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typically titled "Placename, State" when located in a US state or "Placename, Territory" when located in US territories. A placename that needs additional...

The result was delete. SoWhy 11:49, 6 May 2018 (UTC) Khaneh (Persian placename) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)...

headquarter towns: [[placename, Bangladesh]] For divisions and districts: [[placename, Bangladesh]] For places within cities and towns: [[placename, cityname]]...

remain the same in their use across many placenames. Another difficulty often encountered in inferring placenames from the kanji is the presence of a no...

Office Placename information Placenames Tasmania LGA Tasmanian local governments association website Electorate Tasmanian Electoral Commission Placename information...

for this article: Articles for deletion/List of placenames containing the word "new" List of placenames containing the word "new" (edit | talk | history |...

titles, i.e. [[Placename Province]] and [[Placename District]]. Settlements, including cities, towns and villages, should be at [[Placename]], with a disambiguating...

2021 (UTC) I am also adding the below articles to this nomination: Pur (placename element) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs |...

WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Pointless unreferenced dicdef about a placename suffix. No encyclopedic info. Wiktionary is enough. Lembit Staan (talk)...

an unverified place. Can't find any reliable sources searching for the placename or on "Alfred Wegener" "Death." I've gone ahead and updated the articles...

so should usually only be used in quotations. When known, Indigenous placenames should be included in the lead directly after the English name in this...

union, "placename". I think that the two-word form "place name" is best and safest right now everywhere, but I wouldn't bat an eye at "placename", myself...

universities are descriptive and short and take the form: University of [[Placename]]. Qualifiers such as "technical", patron names or provincial names should...

leadership of National Party Updating placenames of Banks Peninsula places that now have dual te reo/English placenames; some challenges for file names of...

FENS · JSTOR · TWL) A small hill in a park, with no official status as a placename and with no particular social or historical signficance Crusoe8181 (talk)...

logs | views) replica of article at Balallan, the English spelling of the placename. Maybe a re-direct would be better? JBellis 17:00, 28 December 2006 (UTC)...

in one article would have been problematic. Hence for teas that have a placename this is an option. Always add tea to the back of a name like Yunnan tea...

placename. I assume someone of that name owned the aforementioned hotel. Rojomoke (talk) 17:56, 21 January 2017 (UTC) from an Old English placename --...

"unincorporated community", to "settlement". ISBN 9781581820942, another placename explainer, tells us that it "refers to a road sign", just extending the...

04:00, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC) "{{placename}} learning {{subst:buzzword}} is a local organization for learning in {{subst:placename}}". Despite RJFJR's worthy...

United States of America For placenames in Antarctica, try Geographic Names Information System, Antarctica For placenames in Australia, try Geoscience...

possible, articles on cities and communes in France should go under [[placename]]. Where disambiguation is needed, articles have traditionally used the...

under criteria of pages created as a result of a typo. Believe this "placename" to be a fabrication and vandalism Djegan 15:52, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC) Speedy...

would be named under the Placename, Province format. If we had two within the province of Roma, then we would move to the Placename, Comune format. As it...

with places outside New Zealand (including suburbs), then the format "Placename, New Zealand" is used (for example, Amberley, New Zealand). Disambiguation...

of Kosovo placenames. However, more recently published maps and guidebooks do now use Albanian placenames primarily, with Serbian placenames given secondarily...

countries. Deor (talk) 10:48, 7 March 2015 (UTC) Mercia is an obsolete placename? That depends on how you define such terms. Tharthandorf Aquanashi (talk)...

think that there is potential for related content as a surname and a placename. Uncle G 22:05, 2005 Jan 13 (UTC) Redirect to Soap, merge and delete....

not being used to like articles on toponymy - placename studies, but dab-pages dealing with placenames and surnames. Peterkingiron (talk) 11:43, 1 December...

Orthography of Mayan words— other than for certain widely recognised placenames and some others, it is recommended that when writing Mayan words and terminology...

most articles about them say little more than "{{placename}} School is a school in {{subst:placename}} managed by {{subst:headteacher}} with {{subst:number}}...

populated places in Antigua and Barbuda that do not have a name that is exclusively theirs will be assigned a category that is titled "PLACENAME, COUNTRY."...

VisualEditor Māori topics are not well covered in Wikipedia articles. Placename translations are usually taken from Reed, which is sometimes wrong. There...

I would have thought that placenames are pronounced the same everywhere. For example, both Cambridge s (in England and Massachusetts are pronounced the...

source {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Outreach/User Gaeilge task force}} Placenames Database of Ireland maintained by the Department of Community, Rural and...

language issues such as Chumashan languages Add indigenous California placenames to articles Tag stub articles with {{na-lang-stub}} Add links to information...

English. Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 September 23 Welsh placename pronunciation What does AFAIK stand for? Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016...

articles on places in Malaysia use {Placename}. Where disambiguation with a place outside of Malaysia is required, {Placename}, Malaysia is used, if disambiguation...

In the US, is it an old tradition to have scenic placenames, such as Sunset Beach, Bayview, Twin Oaks, etc. (or sort of a borrowing from other country's...

Shellwood (talk) 11:41, 7 December 2022 (UTC) Delete Many of the Kentucky placename articles mass-created by this user are not notable, and this appears to...

Carlossuarez46 (talk · contribs) created a very large number of Iran placename dabs like this one, many containing WP:PTM; this is just a pilot for the...

there was one passing reference to this as a town (in yet another book on placename origins), and I didn't want to go through the process twice. Anyway, I...

January 2012 (UTC) Placename origins are something that plenty of reliable sources cover (unlike the number of letters in a placename), and a shared origin...

and no GHits or anything else talking about the place except the usual placename clickbait. Mangoe (talk) 14:16, 17 March 2018 (UTC) Delete no sources...

placenames in Ukraine, Belarussian placenames should be preferred for placenames in Belarus, Lithuanian placenames should be preferred for placenames...

based on characteristics of names; as I recall these is a category for placenames of French origin in the US, maybe for royal eponyms in Canada also. What...

universities are descriptive and short and take the form: University of [[Placename]]. Qualifiers such as "technical", patron names or provincial names should...

free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) A "there's no there there" placename: coords mark a point in the middle of field SW of a town with a different...

criteria apply to this article: - POV forking: Most (if not all) of these placenames have their own article, where its name in other languages appears (or...

of "toponomy", "placename" instead of "place name"...since when is "toponymy" less concise than "place name etymologies" (or "placename etymologies)?Skookum1...

Australian places articles were named placename, state, and that placename should all be redirects (so long as placename alone is not ambiguous). (After acknowledging...

History, Winnipeg, Arts and Culture, Politics raccoonny (talk · contribs) - Placename etymologies RealSequence (talk · contribs) - Source verification, Geography...

tried to cross the valley in one day, failed, and was picked up near this placename. SportingFlyer T·C 23:09, 19 April 2020 (UTC) The above discussion is...

JSTOR · TWL) Another California place sourced only to Durham's book of placename origins. I can find no other references to the place, and I'm not comfortable...

school at Riverdale High School is disambiguated as Riverdale High School (Placename, Statename). 162 etc. (talk) 20:42, 18 August 2026 (UTC) I already completed...

hamlet. Couldn't find any Spanish-language sources, just seems to be a placename on a trekking route. Simon Burchell (talk) 16:49, 28 January 2016 (UTC)...

(talk) 13:22, 12 July 2020 (UTC) Delete another non-notable California placename. --Lockley (talk) 07:34, 14 July 2020 (UTC) The above discussion is preserved...

17 August 2009 (UTC) Speedy delete not known at Geoscience Australia Placename search - Land of Mick/Myk/... Hoax. -- Paul foord (talk) 11:50, 17 August...

the talk page. A Location map for Saskatchewan has been created, so the placename coordinates for new places are added to the template, and no need to upload...

map-making glitches. The 1956 topo map shows "One Mile" in Roman (that is, placename) text, with "spring" in italics above it. This appears to have been a...

on the topos) which is far and away the most common reference to the placename. There was also, once, a sawmill in the area, and there are a couple of...

parenthetical disambiguators. This is a phrase that appears to be a discrete placename, and the reader who types or links to Emerald Bay, California probably...

number of false hits the searching is characteristic of an unimportant placename, with one exception: this snippet which fits in with the single house...

could make up a vaguely Arabic-sounding name and create a substub with "PLACENAME is the name of a village in insert-emirate-name-here". We virtually always...

14th/15th century Polish noblemen, they are described as "Duke of half-placename". For example, Henry V of Iron, is said to be "Duke of Duke of half-Głogów...

level of detail, they also label every neighborhood and subdivision. Any placename sourced to them alone has to be suspected of being NN until shown otherwise...

American. ---Sluzzelin talk 23:55, 5 June 2019 (UTC) In a few Italian placenames the intervocalic -ni- has undergone a similar change and has become -gn-...

2019 (UTC) Just to clarify: I do not think there is any dispute that the placename exists; but it has to be "notable", and being the subject of urban planning...

--Crusio (talk) 22:32, 21 December 2007 (UTC) Comment - If retained, a placename should be added: there must be hundreds of schools with this or similar...

(disambiguation). More entries have been added, so it now includes 3 people, a placename and a guitar also known as a cavaco (a redirect). --Colapeninsula (talk)...

add a 'highway shield to junction boxes and to infoboxes. Geographical placenames of Canada will provide a radius search of communities for SK regional...

JSTOR · TWL) This one is a bit borderline. It's definitely used as a placename: there's a local farm and a restaurant referencing it as such. From what...

should apply to other wikipedias too. Mass creation of single-sentence placename stubs without any fact-checking is definitely at the "quantity" end of...

where the coordinates say it is. "Yaaq" is a common component of Somali placenames, apparently, and there are two other supposed towns of the same name according...

this key policy. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 21:52, 12 July 2015 (UTC) List of placenames containing the word new (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links |...

amusing, but I can't really figure out what innuendo is involved in the placename "Bell End"... AnonMoos (talk) 21:44, 29 August 2021 (UTC) Presumably this...

decision. (Walls can be the plural of "wall", but can also be a separate placename or surname.) Sometimes, even when a singular might be ambiguous and lead...

"third of all the basaltic lava" statistic seems wrong, concerns about placename translations expressed on the talk page have not been addressed, and the...

GNIS is. Rhadow (talk) 12:10, 12 December 2017 (UTC) delete yet another placename database hallucination: things on "County Line Road" might be named "County...

London (and probably elsewhere) with the compass point before or after the placename (East Canonbury, Canonbury East), so a redirect would be a fine outcome...

in Upper Freehold since the 17th century, the author has not seen this placename on a map prior to 1917." There are three entities in New Jersey in three...

rationale given above. Ktrimi991 (talk) 23:21, 13 July 2020 (UTC) Delete as a placename that never rose to notability. --Lockley (talk) 07:48, 14 July 2020 (UTC)...

asp?method=place&placename=Sugarloaf&state=Any&county=Any&placetype=Any&match=0 www.topozone.com/viewmaps.asp?method=place&placename...

History, Winnipeg, Arts and Culture, Politics raccoonny (talk · contribs) - Placename etymologies RealSequence (talk · contribs) - Source verification, Geography...

news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) The two placename sources disagree slightly: one says flat out that it was a post office...

For a foreign-language placenames or personal names: When person or place has a native name in the Latin alphabet including letters with diacritics (or...

comment "You have not given a good reason for the removal of the Arabic placename" [11]. Jayjg then moved identification of the location from the first...

find enough reliable sources to do more than prove the existence of the placename. So overwrite with content if anyone can find enough for a stub before...

United States are titled "Placename, State" even if the place described in the article is the primary topic for "Placename" (or the only topic). In these...

reader naturally expects the name of a country, e.g. as a specifier of a placename in a biography article (e.g. "X was born in Tetovo, Macedonia") Discussions...

deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 05:04, 6 September 2015 (UTC) This placename/location pair does indeed appear in the U.S. federal government's NGA...

Geonames seems to think this is a "variant" on some utterly different placename, itself "unverified"; the coords once again drop into the middle of nowhere...

Template:Placename toponym Sestra -> Sestroretsk kurort 1 Template:Placename toponym Sortavala -> Serdobolskaya street 1 Template:Placename toponym Zvenigorod...

that listed. I see lists of placenames and a pronunciation guide as sources and a list of pronunciation problems with placenames as an article. That is WP:SYN...

name will be found on Placename (disambiguation) which will be linked to in a note at the beginning of the article at Placename. Principle: disambiguation...

"politicians such as Bloggs", and, especially if the surname also has uses as a placename or common noun, we help that reader by listing surname holders. (Now,...

Nuclear waste deposit Electronic cigarettes / vaporizers A mysterious placename in Russian Poland Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2015...

Cardamom (talk) 07:38, 7 October 2013 (UTC) So now you want to redirect to a placename using a circular reference as verification? The clain is unsourced in...

Russian dictionary doesn't stretch to telling me whether Kuibychev is a placename or refers to the block-like shape of the deposits. And the linked article...

elsewhere (i.e. Durango, Mexico), should be named Durango, Biscay, ([placename, province] following the precedent of the convention adopted for South...

Publishers. pp. 637–. ISBN 978-93-86237-36-1. but other than that it is a placename of some sorts in India, there's not much else there. But this article...

(talk) 21:14, 14 January 2014 (UTC) delete Recounts information of English placename meanings which are (one would figure) true of any of the larger cities...

go in time? By your logic we would need to include all the different placenames of all populated places in Lithuania that ever existed from probably back...

this list any less worthwhile than anything else in Category:Lists of placename etymologies? --Elkman (Elkspeak) 16:42, 3 February 2009 (UTC) Week Keep...

American placename, occurring in Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Alaska, and even as far away as Michigan, according to Native American Placenames of the United...

was a 4th class post office on the same farm that's still there. The placename origins book calls it a village but I don't give that a lot of weight...

Ford quote Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 December 27 placename element etymologies website Map or table of total number of civilian firearms...

"Pightley Somerset".[2][3] Maybe somebody could create an article about this placename if they feel so inclined, and it could mention the manor as a source of...

information misses. The information enables the reader to identify geographical placenames on a certain territory not only village by village. 2.) Maros Megye (Megye...

are not always corroborated by other researchers. Pàrlamaid na h-Alba placenames, for example is worth checking for alternatives. Write/edit it last when...

(名) Courtesy name (字) Pseudonym Buddhist name Placename But separate the following from the placename proper: Jurisdictional name, such as shì (市, 'city')...

Listed in washington state placenames Randle, Washington Washington State placenames Salkum, Washington Washington State placenames Silver Creek, Washington...

titles with "Darker" in them, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of placenames containing the word "new", Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places...

24 September 2005 (UTC) This page is simply a list of classical Greek placenames, with demotic and English translations. I see no encyclopedic content...

April 9 Continental European writing with American spelling LOL Catz "Placename" or "place name"? Faroese or Swedish surname? codswallop Phrase origination...

an exception, as it is standard in all registers of writing. Certain placenames may use particular contractions . Per the guideline on titles of people...

proper name are North Pacific right whale (where "North Pacific" is a placename) and Bryde's whale (where Bryde was a person's name). Prior to 15 February...

allegorical. The names of races, including ents, orcs, and elves, and placenames such as Orthanc and Meduseld, derive from Beowulf. The Riders of Rohan...

a town, even though the purpose of GNIS was to standardize the names. Placenames origin books have the same issue: they are also about the names first...

still need sourcing for this, and something to write about. Not every placename that appears in the OS gazeteer achieves that much. The only thing this...

gorge. It may be that a stream flows in it. (See New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database. Enter Sarah in the box.) Failing better information, it may...

assume an old Swedish declension of "föl" that has been fossilised in placenames. I did try searching for "föli" but Google is being spectacularly unhelpful...

words with 'e'. Ytterbium is an international word taken from a Swedish placename, so is not required to fit in with English spelling. ColinFine (talk)...

these articles are about their actions (commemorations, Frisian language placename signs, Frisian flags etc.) and not about the group itself. The Banner talk...

free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Exactly as described in the placenames book: a rail stop, not a settlement. GHits were clickbait and GBooks only...

value in the stub. No WP:RS to verify notability. The official Irish Placenames Database defines it as nothing more than a sráid (street). — O'Dea (talk)...

pandemic in China by province articles and similar "COVID-19 pandemic in <placename>" articles of which there are a great many. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 14:07...

