Talk:Anatolian plateau

Requested move 6 October 2024

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: moved. This RM is one of those cases where we see different titling criteria backing different titles: participants identified WP:COMMONNAME in support of the proposed move, and WP:CONSISTENT in opposition. However, the supporters also had additional guidelines (MOS:CAPS and WP:NCCAPS) bolstering their claim, so my read of the discussion is that the weight of relevant policies in guidelines supports this move overall. (closed by non-admin page mover) ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 19:53, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

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Anatolian Plateau → Anatolian plateau – More often lowercase in sources, so per MOS:CAPS and WP:NCCAPS we should use lowercase. Dicklyon (talk) 21:00, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

• Support per nom. It's not entirely clear why some geographical features come to have standarized names that over time become capitalized as proper names (proper-noun phrases), while other features attract (often multiple) descriptive appellations that do not achieve that consistency. But it is a fact, and we have a "consistently capitalized in independent reliable sources" standard specifically to avoid editors engaging in endless WP:OR about what "should" be a proper name and why they think so, which are questions no one agrees on (with Wikipedia or with disciplines that address such questions, including linguistics and philsosophy). Cf. WP:PNPN for some background on that.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:19, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
• Support per SMcCandlish (whom I don't always agree with). Tony (talk) 06:21, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
• Weak oppose. I think using capitalization would match similar articles. — Jɑuмe ^(dis-me) 00:28, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

  @Nuvolet, based on which policy? RodRabelo7 (talk) 23:08, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

I've seen other articles with geographical information using capitalization: Iberian Peninsula, Meseta Central, Sistema Central (Central System), etc. — Jɑuмe ^(dis-me) 01:05, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose as a proper name (and per sitewide consistency, many other named plateaus are uppercased on Wikipedia). Randy Kryn (talk) 13:57, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

  Unlike some other plateaus though, not capitalizing is demonstrably the more common method. [1] Flemmish Nietzsche (talk) 19:13, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

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.