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Is 'Head of tide' a term principally used in the US? I've not come across it in the UK but am familiar with the term which appears on all relevantly scaled Ordnance Survey maps of the UK - 'normal tidal limit'. cheers Geopersona ( talk) 17:40, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: not moved. Number 5 7 21:56, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Head of tide → Tidal limit – Ngrams show that ‘head of tide’ seems to be an archaic term with usage seemingly restricted to the US, whereas ‘tidal limit’ is a term used both in Australia and the UK. Jokulhlaup ( talk) 16:29, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Oppose ENGVAR. Plain and simple. Also, HoT zones, or head of tide zones, are equally well described in the USA on maps as the Tidal Limits are described in the UK on their maps. We can't supplant one persons preferred version of english over someone else's just because of the 'more countries speak british english' rule. british english doesn't automatically get a win. ~~ipuser 90.194.62.161 ( talk) 07:09, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Support It appears to be a term only used in the United States/by American texts. The above anon. IP comment (why are IP addresses allowed to 'vote'?) seems to be part of some anti-British English trolling effort (see his editing history please). "Plain and simple"? What, like "tidal limit" - that's plain and simple language, hence why it is used by the majority of English speaking countries. Argovian ( talk) 08:44, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
comment Of course Ip users are allowed to vote, why on earth would they not? Further, move requests aren't votes, they are decided upon consensus of the community. Just because you use 'tidal limit' doesn't mean I do, nor do 300,000,000 americans, also, we have engvar just for this reason. Regardless, I use USGS maps A LOT, and OS maps A LOT, and guess what, depending on where you are, they have different varieties of english on them. Also, hydrologists, physicists, mariners all use the term Head of Tide in different areas. The plain and simple fact I was alluding to is, it's an ENGVAR issue to change this title, so I don't think it should be done. Please, raise consensus to change if you think it should be. And be kind, don't accuse people for trolling just because they have a different interest in wikipedia than you do. Jeesh. ~~ipuser 90.194.62.161 ( talk) 23:26, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Oppose: On grounds of Commonality and Engvar. "Head of Tide" is not "archaic" as nom suggests as it has a formal definition and application in the NOAA A Guide to National Shoreline Data and Terms. Additionally, given that there is a 3.5:1 probability that any given English speaking reader from the UK, Australia or US is going to be more familiar with American English (~320M (US) versus 23.8M + 64.5M (Aus and UK), the term should stay at Head of Tide. The term Tidal Limit is dealt with just fine by the redirect. -- Mike Cline ( talk) 11:03, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
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