PresN via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 18 June 2025 (UTC) [1]. List of Ukrainian placenames affected by derussification (edit | talk | history | protect | delete |...

was there, at which point the topos start using the titular label in a placename font. What's there is a few random, seemingly unrelated houses and buildings...

FAdesdae378 (talk · contribs) 00:00, 13 September 2022 (UTC) Keep A placename with confirmed addresses within it and +5k people shouldn't be deleted...

related only by etymology: one is a type of settlement, the other is a placename suffix. – Uanfala (talk) 13:42, 26 April 2021 (UTC) Keep per the source...

scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Here, in the Somali placename parade, we come across a different problem: there's a town about at the...

correspondance in Chinese, and that the overwhelming majority of Japanese placenames are written exclusively in kanji, there is virtually no "real" Chinese...

in Rennick 2016 which goes straight from "FITCHBURG" to "FIXER". The placename card in the Rennick Collection says what is in the nomination and notes...

placenames to Category:Redirects from London place names Category:Latin place-names to Category:Latin place names Category:Chinook Jargon placenames to...

CANTERBURY; and most tellingly, the Land Information New Zealand website's placename database states the only Greendales (a locality and a homestead) in New...

family farm and their businesses, it's been consistently used as a local placename for decades and was even the first site of an annual regional steam engine...

might serve as a good basis for standardisation and confirmity as irish placenames are legendary for spelling variation. Djegan 22:38, 27 September 2005...

a base without a website, there is little point in merely providing a placename in a list. The list is anyway libale to become obsolete. Peterkingiron...

precise, then one has to deal explicitly with accuracy. The accuracy of a placename specification has to be an explicit part of the future gazetteer. We need...

Is there a website that deals with placename element etymologies of different regions and nations like in Bangladesh, you have places with -pur (e.g....

rationale: Could not find a single reliable source that mentions this placename. NGS Names Server doesn't even have it as a "populated place", their wastebasket...

suspect that the label for Farmers Mountain to the north was mistaken for a placename. At any rate there is never anything there on the topos or aerials. Mangoe...

Characterisation Project by the South Yorkshire Archaeology Service. Sheffield placename etymologies Addy, Sidney Oldall (1888). A Glossary of Words Used in the...

transclusions · logs · subpages) Template:Placename/do-adrProp (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Template:Placename/adr (talk · history · transclusions ·...

(UTC) Keep/split/transwiki Article is mostly about specific placenames, given that placenames are on topic as part of articles on places, it seems OK to...

20:01, 15 March 2020 (UTC) Unfortunately, its not on the List of Nepal placename etymologies (if someone finds it, please consider adding). 107.15.157...

buildings by the rail line (which is long gone). The book of interesting placenames is hugely indiscriminate and not a good source of notoriety. Mangoe (talk)...

beleive that it would not have been mentioned in Australian newspapers. The placename occurs in this article. As I understand it "squatter" means a free settler...

common last name but the one good hit I got was in a gazetteer of railroad placenames. Mangoe (talk) 17:12, 2 June 2020 (UTC) Delete. Not a community, not notable...

05:57, 24 April 2007 (UTC) Mainly interested in Westfield Group and (placename) Marketplace such as Wagga Wagga Marketplace, Plumpton Marketplace, Newington...

free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Our next dubious Somali placename appears to have its origins in a UN report; the link in the article is...

2020 (UTC) Delete as non-notable per nom. One of many California phantom placenames. --Lockley (talk) 23:47, 12 July 2020 (UTC) Relisted to generate a more...

of Skulls (album) 2 Template:Placename toponym Flugov -> Flugov rope factory Kantemirovskaya street 2 Template:Placename toponym Narva -> Narva outpost...

a ranch. In spite of a slew of false hits about getting rid of squaw placenames, this gets fewer than usual hits, and they are the usual clickbait and...

desk archive/Language/2006 August 7 Use of "data" in a sentence London Placename Etymology Request split for schwa article motivational words in Japanese...

that there is a proposal to move it to Anaya, Segovia in line with other placename articles about towns. Mangoe (talk) 18:48, 18 June 2025 (UTC) Keep. This...

book is just a list of placenames, each with a humorous "definition". There are no characters (or plot), so to my mind the placenames themselves are of note...

http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/place_naming/placename_search for New South Wales. They both have clear definitions of placenames and a hierarchy that mostly makes...

similar position; between the Hee Haw reference and its consistent use as a placename (see [1] [2], and even a mention in Congress), it's notable as a community...

information as an etymology list. Unlike other pages in Category:Lists of placename etymologies, this list attempts to discuss information about worldwide...

04:43, 20 February 2018 (UTC) "Ceel" is a very common part of Somali placenames [1], but I think this is a mispelling of the Ceel Magale uninhabited locality...

editor, WP:GEOLAND is failed. Worth noting that the additional California placenames reference cited here does not actually say what Claus is - it says it...

mean Wikipedia should have an article, but this goes well beyond that. A placename does not have to be legally recognised to have an article, and characterising...

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 December 10 Most Frequent Placename Life Expectancy, Infant Mortality, and Death Rate how can i increase my...

"Serville" Untranslated Russian term of early Sovet era "xh" in Liégeois placenames countable or non countable Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012...

present article is completely useless. bg:Индже войвода is about the placename - no preference as to how to handle the disambig if that should also be...

London called Camberwell. Sometimes in England, not all letters in a placename are pronounced, and I would like to know if it is pronounced as spelled...

WP:GEONATURAL. There's not much to be found online about this island apart from placename databases and weather websites. No hits on ProQuest, Google Scholar returns...

thus redundant. Also its name does not follow the guidance for English placenames: Saga City 19:58, 5 February 2006 (UTC) This afd nomination was orphaned...

there's more to say about the topic. For example, the meaning of the placename appears in sources such as Arizona Place Names and Scratch Ankle, U.S...

unincorporated area. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:48, 3 June 2022 (UTC) It means it's a placename; it doesn't mean it's a distinct settlement. Mangoe (talk) 05:22, 7 June...

its own guidelines on specific issues that are not covered elsewhere. Placenames: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (settlements)#Finland Modified letters (äöå)...

those that are named after places in Ireland; The Master Book of Irish Placenames has an appendix of Irish place names in America [3]; Irish Place-names...

year-long edit wars about placenames. Scarcely used before, the Skoranka account since 2011 exclusively made such placename-related edits [1] matching...

JSTOR · TWL) Another spot-on-the-rails "town"" sourced only to Durham's placenames book. I was able to at least verify the existence of a station from a...

Spänn/spenn Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 23 Kanji for placenames "Swear marks" DELIVRANCE good subtitled German films and television programmes...

/ 16.924°N 79.402°E / 16.924; 79.402. While I have known inaccurate placename information to get into GMaps, satellite photographs certainly show a...

Gavia immer (u|t|c) 17:45, 17 November 2006 (UTC) Delete Kasaragi is a placename in Japan. I know a different fictional character, Kasaragi no Saemon (Saemon...

There is a dispute over whether Greek and Turkish placenames should be added in articles regarding Turkish and Greek places (cities, islands, etc) respectively...

recall 'Independance Day' 4.Multrare/Moultrie , is the origin of the Placename Multree ( Moultrie ) 5. More time may be needed to research the sources...

perhaps the two articles could be merged (List of longest and shortest placenames)? ~Asarlaí 01:55, 10 January 2010 (UTC) Delete. This is trivial and impossible...

05:35, 24 August 2022 (UTC) Keep Listed on GNIS and USGS Topo maps as a placename important enough to have mention. While not of great notability there...

titles with "Darker" in them Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of placenames containing the word "new" Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places...

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021 April 21 US scenic placenames Jamaican Ministry of tourism Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2021...

File:Cornwall_UK_location_map_placenames.png: could the lab cut down the amount of bluespace in this image? This would allow easier reading of the placenames without inordinate...

Bosnisch is a German word. Give me a Bosnian term, or an example of a Slavic placename consiting simply of Nowy, and I will suppose something based on evidence...

of GBooks results where it appears in name only, basically listed as a placename with no elaboration. I think it's fairly clear that it doesn't meet WP:GEOLAND...

someone, somewhere, thinks that there's something odd about a particular placename, it's still going to end up as an unmitigated WP:NPOV WP:NOR list of WP:LISTCRUFT...

