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Just an observation I made: I like the fact that in the small sentence article, states: "Most hills are taller than 600 m". Now, if you read the article on mountain, you will find a section which states: "the Encyclopaedia Britanica requires a prominence of 2,000 feet (610 m)". Speaking in general, 10 m isn't a big difference. So, the statment of most hills taller than 600 m can be considered mountains. Not like this matters a whole lot, nor is it a serious issue. Personally, I found this amusing.

How is the article "Hill" in the category "Mountains"?
Should there be a section "See also" which contains other related landforms (including, mountains?) - maybe the needs a template to be created which could be used on the articles for all landforms.
Garrie 23:27, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] What we need is

What we need is somebody with a good geology book and an official definition of a hill, and it's not me :). J. Finkelstein 00:42, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

  • I agree. But I am sure there is more to that: famous hills, types of hills, more on the military but also on the history, many cities were founded on hills, e.g. Rome. --Francisco Valverde 05:29, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Artificial hills?

Should there be a section on man-made hills? I give the example of Silbury Hill. Perhaps there are also more notable man made hills around? --Francisco Valverde 05:38, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

There's Fresh Kills Landfill, the largest man-made hill on the U.S. East Coast. Sayeth 14:59, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Definition

Is our definition too narrow? Do molehills, anthills etc. count? St jimmy 10:46, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Similar/Related terms

The similarities/differences between these terms should be discussed in the article. Feel free to add more. Sayeth 18:44, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

also

  • pen
  • how
  • ben
  • knock

all terms from British isles St jimmy 11:01, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

I've never heard of some of those terms before...if they're eventually put into the article, make sure you say that they're British :). Also, I agree that those terms should be included in here and some information from their own respective article pages. J. Finkelstein 04:13, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Don't forget kame, drumlin, dune... many of these distinctions could be encompassed in a "Processes of formation" section. -- Visviva 08:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

pen and how are British (i think). Ben is scottish eg Ben Nevis and knock or cnoic is Gaelic.St jimmy 13:19, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Let's add them in the article so that we can give it a worldwide view. Anything else from other places of the globe? (^'-')^ Covington 17:22, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

  • I agree. Let´s add and merge all of them and create a section like... Types of Hills or something like it. What do you think? --Francisco Valverde 08:08, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

I've got some sympathy for merging. There are a lot of local variations on the word hill and we probably shouldn't have individual articles on each, but the merging needs to be done more carefully. Many of the UK variants seem to include lists of their classes of hill and we don't really want them here. You might split them out into an article such as List of Tors in the UK. But really looking at it there is nothing wrong with the original Tor article - it tells people just what they want to know if they've come across the term 'tor' and don't know what it means. That's what an encyclopedia article should do.

Other types of hill, such as pingo are formed by very different geological processes and shouldn't be merged here at all. -- Solipsist 06:58, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree entirely: if there is enough to say about a kind of hill, then it should have its own article. If you think a bare list of references is insufficient here, then you could propose some kind of summary list which briefly described each kind of hill as well as linking to its article; but important terms like butte, tor, and pingo need proper articles to do them justice. I'd prefer to consider the debate concluded, as I don't think merging is a sensible option at all, and I haven't seen anyone cogently arguing in its favour. Myopic Bookworm 08:55, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I prefer to keep them separated too: different terms have (slightly) different meanings. Having the other term (like Hay Tor) in the name of a place makes the nuance of the meaning. It would be better to have separate (although small) articles, and a section in the "hill" article to serve as a some sort of disambiguation. For a non-native English-speaker like me it is hard to understand what "... grassy knoll of Bunker Hill ..." means. -- Goldie (tell me) 19:30, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

If you don't want to merge an article, at least have a section here and link it to the main article.--Zxcvbnm 00:10, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

I dissagree, I was looking for a definition of Tor on Gooooogle and was happily surprised to find an article relating only to tor. It is a regional word like thorn, carr and thorpe and having articles for those words alone is very useful. Captain scarlet 19:38, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Captain scarlet - I think the idea of having seperate articles makes it much more accessible. Oppose The Missing Piece 13:29, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Terms like 'tor' also have a distinct geomorphological meaning and should most certainly not be lumped in with hill... j.hagg

(from the Tor article):

Why? It's a distinct type of hill. I don't see the point of this suggested merger. -- Necrothesp 14:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree, there is enough valuable information (as well as potential valuable information) in this article to keep it standalone, IMO. -- Ynhockey (Talk) 19:54, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Indeed. Whatever the reasons, tors have a cultural and literary significance which is specific to them and which extends beyond the mere topographical phenomenon. I could see how someone from outside Britain might not understand this, but I think most who are familiar with the concept will agree it deserves its own page. --Yst 20:41, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

In the Netherlands in a geology book they say: In een granietgebied ziet men, vooral op de toppen van de heuvels, opeenstapelingen van wolzakken, uitsteken, die granietklippen (tors) worden genoemd. In this case only the naked granite on the summit of the hill is the tor.86.81.117.215 09:47, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I have to say that that is the commonly understood meaning in the English West Country as well - generally only the exposed rock would be regarded as the tor proper by most people. The Oxford English Dictionary gives both meanings - the whole hill and the rock on top of it. -- Necrothesp 12:17, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I dinnae agree with the merger. There are specific geological things to say about tors that don't apply to any old hill, in addition to the cultural significance metioned by Yst (Yes Tor?) above. On another note, I've also always thought of the tor as the rocky bit on top, and not the whole hill; I'd presumed that Shining Tor and the like were hills that took their names from tors and not tors in their own right. I'll take Wikipedia and the OED's word for it, though. 86.136.6.239 18:19, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

It shouldn't be merged. The term has a distinct geomorphological meaning, as indicated above, in addition to a more general usage. The description could be added to... unsigned edit by User:El pavo

[edit] Merge into hill is ridiculous

Against: An ant is a type of insect; this would be akin to merging Wiki:Ant into Wiki:Insects. -Ayeroxor 20:52, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Action taken

Well the consensus seems against merging Tor (geography), but for having a section detailing different types of hills. So that's what I've done. It's a bit short at the moment, concentrating on formations mentioned on this talk page and ones with articles that link to Hill. I think this section should be restricted to formations; any section on local names for hills in general should go somewhere else. -- Blisco 10:47, 20 May 2006 (UTC)