Talk:List of American and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports franchises/Archive 1
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Gotta wonder what rule of thumb might be in operation for the inclusion of state names in
Denver, Jacksonville, St. Louis, Charlotte, Raleigh, Columbus, Portland ...
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Denver and St. Louis at least ought to be recognizable by themselves.
I think it would work fine with no state names, and if any disambiguations were needed, all but one of the links (Tampa Bay) go somewhere at present.
In order of the most-to-least ambiguous in the short list above:
Portland (Oregon or Maine at least),
Columbus (Georgia, New Mexico, Ohio),
Jacksonville (Illinois, Florida)
;Bear 17:34, 2004 Mar 29 (UTC)
On this issue, I go by the Associated Press Stylebook, which requires a state for all U.S. cities except: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington.
That means it's Tampa, Fla.; Oakland, Calif.; Charlotte, N.C.; Raleigh, N.C.; Columbus, Ohio; Jacksonville, Fla.; etc.