Talk:Hurricane Alley
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Requested move 11 July 2024
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Hurricane Alley → Main Development Region – Per WP:COMMONNAME. On Google Scholar, "Main Development Region" yields over 1,600 results[1] and "MDR hurricane" yields over 4,500 reults;[2] "Hurricane Alley" yields over 500 results,[3], with many not even pertaining to Atlantic hurricanes. Google trends is less clear, "Hurricane Alley" wins over "Main Development Region", but "MDR" bests both by far; "MDR" however can refer to many things. Nevertheless, that "MDR" or "Main Development Region" is overwhelmingly preferred in literature, NHC products, and our own articles—35 items link to Main Development Region, whilst only 5 link to Hurricane Alley excluding redirects and non-mainspace pages—leads me to believe this article should be moved accordingly. ArkHyena (talk) 01:54, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: It does not seem very clear that the suggested title has something to do with hurricanes. — BarrelProof (talk) 02:34, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support Personally, I have never seen Hurricane Alley used. As it is a region, I don't think that User:BarrelProof's holds a lot of weight. ✶Quxyz✶ 02:44, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support Unlike tornado alley which is referred to by a large number of people, hurricane alley is practically never used. The first thing that comes up when you search main development region is the Atlantic and most links are about such information. Same cant be said with hurricane alley... This suggests that main development region is a much more plausible title than hurricane alley. Noah, BSBATalk 02:57, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- WP:Lowercase. The Google scholar results above and Ngrams (and Noah's comment) show mixed case usage. When usage is mixed, Wikipedia prefers lowercase. — BarrelProof (talk) 03:12, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support per above --ZZZ'S 08:32, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support – number one, as per other editors, way more publications call this the “Main Development Region” rather than “Hurricane Alley”. And number two, as per Hurricane Noah, the term “Hurricane Alley” is almost never used, unlike “Tornado Alley” and “Dixie Alley” (both of which are synonymous with tornadoes) which is used all the time. Bottom line, it seems better to move the article and keep “Hurricane Alley” as a redirect. West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 15:38, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support but not capped: Main development region. Dicklyon (talk) 17:19, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- This article should either be merged with tropical cyclogenesis, tropical cyclone basins or expanded to include all of the tropical cyclone main development regions.Jason Rees (talk) 14:24, 12 July 2024 (UTC)