Talk:Yalgoo, Western Australia

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2006[edit]

I placed the Category:Questionable place name spelling after reading this.

Yalgu was used because of spelling rules for Aboriginal names adopted by the Lands & Surveys Department (the letter u best representing the "oo" sound). Within a month the Lands & Surveys had decided reluctantly to use the original Yalgoo spelling, and this spelling has been used ever since. Jeepday 23:48, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The category is poorly named. Just because a place has been gazetted under multiple spellings doesn't mean there is anything "questionable" about it. In this case, the original spelling was rejected almost immediately, and the current spelling adopted. The current spelling was gazetted over 70 years ago. There's nothing "questionable" about it. Hesperian 23:50, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hesperian wrote "It would appear that a number of people took exception to that category on that page." Not really; I'm more concerned about the category name. If the category name was something like Category:Place names with multiple spellings, then I would have no objection to you tagging Yalgoo into it. As it currently stands, it looks like a maintenance category, i.e. a category for pages which require editor attention to check whether the title is spelled correctly. Hesperian 23:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I think that is much better category name! While I work on changing it take a look at the page that lead me to build it. Harstine Island, Washington feel free to correct my spelling or offer better titles any time. Jeepday 00:07, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Place names with multiple spellings

Ok, done that was fun :) Jeepday 00:27, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]