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Why don't you put links here? webkid 21:36 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I think this needs to be better organized. The list of terms sometimes link to the term, and at other times link to the place itself. -- seav 04:39, Jul 31, 2003 (UTC)
What is that Chinese Wall thing? Is it Internet censorship in China? -- Menchi 07:36, Jul 31, 2003 (UTC)
This has been said above but I don't think it's clear yet - should the links go to the object under discussion or the source name? I just disambiguated [[American]] to [[United States|American]] but maybe I should have linked it to [[American (cheese)|]] -- sannse 19:44, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I think the page may be more useful with some sort of standard format - and I think it needs links to both the word and its source. At the moment I see Bible and it leads me to a long article that doesn't explain (as far as I can see) why this is a toponym. Similarly I see Detroit which leads to an article that doesn't tell me the meaning of the word outside its use as a name.
Maybe a table would make it clearer:
Word | Meaning | Source |
---|---|---|
Canary | A small songbird | Canary Islands |
Holland | Cotton or linen fabric | Holland |
Of course that would make it more complicated so may be a bad idea.
Perhaps a better format would be something like:
The disadvantage here would be repetitiveness.
I'm just throwing out ideas here, it's an interesting list so it would be good to develop it -- sannse 22:41, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Unless you're talking about some 18th-century obscure connotation, "toponym" has only one popular meaning, i.e., = place-name. So List of toponyms means List of placenames. The proper titlte should be List of toponym-derived words or List of toponym-derived words and phrases. -- Menchi 07:11, Aug 1, 2003 (UTC)
Why not just call it List of placename-derived words. Clear and no ambiguity. -- Menchi 17:33, Aug 11, 2003 (UTC)
not so happy with the question mark to identify mythical. Makes it seem dubious. Myths may be non-factual, but they are for the most part clearly defined and known as such. What do the others think? -- Viajero 10:49, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)
What about just putting mythical in brackets after the word. Or maybe it will be fine without once links to both the word and the source are included. The question mark is ambiguous IMO, I don’t think it really works. -- sannse 16:45, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Well they are dubious, mythical places, aren't they? But surely if you meant the word was dubious it what have the word dubious or (?) after it, mythical means a certain thing. Wellingtons are not named after a place called Wellington, any more than Occam's razor is named after a place called Occam - Adrian.
I know wikipedia is not a dictionary, but definitions and examples would definitely be helpful here. orthogonal 19:29, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I plan to remove the contents of the "Elements" section, merge it with Chemical elements named after places and just have the link there. Jay 11:47, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)
1. The following are place names but I could not find their toponymical meaning:
2. Is Peyton Place a real or fictional place ?
3. Is sardine from the name Sardinia ?
4. Trojan is not a verb. So what is "Trojaned" about?
5. Main street - real or fictional place ?
6. motown - where's this place ?
7. maus - which meaning and which place?
8. Nuremberg (defense) - what does defense stand for here? Is it the trials ?
9. Seltzer - is there an article abt the place
10. labyrinth - what was the corresponding name of the place and where was it
11. Masada - what does it stand for
12. Manchester - where is the textile article for manchester
13. Beltway - which place is this road system named after ?
14. Boetian - whats this ??
15. Brazilianization - what does this term refer to ?
Okay, some more entries that I have issues with, and I think either need clarifying or removing. I'll list these here and see if I can get some agreement before cleaning this up.
As far as I understand it, a toponym is a word named after a place, right? It's seems like this article needs to stick rather more precisely to that definition, or just about anything that has a place-name in it could be listed in here. I've looked on Dictionary.com and the Concise OED {9th edition} to try and get some guidance on what names are used as words. In particular:
Wow, that all sounds very negative!. I think cleaning this stuff up and the above list would be very helpful though ... Dave w74 21:11, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
I have moved the page under a new heading "List of words derived from toponyms". The previous heading was inappropriate, because the normal meaning of toponym in linguistics and common usage is just 'place-name'. The move had already been proposed in 2003 (s.a.), but opposed by Viajero because toponym supposedly also has the meaning 'a name derived from a place or region'. While this might be the case, such usage is entirely marginal, and would also contradict the contents of the article Toponymy. -- AAikio 15:13, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
I cut the following because they are more properly metonyms:
I also cut Bay Street for the same reason. I rm Bantustan because there is no place called "Bantustan". I'm going to move Eden, Utopia, etc to a new section of "Fictional and literary place names". I also started adding cites. -- SigPig | SEND - OVER 05:14, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
I have added an 'Issues' tag to the page, noting that the citation style should be improved, and that the subject may lack notability. Although most of the items include external links to dictionaries, etymology guides, etc., these could be more efficiently handled in a References section. See WP:IC, WP:REF. It is also not clear how notable this topic is. The list criteria should be made specific, preferably with reliable third-party sources that establish notability cited in the lead section. See WP:Stand-alone lists. Cnilep ( talk) 15:52, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
All the corporations appear to be Finnish. There are definitely some Japanese corporations named after their hometowns (Toyota for a start), and I assume there are probably some others. Any particular reason they're all Finnish? 95.149.232.139 ( talk) 18:34, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
I've created an article titled Lists of things named after places, which currently links to eight lists: chemical elements, chess openings, foods and drinks, inventions, mathematical problems, minor planets, (two lists of) other places. Michael Hardy ( talk) 17:58, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Currently, the entry for sodomy reads, "Sodomy, forbidden sexual acts — Sodom, Biblical town on the plain of the Dead Sea." This is incorrect, as sodomy means anal sex (and sometimes other non-penile-vaginal sex). It is not forbidden in the majority of developed countries. 185.11.66.147 ( talk) 08:56, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
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By this, I mean a 'toponym plus noun' pair where attributes of the place referred to (or people associated with the place) make the result disparaging, usually to humorous effect. Eg, 'Glasgow kiss' (already included), 'Brixton briefcase' (boombox), 'Jamaican toothpick' (switchblade). It would help collect these if there were a searchable term for them. Skepticaltogether ( talk) 23:35, 2 November 2022 (UTC)