Talk:Higashine

Requested move 9 July 2020

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The result of the move request was: Moved all per nom. No such user (talk) 13:43, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

– No need for prefectural disambiguation. Using searches through Special:PrefixIndex, there appears no other topics under the exact titles of these 5 uniquely-named Yamagata cities. The readership stats are based on the pages' page information details. The use of readership stats is based on the opinion of in an old RM discussion at Talk:Zamboanga City. Such usage of stats is, according to Sitta kah, a great way of determining the PRIMARYTOPIC.
 * Higashine, Yamagata → Higashine
 * Kaminoyama, Yamagata → Kaminoyama
 * Obanazawa, Yamagata → Obanazawa
 * Sagae, Yamagata → Sagae
 * Tsuruoka, Yamagata → Tsuruoka
 * Higashine (city) has garnered 140 viewers as opposed to 5 viewers of Higashine Station (as of 07/09/2020, Manila time) - obvious WP:PRIMARYTOPIC
 * Kaminoyama (as a redirect) points to the article of the city itself. Three other articles bearing this name (with their readers as of 5:20 p.m. of 07/09, Manila time), are Kaminoyama Domain (233), Kaminoyama Castle (47), and Kaminoyama-Onsen Station (23). Nevertheless, even summing them up to yield 93 viewers, the viewership of the article of the city still exceeds them - 150. Another evidence of PRIMARYTOPIC.
 * Obanazawa - no other topics with this name exist according to Special:PrefIndex.
 * Sagae - 106 readers vs. 4 readers for Sagae Station
 * Tsuruoka - 452 readers vs. the sum of readers for Tsuruoka Domain (108), Tsuruoka National College of Technology (17), Tsuruoka Stadium (1), and Tsuruoka Station (28) = 154 readers

I'm unsure about some other cities in Yamagata Prefecture, but I'm certain that Yamagata, Yamagata and Tendo, Yamagata fail only format, lest Yamagata, Yamagata's notability would exceed the notability of its mother prefecture and another city of the same name in Japan, though MOS-Japan in practice tends to consider prefectures as "more important" than its cities, with the exception of internationally-notable cities like Osaka and Hiroshima.

This RM is also in accordance to the general consensus at "Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles/Archive 27," which agrees that uniquely-named Japanese cities do not meed provincial disambiguation. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 09:51, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

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 * Support all the base names already redirect to the qualified names and most of the other articles mentioned are actually subtopics (such as the stations) so WP:DABCONCEPT would apply.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 09:42, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per nom and above. Accesscrawl (talk) 10:55, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

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