[Wikipedia-l] Feature request

Sun Mar 16 17:49:29 UTC 2003

This is important for disambiguations purposes. I prefer XXXX, (Mexico) than only XXXX city name. This could be in the name of articles guidelines.

Regards.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt M." <matt_mcl at sympatico.ca>
To: <wikipedia-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 3:40 PM
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Feature request

> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if anyone else has thought of this, but while considering the pipe
> trick ([[foo (bar)|]] = [[foo (bar)|foo]]) it occurred to me that one of the
> places this would be most useful is in place names, a huge portion of which
> are in the form [[Boise, Idaho]]. If it could be set up so that the pipe
> trick could work with commas too ([[Boise, Idaho|]] = [[Boise,
> Idaho|Boise]]), that would be very useful in a variety of situations. (It
> wouldn't conflict with other uses of commas, since you just wouldn't have
> any reason to use the pipe trick with them; or if, say, something had both
> commas and parentheses, you could set it to just pipe the parentheses. If an
> article had multiple commas, you could set it to hide everything after the
> first one.)
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Matt
> 
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