Talk:Skew Arch Bridge (Reading, Pennsylvania)

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Since the term skew bridge is very generic and could be applied to many thousands of structures around the world, I'm thinking it would be more appropriate to rename this article Sixth Street skew bridge. Please discuss. —MegaPedant 13:34, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There were no objections after eight months so I effected the move. I'll leave the original as a redirection page for a while to avoid surprising any regular contributors but eventually it should become an article about the principle of constructing a bridge that crosses obliquely over an obstruction. —MegaPedant 00:08, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

While I agree that skew bridge was overly generic, I'm unable to find any source that calls this structure "Sixth Street skew bridge". Sixth Street is usually given in descriptions of the bridge's location, but not as part of its name. HABS and HAER call this structure Skew Arch Bridge, while NHRP and the Federal Writers' Project call it simply Skew Arch. I therefore renamed it with geographic disambiguation per WP:Naming conventions (geographic_names)#Disambiguation.Martindelaware (talk) 00:53, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. For other examples in support of this naming convention, see the many Main Street Bridges, Broad Street Bridge (Rochester, New York), or the former Sixth Street Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). Martindelaware (talk) 00:58, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]