Talk:Heating plant

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Requested move 15 December 2019

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: there is general support for renaming the article. For the time being, I have moved it to Heating plant. If necessary, please initiate another move request to suggest a different name at any time (WP:RMCI#Discussions involving multiple options). Dekimasuよ! 05:53, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

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Heat-only boiler station → Heating Plant – This is the actual industry term for plants that product thermal energy for heating only. Previous user changed name due to "ambiguity", however, this is the actual industry term, and I work in this industry as a boiler operator. Spencershfh (talk) 21:03, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:36, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

• @Spencershfh: Or move to heating plant (which now redirects to Heating system)? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:38, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

It could, but a heating system is different from a heating plant. A heating plant can provide the energy for a heating system but the two are not the same. Spencershfh (talk) 22:48, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

• Neutral I think there are two good candidates in either heating plant or steam plant but I can't figure out which would be better. I also think there is no evidence that the name should be changed, since "heat-only boiler station" also appears as a legitimate name. Perhaps the nominator should give evidence why the current name is incorrect and is not an "actual" industry term._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 19:46, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
• If moved it should be a lower case "p" namely Heating plant. Note that Heating Plant is a DAB. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:38, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

• @Zxcvbnm: The evidence is that no regulator, operator, owner, construction or engineering firm in the industry refers to a heating plant, or steam plant (which is also an appropriate name and could be a redirect to the future Heating plant page), as a "heat only boiler station" as it is not a legitimate name. I stumbled across this because I was going to edit the page and expand it. The move is apart of a bigger edit to remove it from the stub status. The following links show regulations, industry operators, engineering firms, owners, and boiler manufacturers which refer to the 'heat only boiler station' as its correct name, a heating plant, boiler plant, or steam plant all of which could redirect to the Heating plant page. Keep in mind some locations use the term Central heating plant, or district heating plant, or just Heating plant. Regardless, all use heating plant and not "heat only boiler station." New Brunswick Government Legislation Engineering Firm specializing in steam production Velment, another engineering firm specializing in boilers, controls, and automation University of Alberta page on their Heating PlantFBV Energy, an operator and engineering firm for heating plants, refers to 'heating plant' in the blurb. POWER Mag article on Torontos heating plant Dalhousie University directory for their heating plant Princeton University study on district heating, refers to the plants as heating plants Archived website on the US Governments heating plant, the term used in the title. A job posting for a heating plant supervisorAnother job posting for a heating plant position Spencershfh (talk) 00:00, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Comment: "plant" is not a proper noun, and so should not be capitalized. HandsomeFella (talk) 07:54, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

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