Talk:New South Wales, Australia

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Hum, I don't know about having states in the format of [[State, nation]] since this can easily be confused with the [[city, nation]] format. I think it would be best to have New South Wales, Victoria etc. be where the states live and deal with ambiguity issues on a case by case basis. Besides whoever makes a disambiguation page at Victoria (or where ever) would then be responsible for fixing all the links to that page so that they point directly to their intended articles (and almost all the links to Victoria that I saw were intended for the state). I for one would find it odd to see California at California, United States of America and also think it is odd to have New South Wales at New South Wales, Australia. But then there is the issue of English counties.... which I don't even want to think about right now. The Austalian state issue seems easier to resolve. --maveric149

True... there ARE only seven of the things and three of them have the name of the country in them already. :) I did the disambiguation thing for Victoria because the page was split between Queen Victoria, Victoria in Australia and Victoria in a couple of other places too... Victoria, Australia sounded better to my ear than Victoria (State). I guess it could be Victoria (Australian state) but that's a bit of a mouthful. KJ

Since the Australian state is only known by simply "Victoria" and Victoria, Australia looks like the name of a city (as does New South Wales, Australia), how about having the state at Victoria and then perform block disambiguation there (same for the other states -- see Kent for an exampl). We need't have to do so much disambiguation hand-holding that we start to give things unnatural names. States are large and important enough political entities so that minimal disambiguation can be used for them. --maveric149