Talk:Pelican Lake (Kenora District, Ontario)

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Requested move 18 September 2024

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: move the first article to Pelican Lake (Kenora District, Ontario) at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 04:39, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

– I have started this move request because there is some inconsistency with the disambiguators used for geological and hydrological features within Canada, and I have chosen this example as a potential precedence to perform and/or propose moves of other related articles.

I looked through a few of the guidelines (especially Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Canada-related articles) and I'm not finding anything concrete about which way this should be done. Per the move log, specifically this edit, Pelican Lake (Kenora District) is the current name of that article because Kenora District is the name of the article for the district rather than Kenora District, Ontario. If that is the way it should be done, then Pelican Lake (Cochrane District, Ontario) should be moved to Pelican Lake (Cochrane District) since the respective article's current title is Cochrane District instead of Cochrane District, Ontario.

However, relating to similar United States subjects for geology (which seem go by "county, state" similar to Canada's "[county, municipality, or parish], [providence or territory]"), the "county, state" disambiguation is what is seemingly used more often than then just "county" in the event a county has a unambiguous name.

With all this being said, I support moving Pelican Lake (Kenora District) to Pelican Lake (Kenora District, Ontario) and oppose moving Pelican Lake (Cochrane District, Ontario) from its current title. However, I am listing both for consistency since I believe their disambiguators need to be consistent; if the consensus sways against my perspective, then the disambiguators should at least be consistent. Steel1943 (talk) 21:26, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support proposal to include second level government, i.e.: Pelican Lake (Kenora District) → Pelican Lake (Kenora District, Ontario), and implicit for wider adoption for the same standard across geographic features, as described by the nom. Bobby Cohn (talk) 20:32, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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.