Talk:Faiyum Governorate

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Text from 1911 added. I worked on it a bit, but it still needs updating by anyone that's more knowledgable about it or more intimate with the area than me. --DanielCD 04:13, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Faiyum

• Hi, I have reverted your major undiscussed edit to Faiyum and Faiyum Governorate, which you made on the grounds that "Faiyum only means the town". For example, a short Google search for "Faiyum" will show many pages outside Wikipedia (e.g. http://www.grisel.net/faiyum.htm) that use the name Faiyum (or Fayyum or Fayum) to mean the whole of the Faiyum depression. Traditionally the name Faiyum (derived via Coptic from the Ancient Egyptian for "great water") meant Lake Moeris, or the depression that it lay in. Use of the name Faiyum for the town is quite recent: the town was formerly called Madīnat al Faiyūm = "the town of (= in) the Faiyum", and the town's name being shortened to only Faiyum is recent. Please discuss this. Anthony Appleyard 16:41, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

What do people think about this? I believe we need to keep Faiyum for the city, and Faiyum Governorate for the larger area/region. Thanks. --Lanternix 17:03, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

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Duplication

User:The Eloquent Peasant, don't you think that providing details on the name Faiyum and the governorate is duplicating information available on other pages? Why should this article include the same information about the origins and spelling of the name when it is available on another article specifically about the city? --Mahmudmasri (talk) 15:02, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Each article stands alone and the reader should not have to go to another article to find the pronunciation for the governorate name. Maybe the reader is simply reading all the governorate articles. When these articles were worked on as part of the Africa destubathon project they all had pronunciation in the lead. The pron should be added back to Ismailia Governorate, again, so the reader doesn't have to click on another article for the pron. Cheers!--The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 23:13, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

But it's up to you. I don't feel strongly either way.--The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 14:46, 1 October 2020 (UTC)