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I'm trying to make sense of this article. If someone says "Berkeley Hills", everyone would understand that the person is referring to the hilly part of Berkeley. Likewise, "Oakland Hills" refers to the hilly part of Oakland. To assert that this usage is incorrect strikes me as bizarre. Apparently it is saying that there is some usage of the term among some geographers that has a different meaning. I can't find any examples of this usage anywhere on the internet, so I'd like to see a citation. Also, it should be made clear that there is another common usage and this definition also applies in a certain technical field. Lagringa 22:35, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Here's one gazetteer which I found online as an example: [1]. The same reference has no listing at all for "Oakland Hills". Clearly there are Oakland hills (little h), but no given name like Berkeley Hills for a particular range. Not only do the Berkeley Hills extend into Oakland, but also on their east slopes, into Contra Costa County. I have maps showing the name applied northward as well into Kensington and El Cerrito. Tmangray 05:46, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
A quick Google turned up this example of usage by, of all things, a geographer: [2]
Looking at a USGS map from 1914, the name "Berkeley Hills" appears along the ridge from Richmond southeast into Oakland just past where the Caldecott Tunnel is today. There is no topograpic name "Oakland Hills" anywhere, but starting above far east Oakland and extending south to Hayward appears the name "San Leandro Hills" on the ridge above the Hayward Fault. Tmangray 07:01, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Those cites do not suppost the assertion that it is incorrect to refer to the hills in Oakland as the "Oakland Hills." They support the assertion that geographers refer to the East Bay hills as the "Berkeley Hills," but they are not very strong sources. (One only implies it.) You can't come up with a stronger source? A topic that constitutes an entire article should be supported by at least a couple solid sources. In any case, "Oakland Hills" is in widespread use and has been for a long time - I could easily provide many thousands of examples. I understand your preference for the lower case "h", but capitalizing the name doesn't make the whole name "incorrect." Lagringa 23:32, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't know what kind of sources would convince you that there is nothing wrong with "Oakland Hills." I searched for examples of geologists and geographers using the phrase with capital "H" and found quite a few examples: CA Geological Survey, USGS, USGS, Geotimes, Geological Society of America, a geologist, a geographer, a geological engineer. So, what I propose is creating a separate article on the Berkeley Hills as a geological formation, which a disambiguation link from the main article. Lagringa 19:15, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
With respect to your claim that the term "Oakland Hills" is recent, here is an example of its use by a naturalist in 1893. Lagringa 01:47, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Stepping into this one late but Tmangray's insistence that the Oakland Hills get the small 'H' treatment because it is not common on maps is petty and wrong. It is in fact common terminology, and no one who lives in the Bay Area is confused when you use the term. If anyone was confused that little fire a few years back kind of took care of that. I bet Tmangray is the hit of the party when he tries to explain how wrong someone is when they say they live in the Oakland Hills. The article's explanation of this issue is fine, but the redirect from 'Oakland Hills' to 'Oakland hills' should be undone.-- Fizbin 17:22, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
As I understand it, the Berkeley Hills described in this article are nothing more than the foothills of the greater Diablo Range (in this region, culminating in Mount Diablo itself). It seems that the Berkeley Hills are simply the westernmost range of the Diablo Range in the Bay Area. The mountains around the Lamorinda and Concord/Walnut Creek areas seem to be the same range. The point is, this article does not mention the Diablo Range. I would like to add a sentence stating that the Berkeley Hills are a part of the Diablo Range, but I wanted to confirm that this is commonly understood first. - PAQ
Go to the Mount Vaca article, look through the links and references there is a great great website which can give you all the answers you need regarding mountain ranges, hills, and all kinds of peaks.Cholga talK! 02:19, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
The famous 1908 Lawson Report on the 1906 Quake (text available online) contains passages by Prof. Andrew Lawson himself on the application of the name "Berkeley Hills" as to its extent and ambiguity of southern termination, toponymically-speaking. I am adding this as a reference. By the by, he also never uses any such name as "Oakland Hills". Tmangray ( talk) 17:36, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 26 August 2021 and 25 December 2021. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
Stevenli12.
Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 15:37, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
I'm trying to make sense of this article. If someone says "Berkeley Hills", everyone would understand that the person is referring to the hilly part of Berkeley. Likewise, "Oakland Hills" refers to the hilly part of Oakland. To assert that this usage is incorrect strikes me as bizarre. Apparently it is saying that there is some usage of the term among some geographers that has a different meaning. I can't find any examples of this usage anywhere on the internet, so I'd like to see a citation. Also, it should be made clear that there is another common usage and this definition also applies in a certain technical field. Lagringa 22:35, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Here's one gazetteer which I found online as an example: [1]. The same reference has no listing at all for "Oakland Hills". Clearly there are Oakland hills (little h), but no given name like Berkeley Hills for a particular range. Not only do the Berkeley Hills extend into Oakland, but also on their east slopes, into Contra Costa County. I have maps showing the name applied northward as well into Kensington and El Cerrito. Tmangray 05:46, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
A quick Google turned up this example of usage by, of all things, a geographer: [2]
Looking at a USGS map from 1914, the name "Berkeley Hills" appears along the ridge from Richmond southeast into Oakland just past where the Caldecott Tunnel is today. There is no topograpic name "Oakland Hills" anywhere, but starting above far east Oakland and extending south to Hayward appears the name "San Leandro Hills" on the ridge above the Hayward Fault. Tmangray 07:01, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Those cites do not suppost the assertion that it is incorrect to refer to the hills in Oakland as the "Oakland Hills." They support the assertion that geographers refer to the East Bay hills as the "Berkeley Hills," but they are not very strong sources. (One only implies it.) You can't come up with a stronger source? A topic that constitutes an entire article should be supported by at least a couple solid sources. In any case, "Oakland Hills" is in widespread use and has been for a long time - I could easily provide many thousands of examples. I understand your preference for the lower case "h", but capitalizing the name doesn't make the whole name "incorrect." Lagringa 23:32, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't know what kind of sources would convince you that there is nothing wrong with "Oakland Hills." I searched for examples of geologists and geographers using the phrase with capital "H" and found quite a few examples: CA Geological Survey, USGS, USGS, Geotimes, Geological Society of America, a geologist, a geographer, a geological engineer. So, what I propose is creating a separate article on the Berkeley Hills as a geological formation, which a disambiguation link from the main article. Lagringa 19:15, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
With respect to your claim that the term "Oakland Hills" is recent, here is an example of its use by a naturalist in 1893. Lagringa 01:47, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Stepping into this one late but Tmangray's insistence that the Oakland Hills get the small 'H' treatment because it is not common on maps is petty and wrong. It is in fact common terminology, and no one who lives in the Bay Area is confused when you use the term. If anyone was confused that little fire a few years back kind of took care of that. I bet Tmangray is the hit of the party when he tries to explain how wrong someone is when they say they live in the Oakland Hills. The article's explanation of this issue is fine, but the redirect from 'Oakland Hills' to 'Oakland hills' should be undone.-- Fizbin 17:22, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
As I understand it, the Berkeley Hills described in this article are nothing more than the foothills of the greater Diablo Range (in this region, culminating in Mount Diablo itself). It seems that the Berkeley Hills are simply the westernmost range of the Diablo Range in the Bay Area. The mountains around the Lamorinda and Concord/Walnut Creek areas seem to be the same range. The point is, this article does not mention the Diablo Range. I would like to add a sentence stating that the Berkeley Hills are a part of the Diablo Range, but I wanted to confirm that this is commonly understood first. - PAQ
Go to the Mount Vaca article, look through the links and references there is a great great website which can give you all the answers you need regarding mountain ranges, hills, and all kinds of peaks.Cholga talK! 02:19, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
The famous 1908 Lawson Report on the 1906 Quake (text available online) contains passages by Prof. Andrew Lawson himself on the application of the name "Berkeley Hills" as to its extent and ambiguity of southern termination, toponymically-speaking. I am adding this as a reference. By the by, he also never uses any such name as "Oakland Hills". Tmangray ( talk) 17:36, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
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