Talk:Higashine

Requested move 9 July 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved all per nom. No such user (talk) 13:43, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

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• Higashine, Yamagata → Higashine
• Kaminoyama, Yamagata →  Kaminoyama
•  Obanazawa, Yamagata →  Obanazawa
• Sagae, Yamagata → Sagae
• Tsuruoka, Yamagata → Tsuruoka

– No need for prefectural disambiguation. Using searches through Special:PrefixIndex, there appears no other topics under the exact titles of these 5 uniquely-named Yamagata cities.

• Higashine (city) has garnered 140 viewers as opposed to 5 viewers of Higashine Station (as of 07/09/2020, Manila time) - obvious WP:PRIMARYTOPIC
• Kaminoyama (as a redirect) points to the article of the city itself. Three other articles bearing this name (with their readers as of 5:20 p.m. of 07/09, Manila time), are Kaminoyama Domain (233), Kaminoyama Castle (47), and Kaminoyama-Onsen Station (23). Nevertheless, even summing them up to yield 93 viewers, the viewership of the article of the city still exceeds them - 150. Another evidence of PRIMARYTOPIC.
• Obanazawa - no other topics with this name exist according to Special:PrefIndex.
• Sagae - 106 readers vs. 4 readers for Sagae Station
• Tsuruoka - 452 readers vs. the sum of readers for Tsuruoka Domain (108), Tsuruoka National College of Technology (17), Tsuruoka Stadium (1), and Tsuruoka Station (28) = 154 readers

The readership stats are based on the pages' page information details. The use of readership stats is based on the opinion of @Sitta kah: in an old RM discussion at Talk:Zamboanga City. Such usage of stats is, according to Sitta kah, a great way of determining the PRIMARYTOPIC.

I'm unsure about some other cities in Yamagata Prefecture, but I'm certain that Yamagata, Yamagata and Tendo, Yamagata fail <cityname> only format, lest Yamagata, Yamagata's notability would exceed the notability of its mother prefecture and another city of the same name in Japan, though MOS-Japan in practice tends to consider prefectures as "more important" than its cities, with the exception of internationally-notable cities like Osaka and Hiroshima.

This RM is also in accordance to the general consensus at "Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles/Archive 27#RfC: Mandatory disambiguation for Japanese places?," which agrees that uniquely-named Japanese cities do not meed provincial disambiguation. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 09:51, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

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• Support all the base names already redirect to the qualified names and most of the other articles mentioned are actually subtopics (such as the stations) so WP:DABCONCEPT would apply. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:42, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
• Support per nom and above. Accesscrawl (talk) 10:55, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

Any additional comments:

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