Talk:Nobles County

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RFD discussion: May–June 2018

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And every other US county page I have created, well over 1000 of them.

This is the last one I created. I don't really want to delete this, but I want to protest at the way User:Koavf summarily deleted Category:en:United States county index without any warning, and without going through the normal RFD procedure. Further discussion can be found here and here]

Before anyone questions my sanity: Yes, I am of sound mind; no, I don't need to see a psychiatrist; and no, I haven't entered my second childhood yet. DonnanZ (talk) 12:18, 26 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Oh there's a rationale all right. The RFD can be withdrawn if sanity returns. DonnanZ (talk) 19:17, 26 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
That was discussed before, see Talk:McClain County, and it was decided to keep the present format. In any case, in many cases I don't recommend that, if the county index still existed you would be able to study it and see why. DonnanZ (talk) 20:37, 26 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
That particular issue was barely discussed there. Most people there were simply voting on whether to keep or delete McClain County; the option of keeping it under the nmae McClain was considered by only a minority of the participants in the discussion. —Mahāgaja (formerly Angr) · talk 21:10, 26 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
I tend to think this should be moved to Nobles per Mahagaja, like e.g. Talk:Hyderabad State / Hyderabad Division (where however only Metaknowledge and I expressed opinions). Do we have a way of determining how often county names are used without "county"? - -sche (discuss) 21:46, 26 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
I think the nom was mostly done because of the controversy with Category:en:United States county index. But I need to address something else here:
  • I don't know that Nobles County is necessarily a set proper noun phrase. For instance, see this: "The city of Landsville is located inside both Lincoln and Nobles Counties." (I made up those names off the top of my head.) You'll find this "Counties" thing on a lot of Wikipedia pages, for instance. It could also be written as "Lincoln and Nobles counties". What do you think of this, lexically speaking? PseudoSkull (talk) 21:55, 26 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
There are cases too where county and county seat share the same name, so I think it would be disadvantageous to remove County, e.g. he lives in Bloggsville County, not in Bloggsville. Also look at Switzerland County for example. DonnanZ (talk) 22:22, 26 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
Keep because you don't use RFD to complain about another user's behaviour. Use WT:BP or something. Equinox 02:36, 27 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
There already is a BP discussion if you want to contribute to it. DonnanZ (talk) 10:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

RFD nomination withdrawn. I have created a substitute county index on my user page, and all users are welcome to pop in and browse. I still need to add Alaskan boroughs (those that are done). DonnanZ (talk) 20:46, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply