[Wikipedia-l] Re: City, state convention

[Daniel Mayer]

On Monday 15 July 2002 07:16 am, Sean Barrett wrote:
> On a similar note, "chihuahua mexico -dog" yields 183,000 results, while
> "chihuahua -mexico dog" yields 65,200.  We might dare to generalize: if
> in doubt, place names take priority over things named for places -- if
> the names are identical.  If the names vary even slightly, do the right
> thing: [[Dalmatia]] is a region of [[Croatia]], but [[Dalmatian]] is a
> [[dog]].

Sounds good to me - of course there will probably be exceptions.

--maveric149