User:ScottDavis/plain town names

This list was created by aggregating the state postcode lists and removing the piped link, leaving an unqualified placename. It is the first step in discovering badly-named Australian town articles without a category.

According to the Wikipedia naming policy, every Australian town article should be named with a comma and the state after the town name.

Every blue link on this page should be to either a redirect to a fully-named article, a redirect page with a link to the Australian place, or an article about someone or something else with a link to the disambiguation page.

Over time, I intend to check the blue links, and when they meet the above criteria, remove the blue links to make it easier to check any new pages.

Special thanks to Ambi who's working hard on the ACT and other sections.

WP:NCAUST[edit]

WP:NCAUST is the guiding naming convention for Australian places. It keeps getting discussed. Some of the conversations are:

Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)/Archives/2010/August#Australian place name convention at which time the guideline text was described as Australian town/city/suburb articles are at Town, State no matter what their status of ambiguity is. Capital Cities will be excepted from this rule and preferentially made City. The unqualified Town should be either a redirect or disambig page. Local government areas are at their official name
Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 36#RM -- moving forward (August 2010)

Some of the changes are:

insert ", or the unique use of, " 25 July 2013
a cluster of edits by Sroc and Born2Cycle on 21-23 July 2013 permitted short forms and removed "irrespective of uniqueness or ambiguity" . These edits appear to have derived their authority from Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)/Archives/2013/September
28 Feb 2011 Mattinbgn WP:BOLD reword to make short names "acceptable"[1]
16 Nov 2010 Mattinbgn declared ‎Australia: It is no longer tenable to consider that the current wording of this section has consensus
2 Nov 2010 Hesperian declared that the convention was disputed. At the time it was: By convention, most Australian town/city/suburb articles are at [[Town, State]] no matter what their status of ambiguity is. Capital cities are excepted from this convention and preferentially made [[City]]. Mungindi, as a town crossing a state border, is also not disambiguated. The unqualified [[Town]] should be either a redirect or disambiguation page. Local government areas are at their official name. There had been a remark removed by OSX (Please note that there is no current consensus that this must be the case: see talk page discussion.)
3 Aug 2010 Mattinbgn softened the guideline from "All" to "by convention, most..."
9 Feb 2009 the wording was transferred into Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) from WP:Naming conventions (settlements) by Kotniski. At that time the text was All Australian town/city/suburb articles are at Town, State no matter what their status of ambiguity is. Capital Cities will be excepted from this rule and preferentially made City. The unqualified Town should be either a redirect or disambig page. Local government areas are at their official name.
- That language had existed since 25 April 2005