Talk:Equator

Capitalization of "equator"

Please see the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Capitalization of equator and prime meridian. Jc3s5h (talk) 18:40, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

I have replied there. Vic Park (talk) 23:44, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

Average annual temperature at the Equator

Required.... chart to show average temperature at the Equator from 1900 to today, preferably from same point on Equator.

203.211.73.204 (talk) 00:41, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Which point should we use though? 2001:8003:9100:2C01:7920:4A03:7AD6:BB4C (talk) 02:25, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Image, "The Equator in boreal winter" is incorrect

The image shows an equinox, not boreal winter. The lighting suggests the earth is viewed from the perspective of the sun, because it is always fully lit. The earth's axis of rotation is perpendicular to the line from earth to sun, giving all hemispheres equal lighting. For it to be boreal winter, the earth would need to be illuminated from the left side of the photo. I believe as shown it's the vernal (spring) equinox. Sparkslinger1 (talk) 05:46, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

equator and Equator

As previously mentioned, the topic of this article is the Earth's equator (the Equator), and not the equator as the intersection of a sphere's surface with the plane perpendicular to the sphere's axis of rotation and midway between the poles. This creates a mess on Wikidata, where the two dedicated items have resulted in a "spaghetti mix" of wikilinks.

All Wikipedia titles begin with an uppercase letter; therefore, keeping the title "Equator" under the assumption that the capital letter distinguishes it as THE Earth's equator is ineffective, as the title also technically covers the lowercase concept (and you use the lowercase "equator" in the first line !). Consequently, I think this article should be renamed Earth's equatorEarth's equator or Terrestrial equator. Simon Villeneuve (talk) 18:02, 31 December 2025 (UTC)