Relatively boring inquiry This page has become so exciting My question will seem quite banal and boring in comparison but perhaps someone can bear with me The question is quite simple why is this page called Golden plates rather than Gold plates I realise gold plates does redirect here and for most purposes the names are interchangeable and with my google search I get approximately the same number of exact matches with gold plates beating golden plates 115 K to 106 K But when I refer to most Latter Day Saint oriented sources they tend to use gold plates That s the usage in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism mormon org most instances in FARMS etc The exception seems to be that golden plates seems to predominate in most RLDS Community of Christ sources So really I m just wondering I m not even proposing that it be changed But is there a rationale for using golden over gold or would anyone even want it to be reversed Does anyone care