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Revised Page - 2018 Update

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The Scots College's page has been revised and updated due to several things changing and being updated. This page will be updated constantly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.210.49.183 (talk) 10:36, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 24 October 2020

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Scots College (Sydney)The Scots College (Sydney) – Moved without discussion in July 2015; "The" is part of the official name. –LaundryPizza03 (d) 16:23, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

LaundryPizza03, Fayenatic london, StAnselm — I have a question, shouldn't this be disambiguated by state rather than city, so The Scots College (New South Wales) if this is the only school of this name in the state? Some Australian schools are already titled like this, we do need to be consistent (I prefer the state option btw). Steven (Editor) (talk) 01:07, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The disambiguation page Scots College lists two other Scots Schools in NSW, so in this case I think Sydney is required. – Fayenatic London 08:06, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Fayenatic london I'm not sure, I looked at the two other Scots Schools in NSW — you have Scots School Albury which has the Albury location in its name (part of its name) and Scots School, Bathurst which redirects to Scots All Saints' College (formed via the merger of The Scots School, Bathurst and All Saints' College, Bathurst). I think The Scots College (New South Wales) would be appropriate here and a hatnote can be used. What you think? Steven (Editor) (talk) 18:40, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I see a couple of schools using the state in parentheses as disambiguator within Category:Boys' schools in New South Wales, but it seems more common to use the town name after a comma; likewise within Category:Boarding schools in New South Wales. That would suggest renaming to The Scots College, Sydney. Can you point to categories within which the state is more commonly used? – Fayenatic London 21:44, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The big issue is that there is no consistency at present, some are disambiguated by comma and the ones with parentheses are either by town/city or state — You can see this by looking at the different categories for schools in Australia. I think we do need to have some sort of naming convention developed for schools which would be good. Steven (Editor) (talk) 20:20, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Marcocapelle and Buidhe, well there are independent sources that use 'The' in the name not just the ones without 'The'; see 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 for example. Steven (Editor) (talk) 20:11, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.