Talk:Boston (disambiguation)

message: Just a note, I've created an RFD to discuss where Boston should point. No sense in just discussing this on the disambiguation page. --Bobblehead 18:43, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect FYI

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Support - Just because something gets more hits on Google, doesn't mean it is more popular. "Nirvana" gets more hits for the band but it doesn't redirect to the band. Same case with iron maiden vs. the band and Franz Ferdinand vs. the band. Plus, most people in the U.K. are better aware of Boston, Lincolnshire than Boston, Massachusetts. "Boston" should at least be disambiguated.
*Oppose per the previous discussion. Boston is currently disambiguated, just not at the base name. -- JHunterJ 12:34, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: Here are some more that supposedly exist, but don't seem to have entries yet:
*Boston, Bolivia
*Boston, Clare, Ireland / Boston, Clare / Boston, Ireland
*Boston, Colombia
*Boston, Sucre, Colombia / Boston, Sucre
*Boston, Guanacaste, Costa Rica / Boston, Guanacaste / Boston, Costa Rica
*Boston, Limon, Costa Rica / Boston, Limon / Boston, Costa Rica
*Boston, Cuba
*Boston, Galway, Ireland / Boston, Galway / Boston, Ireland
*Boston, Jamaica
*Boston, Peru
*Boston, Philippines
*Boston, Orange Free State, South Africa / Boston, Orange Free State / Boston, South Africa
*Boston, Suriname
*Boston, Sweden
*Boston, Alabama, United States
*Boston, Arkansas, United States
*Boston, Virginia, United States
*Boston, Uzbekistan
And the spanish apparently know of more. --Belg4mit 04:20, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More 

message: Which "Boston" came first does not need to be paraded about on the page. It isn't relevant to the disambiguation process, and it isn't even mentioned in the Boston, Lincolnshire article. Please stop adding it in. —ScouterSig 20:40, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "First" Boston 

message: 'Boston, Boston, Boston,
Thou has naught to boast on - 
A grand sluice, a mighty steeple,
A proud, conceited, ignorant people:
and a coast which souls are lost on!'
'Proud' seems to be the key word here, and I'm proud to see that some of my fellow British Bostonians have been sticking up for the old place. However, despite Boston's historical importance, there's no doubt that Boston, Mass., is the more famous of the two. I've expanded the first sentence, which is now a touch on the long side for a disambiguation page, but which - I hope - now acknowledges both the origin of the name (in Lincolnshire) and its most well-known use (in Massachusetts). I know I'm late to this argument, but what do people think? It seems like a simple, good-faith way of handling the whole thing.Bedesboy 20:33, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I appreciate your gesture, but (there's always a "but," isn't there?) I believe that such a long opening is unnecessary. The fact that the US Boston is named after the UK Boston is found in both History of Boston, Massachusetts and [Boston, Massachusetts]], and even the Boston, Lincolnshire page. —ScouterSig 22:45, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough: *I* know that South Lincolnshire is the heartland of civilisation and gives birth to the world's most attractive and intelligent sons and daughters, but I'm not going to go against the consensus ;) Bedesboy 20:03, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Bedesboy! I come from Louth, which is near Grimsby, which is, in turn, near Boston, and Boston does have some rather large significance compared to the Massacheaut one (hope a spelt it right). It has to be noted that, without the Lincolnshire Boston, the American Boston wouldn't be named as it is, and it probably won't have as much significance in America as it has. Brock (talk) 20:30, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  A solution? 

message: I don't have the time or inclination to list them all here, or add them, as for now they'd mostly be redlinks; but search here for "Boston" and a bunch of other placenames will come up, including a ridge, some bays, and there are actually three Bostons in Ontario, plus Boston Mills, Ontario.Skookum1 (talk) 17:16, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Other Boston names in Canada