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Llamageddon (talk | contribs) (Proposal for what I think is a very simple, straightforward, and common sense way, of talking about places with minimum fuss and confusion.) Tag: Reverted |
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* Location: A specific place you can pin down. If it can be reasonably described with one set of coordinates, it is a location. | * Location: A specific place you can pin down. If it can be reasonably described with one set of coordinates, it is a location. | ||
* Area: Larger than a location, pointing to it with one set of coordinates, would not be helpful, or would not make sense. Locations can be inside areas. | * Area: Larger than a location, pointing to it with one set of coordinates, would not be helpful, or would not make sense. Locations can be inside areas. | ||
* Region: A collection of | * Region: A collection of areas that is explicitly, or implicitly, a 'place' in its own right. Named or otherwise. If areas can be inside regions, so can locations. | ||
Common sense and context should be able to dictate whether any of these need to be specified or not in an article. They already mean, in plain English, what they are being used to describe and identify. The nomenclature above, would be robust enough to also maintain some sort of logical hierarchy of places, and their pages, for both organisation and presentation on the wiki. [[User:Llamageddon|Llamageddon]] ([[User talk:Llamageddon|talk]]) 16:36, 23 August 2023 (CEST) | Common sense and context should be able to dictate whether any of these need to be specified or not in an article. They already mean, in plain English, what they are being used to describe and identify. The nomenclature above, would be robust enough to also maintain some sort of logical hierarchy of places, and their pages, for both organisation and presentation on the wiki. [[User:Llamageddon|Llamageddon]] ([[User talk:Llamageddon|talk]]) 16:36, 23 August 2023 (CEST) | ||