Talk:Hawaii hotspot

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[edit] Copyedits

This is a nice, informative article.

I've made conventional copyedit changes to simplify verb tenses and remove redundant words that readers can fill in for themselves (E.g., "Pacific" instead of "Pacific Ocean".) Also conventionally, the "hedging" language that stipulates dates and measurements are approximate is removed...readers will automatically assume that figures are rounded without the article saying so.

Stylistically, the opening phrase "perhaps best known" is removed, since it's unprovable, and irrelevant whether it's the best known or not.

Spelling Hawaii as Hawai'i is not a standard English dictionary spelling, does not match the article title, and may serve to confuse readers away from the central topic of the article, which is the hotspot.

67.169.127.166 (talk) 01:55, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the clean up, but what is the basis for thinking that "hotspot" should be capitalized? As you point out for the spelling of Hawaii, capitalizing it does not match the title (and what are the rules that say titles are different from text?); the USGS does not capitalize it, and we don't capitalize it elsewhere in other hotspot articles. Cheers Geologyguy (talk) 02:17, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Responded on your talk page, but for closure -- for the benefit of future generations 75 million years from now -- I was struggling to figure out what the capitalization convention was. The original caps for Hawaii hotspot are restored. Regards. 67.169.127.166 (talk) 02:45, 29 April 2008 (UTC)