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The result was keep‎ and move to tableland, with no prejudice against future proposals to merge the article with mesa. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 13:15, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Although this is used in the name Table Mountain, I couldn't find reliable sources to show this as notable. Boleyn (talk) 20:43, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:51, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Strong Keep but Move: It should be kept as it is an important category of landform. If kept, the name of this article needs to be changed to Tableland, which the proper terminology for this type of landform. Table is not the proper terminology and needs to be changed. Go see:

  Migoń, P. and Duszyński, F., 2022. Landscapes and landforms in coarse clastic sedimentary tablelands–is there a unifying theme?. Catena, 218, no. 106545. open access Paul H. (talk) 15:27, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge to Mesa, which even means "table". I'm not convinced this needs to be a separate article. Reywas92^Talk 16:42, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Merging with mesa is an incorrect, confusing, and scienfitically unjustifiable move as not all tablelands are mesas. Mesa is a subcatergory of tableland. They are not equivalent terms. This can be seen in the below open access paper in which mseas, buttes, and pinnacles are all considered to be types of "tablelands".

  Migoń, P., Duszyński, F., Jancewicz, K. and Kotwicka, W., 2020. Late evolutionary stages of residual hills in tablelands (Elbsandsteingebirge, Germany). Geomorphology, 367, p.107308. open access Paul H. (talk) 18:09, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and move to Tableland, which is clearly in the literature. The case for a separate article would be made by the sources in mesa, but I can't access those at the moment. SportingFlyer T·C 17:09, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  By the way, if a person does a Google scholar search for Migoń and tableland he or she gets 325 hits; for tableland and escarpment he or she gets 8,390 hits; and for geomorphology and tableland he or she gets 11,500 hits. A number of these papers have URLs for PDF files attached to them. Thus, there are plenty of accessiable potential sources that are currently available online and downable to be sources for an article. In addition, there exists online an abundance of public domain, open source digital elevation models, and georeferenced raster graphics of topographic maps and aerial photography to create figures from. Paul H. (talk) 18:51, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:25, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Move, redirect, or merge as appropriate. Bearian (talk) 02:10, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.