`  == Requested Move: Boston, Massachusetts -> Boston ==  Boston, Massachusetts → Boston – WP:NC(CN); World famous city.    ===List of reasons to move=== # Boston,  like Paris, London, Montreal, and U.S. cities like Chicago, New York City, is well known... no need to specify the state. # World famous cities in the U.S. should be treated no differently from world famous cities outside of the U.S. (Paris, London, Montreal, etc.): use the city name for the article title, period. # All articles in Wikipedia should follow the Wikipedia naming conventions for common names, which dictate that Boston (alone) be the title of this article; there is no reason that cities, and Boston in particular, should be an exception to these rules. # Professional encyclopedias, both published and online, typically do not ``pre-disambiguate``... neither should we. # Chance for confusion with anything else named Boston is minimal. # The name of Boston alone redirects directly here, therefore there are no known significant disambiguation issues, and no reason to disambiguate. # Lesser known Boston articles are already handled on Boston (disambiguation). # Waiting to change the city, state convention does not make sense, since it is a chicken-egg situation. The only way to start to change the convention is one article at a time, like Chicago and this one. # Boston, Massachusetts is part of a mailing address, not the name of the city.  The name of the city is Boston; that should be the name of the article. # The one piece of information that the title is supposed to clearly specify is the most common name used to refer to the subject of the article.  The current title is unclear on this point... is the most common name Boston or Boston, Massachusetts?  Titles that use the city, state ``comma naming convention`` make it impossible for the reader to know.  It is our job as editors to make this clear, not ambiguous. # Following a convention that pollutes the article title for readers (by making the common name unclear) in order to supposedly make life easier for editors, violates the overall principle of Wikipedia's naming conventions: ::Names of Wikipedia articles should be optimized for readers over editors; and for a general audience over specialists.  ===Survey=== Add ``* Support`` or ``* Oppose`` followed by an optional one-sentence explanation (and/or reference numbers from the above reason list), then sign your opinion with ~~~~.  * Support per all reasons listed above.    ===Discussion===`