There has been a Location map for Saskatchewan created. Just enter the placename and longitude and latitude and the marker will identify the location on...

we are to start deleting placenames in Africa because they are "non-notable", shall we also be fair & start deleting placenames in the US & Europe for the...

(carte-en).svg .) I've a question about translation. "La Possession" is a placename, and should be left in French. "Cimetière de tortues" is a description...

Welsh speakers here? Does anyone know the correct pronunciation of the placename Talacre? The article says (or implies) that the "acre" part is pronounced...

edits. DankJae 17:53, 20 June 2026 (UTC) Ah, sorry, I went on autopilot. In the placename it's got an extra "go". Deb (talk) 08:27, 21 June 2026 (UTC)...

Official Postal Guide confirms the post office, which is all that the Baker placename book source actually says too, upon reading it; and like Mangoe I find...

the following interests: edit-warring to remove Turkish or Bulgarian placenames from Greek location articles (M.: [1][2], A.: [3][4]; macroeconomics,...

buildings-by-geography categories use BUILDINGTYPE in PLACENAME; these categories' use of BUILDINGTYPE of PLACENAME. For examples, see Category:Buildings and structures...

at WP:MOS Secretaries Indo-European loans in Hungarian Garrigue Gothic placenames Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2011 October 26 Swedish pronunciation...

when I deprodded the article, and while they do identify Midway as a placename, it's almost always in the content of Thomas Lyles and his business partner...

titles with "Darker" in them, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of placenames containing the word "new", Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places...

"natural" GHits mentioning it in Persian (e.g. not just endless lists of placenames copied and recopied from geographic databases, like in the English hits)...

redirection would be a sensible alternative to deletion. Note that the placename is based upon the real one of Auchenshuggle. Per our policy WP:ATD: "If...

Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:14, 13 November 2024 (UTC) I found British placename mapper. It returned surprisingly few results for deer, but two were streets...

I would like to collect a list of placenames that have been used as a name for a place and then reused as a name for another place. An example of what...

16:06, 25 August 2022 (UTC) Keep Listed on GNIS and USGS Topo maps as a placename important enough to have mention. While not of great notability there...

generals; placenames are more complex. We sensibly use Yangtze and not the pinyin Cháng Jiāng; on the other hand, purely modern placenames do not need...

TWL) The only substantial evidence of this place is the passage from the placenames book, which really isn't enough. Fouche is a ridiculously common name...

TWL) Loudoun County, Virginia seems t be in better shape WRT dubious placenames, but this one isn't proving to be anything more than a locale, if that...

(I'd also like to see the GNIS listing to see their citation for the placename; I suspect it's internal research, but if it's an external source that...

(talk) 22:35, 6 September 2017 (UTC) Keep. Notable both as an element in placenames (ubiquitous in the northern part of the subcontinent) and as the extremely...

unconvinced that OS maps provide the detail required to determine if it's a placename in actual use. Does anyone know this place as Common End? Is that name...

generally easy to find in reference books and local history books. Unlike placenames, county names generally resulted from legislative action, so there is...

Poketama (talk · contribs) Currently working on including accurate Aboriginal placenames on articles, especially within Victoria. Thomas_Norren (talk · contribs)...

that this came from is so large scale that there's barely room for the placenames, so assigning this to any specific feature of any kind is pretty futile...

problem: the maps and aerials show no settlement, the references to it as a placename establish it as no more than a locale, and GNIS's "populated place" designation...

WP:PTM, suggesting that Carlos was also very loppy in creating the Iran placename dabs. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:53, 6 August 2022 (UTC) Note: This discussion...

nomination. - Gator1 12:19, 14 October 2005 (UTC) Policy is to list genuine placenames, so keep. Pilatus 12:31, 14 October 2005 (UTC) Keep see e.g.[1]. It had...

but there is very litle fact to make an article from. Rivet & Smith, Placenames of Roman Britain (1981 edn), pp. 417-8 gives a derivation for the name...

"locality", so that doesn't get us very far; the cited passage in the placenames book doesn't agree with the text of the article. It's not even clear that...

19:31, 14 July 2009 (UTC) Delete. A clever hoax; Knapp is a name and placename more associated with south Gloucestershire/Avon than east Gloucestershire...

juxtapositions of the two words; the best I found simply established it as a placename, but didn't describe it or even locate it. Mangoe (talk) 01:20, 22 February...

London#History. -- Wavelength (talk) 15:28, 25 May 2009 (UTC) Adrian Room, in Placenames of the World: Origins and Meanings, agrees with the etymology given in...

Tulach Lios or Tulaigh Lis, a website (www.logainm.ie) developed by the Placenames Branch of the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs...

category "for lists and general articles") and Category:Lists of Canada placename etymologies, yet exclude a List of Scottish place names in Canada. List...

main interest is Hungarian placenames in Transylvania. They act in a co-ordinated way to delete bolded Hungarian placenames from the lead and the infobox...

settlement. A passing reference in a story and an entry in a book of placenames is just not enough for notability. Mangoe (talk) 02:47, 9 August 2020...

24-Jul-2005, Derry, County Sligo was added to Derry (disambiguation) as a placename in the Republic of Ireland (see this diff) by User:Henrygb. On 21-Jul-2007...

as such also in these contexts.) When giving Slavic variant forms of placenames or personal names from a Greek-Macedonian context, either "Macedonian...

titles with "Darker" in them Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of placenames containing the word "new" Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places...

documenting this that I can find. I even found Rennick's manuscript for placenames beginning with "B", and it isn't in it. Rennick made a dot on a map, and...

can't say if the topic will pass WP:GNG. Why not just move it to Dera (placename element) (as it's clearly not the primary topic), and, if there are any...

JSTOR · TWL) The Tehama County school system has this convenient list of placenames and their origins which, if not strictly up to our standards perhaps,...

pilot and equestrian? ... that two widely-used maps of China's historical placenames independently published in Taiwan and China during the 1980s are both...

This page details the naming conventions for places in the West Bank. References for antiquity follow sources and use Judea and Samaria for the period...

(b) as a concession it is important to mention continued use of the placename. Thus we should mention Middlesex Crown Courts, Middlesex bank of the...

appropriate merge target. Randomly merging content to traditionally-recognised placenames which don't reflect actual administrative divisions will produce very...

these used as GNIS sources, often quite badly (with, for example, the placename book outright saying that something was just a post-office; but cited...

wikipedia logo - a foot? Twinkle Should Wikipedia:Meta.... Naming for placenames and search Vandalism User subpage use Where is my newly composed page...

titles with "Darker" in them Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of placenames containing the word "new" Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places...

ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/language/gaelic/pdfs/placenamesF-J.pdf. 2007-12-16 07:48:42: User en:Kerem Ozcan (talk - contribs) to...

has the same reliability as the British Ordnance Survey, on which the placename could be found? PamD 10:29, 24 April 2015 (UTC) Comment This may be a...

Pack Lambert (talk) 17:36, 26 January 2022 (UTC) Oppose Belgium is a placename for Gallia Belgica, not a 19th century innovation. The main article already...

there such as List of Bergen, New Netherland placename etymologies and List of New Netherland placename etymologies. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:42, 14...

identification Dignity, Glory & Honour Cheshire and Flintshire historic placenames Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 April 26 Lion in symbolism...

discussion taking place, strike it with <s> </s> tags. Discussion about placenames listed here should take place on Wikipedia talk:Canadian wikipedians'...

12:04, 1 January 2007 (UTC) Keep. The "uninteresting" field is called placename etymology. If there are problems breaking down the lists when it gets...

"natural" GHits mentioning it in Persian(e.g. not just endless lists of placenames copied and recopied from geographic databases, like in the English hits)...

titles with "Darker" in them Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of placenames containing the word "new" Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places...

news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) These two placenames were also added to OpenStreetMap by a single account around the time their...

of placenames, with as much geographical data as is available in a comma-delimited format, which makes is human- and machine-readable. The placenames will...

similarly generic, but it seems useful to offer a dab page given that this placename is used for so many identifiable communes. It's now a properly formatted...

between the ham on one side and the place in Idaho on the other. The placenames book cited leans toward the interpretation that it was a rail spot that...

