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Same name -- different article?

I want to create a page about The Children's Aid Society, a large, historically important charitable organization in the US. There is already an article by this name, mentioning that this is what Depts of Family Services are called in Ontario. How do I creat my article with the same name? Or, how can I suggest changing the name of the other page to, i.e., "children's Aid Society -- canada"?

Kibiusa 19:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

WP:DISAMBIG should have some help... Why don't you create Children's Aid Society (United States), or something similar. Then a disambiguation link can be added to each to direct from the other. You can always place {{helpme}} on your user talk page for more assistance. -- Scientizzle 19:12, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm trying create a page or The Chidren's Aid Society, a historic charitable organization in the US. There is such a page, referring to family Services in Ontario. User scientizzle suggested creating "Children's Aid Sciety -- United States". However, although I may be off base, that doesn't seem to solve the problem. The American organization was founded in 1853; created many of the child-based social programs we now take for granted; promulgated a controversial program in the 1800's where 100,000 children were sent west on trains to work on farms; and has a current operating budget of >$70 million. It seems to me it deserves the title "Children's Aid Society' and the other article should be titled "Children's Aid Society -- Canada". Does it have to stay this way just because they got there first? It's as if some had entered an obscure definition of, say, "football", and then the sport had to become a subsidiary definition -- "football - sport". What is the stabdard porocedure here in such a case?

thanks in advance for helping a noob!

Kibiusa 20:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I have moved the Canadian one to Children's Aid Society (Canada). You now have a few options:

1. Create the US article at Children's Aid Society (it is currently a redirect to the Canadian one) and place at the top "For the Canadian version, see Children's Aid Society (Canada)."
2. At Children's Aid Society create a disambiguation page pointing to the US and Canadian articles, and thus write your article at Children's Aid Society (United States)
3. Have a discussion about this somewhere (I'm not really sure where, but maybe at the Canadian article's talk page)--Commander Keane 20:39, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

There is no need for a disambiguation page now, the "See also Children's Aid Society (Canada)" at the top of the article is fine.

By the way, you can sign your name on talk pages using ~~~~, which also places the date and links to your username so it is easy for people to contact you (more extensive instructions are at {{tilde}}). If you want to sign as "Kibi" rather that "Kibiusa", you can go to your preferences and put "Kibi" in the Signature: field (do not tick Raw signature).--Commander Keane 23:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Go (board game)

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thanks, and happy editing.

-- St.isaac 20:00, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Just wanted to inform you that the traditional method for picking up a stone is being discussed in the article's talk page(Talk:Go_(board_game)#Stone_Etiquette). Please discuss there before changing the article. Phelan 14:16, 11 August 2006 (UTC)