Talk:Europa

No need for two disambiguation pages on the same subject. (preceding unsigned comment by Ante Perkovic (talk · contribs) --Sherool 18:17, 16 September 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Europa and Europe are not nessesarily the same subject. I'm not realy sure what if any the "norm" for these kinds of things are, I know some disambiguation pages include various simmilar sounding things, while others (like these) include only names spelled in one particular way. I don't rely have any strong opinion either way on this one though. --Sherool 18:17, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is a bad idea. Europe and Europa are two different words in English, and have distinct meanings. --Srleffler 18:19, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Europe and Europa are two different things. Do you want the continent, musical band, mythical goddess, or moon of Jupiter?

SnoopY

Agreed, they are two different things, keep them seperate! StealthFox 18:13, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I also agree. Keep them seperated. RexNL 12:43, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

lets keep them seperate

europr already has so many entries, and europa has so many seperate entries on its known. merging the two would lead to chaos!

-macbeth

merge tags removed and then re-added

I removed the tags the other day and someone's just added them back. It seems we need to come to formal decision. Tedernst 14:31, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Final decision

I propose we merge this to the disambiguation page, and give the name Europa to the moon of Jupiter, just as all other planets and their natural satellites have their name as the flagship article, then a separate disambiguation page. Discuss? --Kitch 14:02, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This page should definitely be merged with Europa (disambiguation) because it is almost like a disambiguation/redirect page. What's the point of having two? --WordWhiz 00:43, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge it with the moon

It's absolutely out-of-the question to merge these two topics. Europe is the continent, Europa is the moon or goddess. I think some confusion is arising from people misreading one as the other. Look at the ending! Europe or Europa --Spudtater 15:14, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Has it ever occured to you that the name of the continent is derived from the goddess? In English they named the continent Europe (because an ending 'a' is a bit un-English), but in many languages they kept the spelling the Greek way: Europa. The English Wikipedia is visited by a lot of non-native English speakers, and they might be looking for the continent under this name.

Added a link to Europe (continent) here. MrTroy 07:43, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We say europa for all these things in swedish (continend, moon, etc). In english europe/europa is probably not the same thing (even if the people that have given the names to different things has ment the same originally, for example astronomers, etc). But a good solution is the extra link to "europe"! Then you remember that in english its name is europe and not europa. In reality though the two names come from the same source / originally was the same. /Magnus