Talk:Alberta badlands

Region name: Capitalize badlands?

This page was recently renamed to make "Badlands" lowercase, with a reference to our naming conventions policy. I guess the argument is "Alberta Badlands" isn't an official administrative name so "badlands" shouldn't be capitalized. If that's the reason, I'm not convinced. We're still treating it as a "place" (a travel region within our hierarchy), so I think it's valid to capitalize "badlands".

Capitalization also appears consistent with local usage -- either as "Canadian Badlands" or "Alberta Badlands". This includes: Travel Alberta [1], Royal Tyrrell Museum (one of the main attractions in the region) [2], Canadian Badlands (tourism site) [3] and canada.com [4].

Based on the above, the local usage seems to treat it as a "place". Per our naming convention then, I think the name should be changed back to "Alberta Badlands". Agreement? -Shaundd (talk) 19:48, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

I moved it, thinking I was following policy, but would not object to seeing it moved back. Pashley (talk) 10:56, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Something can be a proper noun without being official. Like Niagara Frontier or Pittsburgh Region. LtPowers (talk) 13:17, 5 September 2013 (UTC)