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Requested move 13 November 2016

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: all not moved as a group. With that said, one is free to renominate any of these as an independent RM on their own respective talk pages at any time if one wants to do so. (non-admin closure) JudgeRM (talk to me) 04:25, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]


– Per WP:USPLACE. WP:WikiProject Skyscrapers/Tallest building lists states that "No regional qualifier is added after the name of the city unless disambiguation is necessary." However this contradicts WP:USPLACE. Per WP:CONLIMITED, "Consensus among a limited group of editors, at one place and time, cannot override community consensus on a wider scale." It continues, "participants in a WikiProject cannot decide that some generally accepted policy or guideline does not apply to articles within its scope."

WP:SKY's stance against state names apparently begins with this edit in 2008 by a project contributor to the project's manual of style page. I was unable to locate any discussion or consensus about this change on WikiProject pages or otherwise.

InB4 anyone claims that USPLACE doesn't apply to descriptive title - it does: Talk:Mayors of Newark, New Jersey#Requested move 21 May 2016 Talk:List of beaches in San Diego#Requested move 12 April 2015 Talk:List of rivers of Ponce, Puerto Rico. -Mark Schierbecker (talk) 17:28, 13 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support. A number of the titles in the list above are quite unclear: New Brunswick the Canadian province? Camden the London borough? It's best to stay consistent with the title form used by each of the corresponding city articles, and with USPLACE.
That being the case, there's one in your list that I don't support renaming: List of tallest buildings in Oklahoma City, because the corresponding city article is simply Oklahoma City. (It's one of the handful of agreed-upon exceptions built into to the USPLACE guideline.) ╠╣uw [talk] 22:12, 13 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Astute - thanks, I removed OKC. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 01:26, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose all as violating this RfC by introducing unnecessary dismabiguators. Pppery 01:03, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
That is a failed RfC to add language to WP:DAB that recommends additional precision in ambiguous cases. Nothing about that RfC suggests that the opposite case - that precision is now banned. Just because a referendum fails does not mean that editors want the reverse to happen. Nothing has changed: WP:AT and other policies are still very much at play. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 01:39, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose all- Unnecessary disam.Djflem (talk) 07:11, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Despite there being various Camdens, Madisons, Duluths, New Brunswicks, etc.? Wikipedia has long considered it appropriate to apply the city, state convention consistently to all of the cities above – as well as to their associated articles and categories. (For instance, see Category:Gary, Indiana.) ╠╣uw [talk] 10:08, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Shorter titles often redirect to longer ones; shorter is not necessarily better. While conciseness and precision are two of the goals of a good title, we also consider consistency, recognizability, and naturalness. Appending the state is unquestionably more consistent, since it squares with the usage of every one of the primary articles, with most of the parent categories, and with US places generally. It's also more recognizable (per our various Madisons, Duluths, Camdens, etc.), and more natural since appending the state is common usage in the US, as reflected in most reliable sources (see WP:PERENNIAL). Considering all the criteria, appending the state is a justified improvement. ╠╣uw [talk] 10:03, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
All reasonable points, and I agree that we should apply all the criteria at WP:AT when deciding on titles. How to weigh, balance and apply those criteria in specific cases is a matter of judgment. To me, both sets of titles are natural (I happen to agree with WP:USPLACE, but extending it to cover articles like this is unnecessary; while it might be unclear that an article titled Fort Worth or Long Beach or Anchorage is necessarily about a municipality, that is not true for List of tallest buildings in Anchorage, etc). With one possible exception, I think they are all recognizable to "someone familiar with the subject area". And they are consistent with each other and "with the pattern of similar articles' titles"; I see no compelling reason to stretch that definition of consistency to include articles about cities when these are lists of buildings, and category names are certainly not article titles. Frankly, it doesn't matter too much which of these titles is used in this case, but it does set a bad precedent to unnecessarily lengthen titles, in my opinion. Station1 (talk) 07:55, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Oppose SIB: I oppose the only list I'm involved in, Sunny Isles Beach, List of tallest buildings in Sunny Isles Beach, since it is already very specific, in fact it has an even shorter hand name for the city, often called just Sunny Isles, which still redirects to only SIB, Florida, there is no DAB. Most of these lists are for small cities, but still main cities in their metro area, where SIB is a one square mile wonder in the corner of the very large Miami-Dade County, centered by Miami, a no DAB-no state name city. I don't know how this is relevant to my point, but I agree that most of these lists, under proper standards, should list the state. B137 (talk) 01:14, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. As said above, WP:USPLACE applies to the articles on the places themselves, not to ancillary topics. WP:AT says titles should be as WP:CONCISE as possible and no more WP:PRECISE than necessary. The state should only be added if needed for disambiguation purposes to distinguish another "tallest buildings" list in another city of that name.--Cúchullain t/c 14:37, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

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