Talk:List of fauna of Washington

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:List of mountain passes in Washington (state) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 22:34, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 4 July 2023

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: moved. (non-admin closure) :3 F4U (they/it) 03:04, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

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• List of fauna of Washington (state) → List of fauna of Washington
• List of flora of Washington (state) → List of flora of Washington
• List of amphibians of Washington (state) → List of amphibians of Washington
• List of reptiles of Washington (state) → List of reptiles of Washington
• List of freshwater fishes of Washington (state) → List of freshwater fishes of Washington
• List of the prehistoric life of Washington (state) → List of the prehistoric life of Washington
• List of the Cenozoic life of Washington (state) → List of the Cenozoic life of Washington

– As part of a follow-up to the WP:TRAINWRECK at Talk:List_of_mountain_passes_in_Washington_(state)#Requested move 16 June 2023, while all of these topics also apply to D.C., there is currently no content on enwiki to disambiguate with (much less a list), suggesting that even if D.C. content were to exist, the state would be the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, therefore the articles about the state should exist at the base name per WP:QUALIFIER policy. In all cases above, either the base name currently redirects to the state, which means the base name is WP:MISPLACED, or doesn't exist; either way, the above articles should be moved to the base name as the only/primary topic. Mdewman6 (talk) 02:26, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Oppose. Washington (state) is not the primary of Washington. Having these lists use the primary name will just lead to confusion, both with editors and readers. Gonnym (talk) 07:16, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

This type of disambiguation is sometimes used when the base title is disambiguated; cf. Fauna of Georgia (country) and the redlinks Fauna of Georgia/List of fauna of Georgia. Dekimasuよ! 03:05, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Well Fauna of Georgia (U.S. state) exists (as a redirect), so the base name should not be red. I have created a disambiguation page. No doubt many similar issues with Georgia articles that should be addressed, though disambiguation/primary topic issues between a state and a country present many differences from those between a state and a city. Mdewman6 (talk) 18:39, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

• Support. Any article title about Washington D.C. will be naturally disambiguated anyway. Rreagan007 (talk) 00:58, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Support for all the same reasons I stated at Talk:List of federal lands in Washington (state) #‎Requested move 4 July 2023. CLYDE ^{TALK TO ME}/_{STUFF DONE} (I will not see your reply if you don't mention me) 03:46, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

• Support: Disambiguators, such as "(state)", are not supposed to disambiguate between every possible meaning, but to disambiguate between existing Wikipedia articles. Without that rule, the amount of disambiguation required would be huge. Keep it limited to what's in Wikipedia. SchreiberBike | ⌨  13:00, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
• Support all per others here and per prior discussion, WP:CONCISE, etc Red Slash 20:58, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.