Talk:Afonwen

Afon-wen or Afonwen

The article is listed under Afon-wen but, having lived there for most of my childhood the only written form I was aware of was Afonwen. Is there a reason that the article is preferentially listed with the form Afon-wen? ChemConnector (talk) 16:51, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Afon-wen is the orthography according to the Welsh Language Commissioner's Guidelines for Standardizing Place-names in Wales. See in particular section 4.ii):

"The hyphen is used in Welsh compound words when the stress does not fall on the penultimate syllable. Therefore, if the stress falls on the final syllable the hyphen is used to show this clearly to the reader (Aber-erch, Aber-cuch)."

So the change from the Afonwen of your childhood to the modern Afon-wen appears to be the result of a standardisation of Welsh spelling. Physchim62 (talk) 01:45, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

While that may be the reason Physchim62 I have not been able to find any other examples of Wikipedia where names have been standardized in this way. Can you locate any? ChemConnector (talk) 06:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Citation Needed for Moel-Y-Parc

The article for Afon-Wen requests a citation for the reference to Moel-y-parc and its geography I believe, specifically that it overlooks the village. The article on Moel-y-parc should suffice or is the challenge the referencing within Wikipedia? See [[1]] ChemConnector (talk) 16:51, 11 April 2013 (UTC)