Requested Move Boston Massachusetts  Boston   Boston Massachusetts  Boston  WPNCCN World famous city    List of reasons to move  Boston  like Paris London Montreal and US cities like Chicago New York City is well known no need to specify the state  World famous cities in the US should be treated no differently from world famous cities outside of the US Paris London Montreal etc use the city name for the article title period  All articles in Wikipedia should follow the Wikipedia naming conventions for common names which dictate that Boston alone be the title of this article there is no reason that cities and Boston in particular should be an exception to these rules  Professional encyclopedias both published and online typically do not predisambiguate neither should we  Chance for confusion with anything else named Boston is minimal  The name of Boston alone redirects directly here therefore there are no known significant disambiguation issues and no reason to disambiguate  Lesser known Boston articles are already handled on Boston disambiguation  Waiting to change the city state convention does not make sense since it is a chickenegg situation The only way to start to change the convention is one article at a time like Chicago and this one  Boston Massachusetts is part of a mailing address not the name of the city  The name of the city is Boston that should be the name of the article  The one piece of information that the title is supposed to clearly specify is the most common name used to refer to the subject of the article  The current title is unclear on this point is the most common name Boston or Boston Massachusetts  Titles that use the city state comma naming convention make it impossible for the reader to know  It is our job as editors to make this clear not ambiguous  Following a convention that pollutes the article title for readers by making the common name unclear in order to supposedly make life easier for editors violates the overall principle of Wikipedias naming conventions Names of Wikipedia articles should be optimized for readers over editors and for a general audience over specialists  Survey Add  Support or  Oppose followed by an optional onesentence explanation andor reference numbers from the above reason list then sign your opinion with    Support per all reasons listed above    Discussion