User talk:January First-of-May/The Great Russian Graticule Name Project
For any automatable tasks, FippeBot can assist in this project. If you provide names for the graticules, I can probably get the bot to move the unnamed graticule page to the right page and replace links accordingly. --Fippe (talk) 06:03, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks! It's going to be a while before I start, because I'm currently embarked on a different, if closely related, project (essentially, a 5x5 degree box version of this map). --January First-of-May (talk) 17:59, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
Where is the correct place to complain about non-working footnotes? (By which I mean the References tag.) --January First-of-May (talk) 14:05, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Naming conventions
Had a bunch of naming convention questions that I'm not sure what to do with...
- Should it be "Lake X" or "X Lake"? I currently have names with either.
- Similarly, should it be "Mount X" or "X Mountain"? I currently use the former, but looking at graticule names elsewhere (outside Russia), maybe I should have used the latter.
- Should "Губа" translate to "Guba", "Bay", or something else? (Perhaps "Inlet"?)
- I currently use "Bay" for both Губа and Бухта (Залив is "Gulf"), but I recently encountered a graticule that had both a Guba and a Bukhta of the same name (fortunately they were both in the same graticule).
- Should I even translate the natural feature terms at all? Maybe I should just use "Gora" (mountain) and "Ozero" (lake) and "Reka" (river) and so on.
- Compare the existing graticules of Ostrov Kharlov, Russia and Kunashir Island, Russia; I currently use the latter precedent (though I kept the former name, as it was technically a settlement).
- For (most of) the Franz Josef Land graticules, I tried to search for English names of the capes and islands, especially when the Russian names were clearly transliterations (e.g. Cape Mary Harmsworth, not "Cape Meri-Kharmsuort"). Was this a good thing? Should it be extended outside Franz Josef Land?
- Should I focus on settlements (even abandoned and/or very minor ones), or on natural features? My reference maps tend to have both (and they're old enough that it's not always clear when a settlement is abandoned).
- Specific example that (again) brought it to my mind: 68,59, which is dominated by the Khaypudyrskaya Bay, but also happens to contain the village of Sin'kin (pop 1 as of most recent data I'm aware of, was much larger when the maps were made) near the eastern edge. I want to call it "Khaypudyrskaya Bay, Russia" (or similar). Would that be dishonest?
- Should those remote Arctic graticules even have names? (Silly question. If Cape Colan, Nunavut has a right to exist, then so do those.)
- Kind of a corner case: 71,158, where I had to cheat. My name for it is "Nauynadanu Coast, Russia", where Nauynadanu is a feature (river, IIRC) in a different graticule (actually several) but close enough for this one to be (part of) its closest coast. Is that an acceptable option, or would you suggest something else?
There are probably many other similar questions. Just wondering what your opinions are...
(Incidentally, is there a geohashing-themed Discord server? Sounds like that could be a good place for all of those discussions.) --January First-of-May (talk) 21:14, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
