Talk:Güveç (dish)

Requested move 21 October 2015[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Withdrawn. Orwellianist (talk) 23:10, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Güveç → Đuveč
Güveç (cooking) → Güveç

– User:Why should I have a User Name? moved to page to Turkish spelling, possibly due to a Turkish bias, when in English Đuveč is normally used to refer to this Balkan dish and güveç almost exclusively used in the Turkish sense of the word, which refers to the specific type of pot and a variety of dishes cooked in it. I propose his move be reverted and Güveç (cooking) be moved to Güveç instead. Orwellianist (talk) 16:41, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WP policy says that we use the English names for article titles. The only English name I can find for this dish is gyuvech.[1] Neither đuveč nor güveç are English names. The Oxford Companion to Food — which is not of course infallible, but is a good source — uses "gyuvech".[2] --Macrakis (talk) 18:49, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I don't think the move from Đuveč to Güveç was justified, but since we seemingly don't have a good reason to prefer one to other I guess it will have to stay. (I can't demonstrate Đuveč is more popular in English sources; güveç is also used, but it doesn't necessarily refer to Đuveč, güveç is more general and it is also the name of the pot). So I am retracting the move request. Still, Đuveč is not the primary meaning of the word güveç, if anything the other article describing the cookware and other dishes called güveç has a better claim to it, so I am moving this article to Güveç (dish).--Orwellianist (talk) 23:10, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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