Talk:The Naze

Etymology; and merge, or split further?

If "næss" means "headland" and the Naze is a headland, then in what way is it being used in the sense of "estuary"? This is very unclear from the article at present. Also, currently there's more on the Naze at Walton-on-the-Naze than here, which is a little pointless. I suggest we either move that material here, or simply (merge, if necessary and) redirect this to to W-o-t-N. Alai 16:54, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

• Agree with etym doubt: it is a promontory so the estuary stuff is rubbish. I'll remove it. I'm sure the Naze deserves its own page though so let's keep it. Malick78 (talk) 13:47, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

War of the Worlds

Worth mentioning that the Naze appears in War of the Worlds, where the refugee's ships were stretched from Foulness to the Naze? --Tethran (talk) 19:01, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

The Naze

Can't help but think that this is one of those very few names in Wikipedia which ought to appear as The ~ There is rightly a rule in Wikipedia which requires that 'the' is omitted where it prefaces places eg (The) Tower of London, (The) Eiffel Tower, (The) Humber, (The) Seven Sisters, Sussex. But 'The Naze' is names as such on maps, not as 'Naze' - the 'the' is a part of the name. Comment? cheers Geopersona (talk) 10:26, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

I agree. Sometimes a preceding definite article is an inherent part of a place's name, and should be afforded the status of being part of the title, in the same way that the play The Tempest is not found at "Tempest". In such cases the preceding definite article also should be capitalised throughout the article, in my view. The question of course is how to discern between an 'official' title and common parlance; I think names as depicted on maps can be regarded as indicative of the former. (As an aside, I once became entangled with another editor regarding whether or not the "The" in "The Hague" should be capitalised; I argued that it should be, they thought not - so obviously such matters are not always uncontroversial). PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 20:10, 8 April 2012 (UTC)