Talk:Michigan meridian

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Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved to Michigan meridian. Favonian (talk) 10:33, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Michigan Meridian → Michigan meridian – Per a recent rash of uppercase/lowercase RM cases in both directions that all settled on following the advice of MOS:CAPS, meridians are not an accepted exception to the usual WP styling of preferring lower case for things that are not consistently treat as proper names in source. I fixed most of the other meridian articles already, most of which were sourced to just A history of the rectangular survey system, Volume 2 and Plane surveying for use in the classroom and field, which, like most other sources, have them in lower case. So I added a ref to the latter in this article, so now it has one source anyway. There are a fair number of recent sources that capitalize it, too, since styles vary, but to be consistent with MOS:CAPS and the rest of the meridian articles, we should downcase this one. Dicklyon (talk) 02:27, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment but those others are the central meridian for a global coordinate system. This is just a meridian for surveying a particular territory, a wholly different subject matter. 70.24.248.211 (talk) 06:20, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support. I am not persuaded that this is materially different from the cases over which there has already been extensive discussion, converging on a consensus to implement the general preference against capitalisation at WP:MOSCAPS. Noetica^Tea? 00:39, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. ENeville (talk) 00:14, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Incorrect and tautological language

At one point the article suggests Meridian township is in Okemos when the relationship is the other way around. I presume it means the historical settlement of Meridian is now within the named place of Okemos, but the link goes to Meridian Township and thus is confusing.

Second, the article says Meridian Road is often known as Meridian Road. Rather by definition, no?

(18 July 2014). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.250.80.193 (talk) 18:21, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Blog as source

I do not have a better source for how the baseline was defined, but the information seems plausible, and better than what I found in an article from michiganradio.org that claimed the baseline was to be eight miles north of Campus Martius Park, without explaining why eight instead of six or twelve. The clear referencing of primary sources in the blog makes it the more convincing explanation.—Bhuck (talk) 15:21, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]