Talk:Dogon country

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Requested move 26 February 2021[edit]

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.

The result of the move request was: No consensus to move (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 16:31, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dogon country → Dogon Country – Dogon Country is supposed to be a proper name. Google searches turn up more results for Dogon Country than for Dogon country, especially in academic publications. The original French term, Pays Dogon, is also a proper name. AboubacarD (talk) 10:53, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

COMMENT It looks like the WP:COMMONNAME is actually Pays Dogon, even in several English sources?--Ortizesp (talk) 14:54, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Before the Mali War started, tourism companies have always generally referred to it as Dogon Country when dealing with non-Francophones. AboubacarD (talk) 21:46, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Per MOS:CAPS we should only capitalise this if a substantial majority of reliable sources do so. From an ngram, it seems that for most of the 20th century "Dogon country" was much more common. There was apparently a very slight lead for the capitalised form right at the end of the curve in the past decade, but that's still not enough for a "substantial majority". Source like the NY Times go with lowercase too.[1] Finall, I oppose Pays Dogon per WP:UE. — Amakuru (talk) 21:06, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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