Talk:1920 Haiyuan earthquake

	Portal This article is part of WikiProject Earthquakes, a project to systematically present information on earthquakes, seismology, plate tectonics, and related subjects. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit the article attached to this page (see Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ for more information), or join by visiting the project page.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale for WikiProject Earthquakes.
	If you have rated this article please consider adding assessment comments. Help with this template

[edit] Requested move

I request to move 1920 Gansu earthquake to 1920 Haiyuan earthquake. The epicenter was in Haiyuan County, Zhongwei, now part of Ningxia. The reason why it was called Kansu earthquake is because Ningxia was merged to Gansu from 1914 to 1928 (see article Ningxia). Kansu is the Wade-Giles form of Gansu, an apparently outdated spelling now. Currently Hanyuan earthquake is a more common name for this earthquake. In Google Scholar, there are 31 hits for "Gansu earthquake" and 175 hits for "Haiyuan earthquake". In Google Book Search, there are 15 hits for "Gansu earthquake" and 53 hits for "Haiyuan earthquake". So I think we should move 1920 Gansu earthquake back to 1920 Haiyuan earthquake. And the current map Image:1920 Gansu earthquake.svg also confuses Gansu with Ningxia. Although it uses a historical map of the Republic of China, the administrative divisions in it were after 1928, not the time when the earthquake occurred. As I said above, in 1920, Ningxia was a part of Gansu, but this map shows Ningxia as a separate province and therefore the epicenter is in Ningxia according to this map. If we really want to use a historical map and use the outdated historical title Gansu earthquake, then at least we should use a map showing the epicenter in Gansu, historically. --Neo-Jay (talk) 20:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)