Talk:Canton Province

I want to delete this because there are many places called Canton and there are cantons in some countries, including Switzerland, which are equivalent to provinces, so I think this is confusing and not a useful redirect. Besides, who's called Guangdong "Canton Province"? Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:34, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
 * IDK, but the same redirect has been in place on Wikipedia uncontroversially since 2003. I don't think anyone searching it would expect to land in Switzerland.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 07:43, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
 * OK, but I don't think we need all of the redirects that are on Wikipedia, and just who would search for this term? Isn't it enough to redirect Canton to Guangzhou? Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:52, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Canton (disambiguation) should potentially take over the main Canton page (currently redirect to Guangzhou).--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 08:42, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
 * How do we normally handle it when one place is overwhelmingly famous as the former holder (at least for Europeans, et al.) of a name shared by other places? I know that with currently-named places, if one is overwhelmingly more famous than the others, we direct people to that article, rather than a disambiguation, but I'm not sure whether there are guidelines for this kind of situation. Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:34, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't know what the value of keeping a "Canton" redirect to Guangzhou is. By far most modern English-language publications use the Mandarin name Guangzhou. The only vestiges of "Canton" you are likely to encounter are Guangzhou Airport's IATA code (CAN), and in the name of the local language ("Cantonese"). The dog2 (talk) 02:01, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
 * OK, so that looks like two votes for a redirect. I have no strong feelings about that, so it's a go. Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:07, 7 April 2021 (UTC)