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 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 is ok what should be the disambiguation technique rick block talk