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I think that whoever wrote this needs to do a better job on explaining because this is not clear at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Requested move 6 October 2024

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Eurasian Plate → Eurasian plate
North American Plate → North American plate
Juan de Fuca Plate → Juan de Fuca plate
Farallon Plate → Farallon plate
South American Plate → South American plate
Gorda Plate → Gorda plate
Nazca Plate → Nazca plate
Antarctic Plate → Antarctic plate
Pacific Plate → Pacific plate
Cocos Plate → Cocos plate
Philippine Sea Plate → Philippine Sea plate
African Plate → African plate
Arabian Plate → Arabian plate
Indo-Australian Plate → Indo-Australian plate
Explorer Plate → Explorer plate
Anatolian Sub-Plate → Anatolian sub-plate
Australian Plate → Australian plate
Burma Plate → Burma plate
Indian Plate → Indian plate
Scotia Plate → Scotia plate
Caribbean Plate → Caribbean plate
Somali Plate → Somali plate
Kula Plate → Kula plate
Sunda Plate → Sunda plate
Tonga Plate → Tonga plate
Adriatic Plate → Adriatic plate
Izanagi Plate → Izanagi plate
Phoenix Plate → Phoenix plate
Intermontane Plate → Intermontane plate
Bellingshausen Plate → Bellingshausen plate
Insular Plate → Insular plate
Baltic Plate → Baltic plate
Charcot Plate → Charcot plate
Rivera Plate → Rivera plate
South Sandwich Plate → South Sandwich plate
Solomon Sea Plate → Solomon Sea plate
New Hebrides Plate → New Hebrides plate
Banda Sea Plate → Banda Sea plate
Timor Plate → Timor plate
Aegean Sea Plate → Aegean Sea plate
Balmoral Reef Plate → Balmoral Reef plate
Caroline Plate → Caroline plate
Conway Reef Plate → Conway Reef plate
Futuna Plate → Futuna plate
Juan Fernández Plate → Juan Fernández plate
Kermadec Plate → Kermadec plate
Manus Plate → Manus plate
Maoke Plate → Maoke plate
Mariana Plate → Mariana plate
Molucca Sea Plate → Molucca Sea plate
Niuafo'ou Plate → Niuafo'ou plate
North Andes Plate → North Andes plate
North Bismarck Plate → North Bismarck plate
Okinawa Plate → Okinawa plate
Panama Plate → Panama plate
Shetland Plate → Shetland plate
South Bismarck Plate → South Bismarck plate
Halmahera Plate → Halmahera plate
Woodlark Plate → Woodlark plate
Yangtze Plate → Yangtze plate
Madagascar Plate → Madagascar plate
Greenland Plate → Greenland plate
Moa Plate → Moa plate
Pelso Plate → Pelso plate
Tisza Plate → Tisza plate
Sangihe Plate → Sangihe plate
Lwandle Plate → Lwandle plate
Capricorn Plate → Capricorn plate
Rovuma Plate → Rovuma plate
Malpelo Plate → Malpelo plate
Coiba Plate → Coiba plate
Moesian Plate → Moesian plate
Trobriand Plate → Trobriand plate
Kshiroda Plate → Kshiroda plate

– Sources usually use lowercase plate for these (I have checked many, including all the major plates, e.g. using books n-grams, but not yet all 74). I think the minor and micro plates should just follow for consistency, unless someone finds one or more that are consistently capped in sources. Dicklyon (talk) 22:43, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I believe "Plate" should remain capitalized in the article titles, such as "Eurasian Plate" or "North American Plate," in accordance with Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Proper names versus generic terms. These terms refer to specific, formal names of geological entities, where capitalization is standard practice. Their names are proper nouns, much like how we capitalize the word "ocean" in "Atlantic Ocean". The word "Plate" is an integral part of these names, not a generic descriptor, and therefore warrants capitalization.

Furthermore, scientific literature and authoritative sources in geology overwhelmingly capitalize the word "plate" when referring to specific tectonic plates (see this book for example). Lowercasing it would not only depart from Wikipedia's style guidelines but also from widely accepted conventions in academic and educational contexts. <spaherefore n style="color:white;">AstrooKai (Talk • Contributions) 04:33, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose these proposed renames/moves. I agree with the 04:33, 8 October comments of User:AstrooKai. The Google Books ngram analysis does not consider enough context. I could write factually correct statements such as "The Eurasian Plate is one of Earth's largest plates" (in which "Plate" is part of a proper noun and therefore capitalised) but I could also write factually correct statements such as "Eurasian plate boundaries are divergent, convergent or transform" (in which "plate" is an adjective describing boundaries; it is not a part of a proper noun and not capitalised). Also, many images of plates in Wikimedia Commons/Wikipedia have the plate name as e.g. "African Plate" not "African plate" so I think that an unnecessary and difficult-to-fix inconsistency would be created if plate names were changed from e.g. "African Plate" to "African plate" in article text. GeoWriter (talk) 12:35, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]