Talk:List of national capital city name etymologies

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Why do we have this article?[edit]

The page is overly long, and duplicates content properly located in their respective articles. --Paul_012 (talk) 06:31, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is the only list I can find online of city etymologies. Something I would have thought there would be 100's of sites off. I used it to make a world map where you can hover over a city and read the etymology and I think many people use it. JurijFedorov (talk) 14:02, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Copying[edit]

I have removed numerous embedded footnote numbers of the format [1], which indicate copying and pasting. Without attribution this is a copyright violation even if the source was another Wikipedia article. I also found sections with embedded newlines, another indication of copying and pasting, and some badly translated material; for example the section on Lomé derived from fr:Lomé. There is still potentially copyvio material in the article, and the sourcing is very bad, in many places non-existent, so we are restating scholarly or other published opinions without attributing them. If you can add a reference (perhaps by identifying where else in Wikipedia a passage was taken from and identifying the source given there), please do. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:29, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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