[WikiEN-l] Georgia/Victoria

Mon Apr 17 10:58:54 UTC 2006

On 17/04/06, Justin Cormack <justin at specialbusservice.com> wrote:
>
> On 16 Apr 2006, at 18:11, Steve Bennett wrote:
>
> > On 16/04/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 4/16/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> So I'm not convinced that the rule "pragmatic disambiguation over
> >>> presumed importance" is applied all that consistency.
> >>
> >> Sounds like some head-beating is necessary, but I already have way
> >> too
> >> much of this to do.
> >
> > You're not talking about mine, are you? :) I'm happy to beat people
> > with a fixed rule, but I'd like more confirmation that this rule
> > actually exists and is accepted by the community. There is the
> > guideline on disambig pages, but it's fairly vague. A hard-line "a
> > city does *not* get priority over a cheese if most people would expect
> > the cheese" would be helpful.
>
> I would find it very odd that something named after something else
> should ever get priority.
>
> However obscure the original is, like Camembert, or Jethro Tull, I
> think it should be at the article place. (Actually Jethro Tull is
> now a dab page).

This sounds good, and you can make a decent argument even for
somewhere like "Boston", but, say, "Baltimore"? The original appears
to have been an Irish hamlet somewhere in Longford that doesn't even
exist any more...

([[Memphis]] is a pretty good example of how to handle an obscure
source and go into a disambig, though)

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