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Is there a way to stop all of these bots from "fixing" the French interwiki, once and for all? I don't want to have to contact each bot owner, especially since some of them are hard to get in touch with. -- Spireguy ( talk) 17:45, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
According to this article, "zenith" is a synonym for summit, and the link to Zenith_(topography) redirects back to here.
I studied geology, and later surveying at university, and currently work at a national hydrographic office, and have never heard zenith used in this manner. Nor have I heard nadir used in the manner described at Nadir_(topography).
In technical useage, I have only ever heard them used to mean either the point directly above/below an observer or instrument (e.g. a boat, satellite, surveyor, etc), or the direction vertically upwards/downwards from the observer (plus the specific astronomical meanings given in zenith and nadir.
Who uses zenith and nadir to mean a summit or a deep? Wardog ( talk) 10:29, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
If the top of a mountain is shaped like the letter "M" and one tip is about 200m taller than the other, then according to this article, it wouldn't qualify as a separate mountain. But the article also states that it's not just about the height difference ("topographic prominence"), but also about the distance between the tips ("topographic isolation"). The problem is that the article doesn't say how far the other tip has to be to qualify as a separate mountain.
GMRE ( talk) 23:05, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was moved. -- BDD ( talk) 16:38, 12 October 2012 (UTC) ( non-admin closure)
– 1. The only topic widely known enough to be the primary topic for "summit" is summit (topography). Most the others on the dab page are places which are not well-known enough to be the primary and therefore have to be separately disambiguated anyway. "Summit (meeting)" is the only other likely contender, but I submit it is far less commonly used than summit in the sense of mountaintop. 2. As confirmation of this, "Summit (topography)" is the top article actually selected on Wikipedia's search function. 3. There are over 14,000 links to "summit (topography)" but less than 500 to "summit (meeting)". Bermicourt ( talk) 16:39, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
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Is there a way to stop all of these bots from "fixing" the French interwiki, once and for all? I don't want to have to contact each bot owner, especially since some of them are hard to get in touch with. -- Spireguy ( talk) 17:45, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
According to this article, "zenith" is a synonym for summit, and the link to Zenith_(topography) redirects back to here.
I studied geology, and later surveying at university, and currently work at a national hydrographic office, and have never heard zenith used in this manner. Nor have I heard nadir used in the manner described at Nadir_(topography).
In technical useage, I have only ever heard them used to mean either the point directly above/below an observer or instrument (e.g. a boat, satellite, surveyor, etc), or the direction vertically upwards/downwards from the observer (plus the specific astronomical meanings given in zenith and nadir.
Who uses zenith and nadir to mean a summit or a deep? Wardog ( talk) 10:29, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
If the top of a mountain is shaped like the letter "M" and one tip is about 200m taller than the other, then according to this article, it wouldn't qualify as a separate mountain. But the article also states that it's not just about the height difference ("topographic prominence"), but also about the distance between the tips ("topographic isolation"). The problem is that the article doesn't say how far the other tip has to be to qualify as a separate mountain.
GMRE ( talk) 23:05, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was moved. -- BDD ( talk) 16:38, 12 October 2012 (UTC) ( non-admin closure)
– 1. The only topic widely known enough to be the primary topic for "summit" is summit (topography). Most the others on the dab page are places which are not well-known enough to be the primary and therefore have to be separately disambiguated anyway. "Summit (meeting)" is the only other likely contender, but I submit it is far less commonly used than summit in the sense of mountaintop. 2. As confirmation of this, "Summit (topography)" is the top article actually selected on Wikipedia's search function. 3. There are over 14,000 links to "summit (topography)" but less than 500 to "summit (meeting)". Bermicourt ( talk) 16:39, 5 October 2012 (UTC)