Talk:Les Sables-d'Olonne

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A Suggestion?

A suggestion? As the French do not hyphenate 'Les Sables d'Olonne' (check their website and learn a bit of French so you understand what the name means) maybe you shouldn't either? Also I noticed some pinhead went in and redacted the French page too? Really.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.207.161.125 (talk) 13.45,17 October 2007 (UTC)

.Well, I can’t find anything on the external link about the meaning of the name; Doesn’t it just mean “the sands of Olonne”? And isn’t Olonne just the name of the area ? It re-occurs in several place-names thereabouts. And I can’t find any “pinhead” who moved the page on the French WP to a hyphenated name; it was like that from the start. So what’s the issue? Swanny18 12:13, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

The issue, PINHEAD, is that if you see how the Frenchies themselves spell their city name - by going to the OFFICIAL site for the OFFICE OF TOURISM:

http://www.ot-lessablesdolonne.fr/

You will see that they do not hyphenate their name. Yet another example of how Weakypedia rewrite history to their own liking. And yes, the above first comment is correct: some PINHEAD is also responsible for doing this to the French Weakypedia page too.

The name is:

Les Sables d'Olonne

And this can be found on any number of French sites connected with the city.

So let's see. The original comment was from October 2007; the reply was two months later; and the replier had no clue what this was about despite it being there in black and white; and now it's a year later and Weakypedia still haven't fixed it.

"Par for the course. For Weakypedia. Of course."

Here's another website Mr Clueless can visit to help him understand this obscure issue.

http://www.lessablesdolonne.com/

That site is registered to a "Jeana Développement" company and their address is given as - hold on, get ready:

23 Rue Abbé Marceau

85100 les sables d'olonne

No hyphen. PINHEAD. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.227.114.140 (talk) 18:18, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

See comments on your talk page regarding civility

As for the spelling, to repeat: If you object to the page name being hyphenated, then feel free to change it, with an explanation; it’s no big deal.

But I would point out, though; this is the English language WP and the English language spelling [1] does have a hyphen, so it isn’t wrong as it is.

I’ve put a note in the header to clarify this. Swanny18 (talk) 14:52, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

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