Alison Antiqueight Asarlaí – Irish history, mythology, geography and placenames Autarch Backbeatlistener Bibby B. M. L. Peters Boardwalk.Koi Bogger Brocach...

murdering". Clarityfiend (talk) 05:24, 24 July 2021 (UTC) It's a play on placenames prefixed with Dun.--Shantavira|feed me 08:06, 24 July 2021 (UTC) Dunhomeofficin'...

article at https://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Notes_on_the_origins_of_placenames along with a translator's note that the original article is possibly a...

it is usually called "Trivandrum". Gasselterboerveenschemond Longest placename in The Netherlands. The name plate hardly fits in the village. Hódmezővásárhely...

common tourist destination at any time since then, some variation in placenames, particularly of smaller places, is perhaps to be expected. PWilkinson...

rest. We generally don't have "PLACENAME topic" as a redirect to "List of topic in PLACE", because it makes like "PLACENAME topic" is a specific class of...

Any editor is welcome to recreate the page as a redirect to List of placenames in Vojvodina in different languages, List of cities, towns and villages...

overdue. I'd join, though really I already try to include information about placenames on articles about geography I work on, and that's about all I'll do. --Quintucket...

before it was annexed, passed my criteria on User:SportingFlyer/Arizona placenames cleanup. SportingFlyer T·C 18:54, 13 April 2020 (UTC) Relisted to generate...

titles with "Darker" in them Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of placenames containing the word "new" Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places...

However, it's very region-specific. Could we do better than abbreviate the placename to 'LCRV'? - Richardcavell 01:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC) Keep: Encylopedic...

assuming that it is even there. All we can verify from the map is the placename, and historically we have not considered that good enough justification...

--RazorICE 11:28, 19 April 2007 (UTC) To clarify, there simply are no British placenames referring to amber, as far as I can see or the writer of this article...

keep or listify, probably renamed to Category:English placenames derived from pagan gods -- Placename studies are a significnat academic topic in Britain...

you want to delete this page for NPOV reasons, then a page containing placenames that are vulgar in English would susbstitute the majority of entries,...

listed at List of LDS temples. Putting ", Greece" after the placename, if the placename is a good redirect, is almost always a good idea for any place...

Lake (Teton County, Wyoming) Keep Listed on GNIS and USGS Topo maps as a placename important enough to have mention. While not of great notability there...

onto the topo maps from GNIS; the latter cites a book on Grand Canyon placenames, but I have searched through it using GBooks and cannot find any of the...

granted on appointment a judicial title of either "Lord Surname" or "Lord Placename", but their wives did not receive any equivalent style. When the title...

is a religion not a language, and it is no more sensible to claim that placenames are etymologically "Islamic" than it would be to claim they are Christian...

titles with "Darker" in them Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of placenames containing the word "new" Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places...

has your research found? (Generally about the history, land use, and placenaming in Cameroon and specifically about this place to contribute to the improvement...

find anything outside Wiktionary that endorses it. The seven-volume work Placenames of the Isle of Man is useless in this regard, devoting only one paragraph...

of 1821. Unfortunately, the Greek article is itself unreferenced. The placenames mentioned in the article make at least some sense. I'll try if I can dig...

Brussel "correct"? Should placenames in Catalonia be rendered in Spanish or Catalan? What language should you favour with placenames in Switzerland: Swiss...

Rosoft (talk) 17:15, 13 June 2017 (UTC) The location does not exist at placenames.npolar.no [caution - invalid certificate], either. (This is the place...

railroad with no surrounding settlement. It's particularly obvious when the placename comes from the company president or his cook. Mangoe (talk) 14:26, 20...

Elementary School", or something similar, as "Desert Valley" is apparently a placename in Nevada (without an article?), linked in Nevada State Route 140. There...

like it was before redirecting Rationale There is an article Albania (placename) which subject are three different geographical regions with name Albania:...

(Pittsburgh) 3 Template:Placename toponym Ligovo -> Dudergofka River Ligovo Obelisk Ligovo subway station 3 Template:Placename toponym Razliv -> Lenin's...

JSTOR · TWL) The author has created several articles or redlinks for placenames ostensibly in a small area of northern Delaware. Around the same time...

a 1% difference in the borders/scope. (Per the related entries in the placenames commission database, there is perhaps a half-square mile of less-than-perfect...

problematic "is an unincorporated community" articles, sourced to GNIS and placename books. Nor is it an "X is a rock in the middle of a lake/bunch of trees/empty...

and barbarically removed apostrophes from a large number of New Zealand placenames. A lot of people still use the names with apostrophes, but technically...

enough prominence to Romanian placenames as they are in the permanently opened part of the template while the Hungarian placenames are placed into a separate...

14:31, 22 August 2022 (UTC) Keep Listed on GNIS and USGS Topo maps as a placename important enough to have mention. While not of great notability there...

Place-name Data :: St Fort". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk. "Fife Place-name Data :: Ploughlands Of St Fort". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk. "Fife Place-name...

in a sufficiently generic context—regardless of the article's title. Placenames are often divided between a specific and generic part, for example North...

long penstock. The upshot is, in spite of the single word "town" in the placenames book, I can't find any evidence that there was a town here, ever. Maybe...

(talk) 00:41, 23 May 2012 (UTC) Delete: while it is mentioned in the Irish placenames database, it's a non-notable townland with nothing significant to justify...

create most of what is now 3,299 disambiguation pages for non-unique placenames corresponding to NRHP places, and continue to maintain them. What are...

article title should always be the Romanian placename, if Hungarian population > 20%, the Hungarian placename should be boldfaced in the lead and put into...

JSTOR · TWL) Meaningless (unreferenced sine 2019) list of Romanian-language placenames all over the world regardless relevance and randomness of selection. Say...

2012 (UTC) I don't have a definite answer, but it does seem that many -y placenames in English are stressed on the antepenultimate syllable (e.g., Germany...

post office", but given the problems with various authorities assuming placenames are villages— the issue that is driving all this cleanup in the first...

At first glance, this tree would seem to slot somewhere under Category:Placename etymologies which has such myriad descendant categories as Category:Locations...

of St Asaph - should they be merged? Commote - Please see talk page; placenames and page name. Chwilog - This needs more and better references but it's...

"Hobb" is a long-established name for the devil, Hobbs End or Hobbs Lane placenames with such implications and multiple horror writers have picked up on this...

POV I've also seen, e.g. rewriting history, and refusing to allow the placenames of the enemy, in defiance of WP:COMMONNAME: [43] [44] [45] Konli17 (talk)...

writes 李世石 and 北件省. Some Sawndip characters from Zhuang that appear in placenames in Guangxi have already become part of Standard Chinese, e.g. wikt:岜 and...

Shanemcd (talk · contribs) has contributed to the organization of which placenames are town, villages, hamlets, etc by going above and beyond the call of...

contribs) (music, geography, history, UK popular culture and other topics, placenames, urban planning, bios of interesting people, lots of random other stuff)...

celebrity to get a NYT obituary. I got a bunch of other hits, including a placename in Canada. I'm sensing that anyone who knows about the character knows...

Basin: 3 links Bear (disambiguation): 3 links Beartooth: 3 links Bec (placename element): 3 links Belles: 3 links Bellevue High School: 3 links Bielica:...

Please do not add any private opinions or arguments. "umlaut In German placenames, ae, oe and ue should almost always be rendered ä, ö, ü. Family names...

here you have not done at all. Wikipedia should not include all known placenames. Even the WP:GNG-denying version of WP:GEOLAND we have now doesn't assert...

Placename_guidelines#Current_status for the proposed guidelines currently located at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration/Placename guidelines...

pilot and equestrian? ... that two widely-used maps of China's historical placenames independently published in Taiwan and China during the 1980s are both...

(see here as an example, here for another), which is no surprise as "[placename]-construction" would be a weird way to describe your address anywhere...

reader naturally expects the name of a country, e.g. as a specifier of a placename in a biography article (e.g. "X was born in Tetovo, Macedonia") Discussions...

publication titles: Machine translation software may erroneously translate placenames, titles of films, songs, etc., titles in references, and even people's...

geographic names. Iaaasi also as different IP's : Template with Hungarian placenames at Mures county Amon Koth has no article edits, he is spared for disputes...

