Talk:List of places in the United States named after people

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Probably need citations

Lists such as this have a nasty habit of attracting speculative information. Remember that, even in place name articles themselves, lists of notable people get a lot of uncited claims. Since this list isn't even in the articles, I suspect it's going to attract even more speculation, and readers will erroneously assume some particular entry has been verified by a citation in another place, because of the explicit wording in the intro. I think references need to be added for each one of these, even if those references are cut-and-paste from the relevant article. I noticed an editor has been working hard to gather up a lot of etymologies recently, so now would be the time to get the citations, instead of after the list doubles or triples. --Closeapple (talk) 16:38, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

referencing each individually would be a tremendous under taking, not to mention resulting in a unwieldy list of references. I recommend reordering the list by states (for better navigation) and then do one reference per state. There are two well regarded books that cover etymology for all North Dakota places and one fairly good one for South Dakota.[1] Google books has many public domain available for other states, or we inquire if the various wikiprojects. The citations can link to the isbn or olc search page for any books not online. All that matters is that the citation be given so someone knows where to look, even if that is in a brick and mortar library as opposed to a website.DCmacnut <> 04:23, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I've added some citations as best I could, but I like the idea of organizing it by state. - Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 17:54, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Counties

Considering there already exists multiple lists of U.S. county name etymologies, should counties be included in this list? - Presidentman talk · contribs Random Picture of the Day (Talkback) 22:11, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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List of places named after people in the United States → List of places in the United States named after people – It's the places which are in the United States, not the people. Also for consistency with List of places in Germany named after people. Moved to this title in 2014 with no real discussion. power~enwiki (π, ν) 05:03, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Seems like a common sense move and would make grammatical sense. FN17 (talk) 06:09, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Good catch. Station1 (talk) 07:58, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support a correction and an improvement Walrasiad (talk) 08:03, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support makes sense. -- Ab207 (talk) 20:54, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. kennethaw88 • talk 05:35, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Tarzana?

Granted Tarzan is a fictional person, but does that count him out? Mcdruid (talk) 09:33, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]