Talk:Greenwich (disambiguation)

Cleanup needed

In addition to the fact that this page isn't aligned with the MOS for DAB pages, I wonder why Greenwich, England gets top billing. Shouldn't locations in the UK be a sub-head of locations in general? I think it would work best as

Geographic Locations

 UK

 US
  by US State (if Needed)

Other Uses

Thoughts? TravellingCari 00:37, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Requested move 21 February 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 13:42, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

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• Greenwich (disambiguation) → Greenwich
• Greenwich → Greenwich, London

– No clear primary topic given the large number of other uses, although some like Greenwich, Connecticut derive from the one in London (or indirectly such as the Ohio one being named after the CT one) not all appear to such as Greenwich, Nova Scotia and Greenwich, Ipswich. The area in London has a population of 30,578 and its borough has 287,942 while the CT town has 62,396 though its more of a distinct settlement than the London one. Views[[1]] show that the area of London has 14,103, its borough 3,139 and university 5,437 but the CT town has 13,573 and its high school 4,138 however its common usage for US cities to include the state as noted at WP:USPLACE so this may make the London one far more likely than it but probably not especially given the number of other uses. Crouch, Swale (talk) 20:57, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

• Support per nomination. There are 53 entries listed at the Greenwich (disambiguation) page — far too many for one entry to rise above the combined notability of all the other entries. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 03:33, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
• Support. There is no primary here. Rreagan007 (talk) 22:44, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
• Support per nom. No clear primary topic. Move disambiguation page to basename. Paintspot Infez (talk) 17:01, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose. Seems obvious that the source of Greenwich Mean Time, the world's universal time, is the primary topic. Clearly has the greatest long-term significance. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:39, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose. Looking at google search results in a private window, 100% of the first four pages of search results for Greenwich -Wikipedia are for the district or closely derived uses (the borough and university). Repeating the same search on Tor using Duck Duck Go from an IP that geolocated to Newhaven, Connecticut produced a roughly even mix of hits for the place in Connecticut and the London district. A different tor exit node, this one geolocating to Telegana, India gave about 80% of results for the London district as did one geolocating to Frankfurt, Germany. Thryduulf (talk) 22:32, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose per Thryduulf's excellent demonstration of the primary topic. Vaticidalprophet (talk) 22:03, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose per Thryduulf and Nectrothesp, especially for the long term significance side. I find it hard to believe that most middle schools (or thereabout) aren't still teaching about the town, as the root of both the prime meridian (the basis of the most commonly used coordinate system, lat/lon) and GMT/UTC. It is basically the root of how the world travels and tells time. -2pou (talk) 05:08, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

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Missing Greenwich's

Grenivik in Iceland is missing from the list. Same entomology, named by the Vikings of the AD800's. A Green/Grassy landing place suitable for the Viking ships of the day.

There may well be other Green/Gren/Gron/Grin - Which/Wych/Wick/Vik/Vic/Vyk locations in the former Viking range.

Anywhere that at one time spoke Old Norse such as wider Scandinavia, the Baltic and North Sea coasts. Remembering the Vikings were well established from Vinland to Middle East including the river routes to Byzantium. Severndroog (talk) 11:24, 11 August 2024 (UTC)