Talk:Santee River

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I tried to find information on the naming of pages about rivers and other geographic formations, but based on Naming conventions, there doesn't seem to be any policy about it. Some of the rivers near Charleston, South Carolina have page titles including the name of the state, which seems to be common practice for US cities. I rather like that method because I think it cuts down on confusion and potential confusion. Should this page be retitled Santee River (South Carolina)? Since I am not a member of the community (nor do I wish to join), I cannot move the page myself and am not certain that would be a decision I could make anyway.

What you're talking about with parentheses and state names is the disambiguation of pages. That's done only when there are more than one river with the same name. In the Santee River this USGS says there is only one river with this name, so it gets to have the name all to itself. -- Decumanus 08:26, 2005 Apr 3 (UTC)