Talk:Chitral River

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I love my Kunar an I'm proud of my province its the best province in all Afghanistan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.100.48.2 (talk) 06:34, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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The WP:COMMONNAME title is "Kunar River", clearly per Google Ngram.

Also, Google Books search gets about 4,380 results for "Kunar River", but only about 2,480 results for "Chitral River". So "Kunar River" is clearly more common in reliable sources. Khestwol (talk) 19:09, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

My bad, I didn't realise while moving the page that you had actually left the rationale for the page move. Your arguments made sense, and I wouldn't mind if you move the page back. Sutyarashi (talk) 20:58, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It does seem that Kunar had previously more usage because of the Afghanistan conflict and US presence in Afghanistan, as it is the name with which the river is known in Afghanistan.^[1] It is worth noting that in the recent years Chitral has had comparatively more usage than Kunar in the academic discourse.[1]. Sutyarashi (talk) 21:03, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Infact, modern hydrology-related RS sources (from past decade or so) exclusively use Chitral as the proper hydronym,[2][3][4][5] since it originates from Chitral, not Kunar. Hard to tell how much merit WP:COMMONNAME holds if the outdated and military-related sources are removed from the equation. Sutyarashi (talk) 21:19, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

^ Nibanupudi, Hari Krishna; Shaw, Rajib (2014). Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction. Japan: Springer. p. 37. ISBN 978-4-431-55242-0.

[1] Nibanupudi, Hari Krishna; Shaw, Rajib (2014). Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction. Japan: Springer. p. 37. ISBN 978-4-431-55242-0.

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