Japanese city naming Hi I ve revised my post at Wikipedia talk Manual of Style Japan related articles since based on your response I see I was not being clear at all The question I meant to be asking is whether common name alone e g Nagano should ever be used as an article name not city as a suffix I m trying to help get to a consensus by dividing the issue into two steps Step 1 do we always need a disambiguated name for the city articles disambiguated by any technique If we can gain a consensus that the answer is yes then step 2 is OK what should be the disambiguation technique Rick Block talk