Talk:Département
Latest comment: 17 years ago by EHM02667 in topic Why is this page here?
Why is this page here?
editI think this article should be removed. In English, the word "department" is used to refer to the French "département." (See AHD department). ----Eric 18:52, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Is the English Wikipedia going to have a redirect page for any French word that occurs in the encyclopedia? -Eric (talk) 19:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- Why shouldn't it? — Brian (talk) 22:59, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- I don't know--it seems superfluous and unnecessary to me. I was hoping to be enlightened as to its function. I think the en Wikipedia would become bloated if it had a redirect page for every foreign language word that occurs in the encyclopedia's text.
- In any case, I don't think it should simply redirect to Departments of France, since the French word département has several other meanings (as in English) and I believe is used in several other French-speaking countries for their geographic and administrative divisions. I would say if it must exist, the page should redirect to the en page Department. -Eric (talk) 12:44, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
- I agree with you that the appropriate redirect target is department, and as to why we need the page, I can't see a compelling reason to delete it. Redirects are cheap and take up virtually no server space. Keep it, I say, but change it to point to the more generic page. — Brian (talk) 13:57, 22 March 2007 (UTC)