Talk:Ōmuta, Fukuoka

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Incredibly slow move war

What's going on here?

This page was written in 2003, presumably at Omuta Fukuoka.
It was moved in July 2010 to plain Omuta with the edit summary “disambiguation unnecessary”
It was moved back to Omuta F in October over redirect “per WP:MOSJ#Place_names"
It was moved back to Omuta on 31 July 2011 because “disambiguate unnecessary”
and moved back six hours later as apparently disambiguation is, in fact, “necessary” after all.

None of these moves have been discussed, and the reasoning has been sketchy at best.
Can someone please decide whether disambiguation is, or is not, needed here, and say why that should be the case? At least then there’ll be a consensus of sorts to turn to the next time someone wants to play silly buggers. Moonraker12 (talk) 11:47, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WP;MOSJ#Place_names, it turns out, is at odds with WP-wide naming convention, which is to add a disambiguate only when needed, that is only when some other entity, alike in prominence, shares the same name. In this particular case, a disambiguation page has unnecessarily been created, likely just to maintain this peculiar Japanese place name policy, as aside from a character in a story all other things named Omuta or Ōmuta, such as the station and the murders, refer to the city (where the station is located and the murders occurred). Mayumashu (talk) 12:14, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- WP:MOS-JP#Place_names is actually not at odds with WP-wide naming conventions. Because there are multiple things which could be referred to as simple "Omuta" or "Ōmuta", disambiguation is necessary. It is extremely common to refer to stations by the station name without "station", so even though the station is obviously named after the city, disambiguating to make sure which one people are trying to find is best. The reasoning is hardly sketchy. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 17:36, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]