Talk:Arlington Cemetery (Pennsylvania)

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"Arlington Cemetery", not "Arlington Cemetery Co"

Latest comment: 9 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

This article fails to conform to Wikipedia's article naming policy.

The subject is called "Arlington Cemetery", not "Arlington Cemetery Co". See, for instance, their official site, or Find A Grave dot com, or this obituary page from the Delaware County Daily Times, or this obituary in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

It seems likely that this name was used because the name Arlington Cemetery redirects to Arlington National Cemetery (and rightfully so). But Wikipedia has a mechanism for handling this kind of name collision, and it doesn't require pretending a thing has a different name. The solution is to add a disambiguating place name.

So this article should be named "Arlington Cemetery (Pennsylvania)". "Arlington Cemetery Co" should be retained as a redirect to the new title. (That will happen automagically when the article gets moved.) The lead paragraph, which now defines "Arlington Cemetery Company" (yet a third name), should instead define "Arlington Cemetery".

I intend to make this change. TypoBoy (talk) 17:44, 5 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Done. TypoBoy (talk) 18:44, 5 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

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