Talk:Hikurangi Trough

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Name change and Improvement planned

In 2014 the former name Hikurangi Trench that was used really only by that stage by US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF) and US official organs, was changed to Hikurangi Trough by GEBCO and common use as trough has been consistent since then. I accordingly plan to address this with a complex move/rename as the redirect already exists. However this will not occur until I have finished a rewrite of the article that will also address inconsistent and stale references. The work done to date on the rewrite suggests the community will need a separate article on the Hikurangi Channel in due course as less than 50% of this is in the trough and both undersea features appear likely to meet the threshold for wikipedia significance independent of the articles on the Hikurangi Margin and Hikurangi Plateau. I will ensure any update of the present article after 17th August when I started the rewrite is incorporated and acknowledged but the rewrite did not prove to be as trivial as I first imagined when I identified issues with the stub. ChaseKiwi (talk) 13:09, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, in due course an Administrator will have to help me here with the proposed move which should be non-controversial as it transpires a user back in 2008 created a page history for the redirect, and this would have blocked post 2014 rationalisation by most users without special request. ChaseKiwi (talk) 13:32, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ChaseKiwi Thanks, this all sounds good. I have had this article on my watchlist since working on Kaikōura Canyon in 2021. These topics are not my specialist area, but if there is anything useful I can do please get in touch._Marshelec (talk) 20:29, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes your work on Kaikōura Canyon had been noted and I am sure you will be able to improve my attempt once its ready for publication. ChaseKiwi (talk) 21:30, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Now updated.ChaseKiwi (talk) 16:55, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ChaseKiwi Could you please review this sentence in the third paragraph of the Geography section: The hilly coast north of Kaikōura that extends to Marlborough has as a result of drainage, the Kowhai canyons to the west of the trough. Something may be missing here. Thanks._Marshelec (talk) 23:45, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

perhaps badly phased ChaseKiwi (talk) 23:54, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Move request

@Schwede66: Along with ChaseKiwi, I request an uncontroversial move-over-redirect, so that the name of the article becomes Hikurangi Trough. This name is the current official name, and the source notes that Hikurangi Trench was a former name of this feature.[1] If you are able to do this, can you also please make consequential changes to replace Hikurangi Trench with Hikurangi Trough in articles that link here. Thanks, Marshelec (talk) 00:18, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Schwede66 and ChaseKiwi: Thanks for the page move. I have searched for pages containing Hikurangi Trench links and changed them to Hikurangi Trough. I think I have got almost all of them.Marshelec (talk) 02:27, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]