Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Austria)

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Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Austria)

Disambiguation: Attersee

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Where disambiguation among like-named places is still needed, specifiers from the native disambiguation system detailed [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Austria/Conventions#Austrian abbreviations|below]] are used first. If there is no such specifier, the locality names go under [[placename, state]] (the "[[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places)#Comma_method|comma convention]]", where the name is followed with a comma, a space and the name of the state).
Where disambiguation among like-named places is still needed, specifiers from the native disambiguation system detailed [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Austria/Conventions#Austrian abbreviations|below]] are used first. If there is no such specifier, the locality names go under [[placename, state]] (the "[[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places)#Comma_method|comma convention]]", where the name is followed with a comma, a space and the name of the state).
Where disambiguation among entity types is needed, use Wikipedia's parentheses convention, e.g. [[Attersee]] and [[Attersee (lake)]].
Where disambiguation among entity types is needed, use Wikipedia's parentheses convention, e.g. [[Attersee (town)]] and [[Attersee (lake)]].


River names are not used in Wikipedia as disambiguating terms for settlements, since their meaning, especially in the case of minor streams, is not intelligible to English-speaking readers outside Austria.
River names are not used in Wikipedia as disambiguating terms for settlements, since their meaning, especially in the case of minor streams, is not intelligible to English-speaking readers outside Austria.
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