User talk:BigBaldur

Disambiguation, and precision

Hallo, I noticed that you started the article Vashisht (Village). Thanks for including a reference, which many editors forget to do.

A couple of points:

Article titles for places which need disambiguation are usually disambiguated using the name of a wider area, rather than the kind of place they are (ie not "Village"). There is information at WP:PLACE about which higher level to use in different countries, although for India it is rather vague. I've moved the article to Vashisht, Himachal Pradesh because that seemed the most common way that places in the Category:Himachal Pradesh geography stubs were treated.
If "(village)" had been an appropriate disambiguation, then it would have used a lower-case, or "small", "v", because "village" is a common noun. So we have Revolver (album) with a small "a", etc.
You gave the precision of the map reference at a level of 4 decimal places of seconds of longitude and latitude. That would pin it down to less than 1m! There is useful discussion of precision at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates#Precision_tables. For a place at around 30 degrees north, coordinates using whole seconds are the appropriate precision for an "Object" 500m in size. How big is the village?

There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia but it's an interesting journey. Happy Editing! PamD 22:34, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]