Talk:Temburong District

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Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:47, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Temburong District → Temburong – Relisted. Vegaswikian (talk) 20:59, 25 September 2011 (UTC) Currently there isn't even an article on the river, with Temburong still redirecting here. A google search for "Temburong" results in a majority of sites referring to the district rather than the river. Chipmunkdavis (talk) 05:10, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

• My first thought is to oppose, out of consistency. Several years ago, we had issues where divisions of countries rarely had consistent naming. For example (this is not how things were with this article, so it's a hypothetical example) you might have had "Temburong District", "Brunei-Muara", "Belait (district)", etc. There was a move to standardize each division within a country, regardless of requirement - if it was decided some needed ' District' in the name (note this as being different from the disambiguator "(district)") then they all should. This decision being made based primary on local usage: No one calls it Ohio State (unless you're talking about a school), but everyone does refer to Osaka Prefecture. Now, I don't know if "X District" is the common usage in Brunei, but if it is, we should probably maintain that as the name. A cursory look at Google indicates it may be, but I sadly don't know how much of that is influenced by its naming on Wikipedia. My main point is: If one is moved, all four should be moved, for consistency's sake. --Golbez (talk) 13:54, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
  • Well, within my experience it is often followed by a note it is in Brunei, but I don't suppose a move to Temburong, Brunei would help at all. Putting aside my OR, I did a search through google, (and ended up mostly ignoring the everything search and focusing on news/scholar) and found a mix of following the district names with "District", "district", or nothing. The major exception I found in my quick search was Belait, which shares its name with its capital, and which I found to be mostly disambiguated with District somehow. Unfortunately, this is one of those areas where systematic bias is especially prominent, so it is hard to get a clear picture and wikipedia may end up defining common english usage, but anyway. I doubt Beliat should point to the district, so if they must all be the same I suppose this move is moot. Chipmunkdavis (talk) 14:58, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.