Talk:Paleontology in Georgia (U.S. state)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: Moved. DavidLeighEllis (talk) 00:23, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Paleontology in Georgia → Paleontology in Georgia (U.S. state) – The word Georgia is ambiguous and can mean, among other things, the U.S. state or the country in the Caucasus. Article titles using Georgia almost always disambiguate. Zarcadia (talk) 16:35, 9 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Support. No doubt there is paleontology in both locations, so we do need to use disambiguation. 172.9.22.150 (talk) 18:10, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Strong support standard naming practice for Georgia topics -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 04:13, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support: Works for me. Abyssal (talk) 04:41, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support for consistency. bd2412  T 12:41, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Paleontology in the State of Georgia would be better. Srnec (talk) 23:23, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 * A country is called a "state" and people without citizenship are called "stateless persons". So the country and the US subdivision are both "states" -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 04:31, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't need an English lesson. The term "State of Georgia"—note the capital S—only refers to the US state in English. Sovereign nations are not generally referred to as "State of X". If we must, put "U.S." in front of state. Srnec (talk) 12:08, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. There are a few subject matters where it's not necessary, but here I would certainly think disambiguation is needed. Red Slash 00:57, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
 * What are we going to do with the current title? If it's just going to redirect here, it shouldn't be moved. If there isn't a legitimate place to link for paleontology in the country of Georgia, there's no sense trying to disambiguate. --BDD (talk) 17:29, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
 * It should be moved regardless of whether we have another article, per the precedent of Georgia articles already renamed. I suppose a stub could be built for Georgia the country if we can't find an appropriate article. There's been many paleontological discoveries in Georgia, such as Dmanisi Man. -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 23:14, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. As for the redirect, the current title can surely be redirected to the new name until the point when and if a similar article is created regarding the country. It's certainly not worth creating a stub or a dab page purely for dab symmetry that says simply "Paleontology in the country of Georgia refers to paleontological exploration in the country of Georgia." Deal with articles on hand rather than anticipate future disambiguation. (The analogous Geology of Georgia with a red link necessitates two steps to find one existing article).--Animalparty-- (talk) 17:45, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.