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***I agree that's probably the case, but that doesn't mean editors should be instructed to name ''all'' articles that way. I'm not asking those participating in the election coverage/constituencies wikiproject not to go on naming new articles in that fashion, but they should ''not'' be instructed to ''move'' articles which are already correctly named, as your instructions implied. [[User:Steinsky|Joe D]] [[User talk:Steinsky|(t)]] 03:08, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
****There is no such implication. It's only your inference. The text is explicit talking about what to call "new pages". It uses those very words. It nowhere actually instructs people to rename pages. If that's your reason for continually changing the plan so that people are instructed to create ''new'' pages with the ''wrong'' names, then it's wholly unfounded. Furthermore: They aren't ''my'' instructions. I didn't write them. [[User:Uncle G|Uncle G]] 03:29, 2005 May 2 (UTC)
*****But others are making this inference and moving pages which should not be moved. My revised instructions did not say to create articles with the wrong names, they said that the disambiguation format was not compulsory. Some editors may wish to take the time to check these things, especially since in many cases constituency pages already exist at other page names. [[User:Steinsky|Joe D]] [[User talk:Steinsky|(t)]] 03:41, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
***It has become more apparent as I have approached the south of England that disambiguation will also involve splitting existing articles. Several articles combine towns and boroughs of the same name into one, and several articles have two or three sentences (or an infobox) describing the constituency of the same name as the town or the borough, even though it isn't the same as the town/borough and ''isn't even coterminous'' with the town/borough. These descriptions will be out of date after the election, and I intend to modify them to more brief pointers to the constituency articles. [[User:Uncle G|Uncle G]] 03:02, 2005 May 2 (UTC)
***Another thing that needs addressing as part of the disambiguation work is that ''in addition to'' the <nowiki>{{otheruses}}</nowiki> and <nowiki>{{otheruses2}}</nowiki> templates, some editors (see [[Talk:Blackburn (UK Parliament constituency)]]) have expressed the desire for more explicit links between the three that the wording of the standard disambiguation templates, which just talks vaguely about "uses", is inadequate for. Suggestions are welcome. [[User:Uncle G|Uncle G]] 03:02, 2005 May 2 (UTC)
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