Street in English placenames means a Roman road, and Chester-le-Street is on Cade's Road. – The best reference I know of for English placename etymology is...

Aboriginal Language of Sydney, William Dawes notebooks local Aboriginal placenames Dictionary of Biography - ANU Australian Women’s Register Trove digitised...

in the dropdown list a placename and when chosen it will return all the information from the database related to that placename. I am using XAMP for my...

scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Random collection of placenames with no indication of real world significance. Many are not even Lovercraftian...

appears to continue exactly the same reverting campaign over Greek-Turkish placenames that got Mywayyy indef-banned two months ago. Please see User:Future Perfect...

makes large numbers of edits to placename formats on English-related BLP articles, specifically removing "UK" from placenames. For example: [1]. Narrow Feint...

Japanese surnames (many of the links in the article actually lead to placename articles rather than surname articles, which isn't great). cab 05:42,...

importing data from Wikidata and Wikipedia. User:SportingFlyer/Arizona placenames cleanup — includes a list of river crossings Wikipedia:WikiProject California/GNIS...

for previous rejection: Reliable sources commonly append the state to placenames. Appending the state is common usage and sufficiently natural that it...

15#Category:People from Amwell, Hertfordshire following a split for a placename that refers to separate places. Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:01, 28 May 2022...

"locality", so that doesn't get us very far; the cited passage in the placenames book doesn't agree with the text of the article. It's not even clear that...

still very little to go on. Unfortunately after clicking on a few of the placenames on that list I found that most of them (or at least the ones I clicked...

situated on [road 1] near to its junction with [road 2], and serves [placename]. Routes : [route number] [start point] to [destination]". Also, most...

much detail as a help to other editors who may need to verify future placenames concerning Ethiopia. llywrch (talk) 16:42, 14 September 2010 (UTC) Delete...

raising a thousand "hills" of melon plants doesn't live in a town. A placenames book explains the odd name and indicates the station came into existence...

sure, has it just been thrown in by some slapdash cartographer editing placenames a GPS map? Someone's going to get lost, then, and not just me... surely...

definition of this historical placename, nor coverage about a geographical area that matches the historical placename, so we shouldn't keep this mismatching...

November 2025 (UTC) delete This isn't even from a map; GNIS refers to a placenames listing and doesn't give a location, so it's pretty much unverifiable...

introduction: "... it is often difficult to assess the genuine etymology of a placename...". And that makes good sourcing vital. Does anyone have access to the...

by Illinois State Historical Society, page 58 of Sandy Nestor's Indian Placenames in America, Vol. 1, and page 13 of Salem Ely's A Centennial History of...

the historic (c. 1900) and contemporary maps in the List of Historic Placenames it would appear that Caemorgan is a settlement. It should be noted the...

placeholder name used within a US Senate Committee. It was never an official placename. Chris Troutman (talk) 01:40, 10 December 2014 (UTC) Delete per Chris...

promotional Change Username Reference Desk Vandalism Issue Not being Resolved Placename detail Bylines Priscilla Susan Bury - article Article Deleted Without...

17:55, 11 February 2006 (UTC) Keep. Although I had to add the funniest placename in the Netherlands, Sexbierum. —Ruud 00:19, 12 February 2006 (UTC) Delete...

are mostly redirects, and of the non-redirects none of them are about placenames). PROD was contested with the rationale that the article should be "moved...

"locality", so that doesn't get us very far; the cited passage in the placenames book doesn't agree with the text of the article. It's not even clear that...

it into a dab page, in which case we would not need hatnotes for any placenames. The problem is, there are no places that are usually called "Tiwana"...

example, San Miguel is (aside from the Spanish name for a Catholic saint) a placename first and foremost (there are many of them, in fact, even in the Philippines)...

develop a more appropriate structure. Few wikilinks in lead. All the placenames, except Australia, should be linked, also Southern Ocean. "Temperate climate"...

Miminity (talk) (contribs) 12:01, 4 August 2024 (UTC) Keep and move the PTM placenames to a "See also" section. BD2412 T 22:37, 4 August 2024 (UTC) Withdraw...

June 3 "accidents and conveniences" (May 15) Why are placenames are not pronounced the same everywhere? Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2024...

Links for Members of Parliament should run to constituency pages, not placenames. It happens that the DNB contains a huge amount of MP information, scattered...

to logistics; and, within the postcode hierarchy, they group prominent placenames into local areas. For example, Category:Post towns in the EH postcode...

help to know that "Bala" and "Pain" ("Payeen" here) occur sometimes in placenames in this part of the world, and mean "upper" and "lower". c.f. Wani Gam...

British/Irish placenames section. I better stop reading them before I lose it. --108.45.72.196 (talk) 03:18, 15 January 2013 (UTC) My two favorite placenames are...

05:27, 24 August 2022 (UTC) Keep Listed on GNIS and USGS Topo maps as a placename important enough to have mention. While not of great notability there...

and in any case interpreting WP:GEOLAND as essentially saying that all placenames are notable is silly: it's the same as saying, "there aren't any standards...

Miserables Hugo gives a placename as V---. Why do they do this? Would not it be easy to just look on a map or make up a placename? 76.230.224.203 (talk)...

coincidentally have the same name (They are all called "Kings Church - Placename"), that would appear to be too much of a coincidence. They are also all...

WP:LISTN and WP:SALAT, and no evidence that the subject of the list (placenames named after salt) satisfies general notability criteria. No less arbitrary...

National Assembly of Quebec since that is arguably POV as well. French placenames and titles are acceptable if there is no accepted English language equivalent...

15:39, 1 July 2025 (UTC) Comment - is the question why a list of Belgian placenames in one of the national languages of Belgium is notable? Or are you saying...

07:54, 26 August 2008 (UTC) Delete, the GNIS database is never purged of placenames "except in cases of obvious duplication". This reservoir could have been...

information to turn Tongue of Gangsta into a bluelink? (Yes, it's a real placename.) – iridescent 20:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC) Icelandic Phallological Museum...

Similarly, Æ is represented as "ae", and Å is represented as "aa". In some placenames and family names, these special characters can remain spelled out descriptively...

vaguely relevant GHits are gazetteers. clickbait, or routine "list all the placenames" stuff. I can find nothing that says anything about this specific spot...

of confusion over history topics, or (2) instances of confusion over placenames/peoples throughout history. I don't think that either criterion is, of...

18 September 2018 (UTC) My point is that people using the "Placename, County" or "Placename, Country" search terms they are more likely to be looking for...

not be a settled place but is a tag in the GNIS because it's an archaic placename and/or they need a geotag for "notable rocks." I did find some other mentions...

here, most of the other hits are automatically generated from lists of placenames. It's not in geodaisy.com either! If someone can point to a reliable gazeteer...

titles with "Darker" in them Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of placenames containing the word "new" Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places...

in making petty reverts over deleting or inserting Turkish and Greek placenames in geography articles, and that he has openly announced that he will "keep...

Latin suffix for forming country names, found in Latin and late/neo-Latin placenames such as Italia (Italy), Gallia (land of the Gauls), Hibernia (Ireland)...

Serbo-Croation... AnonMoos (talk) 04:01, 12 May 2023 (UTC) Are there placenames (especially names of cities/towns/villages) in the U.S. written with an...

railway stations and census districts. As with those, it helps the main placename articles like Tynan have a more uniform worldwide style. Perhaps a bot...

(as is established practice for other countries alternate placenames and Indigenous placenames). Therefore, if the dispute is around sourcing this information...

o changes to the phoneme /o:/. The German Wiktionary has an entry for placenames ending in -ow, which says -off is an alternative pronunciation, but still...

hackers, I just think that an enterprising troll stumbled across the placename and the group is now using it as an in-joke because it happens to resemble...

2008 (UTC) Merge per above. It's not useful as it is, but many Turkish placenames in Bulgaria are notable. Todor→Bozhinov 20:27, 1 December 2008 (UTC) Remark...

Washburn Rachel Snowden Thomas Kennard William Snowden (settler) 8 Template:Placename toponym Avtovo -> Avtovo (historical area) Avtovo Circus Avtovo DSK Avtovo...

