Talk:Juneau Police Department

This department is not called the "Juneau, Alaska Police Department", but the "Juneau Police Department". On Wikipedia, disambiguation, if needed beyond an official title, is standardized and done only in parentheses, e.g. Juneau Police Department (Alaska). However, we disambiguate only when there are actually 2 or more articles currently in existance with the same title, so disambiguation isn't needed here yet. The only other place named Juneau is Juneau, Wisconsin, it's unclear whether they have a "Juneau Police Department" but since their population is 2,500, it is unlikely to be notable anyway. So the title should stay here for the time being. --Rividian (talk) 20:23, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

I generally use brackets, but in certain cases there are other naming conventions. US geographical places is one of them. Every US police article is disambiguated with a comma. ninety:one 22:59, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

But that's not a disambiguation, in the US it's a common and official name. E.g. Juneau, Alaska is what most people out of the state would call it, and it's generally how official documents would refer to it. Disambiguation is for when two things have the same common name... Anchorage, Alaska and Anchorage, Kentucky really don't have the same name, since in the US our custom is to append the state name rather freely. But please don't use brackets... non-standard pagenames are confusing and require other people to clean them up. --Rividian (talk) 00:10, 25 July 2008 (UTC)