Talk:Springvale Airport (Western Australia)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: moved. Regarding AL's concern, I'm turning Warren Airport into a dab page as I don't think it's clear the NSW one is the primary topic. You're free to start a RM about this if you want. Jenks24 (talk) 08:19, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

– As can be seen there are several different formats used to disambiguate Australian airport. There are also some that use the "Name (State)" format. I'm proposing to move the above so that all Australian airports use the same naming standard. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 12:04, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Springvale Airport, Western Australia → Springvale Airport (Western Australia)
 * Albany Airport (Australia) → Albany Airport (Western Australia)
 * Carnarvon Airport (Australia) → Carnarvon Airport (Western Australia)
 * Bendigo Airport (Australia) → Bendigo Airport (Victoria)
 * Mangalore Airport (Australia) → Mangalore Airport (Victoria)
 * Hamilton Airport (Australia) → Hamilton Airport (Victoria)
 * Portland Airport (Australia) → Portland Airport (Victoria)
 * Redcliffe Airport (Australia) → Redcliffe Airport (Queensland)
 * Springvale Airport, Queensland → Springvale Airport (Queensland)
 * Bathurst Airport (Australia) → Bathurst Airport (New South Wales)
 * Camden Airport (Sydney) → Camden Airport (New South Wales)
 * Newcastle Airport (Williamtown) → Newcastle Airport (New South Wales)
 * Warren Airport (Australia) → Warren Airport (New South Wales)
 * It makes much sense to me -- Denis.arnaud (talk) 17:36, 15 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Oppose – It's not clear to me that trying for extra consistency or extra precision here is a net win for readers. Is there any ambiguity remaining with Australia as the disambiguator?  I think changing to Victoria, for example, makes it more ambiguous, to typical readers, who may be more familiar with other Victorias than the Australian state.  Dicklyon (talk) 08:26, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment I think there are two discussions here. Firstly, should airports be disambiguated with brackets? I agree that they should as this is the default disambiguation unless otherwise specified. Secondly, regarding disambiguation using "state" or "Australia", I am not sure it matters a hell of a lot. Most people will approach the article from a disambiguation page or hat note anyway. For those who are attempting to link to the artile, one option redirecting to the other would solve that problem. Towns, rivers, mountains all use "state" uinversally, FWIW. More relevantly, railway stations in Australia use "State" universally as well. That said, it does look like overprecision per WP:PRECISION. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 07:59, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Support - although there are good points and arguments from those above urging caution - and their points are to be considered carefully, I am opposed to any name (Australia) format, and would always prefer name (State) - for victoria - why not state/country?. SatuSuro 14:46, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Conditional Support - The proposed moves are in line with current naming conventions, especially those of the Australian Wikipedia project. The only issue I have is with Warren Airport (Australia); it should be moved to Warren Airport which was a redirect to Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport. Since the name of that airport is not Warren Airport, this seems inappropriate, so I've retargeted it to Warren Airport (Australia). As there is no other "Warren Airport" disambiguation is not required and Warren Airport (Australia) moved to the redirect. --AussieLegend (talk) 15:39, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
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