) 20:48, 17 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
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