Talk:Erub Island, Queensland
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Merge proposal
We currently have two articles for the same island/locality/town, Erub Island, Queensland and Darnley Island (Queensland). The locality is officially known by the Indigenous name Erub Island, the other using the English name Darnley Island. According to the Queensland Place names database, the locality is officially Erub Island, the town and island are both officially Darnley Island (but Eurb is listed as an alternative name). I propose that these articles are merged into a single article using this article as the place where they will be combined (giving the article title as Erub Island (but of course explaining how Darnley Island is the name of the island and the town). Most of the content will be coming from the more developed Darnley Island. Given the size of this locality/island/town is very small, I don't think there's any benefit to having separate articles, just one article that tells the whole story. Your thoughts? Kerry (talk) 06:47, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
- Agree with the idea of merging, but Darnley seems to be the better target, both because it remains the official name (for town and island) and the one in most common use, still. Klbrain (talk) 20:39, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
- Actually simply "Erub" seems to be the winner (I assume Indigenous people may not use the word "island")
- https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Darnley+Island%2C+Erub+Island%2C+Erub&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3
- but I am not convinced that this is the best way to determine name use of an Indigenous place Kerry (talk) 22:45, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
- Erub is an alternative transliteration for eruv (see wikt:erub), which seems a more likely meaning internationally, and will no doubt be affecting your ngram search; I note that you didn't include Darnley in your search :) . Still, recent census entries use Erub, so that's a good indication of the direction of travel. So, I'd keep 'Island' in the title, if only as a natural disambiguator. Klbrain (talk) 20:07, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
