Talk:Saint George, Maine

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[edit] article name

The website for the town clearly uses "St. George" rather than "Saint George". Why is the article being renamed? John Vandenberg 03:06, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

For consistency of alphabetical sorting, the State of Maine website lists the town as Saint George, although it does then refer to the town within as St. George. This is the same for the communities of Saint/St. Agatha; Saint/St. Albans; Saint/St. Francis; Saint/St. John Plt. In general alphabetizing (dictionaries, encyclopedias, card catalogues, telephone directories, etc.), even if the word/name is spelled St. the name would be filed as if spelled out Saint since St. is an abbreviation for Saint. At Wiki, alphabetical categories and lists, where they exist are created automatically from the title of the article. The name of the town within the article remains St. George. JackME 14:35, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

The sorting in categories can be handled using {{DEFAULTSORT}}. We definitely dont encourage article moves without a good reason, as the flow on into in many subsequent article modifications. As far as I can see all other American towns on Saint George (disambiguation) use St. George (state) naming. We probably need to go consult WP:NAME to find the desired name. Cheers, John Vandenberg 06:04, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

John, please feel free to correct this as you see fit. I understand your point that the more efficient edit would have been to add the sort tag to the existing named page since sorting was what I was concerned with. I have read up on Wiki naming conventions and although I did find a reference that explicitly states that Saint as part of a name should not be abbreviated, there is a LOT of discussion and input on naming and it makes it all a bit confusing to decipher and apply to specifics. I defer to you. JackME 06:55, 1 March 2007 (UTC)