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The HLJC leads to safer linkage where there is doubt as to the topic intended. For example, if someone intends to refer to New York City, but is misunderstood to mean New York State, their statement as interpreted will still be true, as New York City is in New York State. On the other hand, if they mean the state but are understood to mean the city, there is a good chance that their statement as understood will be false. ''Albany is in New York'' is only true if the state is the understood meaning, while ''The Statue of Liberty is in New York'' remains true even if ''New York'' is misunderstood to mean the state. |
The HLJC leads to safer linkage where there is doubt as to the topic intended. For example, if someone intends to refer to New York City, but is misunderstood to mean New York State, their statement as interpreted will still be true, as New York City is in New York State. On the other hand, if they mean the state but are understood to mean the city, there is a good chance that their statement as understood will be false. ''Albany is in New York'' is only true if the state is the understood meaning, while ''The Statue of Liberty is in New York'' remains true even if ''New York'' is misunderstood to mean the state. One must also remember that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and therefore physical topography is a very significant element of a geographical jurisdiction, and that significance does not merely lie in the population or human impact of a jurisdiction. |
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The Higher-Level Jurisdiction Criterion (HLJC) is a proposed criterion that may help to determine a primary topic.
 | This page in a nutshell: Other things being equal, where two geographical, political or judicial subject areas have the same name, and one is a subset of the other, the larger subject area should be regarded as the primary topic. |
Rationale
The HLJC leads to safer linkage where there is doubt as to the topic intended. For example, if someone intends to refer to New York City, but is misunderstood to mean New York State, their statement as interpreted will still be true, as New York City is in New York State. On the other hand, if they mean the state but are understood to mean the city, there is a good chance that their statement as understood will be false. Albany is in New York is only true if the state is the understood meaning, while The Statue of Liberty is in New York remains true even if New York is misunderstood to mean the state. One must also remember that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and therefore physical topography is a very significant element of a geographical jurisdiction, and that significance does not merely lie in the population or human impact of a jurisdiction.
Status
There is currently no consensus as to when or even whether this criterion should be applied. It is actively under discussion.
Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Is there a primary topic? currently [1] reads in part:
There is no single criterion for defining a primary topic. However, there are two major aspects that are commonly discussed in connection with primary topics: A topic is primary for a term with respect to usage if it is highly likely—much more likely than any other topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term; A topic is primary for a term with respect to long-term significance if it has substantially greater enduring notability and educational value than any other topic associated with that term. (emphasis added)
This explicitly leaves open the possibility of other criteria, such as the HLJC, to be among the most significant determinants of primary topic, notably when two geopolitical entities are involved where one jurisdiction is geopolitically a subset of another, such as New York, the state versus its namesake city, or Mexico, the country versus its namesake state or the country versus its namesake city (but not the State of Mexico versus Mexico City, which are mutually exclusive geographically).