On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
I would think that the best policy is consistency...
no, Australian
placenames do not repeat from state to state (much). Not to the extent
that it would interfere with entries... but at the same time I think
that if the policy for other countries is city,state then we should
stick to that.
The policy to stick to is "make it easy to link to". The only country
that I know uses a "city, state" notation on regular basis is the USA.
Phrases like "Chicago, Illinois" and "St Petersburg, Florida" are
familiar and can easily be used in other articles that need to link to
them, but "Sydney, Australia" and "Stockholm, Sweden" just sound
silly
in any text. It would be as strange as "floppy, computer device" or
"cheese, food item". Writing [[Sydney, Australia|Sydney]] is not a good
solution.
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