[Wikipedia-l] what was the eventual decision on citynames?

[Ray Saintonge]

Andre Engels wrote:

>>2). [[Paris, France]] redirects to [[Paris]].  For other uses, 
>>    see [[Paris (disambiguation)]]
>>
>>3). [[Athens, Greece]] redirects to [[Athens]]; disambiguation at
>>    the bottom of the page.  (A note of irony here: Athens, Greece
>>    has received a less substantial article than [[Athens, Ohio]]).
>>
>
>The difference between #2 and #3 has to be decided from case to case.
>If disambiguation takes little space, #3 is preferred, if it takes much
>space (because there are many alternatives, or because they take more than
>a few words to explain), #2 does.
>
My approach when dealing with these would be to show all the 
alternatives if there are at most three.  If there are more than three I 
would use a single entry in the form [[city (disambiguation)]] and sort 
out the rest of the list there.

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