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WP:Dab#Partial title matches directs (in detail beyond this quote)

A disambiguation page is not a search index. Do not add a link that merely contains part of the page title, or a link that includes the page title in a longer proper name, where there is no significant risk of confusion. ...

As the following entries appear to have been added en masse in ignorance of that, re-adding should probably be accompanied by evidence for each of such risk:

AU

* Port Macquarie-Hastings Council, New South Wales

* Hastings River

CA

* Hastings East, West, North, South, :: former federal electoral districts in the province of Ontario

* Hastings Park, a park in Vancouver, British Columbia

* Hastings Street (Vancouver), a major east-west corridor in Vancouver

* Hastings-Sunrise, a neighbourhood in Vancouver

* Vancouver-Hastings, a provincial electoral district in British Columbia

;Natural features

* Hastings Arm, the northwest arm of Observatory Inlet, North Coast, British Columbia

UK

** Hastings Castle

** The Hastings Embroidery, commissioned to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the battle

** Hastings Old Town

** The Hastings 1895 chess tournament

* Burton Hastings, England

* Ashby Hastings Cricket Club in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, England

US

;Natural features

* Hastings Cutoff

* Hastings Mine, an inactive cinnabar mine near Vallejo, California

This one clearly violates DABRL as it stands; IMO it would still violate it with Hastings, Maine turned into a red-link (even with the sparsely scattered mentions of it in the article collected into a reference-able secn), since the only rdlk to it is in that article:

* Hastings, Maine, was a company town of the Hastings Lumber Company

--Jerzy•t 07:18, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]