Talk:St Mary's Island (Tyne and Wear)

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For the history of St. Mary's Island, Tyne and Wear, England, and its lighthouse, go to www.friendsofstmarysisland.co.uk This site also contains photographs and a description of the buildings and island today.

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Please note that the coordinates in this article need fixing as:

The coordinates of 55.071667,-1.449722 look good and the link to GoogleMaps is precise, but the Multimap link shows Rampton in Nottinghamshire! The National Grid Reference NZ3513475390 is also fine. However, I haven't spotted where the problem with the Multimap link is!

(Later...) One year after the remark above, the Multimap link shows the same location as other mapping tools. BrainMarble (talk) 01:39, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Requested move 8 June 2017

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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) —Guanaco 07:12, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

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St Mary's Island (Tyne and Wear) → St Mary's Island, Tyne and Wear – Please place your rationale for the proposed move here. Siuenti (씨유엔티) 17:22, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Rename to St Mary's Island, Tyne and Wear per WP:NaturalDisambiguation, consistency with other St Mary's Island articles, and WP:DUH. Should have been uncontroversial but hey, WP:Bureaucracy and WP:Let's place the burden on the other guy. Siuenti (씨유엔티) 17:22, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

• Support as WP:UKPLACE prefers comma-separated over parenthetical disambiguation. Ibadibam (talk) 17:23, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
• Comment can we bundle Spike Island (Cheshire) into this? I guess there's a whole bunch more out there. Siuenti (씨유엔티) 18:17, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
  • There are a ton! If you don't mind, I'm actually hoping we can leave Spike Island as a practice case for Dinglebat500, who is relatively new to Wikipedia and is interested in page moves. Ibadibam (talk) 00:39, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose. UKPLACE is referring to the naming conventions for human-settled communities, not the naming conventions for natural geographic features — the standard geographic naming convention on Wikipedia is comma Tyne and Wear (or the appropriate division in other places) for political geography (i.e. hamlets, villages, towns, cities, etc.), but parenthesis Tyne and Wear for physical geography (i.e. mountains, rivers, lakes, islands.) Bearcat (talk) 17:57, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
  • @Bearcat: I have been looking for the NC guideline on geo features, even before you made this comment, and can't find it. Can you help with a link? Ibadibam (talk) 18:40, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
  • Parentheses for physical geography was also my understanding, and why I reverted the recent move. I was unable to find a clear guideline for either commas or parentheses, and I did look before reverting the move. - BilCat (talk) 21:18, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
    • I believe I've found it: WP:NCPLACEDAB, penultimate bullet: "With natural features, the tag normally appears in parentheses, as in Eagle River (Colorado). Specific pre-existing national conventions may take precedence though." A cursory glance through the subcategories of Category:Islands of the United Kingdom suggests that the convention is irregularly followed, with English islands using parentheses, Welsh islands being a mix, and Scottish islands using commas (especially in the form Island, Archipelago). Ibadibam (talk) 22:03, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose per Bearcat and the WP:NCPLACEDAB guideline mentioned above. Scans better with parentheses than with a comma.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:15, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

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Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Spike Island (Cheshire) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 18:30, 10 June 2019 (UTC)