Mills' Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names ". . . most [English] placenames are a thousand years old or more"), in that same way that (in your two...

Temporal=2001&PID=62911&APATH=3&METH=1&PTYPE=55440&THEME=44&FOCUS=0&AID=0&PLACENAME=0&PROVINCE=0&SEARCH=0&GC=99&GK=NA&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&FL=0&RL=0&FREE=0&GID=431...

exists, or which may exist depending on the road name and place. These placenames all had a rich and vibrant history in the Sifton Last Best West immigration...

either as part of this RfC or after its conclusion. The thousands of placename alterations that have been made over the past year should be changed to...

(talk) 10:44, 30 April 2013 (UTC) (ec) Because English is English? Because placenames have their own idiosyncratic rules? I don't believe that "why" questions...

a copy and English translation of the dictionary on his website. The placenames section is here: [4], and this place isn't listed. But that may simply...

would have noticed it, because nobody has several tens of thousands of placename articles on their watchlists. Most of the people who mass-created these...

Llandrinio. --Aspro (talk) 18:27, 26 June 2012 (UTC) Oh. Here where are: Llan (placename element); "an enclosed piece of land", but it later evolved to mean the...

include its role as a gazetteer and so we should retain such details of placenames. The nominator is now reverting the valid details to the erroneous version...

non-connection, between a common if somewhat old-fashioned French male name, and a placename associated with Turkey (and, though I don't want to be contentious, sometimes...

guess that approach would produce a bunch of fluff with proper names, placenames, random coinages etc... 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 19:53, 3 February 2022 (UTC)...

16:51, 11 July 2011 (UTC) Pinyin does not put dashes in the middle of placenames, so the proper English spelling would probably be "Zhengxian". Unless...

yourself. "{Placename} county" is a common usage in the United States, but it is very rarely used in Ireland, where your suggestion "County {placename}" is already...

result of the debate was rename. Conscious 16:13, 20 June 2006 (UTC) Placename etymologies doesn't make it clear that this category is for lists of etymologies...

removed overlinking from the column notes, removed excessive links to placenames, and removed overlinking of the publisher information in the citations...

{{listen | title=Placename | filename=Placename.ogg | description=This is how you pronounce Placename. }} [[Image:Placename.ogg]] File:Placename.ogg...

history research - such complitaions are invaluable when trying to decode placenames and the like - especially if the reader is not familiar with the country...

05:26, 24 August 2022 (UTC) Keep Listed on GNIS and USGS Topo maps as a placename important enough to have mention. While not of great notability there...

case, disambiguate or point to more prominent target). I think "Radio [placename]" ought to be blue-links as long as there are any radio stations in that...

factual, but interesting and notable? the same could be said of every placename in the world. --21:10, 9 September 2005 (UTC) If you read the article...

in one of its senses (beaver seeming more plausible), the etymology of placenames and names of geographical features (German, English, and other) is notoriously...

with sources. Uncle G (talk) 00:17, 27 February 2025 (UTC) The Baker placenames book has nothing, and as expected from the dates the 19th century gazetteers...

period maps from the 19th century. There is a longstanding precedent for placenames to be taken from nearby geographical features, even springs and creeks...

out how many are real. Zoe 04:26, August 21, 2005 (UTC) If we believe placenames.com, nearly all of them are real. "Gap" and "Double" aren't listed, so...

which do not point to articles about the specific club (such as links to placenames) and the unsourced black text yields just nine valid list entries, of...

states of the tidal cycle. This essay is an overview of the names and placenames of the island and its surrounds as an example of the difficulties involved...

Wikipedia's function includes that of a gazetteer. For this reason, all valid placenames should be blue links. If the details are meagre, there will always be...

school at Riverdale High School is disambiguated as Riverdale High School (Placename, Statename). 162 etc. (talk) 20:42, 18 August 2026 (UTC) I already completed...

that for US placename articles only they should have city, state as the naming convention. I see now that this is spreading to placenames in Canada and...

South Africa. I was also thinking about some law forcing European (or placename) surnames on people. Portuguese South African links to Vasco da Gama (council...

JSTOR · TWL) This is yet another in a series of questionable West Saharan placenames. Given the location of Boujdour it's impossible for any settlement to...

were probably of Czech origin. I would suspect some Polish trace (cf. placename Chromów) in more distant past, but this is purely my speculation. The...

during the translation process. It's not always clear to me what are placenames and what are words that I don't know. Please check. Red links should be...

the article. But I am pretty sure there exists lots of sourcing about placenames in Tolkien's works, including some extensive notes stuff by Tolkien-guy...

Janssons, so a lot of new last names were coined, either inspired by local placenames or from military terms or positive attributes (such as shield, sword and...

simply take the parts of a modern placename, reverse translate them, and then get a definite answer what that placename means. The historical origin of...

dabs for G14 candidates, I encountered several pairs of unverifiable placenames that differ only by a numeral. The Persian vocabulary article should list...

Harbour in the Queen Charlottes, which although also a placename of a settlement is also the placename of the body of water it's located on; there are various...

sources can tell us about Aelle, or the Sussex of his time? Evidence from placenames in Sussex (And should it be place name? That’s what you use further on)...

categories should remain to house articles such as Catalan exonyms or -eşti (placename element) or Welsh toponymy. After that is done, we can start to look at...

list of other-language WP articles on Cat. Murka also happens to be a placename in Kenya, being linked to from Railway stations in Kenya. Not linked to...

traffic, economics, "developed countries", removing Turkish names from placename articles), same IP range [57]. Can we indef him? Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:41, 29...

city or town, feel free to copy-and-paste the example text below (adjust placenames accordingly!) - ideally include the town, event date, park name, and the...

There are separate instructions even for Welsh and Maori, as well as for placenames of West African states and so on, no need to think out something. They...

expand in any meaningful way just because the farmhouses were listed with placenames in a census. It just doesn't qualify for WP:GEOLAND. ⹃Maltazarian ᚾparley...

listed, unless they be produced. We've done a thousand or so of these placenames articles so far, and after sitting around for sixteen years, it has had...

24 January 2016 (UTC) If you mean the Voiced dental fricative /ð/, one placename is Lostwithiel. A common surname is Weatherspoon.--Shantavira|feed me...

Looking at what he does, there's major overlinking there as well as placename fiddling – I suspect he's not very familiar with a number of MOS guidelines...

speaking of the nieghborhood of Downtown Richmond, a particular place/name/placename and henceforth a proper noun, proper nouns are capitalizedT ALK•QRC2006•¢ʘñ†®¡ß§...

of Taejon, which took place the year earlier. Searching Google for the placename "Taejon-ni" was rather too productive, finding at least: this place in...

get references to prize pigs and the like, and a variety of lists of placenames. Not a notable place, and the article already says pretty much anything...

January 2022 (UTC) As far as I can tell this isn't a case of Romanian placenames sometimes taking that format, and ro:Harghita Mădăraş is a redlink, so...

those articles are plausibly searched for in the foreign language (eg placenames, cultural terms). If we keep these two, then for consistency we should...

Santa Monica/Venice area, indicate this is still a significant informal placename. I have added content to Santa Monica neighborhoods#Ocean Park Neighborhood...

"to support"), or has the Latin "-ensis" adjective suffix added to a placename (like Arizonensis for "of Arizona"). AnonMoos (talk) 17:55, 8 July 2008...

village or place in the world does not need a template, and multiple placename templates should not be added to biographical articles. Placing them on...

more appropriate title for the page would be List of Falkland Islands placenames given that both English and Spanish language names are provided. -- Black...

(UTC) Keep. This seems like kind of obscure, quirky stuff about a place / placename that Wikipedia is good at handling. And the article seems encyclopedic...

16:44, 4 September 2022 (UTC) Keep Listed on GNIS and USGS Topo maps as a placename important enough to have mention. While not of great notability there...

of the trouble we have had in the past with Balkans editors disputing placenames in Kosovo, Macedonia, Greece and other countries - a problem for which...

relate current demographics, and population size, and urban areas/major placenames. Is there any thing happening in relation to Zoogeography or Biogeography...

excellent point. From my own experience, if we were to go with RP for Cornish placenames, we would be exposing visitors to the area who relied on Wikipedia to...

sourced information while leaving the ref in place, and Polonizing all placenames regardless of Gdanzig vote/naming conventions [125]. Not all of these...

