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Names of places are reused across the state of Wisconsin. This has led to discussion and confusion for those of us attempting to sort these things out. The top section is our working hypothesis for how to do this. Current or new discussion may be arranged by topic or added at the bottom of the page.
Where a town's article winds up, in terms of article title, is based on trying to use the simplest name possible. Using thee following steps, the first that results in a unique set of names is used.
I realize that most of the towns listed are broken links. The question is how to clean them up. My intent is to re-arrange the current articles as follows:
I wanted to give people a few days to comment on this structure before moving any articles. There is more discussion of this whole kind of issue on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Counties page. ... Thanks Lou I 16:31, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I got sidetracked sorting out Evergreen, Marathon County, Wisconsinand the change to Kronenwetter, Wisconsin, but I've finally rearranged my conclusions into the top section of this page. I also created at sample county section of names at Marathon County, Wisconsin. I will again pause fo a couple of days for comments before further changes. Thanks Lou I 21:06, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
This subject is one where I'm still of two minds. I wrote the 'first draft' expecting to use names like Berlin Town, not Berlin (town). My reasoning was the we treat Township and County entries that way for other states, and the Town in Wisconsin is functionaly the same. By the second draft, I realized that we would have to move fewer pages by leaving the current practice alone. But, I think that Berlin, Wisconsin refers to the city, while Berlin Town, Marathon County, Wisconsin refers to one of the towns. My first reasoning was that Town is sort of using the full or formal name of the place, while (town) is a Wikipedia procedural note. As I said, by the second draft, I'd decided to leave them at (town), but I certainly would like other opinions. ...Thanks,, Lou I 00:26, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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Names of places are reused across the state of Wisconsin. This has led to discussion and confusion for those of us attempting to sort these things out. The top section is our working hypothesis for how to do this. Current or new discussion may be arranged by topic or added at the bottom of the page.
Where a town's article winds up, in terms of article title, is based on trying to use the simplest name possible. Using thee following steps, the first that results in a unique set of names is used.
I realize that most of the towns listed are broken links. The question is how to clean them up. My intent is to re-arrange the current articles as follows:
I wanted to give people a few days to comment on this structure before moving any articles. There is more discussion of this whole kind of issue on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Counties page. ... Thanks Lou I 16:31, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I got sidetracked sorting out Evergreen, Marathon County, Wisconsinand the change to Kronenwetter, Wisconsin, but I've finally rearranged my conclusions into the top section of this page. I also created at sample county section of names at Marathon County, Wisconsin. I will again pause fo a couple of days for comments before further changes. Thanks Lou I 21:06, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
This subject is one where I'm still of two minds. I wrote the 'first draft' expecting to use names like Berlin Town, not Berlin (town). My reasoning was the we treat Township and County entries that way for other states, and the Town in Wisconsin is functionaly the same. By the second draft, I realized that we would have to move fewer pages by leaving the current practice alone. But, I think that Berlin, Wisconsin refers to the city, while Berlin Town, Marathon County, Wisconsin refers to one of the towns. My first reasoning was that Town is sort of using the full or formal name of the place, while (town) is a Wikipedia procedural note. As I said, by the second draft, I'd decided to leave them at (town), but I certainly would like other opinions. ...Thanks,, Lou I 00:26, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)