Talk:Highland

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Merger Proposal[edit]

I am proposing that Highland continent be merged into this article as a new subsection (potentially "Highlands on other planets"). This is because "highland continent" is a descriptive term rather than an official title given to the mountainous regions of other planets. Primefac (talk) 11:57, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Initially, it didn't like the proposal, but a little investigation shows that it revolves around the term Terra, which offers a disambiguation for terrae on Mars, Venus and Moon. Each of those articles in turn is a simple list of terrae, like List of Highlands on the Moon, which says that However these names for the highland regions are no longer used on recent maps, and Terrae are not officially recognized as standard lunar nomenclature by the International Astronomical Union.[8]. Since it seems that we don't have much encyclopedic material to write about, and that the broad term "terra" is basically semi-arbitrarily applied to any large planetary highland, your proposal makes sense. No such user (talk) 13:49, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with your proposal, looks like the way to go after reading around the topic a bit. 14:55, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

I am inclined to deletion. "Highland" is not a subject or topic, but a general descriptive term, more suitably treated at Wiktionary. A Google search suggests that this term's prominence is largely due to use in a certain movie. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 23:39, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:DABCONCEPT and the move discussion linked above. No such user (talk) 05:56, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]