Talk:Norfolk

Shouldn't that be Norfolk (England) or Norfolk (United Kingom)? I don't like the use of the abbreviation. It may be correct, but the long form is nicer. -- (WT-en) Nils 07:28, 15 Apr 2004 (EDT)

Nils - thanks for the comments. I was just thinking of making it as quick and easy as possible for people to type. I know it's nicer to have United Kingdom, but no-one's going to misspell "UK". It's only a discriminator - if it's not fundamentally wrong, does it matter so much? - (WT-en) sjc196 13:44, 15 Apr 2004 (GMT)

Well... consistency is always nice. Newark for example uses Newark (England). Abbreviations have a much higher probability of being ambiguous (I hate that word) themselves. They are not very intuitive. UK is probably okay. But not everybody will understand, for example, TX for Texas. Finally, the Article naming conventions use full names. I think it's much better to use a "good" disambiguifier (whatever...) now, than having to fix tons of stuff later. Finally, are you sure there are not more than one Norfolk in the UK? :) -- (WT-en) Nils 08:57, 15 Apr 2004 (EDT)

OK, I agree that consistency is desirable. But...

I was going to use "Norfolk (England)" when I realised that the person who had pointed out that there was work needed on Norfolk said that he didn't know whether it was the one in the UK. So I decided not to use "(England)". I used "(UK)" as I think that - as with the USA - that is how most people refer to the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, if we're really going to be thorough...). I think we need a protracted and heated debate on the matter! ;) I'll try to be more consistent in future. - (WT-en) sjc196, 14:13, 15 Apr 2004 (GMT)

I guess that was me. When I am too lazy to use google to look such matters up, do you expect me to write out longish country names if I can avoid it?! :D But, okay, sure, use United Kingdom - definitely not in the abbreviated form though. -- (WT-en) Nils 09:20, 15 Apr 2004 (EDT)

Yup. Happy now. Thanks :-) -- (WT-en) Nils 09:59, 15 Apr 2004 (EDT)