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I have consulted the talk page that CyberSach referred me to, and there's nothing there that substantiates the claim that Scarborough, North Yorshire is the Scarborough one is most likely to refer to when one says "Scarborough" without context. I'm not even sure what "mentioning 'Scarborough' without context" would even mean--every utterance or written word has context, deriving from what is known about the speaker, where and when the word is mentioned, etc. If the claim is not meaningless, it is certainly unverifiable, and if someone were to try to verify it (by recording written and verbal communication all over the world and counting the number of instances of "Scarborough" that refer to the Yorkshire one versus the Ontario one, etc.), it's far from certain which Scarborough would come out on top. I have thus tagged the statement with a {{verify source}} tag. -- Atemperman 17:17, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
All of which (with the possible exception of the building society) relate solely to the Yorkshire Scarborough, how do you see only one result?
Again, I searched Scarborough on google.ca to check your results of the top 40 and stopped after 20 because I had already found 9 results for Scarborough, North Yorkshire, two more than you said were in the top 40. I carried on and here are all the links with info relating to Scarborough, North Yorkshire:
Even if the results were only 9-7 in favour of Scarborough, North Yorkshire then it does seem to be clear that without context the Yorkshire town is what is probably reffered to as even on the Canadian based google, results for it are still higher! Of course, we can never know comprehensively what everyone reffers to when they type in "Scarborough" by itself, but these results give quite a case to it being the Yorkshire town. Stev17 11:13, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Scarborough (Disambiguation) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 24#Scarborough (Disambiguation) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 ( talk) 15:18, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
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I have consulted the talk page that CyberSach referred me to, and there's nothing there that substantiates the claim that Scarborough, North Yorshire is the Scarborough one is most likely to refer to when one says "Scarborough" without context. I'm not even sure what "mentioning 'Scarborough' without context" would even mean--every utterance or written word has context, deriving from what is known about the speaker, where and when the word is mentioned, etc. If the claim is not meaningless, it is certainly unverifiable, and if someone were to try to verify it (by recording written and verbal communication all over the world and counting the number of instances of "Scarborough" that refer to the Yorkshire one versus the Ontario one, etc.), it's far from certain which Scarborough would come out on top. I have thus tagged the statement with a {{verify source}} tag. -- Atemperman 17:17, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
All of which (with the possible exception of the building society) relate solely to the Yorkshire Scarborough, how do you see only one result?
Again, I searched Scarborough on google.ca to check your results of the top 40 and stopped after 20 because I had already found 9 results for Scarborough, North Yorkshire, two more than you said were in the top 40. I carried on and here are all the links with info relating to Scarborough, North Yorkshire:
Even if the results were only 9-7 in favour of Scarborough, North Yorkshire then it does seem to be clear that without context the Yorkshire town is what is probably reffered to as even on the Canadian based google, results for it are still higher! Of course, we can never know comprehensively what everyone reffers to when they type in "Scarborough" by itself, but these results give quite a case to it being the Yorkshire town. Stev17 11:13, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Scarborough (Disambiguation) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 24#Scarborough (Disambiguation) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 ( talk) 15:18, 24 August 2022 (UTC)