Talk:Swainsboro, Georgia

Assessment

If you would like to know why I assessed the article the way I have, please use my talk page. Ethan (talk) 04:54, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Duct Tape?

I know it's a stretch, but is there any chance of mentioning some of the publicity that Swainsboro High School is recieving for what it has done with Duct Tape? Quite a few places have mentioned SHS's art club's Duct Tape Prom, and some students even attended a runway show in Baltimore. (I can fetch some links if you need me to.)↑^Chrona_Mew↓ ‎^~Talk_{~Contributions} 02:19, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Requested move 7 July 2022

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: not moved per WP:SNOW and WP:USPLACE (closed by non-admin page mover) Nohomersryan (talk) 06:08, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

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Swainsboro, Georgia → Swainsboro – there is no other city in the U.S. named Swainsboro. 2600:1700:6180:6290:60CB:CA76:257F:41DC (talk) 23:44, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose. This falls under the WP:USPLACE guideline. Most reliable sources in the US, from national media to many American references commonly append the state to placenames. The whole point of the guideline is to provide a consistent naming convention that primarily matches these reliable sources in the US. For further explanation, see Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Remove state from US placenames. The definition of "major city" in the US, and the naming conventions of US cities in general, have been heavily debated for years and has been subjective. So the consensus of the Wikipedia community was to use the so-called AP Stylebook exception rule to use a reliable source to define what a "major city" is: 29 significant US cities are specifically exempted from the convention per the AP Stylebook. However, Swainsboro is not one of them (unless one can show that the state name "Georgia" is also always omitted for Swainsboro by an overwhelming majority of reliable sources). Like on CNN articles, the city is primarily referred to "Swainsboro, Georgia" in the first instance it is mentioned.[1][2] So the "Swainsboro" page it currently a primary redirect. Furthermore, this is not where I'd try to make an exception: we have separate Swainsboro Technical College, Swainsboro High School and Swainsboro Light and Water Plant articles, so there could be a question whether the city should even be in fact the primary topic. Even though the city gets more traffic, the article still gets barely averages 40 pageviews per day.[3] And even though the city article peaked at 64 pageviews on 25-May-2022, that is still not statistically significant IMO. It seems to indicate that the city is still unknown to most Americans anyway (let alone people outside the country). Appending the state "Georgia" at the end of the title makes it clear that the subject is a city, and the "Swainsboro" page could instead be converted to a proper disambiguation page. Zzyzx11 (talk) 02:03, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose. I think that only famous major cities should be without a state, e.g. Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Denver, Philadelphia, Tuscon, etc. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 02:11, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose move per WP:USPLACE and comments above. O.N.R. ^(talk) 02:35, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose. See WP:USPLACE. (And WP:PERENNIAL) ╠╣uw [talk] 09:23, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
• As mentioned before I think the move is a good idea but USPLACE says its common usage in the US. Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:20, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose, per WP:USPLACE and comments above (by User:Zzyzx11 etc). Paintspot Infez (talk)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.