Talk:Whyalla, South Australia

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I cannot think of any good reason why this page should be at Whyalla, Australia. Indeed, I cannot think of a bad reason either. Is there a reason? If so, please speak up and I'll stop reverting the move. Otherwise, this should stay here at Whyalla. Tannin

I moved it - twice! ;) Now I know why the first change didn't seem to "stick"; I thought maybe I was going mad! I moved it because a) when I first saw the article I had no idea where the place was at all, and I'm IN Australia... and b) my article about Armidale got moved to Armidale, Australia, even though as fas as I know there isn't another one. So in that regard it was about consistency. As for a) the article hads been edited now to make it clearer that the place is in Australia, but in that case maybe Armidale should be moved back? GRAHAMUK 09:58 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Ahh, thankyou Graham. The general rule is use just the name except

in the USA (because the Americans like to do it that way and we honour their convention). US cities are in the form Sacramento, California.
where there are two or more places with the same name and none of them is clearly the best-known - i.e., use Paris, not Paris (France). I think other, less-well-known cities of the same name usually have their disambiguation term in parenthesis: Armidale (Australia). For the Paris in the USA, though, the USA rule applies and we use Paris, Texas instead.

The general rule seems to be to use the country name rather than the state, county, or territory name as the dsambiguation term, though I'd want to see someone confirm this - I am a little uncertain.

Armidale is an exception, however, and I'm glad you noticed it, as there are at lest two Armidales in Australia: one in NSW, and one in Melbourne. Both are quite well-known but I imagine that the NSW one is the better-known of the two (except here in Victoria, of course). I'm going to move Armidale, Australia to Armidale (New South Wales) so as to leave room for Armidale (Victoria) and (possibly) any other Armidales around the world as well. If someone wants to put the NSW one at Armidale instead, I have no objection, so long as it has a disambiguation block.

Tannin

Damn, that bloody harvey norman really ruined the view of Hummock Hill