Talk:Cross-border town naming

message: In countries like Canada and the United States, where their 2nd-tier govn'ts are well-known and cover large areas, there are quite a few worth worth naming such as Chicago, Ottawa-Ganiteau, Lloydminster etc. 
NagamasaAzai 02:10, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cross-Provincial/Territorial/State Border 

message: The emphasis in the opening paragraph is the wrong way around. It implies two places were given the same name.
In the European context this is usually not the case. The town or village often existed before the border, or even before the modern concept of a border. The border was added later (not always due to war), and divided a community. Often, until at least the first half of the 20th century, and again in the post-Schengen 21st century, such divisions could be mostly ignored by the inhabitants.
I suggest: ".... concept where towns or villages with the same name have become split into two halves, in two different countries." TiffaF 08:07, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening paragraph 

message: This article and Divided cities appear to be covering the same territory (pun intended). I propose they be merged. TiffaF 07:45, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: While divided cities are a subsection of cross-border naming, not all cross-border towns with connected names are necessarily divided. I.e. East and West Berlin would have been an example for both a divided city and cross-border naming, but e.g. Neuf-Brisach and Breisach are related but not divided. Travelbird 14:37, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[Divided cities]] 

message: Somebody changed this to "A community on one side of a (future) border grows up, ...", But that isn't what I meant. What I meant is the border is put there first, then a comunity grows up because there is a border and uses the same name as the (larger) community on the other side. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TiffaF (talk • contribs) 13:04, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A community on one side of a border grows up to service the border, and takes the name of the adjacent community on the other side of the border. 

message: Am I correct in thinking that most of the Canada/USA, North Korea/China and Macao/Mainland China town combos do not fit the criteria for this wiki?.User:Brenont 18:09, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed a few like "Sarnia/Port Huron" which clearly do not fit the criterion of a name of common origin, but there are likely more which don't belong on this list. K7L (talk) 13:05, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names entirely different for border towns 

message: Are Macau and Hong Kong considered countries?  I thought they were special administrative regions of China.  If these count, then how about US state lines?  Shall we add Wendover, Utah and West Wendover, Nevada?  There must be a hundred of these.  There used to be two Las Vegas, New Mexicos, but they merged.   Randall Bart    Talk   18:27, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Macau and Hong Kong 

message: Who decided to include full (official) country names as well as "general" country names (such as "Mexico, United States of Mexico" and "France, The French Republic)? This seems a bit silly (and superfluous) as general country names (as France, Mexico) should do the trick? Niels? en | nl 23:46, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Silly country names 

message: Does this actually meet the criteria?  There is little if any relationship between the two town other than Dunkirk was probably named after Dunkerque as one of it's early founders was a landowner there.  Surely if we are going to add cities with connections like this (connected by name and people) then half of the cities in the US would qualify along with their European equivalents.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.8.104.65 (talk) 09:21, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I took the freedom to remove the section, as nobody gave a good reason for retaining it. Dinsdagskind (talk) 14:35, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  # Dunkerque / Dunkirk 

message: Why isn't Rafah in the article?
Rafah, Egypt and Rafah, Gaza Strip Aminabzz (talk) 18:49, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rafah