Talk:Black Rock

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I've removed a line about Captain Hook's ship from Peter Pan being called the Black Rock. According to my copy of Peter Pan by JM Barrie, Hook's ship was the Jolly Roger. See p. 90 of the Scribner's edition, ISBN 0-684-16611-9. If the ship was called "Black Rock" in some other medium (film, musical, etc.) please provide a reference. Ahkond 02:52, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Minor islands

Neither of the co-ordinates listed for the two "Black Rock, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts" islands appear to be notable - one co-ordinate points to land, and the other doesn't have any island visible on Google maps - these could probably be removed from the list? -- Chuq (talk) 02:20, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Black Rock Desert

I am removing the following:

- Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a protected land region at the Black Rock Desert along the path of the Applegate-Lassen Cut-Off of the California Trail
- Black Rock Desert Wilderness a U.S. Wilderness area within the desert in northwestern Nevada

The justification that was given for including them is that they are notable. Notability guidelines are relevant to decide whether a topic ought to have an article; they are not relevant in deciding whether that article ought to be listed on a particular disambiguation page.

The relevant policy is:

MOS:DAB#Examples of individual entries that should not be created: On a page called Title, do not create entries merely because Title is part of the name
WP:D#Partial title matches: Do not add links that merely contain part of the page title, or links that include the page title in a longer proper name, where there is no significant risk of confusion. Only add links to articles that could use essentially the same title as the disambiguated term.

I don't believe anybody refers to either of these simply as "Black Rock"; they are simply named after Black Rock Desert. New York (disambiguation) doesn't include New York Yankees, for example. jnestorius^(talk) 20:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]