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Wouldn't this article be better located at Meteor Crater as the most common name, per the Wikipedia:Naming conventions?
Consider google's results.
Now, some references to "meteor crater" may be generic, but even if we include the location:
So clearly, "Meteor Crater" is many times more popular, and I think Barringer Crater should be the redirect. What do you think?--Pharos 02:02, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Note: According to the United States Geological Website, and the Bureau of Geographica; Nomenclature page found at the USGS website, the offical name for the Crater has been since 1946, "METEOR CRATER" not Barringer Crater. It has never been officially named Barringer Crater, since it recieved its name of Meteor Crater, back in 1907 when Herman L. Fairchild a geologist at the University of Rochester, New York gave it that name. HIs reasoning was simple. If we name meteorites after the nearest Post Office or a geographical feature, than why not name craters using the same convention, and he proceeded to do just that. It was picked upo a year later by George Perkins Merrill of the United States National Museum, today part of the Smithsonian complex, where he also used the name Meteor Crater. It was made officialin 1946 by the Bureau of Geographical Nomenclature. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.173.46.108 (talk • contribs) 19:20, 9 August 2012
If "Meteor Crater" is so ambiguous and vague, then how is it that in an encyclopedia of a half-million articles, it seems to work perfectly fine as a redirect to "Barringer Crater"? When something is a redir instead of a disambig page, that's a pretty strong hint that nobody is confused about where the redirecting name should go. "Meteor Crater" will be perfectly fine as a name - "Barringer Crater" is OK, but a little on the pedantic side. Stan 05:43, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I was very confused when I came across this article and saw that it was called "meteor crater." Shouldn't it be called by its actual name? 129.2.167.206 (talk) 18:28, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
This issue has resurfaced recently, with a user attempting to insert "Barringer Crater" into many areas of the article. I agree that it is in popular use, but it is clearly secondary and should be addressed as such. There are currently 7,700 Google Scholar references to "Meteor Crater" and 1,600 references to "Barringer Crater." "Meteor Crater" is also a searchable term in Google's Ngram viewer, while "Barringer Crater" is not a valid search term due to insufficient use. -- meteoritekid 18 March 2023 21:53 (UTC)
What did the first Americans call the Meteor Crater? Two different guides at the Visitor's Center told me they didn't have a name for it, but that's just not possible.--Hugh7 (talk) 05:52, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Someone who knows a lot about physics and/or the crater should go through and make sure that all the information is correct in light of the new analysis from Nature. Dave 00:10, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Pharos—you wanted the article to start with "Barringer Crater is a famous impact crater..." instead of "The Barringer Crater is a famous impact crater...", and suggested I look at other crater names. A brief glance at the articles on famous craters finds that most of them start the way I suggested:
Indeed, this is a style employed when talking about the majority of geological formations:
...and so on so forth.
Also note that the Barringer Crater website, http://www.barringercrater.com/science/ starts their article with "The Barringer Meteorite Crater is a gigantic hole...". The point isn't whether its name is "Barringer Crater" or "The Barringer Crater", obviously it's the former, but when discussing the Crater and starting an article on it, as in the case of the hundreds of articles on similar subjects in this project, you generally start with "The Barringer Crater".—Asbestos | Talk 13:51, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
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