Talk:Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Porto

Latest comment: 12 years ago by Rothorpe

The Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Porto has provided and autorizes the use of the text from its official web pages in the Wikipedia. --MJM@CAUP (talk) 11:41, 10 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

However, the title of the university is incorrect and should in English be "Oporto", as the definite article forms part of the name and cannot be assimilated to the preposition as it is in Portuguese..Diomedea Exulans (talk) 09:54, 21 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

That's technically true, but 'Oporto' was already archaic when I came to live here in the 1980s. Blame football! Rothorpe (talk) 00:00, 24 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
  • 'Planetarium of Porto' is inelegant and clumsy and hardly sounds like correct English. Rather than change to 'Porto Planetarium', I have changed it to the Portuguese name, as used in the University's literature in English (see link). Rothorpe (talk) 00:12, 24 October 2012 (UTC)Reply