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[edit] Article name

It seems like the more accurate name for the article would be the Los Angeles Ranges, or at least Sierra de los Angeles. But on the other hand, Transverse Ranges is used quite a bit more often, especially outside of the geologic/geographic community, so there is the common usage factor in play as well. To accomodate the Los Angeles Ranges, I'll create a redirect that points here, and clarify a bit in the article as well that they are the same. wbfergus ^Talk 11:20, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

I've never heard of them being referred to as the "Los Angeles Ranges". Do you have a source for that usage? ·:· Will Beback ·:· 18:55, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

With Google I've found some sources that use the term.[1][2][3] But I don't see how we can say that it's a "more accurate" name. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 19:04, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, maybe by "more accurate", I should have said "older"? :^)

Fenneman may have been the first to call them the "Los Angeles Ranges" in his books on physiography, though I think he probably adapted the name from the spanish "Sierra de los Angeles". I can probably find the references fairly easily if you still want them, but I think the redirect and the 'blurb' in opening paragraph should cover it. wbfergus ^Talk 19:35, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

How about instead of "more accurately" we simply say "also called"? Then in the text of the article we can give the history of the names. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 20:29, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

That works fine for me. wbfergus ^Talk 23:27, 25 December 2007 (UTC)