Talk:How to Cook in Palestine

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Request move - bad translation of the book[edit]

Requested move 19 February 2024[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: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover)Hilst [talk] 13:06, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]


How to Cook in PalestineHow to Cook in the Land of Israel – although the book was published in the British Mandate of Palestine the title clearly reffers to the erea as "The Land of Israel" (Eretz Israel) The translation of the title should be an accurate translation of the book title. GvTara (talk) 10:26, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • oppose, as there has been an english version published by the same publisher, and the book title in english was “How to cook in Palestine”. Mkfreal (talk) 20:29, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support based on literal translation (and on a presumed desire of the writers) FortunateSons (talk) 12:07, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Use the title as it was published in English and as it is referred to in English sources like the ones in the article — How to Cook in Palestine. WP:COMMONNAME WP:UE ("In deciding whether and how to translate a foreign name into English, follow English-language usage."). I have also done a cursory Google search, and the results for those respective titles were 45,400 to 7, so the proposed title is evidently not in even somewhat common use. SilverLocust 💬 05:04, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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