Talk:Northeast

I moved this page back to Northeast from North East because, according to my dictionary, northeast is the direction midway between North and East. I believe that northeast is also the most common English name for the direction, so should be the name of the article. My dictionary does not show north east or north-east as alternative spellings. Also a North East place could also be interpreted as the northern part of the eastern area rather than the northeastern area, which is a slightly different area, with the north east place (perhaps) being more south of the northeast place and probably better being referred to as being eastnortheast.

Also, because this is a disambiguation page, shifting the page is not the appropriate thing to do as disambiguation pages are also linked directly from the Project:Links to disambiguating pages page. This means that each disambiguating page should have a separate entry and there probably should be duplications of each alternative spelling too - unless it is clear that redirects to the disambiguation page should not be removed. -- (WT-en) Huttite 05:51, 18 Apr 2005 (EDT)

See my comments on Talk:Southwest (WT-en) DanielC 07:55, 18 Apr 2005 (EDT)

North East vs. North-East vs. Northeast
The editor in me is screaming that, except in cases where it forms part of a proper name, we should choose one orthography and stick with it for consistency's sake. Judging by Google hits, the un-hyphenated, un-spaced "northeast" is more common than the other two combined. I hate to see a haphazard assortment of orthographies being used. Anyone agree? (WT-en) Texugo 06:38, 9 April 2008 (EDT)


 * I'd say anything but northeast is actually incorrect. --(WT-en) Peter Talk 15:54, 14 May 2009 (EDT)


 * Absolutely agree. (WT-en) LtPowers 16:11, 14 May 2009 (EDT)

VFD
Deleted per VFD archived at Votes_for_deletion/July_2021. Pashley (talk) 00:26, 2 July 2021 (UTC)