This has been discussed before, at length, and the most passionate and devoted contributor on the topic has been maveric. I will go along with any naming convention he devises (i.e., he has my "proxy vote").
The point of the naming convention has always been to make the article title:
* unambiguous, and * as short as possible
These two values compete somewhat, and there are always thorny special cases. Is [[Paris]] enough to indicate that big city in France? Does [[New York]] mean New York State or New York City? -- not to mention (although I just did; hi, cunctator!) that WITHIN New York City "New York" generally means Manhattan!
The biggest bone of contention is probably whether to use commas or parentheses when we need to disambiguate. Some prefer [[Paris, France]] as familiar to most readers. Others prefer the convenience of [[Paris (France)]] because of the "pipe trick".
I have no desire to take a side on this issue, except (as mentioned above) I will side with whatever Mav wants.
Ed Poor
--- "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
The point of the naming convention has always been to make the article title:
- unambiguous, and
- as short as possible
These two values compete somewhat, and there are always thorny special cases. Is [[Paris]] enough to indicate that big city in France?
The biggest bone of contention is probably whether to use commas or parentheses when we need to disambiguate. Some prefer [[Paris, France]] as familiar to most readers. Others prefer the convenience of [[Paris (France)]] because of the "pipe trick".
I have no desire to take a side on this issue, except (as mentioned above) I will side with
whatever Mav
wants.
Ed Poor
Many people might get confused between New York state and New York city (outsider point of view, when we say New York, we usually refer to the city, not to the state, I even think many french don't know there is a state called New York, as for New York Manhattan, that's a local meaning probably)
but I really think [[Paris]] is enough to indicate that it is that big city in France, rather than Paris, Arkansas, 3000 people.
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