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However, what does "What do you concisely (not briefly) name the topic, otherwise?" mean? What is the difference between concisely and briefly? That seems unintelligible. Please explain.
Robert McClenon (
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02:51, 22 October 2014 (UTC)reply
I amended my comment by striking out "(not briefly)". I checked the Oxford dictionary of briefly: 1) "for a short time; fleetingly"; 2) "using few words; concisely". Merriam's definition of concisely: 1) "in a few words". Okay; what's your opinion on the current title? (Oops, I missed your comments.) --
George Ho (
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03:02, 22 October 2014 (UTC)reply
I had to do a bit of OR just to find out what they were. OK first thing is not to get each other tied in knots arguing about trivialities. These name-choice arguments can be terrible. In this particular case there is the particular problem that there seems to be no definitive basis for selecting a name that the overwhelming majority of users are likely to search for. We therefore must not try to select any such name,or we will never get anything concise, and users still won't find our choice helpful. I recommend therefore that we select an article title that is simple, neutral and convenient, even if it is logically inadequate. Then we can add a few redirects to cover everyone else's favourite keywords.
"Levadas of Arizona", as suggested in the foregoing suggestion, would be fine, except that the term seems to be Madeiran rather than Arizonan,and it is unlikely to be used in reference by anyone. (We should link to levada and back, but that is another matter.)
Arizona bajada canals as Robert McClenon proposed, sounds about as good as anything we could expect. If someone wants to emphasise the archaeological significance, then I would not fight "Prehistoric Arizona bajada canals", but I think the shorter form is preferable. Note: Not "Arizonan", grammar or no grammar; people are more likely to search for "Arizona". plus of course a few (or a few dozen if anyone is feeling nit-picky) useful or at least harmless redirs.
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06:19, 29 October 2014 (UTC)reply
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My vote either
Arizona bajada canals or
Bajada canals of Arizona would be most helpful to the user (subject to some brilliant alternative emerging) A few redirs might be a good idea as well.
"Contour canals" would be too non-specific if accurate at all; except maybe over a flat plain, all canals run at least just off the contour if they are to convey water, which these canals do (or did).
"Hanging canals" suffers similarly; either too non-specific, or in places inaccurate.
No opinion as long as the misleading "hanging" is removed. But I disagree with the statement "all canals run just off the contour if they are to convey water". The
Llangollen Canal was built primarily as a feeder channel, and has locks,
aqueducts and
tunnels.
Maproom (
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08:35, 10 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Not sure about the point of disagreement, slight though I am sure it is. Granted I should have said "at least" (since added in acknowledgement of your remarks) but locks for a purely feeder canal would be a bit artificial surely? And aqueducts and tunnels are there precisely to maintain appropriate inclines. But in either case it does not militate for inclusion of "contour" in the title, right? :)
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13:54, 11 November 2014 (UTC)reply
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WTF is a "hanging" canal?
I have to ask, what the foulness is a hanging canal? I ended up here from an otherwise technical (as in electronics) website, hoping to get a better idea of what they meant when referencing "hanging" canals. No such explanation here; this article assumes the reader already knows. A quick search (DuckDuckGo) and the only relevant results are this article and the ones hosted on the linking website that sent me here. Noting that the author of that website is one of the authors of this article leads me to conclude that there is no otherwise such phrase as "hanging canal" in mainstream english, and that the author most likely invented the phrase.
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