Talk: Azores

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Population

Surely there must be a population on these islands worth mentioning? --rmhermen

• • Yes, there is, I know plenty of them, I'll edit something about them, But their are normal Portuguese people, their most pecculiar difference is their french-like accent. --Pedro 23:56, 23 May 2004 (UTC)

naming conventions

I'm still trying to understand naming conventions: Why isn't this "Azore Islands," please? -- isis

In naming conventions, an important rule is to use the most common name. Determining this is usually easy: look at another encyclopedia, dictionary or map. Alternatively, one can enter the two terms in Google and see which pops up most frequently. In this case "Azores" gives me about 240,000 hits, "Azore Islands" only a few hundred. Jeronimo

Thanks. -- isis

• • • That because we in Portugal we say only "Açores", "Madeira" or somethings else, its easier. than saying "arquipélago dos Açores".... -Pedro 23:56, 23 May 2004 (UTC)

Islands/Archipelago

Why not change the part which reads "The Azores are a group of Portuguese islands" to "The Azores is a Portuguese Archipelago", adding a link to wikipedia's archipelago entry?

• Hmmm? Because English speakers use the word "islands" more than archipelago. They say "Azores Islands", "Canary Islands", etc. We use more the word archipelago, but this is the English wikipedia. You can link archipelago with islands [[archipelago|islands]] . -Pedro 13:30, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)