Talk:Washington

message: Can this be replaced with Washington Stecanelo Cerqueira? While the article doesn't exist yet, it makes more sense to have the title be the person's full name, rather than his nickname and occupation. Ytny 15:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Washington (footballer)

message: I just made the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Washington/Link repair to help detect the state name in the now-ambiguous links caused by the move of "Washington" to Washington (U.S. state) on .  I've added some regular expressions already.  Anyone have any other hints or automated tools or bots to help with this?  I guess Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Washington/Link repair would be the place to talk about it.  (I also asked at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)#Automated hints to disambiguate Georgia/Washington? because Georgia (U.S. state) has been in a similar position for years now.)  I suppose tools could autodetect links to other meanings of Washington, also, for that small percentage of links to "Washington" that are newly or always were ambiguous. --Closeapple (talk) 07:06, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Try adding  to the talk pages of the articles that link to Washington. – allen四names 07:26, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Although we ought to seriously consider moving Georgia (U.S. state) to Georgia (state) per the same overwhelming naming convention, on the basis that the nation of Georgia (country) is not described as a state under WP MOS, only as a technical classification (in the same sense that UK is not listed under "Britain (kingdom)" (!) and there are technically two entities which may be described as Mexico (state) <-- (!) but only one of them can reasonably be categorized as such. I'm not familiar with how & where to best broach the subject, though. Yclept:Berr (talk) 19:35, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The best place to discuss the names of other articles is on those articles' talk pages. While you make a good case for moving Georgia (U.S. state) to Georgia (state), I don think you'll gain a consensus to move it, though I would support the move. - BilCat (talk) 19:53, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Automated hints to disambiguate Washington links

message: I've changed the order of the intro section to put DC on top, followed by the state, and then by George.  Yes, I know that George came first, but then his family was named for the town in England.  The fact is that Wikipedia is an international resource, and outside the USA 9 or more times out of 10 when someone searches for "Washington" they're looking for the US capital - not for an 18th century general/politician or even a state in the Northwest of the States.  And even within the States, DC is the most common thing people associate with "Washington," followed by the state, and then by George.  So it just doesn't make sense to put DC third on the list when that's what the overwhelming majority of folks who arrive here are looking for. -Helvetica (talk) 18:07, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It is all based on the guy's name. Enough to put that at the top. Considering that it negates the weird question of the state vs the district makes it even more of a reason. Cptnono (talk) 07:52, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order 

message: Generally, redirects should only be used to link to a section (rather than the top of an article) or optionally to link to a alternate name that is in the target articles lede. While the name Washington is mentioned in the lede, it's near the end of the second paragraph and mentioned only in passing (rather than in boldface in the first sentence) - based on this, it's better to link to Boeing B-29 Superfortress without a redirect for this entry. Dondegroovily (talk) 19:47, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  When to use redirects