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Vidimian

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• Feb 7, 2013

• #1

Borka

This should really be named Borçka, please see the Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borçka

I would do that myself, but I cannot see the "move" tab anywhere (perhaps that option is not available to new users).

 

Last edited: Feb 7, 2013

njlarsen

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• Feb 8, 2013

• #2

Welcome to birdforum!

I have no personal knowledge of the location you mention. There is one problem though in the use of a special character (the c with the hanging apostrophe which I do not know the name of). For technical reasons. the Opus tries as much as possible to avoid using such characters.

Niels

 

Strandman

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• Feb 8, 2013

• #3

njlarsen said:

Welcome to birdforum!

I have no personal knowledge of the location you mention. There is one problem though in the use of a special character (the c with the hanging apostrophe which I do not know the name of). For technical reasons. the Opus tries as much as possible to avoid using such characters.

Niels

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Fine place- maybe slightly overtaken by Batumi these days as destination of choice. I can see the problem with the hanging symbol- but it might help people to find the page, if you called it Borcka, even without the dangler, rather than Borka. The former is what birders tend to call it- if you google "Borcka + Honey Buzzard" and compare with results from "Borka + Honey Buzzard", you will see what I mean.

 

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Vidimian

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• Feb 9, 2013

• #4

The name of the letter is c-cedilla, I guess, though its Turkish name is pronounced roughly like che.

Anyway, I'm in full agreement with ed keeble; if for technical reasons, ç is not available, Borcka would be a great improvement from the current title if moving the article is at all possible — it would easily be recognizable to anyone who has an idea about the place, while Borka frankly is totally meaningless.

Oh, thanks for the welcome, by the way.

 

Last edited: Feb 9, 2013

njlarsen

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• Feb 9, 2013

• #5

OK, the name is now updated to Borcka, hopefully throughout the page. I also added a line about alternative names. Any chance any of you have a photo of (or at least from) the location?

Niels

 

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Vidimian

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• Feb 10, 2013

• #6

No, I'm afraid, I don't have any photos as I've never been there. I tried searching Wikimedia Commons and Flickr for CC-licensed pictures (what's the requirements for uploading photos here, by the way?); all Commons has to offer is two generic city photographs that would be out of place here, while Flickr absolutely has zero photographs from the area that is licensed CC. Commons has a category for the Çoruh River, by the way (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Çoruh,_Turkey) — while none of the photos listed there are from Borçka, they should all be taken from nearby locations, and might be of use here.

 

njlarsen

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• Feb 10, 2013

• #7

Upload is limited to pictures taken by BF members.

Niels