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Requested move 11 July 2022

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. Consensus is against the move as proposed. If someone wants to start a new RM for one of the alternatives suggested, feel free to do so. (closed by non-admin page mover) -- Vaulter 17:35, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]



Cut River (Roscommon County, Michigan)The Cut – While some seemingly "official" sources, including maps and road signs posted by the local road commission, refer to this hydrologic feature as "Cut River," the official name as listed in the U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System is "The Cut." The USGS' GNIS is the repository for all officially-recognized names for any named natural feature in the United States and there is a specific process by which features are named or renamed by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN). While a geographic feature may be referred to by any number of other names for any number of reasons, each feature has only one officially-recognized name—the one listed in the USGS GNIS. An example would be Denali. While many still may refer to it as Mount McKinley, it is properly listed in Wikipedia as "Denali." Similarly, "The Cut" should be listed with its proper name and then noted that it is labeled on some maps and referred to by some as "Cut River" as well. (Another side benefit to using its official name would be to limit confusion with the much more widely known Cut River in Mackinac County.)

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If desired, I could come up with many more sources labelling this feature as "The Cut" as well as sources dating back earlier than the 1930 map included above. However, in my professional opinion (as a cartographer), the fact that the official Federal database of geographic names lists it solely as "The Cut"—and that entry is even currently linked in the Wikipedia article at present!—should be more than enough reason to move this article to "The Cut" with a redirect left at "Cut River (Roscommon County, Michigan)." CBessert (talk) 08:53, 11 July 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 20:32, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Requested move 27 July 2022

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved to The Cut (Michigan) per nom. No such user (talk) 13:27, 3 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]


Cut River (Roscommon County, Michigan)The Cut (Michigan) – USGS GNIS and other sources CBessert cited in #Requested move 11 July 2022 Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 08:32, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.