British Places. Go to the OS website and enter "Achnaluachrach" as a placename search and it identifies this location. That's equivalent to the US equivalent...

whether or not Category:Pollinators of placename , but it started because I named it Category:Pollinators in placename) My question: is it not important/appropriate...

county's name, insisting that French usage of the definite article before placenames carries over to English in this case (referring to the county as "the...

current state of the article is the kind of lazy shit that drives the placenames cleanup crew crazy, as someone just dumped the thing in from GNIS, and...

Articles this image appears in Falkland Islands / List of Falkland Islands placenames Creator Eric Gaba (commons:User:Sting) Support as nominator — Jack · talk...

absolute idiocy.notanotheridiot "It is common to use postal districts as placenames in London, particularly in the property market: a property may be described...

articles involving history, biography, as well as articles on specific placenames. Now, where does an article about a basketball team fit in here? Balcer...

repeat offender, doing obstinate mass reverts over a single issue (Turkish placenames in Greek geographical articles) across multiple pages. Ran up to 96 hours...

vowels("a'a"). Looks like "Xawaal whatever" is the standard form for Somali placenames, so whatever (whatever) works. ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 08:51, 13...

anyway should be clear with a drop of good faith (naming conventions for placenames regarding a consensus - treatment of non-existent administrative units)...

titles with "Darker" in them Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of placenames containing the word "new" Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places...

placenames, don't change the placenames unless you're making other substantive edits to the article. There is no consensus to enforce this placename format...

though the "cran-" part is no longer understood. The same way, isn't any placename containing "-land" obviously a compound, or is that ending perceived as...

Cote 1296". An Historical Atlas of Sussex notes in passing (p32) the placename element "cote" without referring to this Cote specifically. The 65-page...

of user Carlossuarez46. He has been mass editing articles about Greek placenames in Northern Greece adding their (disputed) former Slavic names and tagging...

the future. Another problem is that there are numerous duplicate Welsh placenames within the three counties and it is far easier to designate them by the...

placenames, don't change the placenames unless you're making other substantive edits to the article. There is no consensus to enforce this placename format...

Mount Hood, 1975 (ISBN 0-930584-01-5): EncMstr has this. Native American Placenames of the United States, William Bright, 2004, University of Oklahoma Press...

bright notion of stringing placenames together. (While I know nothing of Thai or Thai script, I could do the same for Thai placenames.) -- Hoary 08:18, 11 April...

references in the Anglo Saxon records to surviving local Westcountry Celtic placenames (eg Cructan). What seems at issue here is not that the language existed...

placenames, don't change the placenames unless you're making other substantive edits to the article. There is no consensus to enforce this placename format...

local & regional statistics, political geography, local history and placenames WikiProject Wales User:ron519098* (talk) North Somerset Polar and Quaternary...

over to Transylvania-related geographic articles to delete Hungarian placenames. Since 2007, there was a clear consensus in this matter as per this Odorhei...

mentions of placenames in wider-area articles, or mentions with coordinates, simply aren't enough to deserve a redirect. When a placename is a bluelink...

placename. Just look at news journalists on tv. When they cover global stories live, it becomes increasingly difficult to not use the local placename...

extremely poor; the Google satellite view is reliable but no map overlay (ie. placenames, roads) should be trusted as a basis for an encyclopædia article and they...

lists cases of people from Croweden (the spelling given in the Devon placenames reference for 1330) and if nothing else pushes its foundation back another...

20 Jun 2005 (UTC) We seem to have a lot of nationalist edit wars over placenames. I'm sure not many people will have forgotten the Gdansk/Danzig fiasco...

on everything that could be searched for. Perhaps some future List of placenames in Historia Ecclesiastica could be a redirect target, but we'd have to...

Castelló → (S) Castellon; Wikipedia's approach to dealing with disputed placenames is set out in Wikipedia:Naming conflict. The naming conflict guidelines...

of the name. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 19:51, 8 April 2006 (UTC) Ah, but placenames have legal Irish versions, thank you Mr O'Cuiv... human names do not....

later. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:29, 26 August 2014 (UTC) Yes, the Fylde placename uses the old pronunciation, but the surname is usually "greenhalj", with...

removed from Wikipedia. (Important background information: Note that WP:placename conflicts (--> Multiple local names) stipulates that, other in the few...

non-capitalised version of every article or list title containing a capitalised placename PamD 21:01, 17 February 2020 (UTC) The above discussion is preserved as...

of which are only short stubs with not much more than the details of placename, Irish name, countyname). It's bad enough having to incorporate a table...

Turbeville is an english transliteration of a french placename and from that became both an english placename and a surname (meaning someone from ...). I can't...

things, places), but not the scope within that field. Our practice with placenames is to consider those documented by a single reliable source to enjoy the...

It seems that there might be a stronger argument that German language placenames are more notable in some parts of Poland than others due to the history...

comment added by 80.188.159.167 (talk) 13:28, 2 November 2007 (UTC) As a placename, it's probably from "coombe's head" = "top of the valley"; coombe usually...

in Balkans-related articles, especially relating to Kosovo, where even placenames are regarded as expressions of POV. My SOP in such situations is to revert...

Propose renaming Category:Double-named places to Category:Reduplicative placenames Nominator's Rationale: Rename, since "double-named" is insufficiently...

05:06, 4 November 2023 (UTC) Comment other move option: minor archaic placenames of Tehama County, California jengod (talk) 16:24, 4 November 2023 (UTC)...

23:22, 8 June 2008 (UTC) Keep .. a quick search of Queensland's official placenames here shows that this Island does exist, and the name is both approved...

non-places. There are 17 Wikipedia articles that exist in the format "placename, countyname, New Jersey" and nearly every one is a redirect, including...

already! The problem we have here, as in other cases - like virtually every placename associated with Kosovo, for instance - is that one particular local version...

21:03, 23 May 2026 (UTC) I'm going to lean keep on this one. I found a placenames book which states that the place was called "Academy Crossroads" in the...

"Macedonian Slavic can also be used when rendering Slavic versions of Greek placenames.". This other issue is currently open for arbitration, see Wikipedia:Requests...

Scholarly sources (in English and Spanish) use caps and treat it as a placename, so I've changed every instance of "Guatemalan highlands" to "Guatemalan...

dablinks pointed out, there is a dead link in footnote 1 ("Scottish Gaelic Placenames"). There are prose lapses in the lead, e.g. "The street would eventually...

ghits - being a term for jewelery, tropical fish, statues, and also a placename and surname. It may have had origins in a descriptive term for black people...

not required, the redirect will be useful for anyone searching for that placename. --W.marsh 15:36, 19 December 2007 (UTC) Theres a simple answer to EVERY...

thing I find is that many (US based I presume) editors give only the placename and State, assuming that the rest of the world will know the nation.....

are typically titled Placename, State (the "comma convention"); some in U.S. territories follow Placename, Territory. A placename that needs additional...

neighborhoods (unless they can pass WP:GNG), be very careful not to confuse which placenames are which kind of place. And let's please remember that IP editors are...

Diff of attempt to resolve dispute on article talk page: Talk:Manafest#Placename Comments: Also added this deliberately misleading warning on my talk page:...

Armenians are the "descendants" of Caucasian Albanians, that some Armenian placenames have a "Persian origin", and other things like these, which show that...

g. Lake Karentz, Selkirk Creek etc) because I'm making a map of these placenames. ” — Carol Devine “ I got involved in this project because it's been a...

tonight for a massive revert war on multiple articles, removing the Turkish placenames from geographical articles about Greece (Kalymnos, Kos, Samos Island,...

Allow recreation if sourced. The systematic eradication of non-Greek placenames and renaming to (partly artificial) new Greek names in the areas that...

questions here are; did the government workers who key in data on millions of placenames ever make mistakes? If they do make mistakes, how are we to know? I did...

Brits somehow know what letters or syllables to slurviate in pronouncing placenames they read in fiction, where some of the names might be the author's invention...

resemblance to actual people" disclaimer said that "the characters are placenamed"; apparently some software developers had the same idea. --142.112.143...

I think there's precedent for listing both, the original placename with the current placename in parentheses. Given the way the European map has changed...