Talk:Eurasian Plate
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[edit]I think that whoever wrote this needs to do a better job on explaining because this is not clear at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Eurasian Plate → Eurasian plate
- North American Plate → North American plate
- Juan de Fuca Plate → Juan de Fuca plate
- Farallon Plate → Farallon plate
- South American Plate → South American plate
- Gorda Plate → Gorda plate
- Nazca Plate → Nazca plate
- Antarctic Plate → Antarctic plate
- Pacific Plate → Pacific plate
- Cocos Plate → Cocos plate
- Philippine Sea Plate → Philippine Sea plate
- African Plate → African plate
- Arabian Plate → Arabian plate
- Indo-Australian Plate → Indo-Australian plate
- Explorer Plate → Explorer plate
- Anatolian Sub-Plate → Anatolian sub-plate
- Australian Plate → Australian plate
- Burma Plate → Burma plate
- Indian Plate → Indian plate
- Scotia Plate → Scotia plate
- Caribbean Plate → Caribbean plate
- Somali Plate → Somali plate
- Kula Plate → Kula plate
- Sunda Plate → Sunda plate
- Tonga Plate → Tonga plate
- Adriatic Plate → Adriatic plate
- Izanagi Plate → Izanagi plate
- Phoenix Plate → Phoenix plate
- Intermontane Plate → Intermontane plate
- Bellingshausen Plate → Bellingshausen plate
- Insular Plate → Insular plate
- Baltic Plate → Baltic plate
- Charcot Plate → Charcot plate
- Rivera Plate → Rivera plate
- South Sandwich Plate → South Sandwich plate
- Solomon Sea Plate → Solomon Sea plate
- New Hebrides Plate → New Hebrides plate
- Banda Sea Plate → Banda Sea plate
- Timor Plate → Timor plate
- Aegean Sea Plate → Aegean Sea plate
- Balmoral Reef Plate → Balmoral Reef plate
- Caroline Plate → Caroline plate
- Conway Reef Plate → Conway Reef plate
- Futuna Plate → Futuna plate
- Juan Fernández Plate → Juan Fernández plate
- Kermadec Plate → Kermadec plate
- Manus Plate → Manus plate
- Maoke Plate → Maoke plate
- Mariana Plate → Mariana plate
- Molucca Sea Plate → Molucca Sea plate
- Niuafo'ou Plate → Niuafo'ou plate
- North Andes Plate → North Andes plate
- North Bismarck Plate → North Bismarck plate
- Okinawa Plate → Okinawa plate
- Panama Plate → Panama plate
- Shetland Plate → Shetland plate
- South Bismarck Plate → South Bismarck plate
- Halmahera Plate → Halmahera plate
- Woodlark Plate → Woodlark plate
- Yangtze Plate → Yangtze plate
- Madagascar Plate → Madagascar plate
- Greenland Plate → Greenland plate
- Moa Plate → Moa plate
- Pelso Plate → Pelso plate
- Tisza Plate → Tisza plate
- Sangihe Plate → Sangihe plate
- Lwandle Plate → Lwandle plate
- Capricorn Plate → Capricorn plate
- Rovuma Plate → Rovuma plate
- Malpelo Plate → Malpelo plate
- Coiba Plate → Coiba plate
- Moesian Plate → Moesian plate
- Trobriand Plate → Trobriand plate
- Kshiroda Plate → Kshiroda plate
– Sources usually use lowercase plate for these (I have checked many, including all the major plates, e.g. using books n-grams, but not yet all 74). I think the minor and micro plates should just follow for consistency, unless someone finds one or more that are consistently capped in sources. Dicklyon (talk) 22:43, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
- I believe "Plate" should remain capitalized in the article titles, such as "Eurasian Plate" or "North American Plate," in accordance with Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Proper names versus generic terms. These terms refer to specific, formal names of geological entities, where capitalization is standard practice. Their names are proper nouns, much like how we capitalize the word "ocean" in "Atlantic Ocean". The word "Plate" is an integral part of these names, not a generic descriptor, and therefore warrants capitalization.
- Furthermore, scientific literature and authoritative sources in geology overwhelmingly capitalize the word "plate" when referring to specific tectonic plates (see this book for example). Lowercasing it would not only depart from Wikipedia's style guidelines but also from widely accepted conventions in academic and educational contexts. AstrooKai (Talk • Contributions) 04:33, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose these proposed renames/moves. I agree with the 04:33, 8 October comments of User:AstrooKai. The Google Books ngram analysis does not consider enough context. I could write factually correct statements such as "The Eurasian Plate is one of Earth's largest plates" (in which "Plate" is part of a proper noun and therefore capitalised) but I could also write factually correct statements such as "Eurasian plate boundaries are divergent, convergent or transform" (in which "plate" is an adjective describing boundaries; it is not a part of a proper noun and not capitalised). Also, many images of plates in Wikimedia Commons/Wikipedia have the plate name as e.g. "African Plate" not "African plate" so I think that an unnecessary and difficult-to-fix inconsistency would be created if plate names were changed from e.g. "African Plate" to "African plate" in article text. GeoWriter (talk) 12:35, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Leaning oppose, in agreement with comments by AstrooKai and GeoWriter above. I would want to a see a lot more evidence in context to support this big of a change. BD2412 T 15:59, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
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