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How famous exactly is Newmarket, Suffolk? Should it not be renamed Newmarket, Suffolk with Newmarket as a disamibuation? Other places named Newmarket are important in their own ways. For example, Newmarket, Ontario has a population of approx. 80 000. Bryan5000 02:19, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

This is the Newmarket, after which all other Newmarkets are named. You may as well suggest that London be renamed London, England. -- Zsero (talk) 01:27, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Your first point is invalid. The Newmarket in Ontario linked to above was named independently of this one. In fact, the terms "new" and "market" are so common, and the concept of a "new market" sufficiently probable that many "Newmarket"s could have been named without this one existing. (See also the history of Newmarket, New Zealand, for example; however, your statement may be true in some cases, such as Newmarket, New Hampshire.) As to your second point, nobody is suggesting that a globally influential city like London be treated in the same way. Mindmatrix 22:18, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Which place had the name first is not a valid consideration on Wikipedia. Nobody's proposing that another Newmarket be given precedence over this one, but this one isn't sufficiently more important than any other one to earn precedence over a disambiguation page. Bearcat (talk) 21:05, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rename article

There is a request to rename this article. Please discuss this and related moves at Talk:Newmarket (disambiguation). Mindmatrix 20:59, 30 May 2008 (UTC)