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Talk:Washington - I propose that the Washington State article be moved from Washington to Washington (U.S. state) and that Washington (disambiguation) be moved and redirected to Washington. This would be in line with Lincoln and other similar precedents. Nothing personal against the state - it's a very beautiful place, but having Washington be a disambig would be the best way for readers and linkers to effectively navigate. "Washington" has a lot common of uses - as a person's name (including the first American president), as the name of a university, and of course as the name of Washington, DC. Outside the United States, "Washington" as a place name almost always refers to the U.S. capital. Even within the United states (with the exception of the northwestern U.S.), when someone says they're gonna "go to Washington," it's generally assumed that they mean Washington, D.C. Blackcats 01:24, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Can this be replaced with Washington Stecanelo Cerqueira? While the article doesn't exist yet, it makes more sense to have the title be the person's full name, rather than his nickname and occupation. Ytny 15:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
As practically everything named Washington is named after George, a link to him would probably be in order at the top of the article. 70.16.1.166 05:02, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Washington, Tyne and Wear is a little too de-emphasised here for my liking, given that this is the original Washington which everything else called Washington (including old George, whose ancestors hailed from here) is named after. 217.155.20.163 23:00, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
I just made the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Washington/Link repair to help detect the state name in the now-ambiguous links caused by the move of "Washington" to Washington (U.S. state) on 4 May 2010. I've added some regular expressions already. Anyone have any other hints or automated tools or bots to help with this? I guess Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Washington/Link repair would be the place to talk about it. (I also asked at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)#Automated hints to disambiguate Georgia/Washington? because Georgia (U.S. state) has been in a similar position for years now.) I suppose tools could autodetect links to other meanings of Washington, also, for that small percentage of links to "Washington" that are newly or always were ambiguous. -- Closeapple ( talk) 07:06, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
To clarify, please note that it's now at Washington (state) per further discussion, apparently due to the principle of economy, since Washington State is apparently the only Washington defined as a state worldwide. (?) Your bots might need to reflect that.
I've changed the order of the intro section to put DC on top, followed by the state, and then by George. Yes, I know that George came first, but then his family was named for the town in England. The fact is that Wikipedia is an international resource, and outside the USA 9 or more times out of 10 when someone searches for "Washington" they're looking for the US capital - not for an 18th century general/politician or even a state in the Northwest of the States. And even within the States, DC is the most common thing people associate with "Washington," followed by the state, and then by George. So it just doesn't make sense to put DC third on the list when that's what the overwhelming majority of folks who arrive here are looking for. - Helvetica ( talk) 18:07, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
I agree with User:Helvetica. Dab pages are a navigation aid, not chronology. Entries should be sorted in the order of relevancy. It doesn't matter that the places were named after the president. See MOS:DABENTRY. -- intgr [talk] 16:01, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
Generally, redirects should only be used to link to a section (rather than the top of an article) or optionally to link to a alternate name that is in the target articles lede. While the name Washington is mentioned in the lede, it's near the end of the second paragraph and mentioned only in passing (rather than in boldface in the first sentence) - based on this, it's better to link to Boeing B-29 Superfortress without a redirect for this entry. Dondegroovily ( talk) 19:47, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
An editor persists in removing, in contravention of WP:HOWTODAB, the "(disambiguation)" from entries that linked to other dab pages via a redirect. (For his/her reasoning and my response, see User talk:Deor#Washington.) I'm not going to edit war about this, but could other watchers of this page please offer their opinions about the matter. Deor ( talk) 13:30, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
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Talk:Washington - I propose that the Washington State article be moved from Washington to Washington (U.S. state) and that Washington (disambiguation) be moved and redirected to Washington. This would be in line with Lincoln and other similar precedents. Nothing personal against the state - it's a very beautiful place, but having Washington be a disambig would be the best way for readers and linkers to effectively navigate. "Washington" has a lot common of uses - as a person's name (including the first American president), as the name of a university, and of course as the name of Washington, DC. Outside the United States, "Washington" as a place name almost always refers to the U.S. capital. Even within the United states (with the exception of the northwestern U.S.), when someone says they're gonna "go to Washington," it's generally assumed that they mean Washington, D.C. Blackcats 01:24, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Can this be replaced with Washington Stecanelo Cerqueira? While the article doesn't exist yet, it makes more sense to have the title be the person's full name, rather than his nickname and occupation. Ytny 15:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
As practically everything named Washington is named after George, a link to him would probably be in order at the top of the article. 70.16.1.166 05:02, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Washington, Tyne and Wear is a little too de-emphasised here for my liking, given that this is the original Washington which everything else called Washington (including old George, whose ancestors hailed from here) is named after. 217.155.20.163 23:00, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
I just made the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Washington/Link repair to help detect the state name in the now-ambiguous links caused by the move of "Washington" to Washington (U.S. state) on 4 May 2010. I've added some regular expressions already. Anyone have any other hints or automated tools or bots to help with this? I guess Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Washington/Link repair would be the place to talk about it. (I also asked at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)#Automated hints to disambiguate Georgia/Washington? because Georgia (U.S. state) has been in a similar position for years now.) I suppose tools could autodetect links to other meanings of Washington, also, for that small percentage of links to "Washington" that are newly or always were ambiguous. -- Closeapple ( talk) 07:06, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
To clarify, please note that it's now at Washington (state) per further discussion, apparently due to the principle of economy, since Washington State is apparently the only Washington defined as a state worldwide. (?) Your bots might need to reflect that.
I've changed the order of the intro section to put DC on top, followed by the state, and then by George. Yes, I know that George came first, but then his family was named for the town in England. The fact is that Wikipedia is an international resource, and outside the USA 9 or more times out of 10 when someone searches for "Washington" they're looking for the US capital - not for an 18th century general/politician or even a state in the Northwest of the States. And even within the States, DC is the most common thing people associate with "Washington," followed by the state, and then by George. So it just doesn't make sense to put DC third on the list when that's what the overwhelming majority of folks who arrive here are looking for. - Helvetica ( talk) 18:07, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
I agree with User:Helvetica. Dab pages are a navigation aid, not chronology. Entries should be sorted in the order of relevancy. It doesn't matter that the places were named after the president. See MOS:DABENTRY. -- intgr [talk] 16:01, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
Generally, redirects should only be used to link to a section (rather than the top of an article) or optionally to link to a alternate name that is in the target articles lede. While the name Washington is mentioned in the lede, it's near the end of the second paragraph and mentioned only in passing (rather than in boldface in the first sentence) - based on this, it's better to link to Boeing B-29 Superfortress without a redirect for this entry. Dondegroovily ( talk) 19:47, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
An editor persists in removing, in contravention of WP:HOWTODAB, the "(disambiguation)" from entries that linked to other dab pages via a redirect. (For his/her reasoning and my response, see User talk:Deor#Washington.) I'm not going to edit war about this, but could other watchers of this page please offer their opinions about the matter. Deor ( talk) 13:30, 2 September 2013 (UTC)