Talk:Benue River

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I'm guessing that since there's water in the thing, the picture was taken during wet season? Might be worth adding to the caption, but I wanted to make sure before I did. — BrianSmithson 15:51, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

who?

if at all possible i think that someone should add who discovered the river in the first place. and a couple of coordinates to.

thank you student

Thing is, that river is quite long, and old too. A lot of different peoples have lived alongside it for millenia; so it's going to be quite difficult to add who discovered it in the first place. Coordinates are a nice idea though. — mark ✎ 15:49, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 28 May 2016

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Moved as clear consensus has been established. (non-admin closure) — Music1201 ^talk 05:22, 5 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Benué River → Benue River
Benué State → Benue State

– These two were moved from the proposed titles on 6 February 2014 with the comment "changing spelling so people may know the e is accented." This proposal is to move them back.

A search in Google Books on Benué, any language, gave 172 hits [1], but they are mostly from the 19th century. It seems to be an archaic usage taken from the French Bénoué. A raw unfiltered web search on Benué [2] gives Wikipedia-derived sites and old books, not much else.

To check modern usage, a search in Google News Archives on Benué [3] gave 8 results total, of which 4 were in English. Searches in Google Books (English) [4] and Google News Archives [5] [6] always show the names written without any accent: "Benue State" and "Benue River" (or, slightly less often, "River Benue" or "the Benue"). Very few Wikipedia articles link to the accented forms, presumably because very few modern sources use those forms. Based on Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) we should follow modern English usage and return the article titles to the unaccented forms. Aymatth2 (talk) 12:07, 29 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support. I am of the opinion the original move was in error, as the common name is the non-accented form. ONR (talk) 20:07, 29 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support The state government, local news and international agencies like the ISO all refer to the state as Benue, and likewise the IHO and Nigeria's Ministry of Water Resources regarding the river. Cobblet (talk) 16:32, 3 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.