Talk:Ioah Guyot

A fact from Ioah Guyot appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 October 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that there is in excess of 150 million tons of phosphorite ore on Ioah Guyot, a seamount in the Pacific Ocean?

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If the guyot in question is named specifically in honour of Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (or in Russian - Институт Океанологии Академии Наук СССР) then the correct name should be "Ioan". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.136.15.5 (talk) 18:54, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

While I agree with the sentiment, it seems like sources are actually split on this question and many of them use "Ioah". Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:14, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sentiments have nothing to do with it - I don't think you read my comment right - it's all about transliteration of an originally Cyrillic name. Also, I've consulted the sources cited in the Article - half of them refer to the guyot as "Fedorov guyot", the other half - as "IOAN guyot". I'm reversing changes and would like the article title to reflect the correct spelling as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.136.15.5 (talk) 19:37, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's not quite as simple as that; the thing about geographical names is that sometimes misspellings become the actual names and then we don't correct them. I see that "Fedorov" is mainly used by Russian sources and "Ioah" mainly by English sources and per WP:Article titles Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it generally prefers the name that is most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in a significant majority of independent, reliable English-language sources) as such names will usually best fit the five criteria listed above. that gives "Ioah" priority. Unless I misanalyzed the sources, that is. And by the way, it was Shellwood who reversed your changes, not me.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:56, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is probably a case for a move request. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:26, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]