Talk:East Island

Two (2) distinct East Islands in Western Australia

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Name	Coordinates	Remarks
East Island	16°54′9″S 122°11′45″E	See Lighthouses and lightvessels in Australia
East Island	21°16′30″S 115°35′44″E

Peter Horn 03:15, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

But we don't disambiguate them that way. Per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places)#Australia, the comma convention is used for towns and suburbs only. The parentheses convention is used for all other types of geographic place name. Personally I think it acceptable to point both at the same place i.e. East Island (Western Australia) while they are both redlinks. But if they must have unique targets, then they should be something like

• East Island (Lacapede Islands, Western Australia) or East Island (Lacapede Islands) or East Island (Kimberley, Western Australia)

and

• East Island (Mary Anne Group) or East Island (Mary Anne Group, Western Australia) or East Island (Pilbara, Western Australia)

respectively. Hesperian 04:58, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

This is a real poser, because of existing links within articles, see Pages that link to East Island, Western Australia and Pages that link to East Island (Western Australia). See what "fun" this is? All the links within these articles would have to be changed to conform to the convention that you mention and according to your proposal! This type of problem not only happens here but no doubt elsewhere, see for example List of islands of Ontario. Anyway, I'll be away from home on a trip to Mexico for the next three weeks. Either I'll get back on this upon my return on the 30th, or perhaps you sort it out. Peter Horn 02:46, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorted. Hesperian 00:07, 12 November 2007 (UTC)