Talk:Scarborough, Maine

Redirects from Scarborough Beach
Scarborough Beach should not redirect to this page. Scarborough Beach in Western Australia is of much more significance. Phenalot (talk) 07:38, 13 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I converted the redirect to a disambiguation page. There are at least three Scarborough Beaches (UK, Australia, and US).--Ken Gallager (talk) 17:53, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Requested move
Requested move was filled by Ken Gallager as part of standardizing naming of Maine towns. I support, but note that the closing admin will have to examine the redirect history; I see there has been a history merge somewhere along the way and I'm not sure what history is where. GRBerry 16:13, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: pages swapped with histories, so that the article is at the un-parenthetical-qualified name. -- JHunterJ (talk) 16:41, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Scarborough (town), Maine → Scarborough, Maine – To simplify the article name and match standard usage. In New England, it is unnecessary to have "(town)" in the title to disambiguate from CDPs of the same name, because "Town, State" invariably refers to the entire municipality, not the "downtown" area. In all other situations in New England, the town article is named "Name, State", rather than "Name (town), State". Relisted. Favonian (talk) 10:25, 16 June 2012 (UTC). Ken Gallager (talk) 13:06, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Support but note the page history issue mentioned by GRBerry above. -- Trevj (talk) 12:31, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Note. If the consensus is to move, please preform a history swap between the two pages. Jenks24 (talk) 14:47, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisting comment: The article has been moved a couple of times, one of them quite recently, so I would like a slightly more solid consensus before proceeding with the renaming and history swap. Favonian (talk) 10:25, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Support Already redirects here, classic example of unnecesary disambiguator, see WP:PRECISION. PatGallacher (talk) 00:50, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment The premiss given for moving isn't exactly true: Barre (town), Vermont & East Brookfield (town), Massachusetts. There are also a lot of villages in New England that use (Village). -- D kriegls  ( talk to me! ) 23:16, 22 June 2012 (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. No further edits should be made to this section.