Talk:Los Angeles County, California
I thought we had the discussion on places in the United States that we would include the state's name. I'd hate to see people start redirecting to non-disambiguated pages when there may BE a county with the same name in more than one state and they don't know about it. -- Zoe
We did, so I moved it. Most links were to LA County, California anyway. dml
- The last time I read the discussion, the most-well-known-name clause did not exclude places in the United States, even if there were another much more obscure county of the same name in another state. --Brion
There was a specific vote on this very issue. The result of the vote was to preemptively disambiguate city names in the US. --mav
- When did that vote take place? The only time I see anything about that subject in the votes as recorded on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (city names)/Archive 3 was on the precise format to use when disambiguation did occur "subject to the above determination" (which determination was in fact normal disambiguation, not preemptive). At least, that was certainly my interpretation at the time, and I've seen nothing official or semi-official in the results to contridict it. --Brion 20:19 Sep 2, 2002 (PDT)
"All cities in the United States are to be designated in the [City, State] format." I don't see the word "disambiguation" anywhere in there. There was also no overarching statement before that establishing the context of disambiguation. --mav
- Whew, mav, you've got me confused. What does "preemptively disambiguate" mean? :-) -- Zoe
- It means that all cities in the US are to be in the [City, State] format. --mav
- You know, pants (clothing), Internet (computing), United States (country)... Just to be sure. ;) --Brion
- Those are not at all natural disambiguators. Furthermore there was no vote on disambiguating those things. [Los Angeles, California] is perfectly natural and widely used. I know you are just kidding though. --mav
- Look at what links to Los Angeles, California and tell me which is the most widely used. --Brion
- Those are not at all natural disambiguators. Furthermore there was no vote on disambiguating those things. [Los Angeles, California] is perfectly natural and widely used. I know you are just kidding though. --mav