User talk:JMF/Archives/2012/March

'X (borough)' v 'Borough of X'

I tried to change Milton Keynes (borough) to Borough of Milton Keynes a couple of years back and goe a chorus of disapproval. The main argument seemed to be that there are lots of tables that say Borough = Swindon (for eg) and the output Borough: Swindon looks nicer than Borough: Borough of Swindon. Did you go through some rfc or were you just being bold and doing it anyway? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:48, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

I followed our article naming policy - Wikipedia:Article titles. Two sections in particular are pertinent - WP:COMMONNAME (that is, the most common name used - which can be indicated by what sources say on GoogleBooks and Google) and WP:PRECISION (which says to use a natural disambiguation over brackets, so use Milton Keynes Borough rather than Milton Keynes (borough)). Before making the changes, I had a quick look to see if there was a consistent use of Foo (borough) on Wikipedia, and there isn't - there are many examples of Borough of Foo and Foo Borough, so I went ahead and made the changes. I hope that helps. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 01:59, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Looking again this morning I see rather more examples of Foo (borough) than I did last night, so as this would be a widespread change I have raised the issue on WikiProject_UK_geography. See: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_UK_geography#Boroughs. Regards SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 09:47, 27 March 2012 (UTC)