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Clarington, Ontario

How many Claringtons are there in Ontario? Clarington, Ontario is a redirect to Clarington, because it was at the first title until someone moved it to the second title in 2011. However, the article has two hatnotes, both of which link to the redirect; one of them even mentions "the city in Courtice", and Courtice appears to be a neighborhood of the city that's the subject of the Clarington article, not vice versa. Is there another Clarington somewhere that should be linked? Is this just an artifact of the pagemove? I ended up here expecting that Clarington would be a redirect to Clarington, Ohio, and I'm not sure if I need to remove the currently unhelpful hatnotes and replace with {{this|the Ontario municipality|the Ohio community|Clarington, Ohio}} (because these are the only Claringtons) or create a disambiguation page (because there are three or more Clarington articles). Nyttend (talk) 13:52, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like a bit of vandalism on September 10. older ≠ wiser 14:21, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Most of your post I don't understand, but I can confirm that there is just one Clarington in Ontario. Gov of Ontario list. 184.147.131.85 (talk) 19:38, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the solid source! You probably don't understand it because Bkonrad fixed the article before you looked at it. You'll understand better if you look at the article as it was when I found it. Nyttend (talk) 19:54, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure this was just a botched edit or a vandalous one as Bkronrad said, but I'll just note that the list 184.147.131.85 only shows municipalities, i.e. places that are incorporated and have an official existence. It would theoretically be possible for an unincorporated community named Clarington to exist elsewhere in Ontario. I remember reading at the time when Cambridge, Ontario, was being created and the political battle over its name had just been settled, nobody taken account of the fact that there was already a Cambridge elsewhere in Ontario. (Sorry, I have no source to cite for this.) Obviously that was because the existing community was unincorporated.

Checking the Canadian Geographic Names Data Base, and requesting populated places of all types, I find only the one Clarington, Ontario, but the other (unincorporated) Cambridge, Ontario, is here, east of Ottawa. --174.88.134.156 (talk) 02:04, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]