Talk:Negev desert road ambush
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Requested move 19 March 2024
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The result of the move request was: No consensus to rename * Pppery * it has begun... 20:43, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
Negev desert road ambush → Negev Desert road ambush – Should Negev Desert not be capitalized? I see it appears twice capitalized and once lowercase in the Negev article. If we're referring to the Negev region and not the desert then maybe 'desert-road' should be hyphenated to make it clear that we're talking about a desert road in the Negev region and not a road in the Negev Desert? Dennis C. Abrams (talk) 21:06, 19 March 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 17:23, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
- I’m not a native speaker, but based on some spelling in the sources, shouldn’t it be “Negev Desert Road Ambush”? FortunateSons (talk) 20:02, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- No. See ]
- Support per nomination. A glance at Category:Deserts by continent confirms that when "Desert" is rendered in main title headers such as Arabian Desert, Chihuahuan Desert, Djurab Desert, Gobi Desert or Moçâmedes Desert, the "D" is uppercase. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 03:43, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- I also found Lompoul desert, Nafud desert, Nara desert (part of the Thar Desert), and "ecoregions" such as Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert, Arctic desert, Atlantic coastal desert, Baja California desert, Caspian lowland desert, Central Asian northern desert, Central Asian southern desert, Eritrean coastal desert, Great Sandy–Tanami desert, Mesopotamian shrub desert, North Tibetan Plateau–Kunlun Mountains alpine desert, Red Sea coastal desert, Registan–North Pakistan sandy desert, Sahara desert (ecoregion), and Tirari–Sturt stony desert. That's not an exhaustive list. It seems you're right that most of the named specific deserts use a capital "D" if the word "desert" is part of the article title. We don't seem to use caps for places called a "semi-desert". — BarrelProof (talk) 16:32, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose since plenty of sources refer to the desert as the "Negev desert". Dicklyon (talk) 08:42, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- But the search you've linked shows that Negev Desert is the more ]
- Yes, somewhat more common, but perhaps not, per MOS:CAPS, "consistently". It looks like about 60%, whereas "consistently" could be a higher threshold of 80–90%. — BarrelProof (talk) 16:22, 27 March 2024 (UTC)]
- Yes, somewhat more common, but perhaps not, per
- But the search you've linked shows that Negev Desert is the more ]
- Oppose Desert is a descriptive term preceeded by a proper noun. Whether or not desert is capitalised when referring to a particular desert varies from case to case. How we capitalise each case depends on whether it is consistently capitalised in sources (per ]