Talk:Atacora Department

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On 24 November 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved to Atakora Department. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

Requested move 24 November 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: no consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 04:31, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Atacora Department → Atakora DepartmentAtakora Department – The location is consistently spelled as "Atakora" throughout the article. - OpalYosutebito 『talk』『articles I want to eat』 15:00, 24 November 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 02:34, 1 December 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. TarnishedPath talk 03:08, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment, while it is called Atakora in the article, half the sources seem to use Atacora as that is what the Benin government uses. TwoNineNineOne (talk) 07:22, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Geography, WikiProject Africa, and WikiProject Benin have been notified of this discussion. TarnishedPath talk 03:09, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME. There are no results for either name in Ngrams [1], but there are more results in Google Scholar for "Atacora Department" (385) [2] than "Atakora Department" (69) [3].

To provide some additional context, the name of the department may have been changed.[4] In 2015, the name of the department in ISO 3166-2:BJ [5] was changed from "Atakora" to "Atacora".[6] ("Kouffo Department" was also changed to Couffo Department.) This remains the official name.[7] I'd guess this change is because the letter "k" is relatively rare in French.[8] Malerisch (talk) 04:00, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.