Please stop your disruptive editing.

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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Cleveland-Cliffs, you may be blocked from editing. Brotherbenz (talk) Brotherbenz (talk) 00:23, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Brotherbenz: reverting someone once is not disruptive. Please watch your misuse of warning templates.

The linking that I restored is correct, and you are misreading MOS:GEOLINK, which says " For a geographical location expressed as a consecutive comma-separated sequence of two or more territorial units, link only the first unit", or in other words, to only link the city in a "city, state" or "city, state, country" string. Since the article itself is titled just Cleveland, and Cleveland, Ohio, is a redirect, we only need to link the first city and not the city and the state, unlike the situation with Buffalo, New York, although piping that link to put the state name, i.e. "Buffalo, New York" would be even better per that section of the MOS. So it is your edits that do not comply with MOS:GEOLINK, not ours. It is you that is being disruptive by restoring the edits.

Per WP:BRD, you should not have restored the edit when another editor reverted you, and you should definitely not have restored it again when I reverted you. Imzadi 1979 → 00:35, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It does not say that. For U.S. cities its to link [[<city>, <state>]], and not [[<city>]], <state> to avoid a MOS:SEAOFBLUE of [[<city>]], [[<state>]].

• YCleveland, Ohio, ([[Cleveland, Ohio]],)

• N Cleveland, Ohio ([[Cleveland]], Ohio,)

Please also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Linking#MOS:GEOLINK Brotherbenz (talk) 00:41, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Brotherbenz: no, it does not. "Cleveland, Ohio" is not a SEAOFBLUE issue, period. It does not have two consecutive links. However, MOS:GEOLINK says to only link the first unit in a comma-separate string of geographic entities, thus "Cleveland, Ohio" complies with both MOS guidelines. If there are editors linking the state, educate them, but don't break one rule to avoid a possible violation of another. Imzadi 1979 → 00:50, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The article in fact was Cleveland, Ohio before it was changed to Cleveland, Ohio. If no consensus can be reached leave article to was it was before the edits began, which it was in fact until the article was edited: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cleveland-Cliffs&diff=prev&oldid=1273971975 Brotherbenz (talk) 00:57, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Again U.S. cities it to link [[<city>, <state>]] and not [[<city>], <state> Please read the talk on the style of manual linking. I've asked for a third opinion on said matter and that was the answer that was given. Brotherbenz (talk) 01:01, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Brotherbenz: I've read that, and yet it has not resulted in a change to the text of MOS:GEOLINK. Please take any further replies off my talk page though to Talk:Cleveland-Cliffs. Imzadi 1979 → 01:05, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]