Talk:Sault Ste. Marie

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written without the hyphen

Given that no form given in the article contains a hyphen in the first place, what is the point of the above? Loganberry (Talk) 07:05, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

It certainly needs to be explained better than it is, but in French, geographic names based on saints' names would normally be hyphenated — see, for example, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Saint-Constant, Saint-Leonard. Bearcat 17:41, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

In French-Canada, the Sault would be referred to as Sault-Ste.-Marie or Sault-Sainte-Marie, but this has no official status and is not used by the City. FUNgus guy 18:06, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

The whole point of the statement in question is to demonstrate this very point. Bearcat 23:09, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguation reminder

Just a quick reminder to all editors: normally Wikipedia articles should link directly to the intended topic (i.e. Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario or Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan) rather than to the disambiguation page. In this particular case, for some articles — especially ones relating to pre-1800s history and/or the Great Lakes shipping channel — it can be quite ambiguous which SSM is the real destination topic, or even sometimes irrelevant to distinguish one from the other. In those cases it's fine to link directly here. But if your intention is to refer specifically to one city or the other, you must link directly to the actual destination article and not here. Bearcat 02:00, 4 August 2006 (UTC)