Before Google decided to let extremists rename bodies of water, it used common sense.
From 2008: "...if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage."
https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html
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