Talk:Mount Prindle

Mount Prindle vs. Prindle Volcano
I noticed this has been changed from a redirect to a mountain article when I looked in my watchlist. A note to User:CGX: the official name for the feature that is a volcano is Prindle Volcano. But in some sources, Prindle Volcano is called Mount Prindle. For example, Fairweather Mountain officially can be referred to as Mount Fairweather, and as far as I know the redirects work that way in that case; there are others; Cheam Peak/Mount Cheam, Dickson Peak/Mount Dickson, and I could go on. More than one mountain can have the same name and therefore the Prindle Volcano/Mount Prindle thing is not necessarily incorrect. BT (talk) 21:21, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

The "Prindle Volcano/Mount Prindle thing," while not neccesarily incorrect on general principals, is totally incorrect when looked at in particular (using official sources such as GNIS).

"the official name for the feature that is a volcano is Prindle Volcano"  Correct! But there is also an actual significant mountain, totally non-volcanic; with glacial arretes, huge granite walls, etc that is officially named Mount Prindle.

One can find many many (un-peer reviewed) internet sources that erroneously conflate Mount Prindle with Prindle Volcano. However they are two seperate features, with very different locations and completely different geologic histories. I am not aware of any peer-reviewed publications that make the same mistake.

BTW, few people with the opportunity to actually look at Prindle Volcano, which is just an isolated cinder cone on the side of a taller and topographically bland ridge, would be likely to lable it a "Mountain".CGX (talk) 21:55, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Right. Well, Wikipedia's convention is to go with the more commonly-used form. I don't know too much about Prindle Volcano so I'm not sure if "Mount Prindle" is commonly used for Prindle Volcano, or "Prindle Volcano" is the more commonly used for the cone. As you can see in the article history, I moved it from "Mount Prindle" to "Prindle Volcano" anyway because "Prindle Volcano" is the official name for this cone. Lots of cinder cones could be labled as a "Mountain". Interestingly and similarly, there is a volcano in British Columbia near the Alaska-British Columbia border that is officially named "The Volcano", which sent basaltic lava flows across the border about a few hundred years ago. In my opinion, "The Volcano" is a bad name for this cinder cone because there is numerous volcanoes in British Columbia. If you speek it, it's not clear if you mean "the volcano" or "The Volcano". But I'm planing to expand and rewrite the article about it because it deserves to be more specific. BT (talk) 02:07, 18 February 2010 (UTC)