Talk:New Brunswick Main Post Office

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: move to New Brunswick Main Post Office Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:49, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

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Main Post Office → Main Post Office (New Brunswick) – There are many post offices titled "Main Post Office" for their particular town (Istanbul Main Post Office, Tonopah Main Post Office, Manchester Main Post Office, Old Chicago Main Post Office, Reno Main Post Office, Long Beach Main Post Office, Winnemucca Main Post Office, Elko Main Post Office, etc.). I see nothing special about this one that it should be the Main Post Office while all others are qualified, even if those are their official names. I propose to disambiguate this title, and make Main Post Office into a disambiguation page. bd2412 T 16:57, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

• Agree that Main Post Office is not a good title for a particular building in New Jersey. I'd be against Main Post Office (New Brunswick), since the primary topic for New Brunswick is the Canadian province. But for some reason New Brunswick Main Post Office sounds more logical, and it also fits the pattern of your examples above. Instead of making Main Post Office into a DAB I suggest it be deleted. EdJohnston (talk) 19:06, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
  • I think New Brunswick Main Post Office is just as good. I would not favor leaving a red link at the current title, though, because readers may look for it. bd2412 T 19:15, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

What would you put in the DAB? Every building, anywhere in the world, that has 'Main Post Office' as part of its title? Or would you have Main Post Office redirect to Post Office? EdJohnston (talk) 19:29, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

We don't have, and never will have, an article on every such building, since most of them are not notable. The List of United States Post Offices only has eleven of them, and outside of that, we have one in Istanbul and one in Krakow. That's not an unreasonable collection at all. bd2412 T 21:25, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

• Agree that the page should be moved, but maybe EdJohnston's proposal is better. HandsomeFella (talk) 20:40, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
• Support but to New Brunswick Main Post Office per all 3 editors above. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:11, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
• I agree with everyone here and support EdJohnston's proposal moving the page to New Brunswick Main Post Office and leaving this title as a disambiguation page. Red Slash 17:04, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
  • Note: EdJohnston has not proposed to leave this title as a disambiguation page; he has proposed to delete this title. bd2412 T 17:08, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
    • Thanks. Red Slash 19:16, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
      • Based on the current contents of Wikipedia, a disambiguation page would probably look like this:

Main Post Office may refer to:

United States

• Buffalo Main Post Office, Buffalo, Wyoming
• Elko Main Post Office, in Elko, NV, NRHP-listed
• Evanston Main Post Office, Evanston, Wyoming, NRHP-listed as U.S. Post Office-Evanston Main
• Higashi-Kurume Main Post Office, Higashi Kurume Shi, Chuo-Cho
• Long Beach Main Post Office, Long Beach, California
• Main Post Office and Federal Building (Oakland, California), listed on the NRHP in Alameda County
• Manchester Main Post Office, Manchester, Connecticut
• Miles City Main Post Office, in Miles City, Montana, listed on the NRHP in Montana
• New Brunswick Main Post Office, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, listed on the NRHP in Middlesex County
• Oconto Main Post Office in Oconto, Wisconsin, listed on the NRHP in Oconto County
• Old Athens, Alabama Main Post Office, in Athens, Alabama
• Old Chicago Main Post Office
• Reno Main Post Office, in Reno, NV, NRHP-listed
• Thermopolis Main Post Office, Thermopolis, Wyoming
• Tonopah Main Post Office, in Tonopah, NV, NRHP-listed
• Winnemucca Main Post Office, in Winnemucca, NV, NRHP-listed

Other countries

• Istanbul Main Post Office, in Istanbul, Turkey
• Main post office, Kraków, in Kraków, Poland

Since it was needed anyway, I have gone ahead and created this page at Main Post Office (disambiguation), so it can be moved here immediately after the current page is renamed. Cheers! bd2412 T 19:17, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

• Support New Brunswick Main Post Office per WP:NATURAL ^walk victor falk ^talk 16:44, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

• Support, although I'm willing to consider New Brunswick Main Post Office. My only concern is that somebody reading it might think it's for a post office in some other New Brunswick besides New Jersey. While you're at it, User:BD2412, there's another "Main Post Office," in Jamaica, Queens that could be added to that list, and yes it's NRHP listed.
• Support a move. Probably to New Brunswick Main Post Office since that follows the pattern for the rest in this series. United States Post Office (Jamaica, Queens) should also be moved if it is better known by a different name (but the current article gives no hint of this option). NRHP titled articles are commonly incorrect. Vegaswikian (talk) 07:06, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
• Support move to New Brunswick Main Post Office. Obviously. Far too generic a title. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:32, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.