Talk:Fairfax (Virginia)

The article keeps saying City of Fairfax

This article keep capitalizing saying "City of Fairfax", and keep capitalizing "City" even when it's not part of phrase "City of Fairfax". Why? Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 08:35, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Because a lot of people violate the rules of English writing. "City" by itself as a rule does not get capitalized, and we even have a Wikivoyage:Capitalization page that states as much. "City of Fairfax" would be capitalized, though. Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:25, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

That "capitalizing" in "This article keep capitalizing saying "City of Fairfax"" isn't supposed to be there. I meant to say "This article keeps saying "City of Fairfax"". Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 09:57, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

But as for why the article keeps saying "City of Fairfax": I think part of what's going on here is that when locals say "Fairfax": they're often referring to the county and not the city. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 21:45, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

That makes sense. Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:28, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

But I think saying "City of Fairfax" over and over again is overkill. I think the context makes it pretty clear that we're talking about the city and not the county, even without a "City of". And if we want to talk about the county, we'll say "Fairfax County". Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 02:05, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

I'm going to go ahead and remove the "City of"'s, along with decapitating the "C" in the plain "City"'s. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 10:13, 16 August 2017 (UTC)