Talk:Fincastle

More geographic and other names

There’s also a Glen Fincastle Burn, and a Loch Fincastle not part of Glen Fincastle, for which articles do not exist, and no articles mention them. So for now, just this note. Sbalfour (talk) 20:29, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

There's also at least three books and a children's song named "In a Fine Castle", which come up in searches here and in Google. That's getting a bit far removed from what someone might reasonably be looking for on this page, though. Sbalfour (talk) 21:18, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Fincastle County ~ Kentucky

An entry Kentucky, formerly known as Fincastle County, VA was removed, and the reason given was that it isn't accurate. It is almost accurate, as a near-miss, which we allow and even encourage on disambig pages, in order to find info that there may be no good way of finding. In this case, Kentucky was not all of Fincastle County, only 95% of it. It's more accurate to say Kentucky was west Fincastle County. There's even a book about it, Wilson, Samuel M. (April 1935). "West Fincastle, Now Kentucky". The entry got there because I was looking for Lexington, Fincastle County, Virginia, on a modern map of Virginia, and didn't find either the county or city. So I tried searching Fincastle here, and got to the disambig page, and while I discovered Fincastle County was defunct, I got no clue that the city I was looking for was not in modern VA. Had there been a disambig entry associating Kentucky with Fincastle County, I would have immediately known where Lexington, VA, was, because I'm from Kentucky, and of course know the city. So I made that entry. How about

• Kentucky, formerly west Fincastle County, Virginia

in the See also section? That's where near misses make some sense. Some near misses are due to spellings, and some due to related subject matter. This is one of the latter. Sbalfour (talk) 16:07, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Going by MOS:DABSEEALSO, Kentucky, formerly west Fincastle County, Virginia doesn't belong in the "See also" section at the bottom of the page because: the name of neither the commonwealth nor the earlier county—Kentucky—contains the word Fincastle; the word Kentucky cannot be confused with the word Fincastle; there is not a likelihood that someone could end up at the wrong article, either at Fincastle or at Kentucky, due to different spelling or misspelling, or due to different forms of either word; and because there is no partial title match whatsoever. Now, I just took a look to see what the Fincastle County, Virginia article says ​about early settlements in present-day Kentucky (the search you mentioned above), and found that you've added the sentence Many of the earliest settlements in Kentucky, including its first town, Harrod's Town, Boonesborough, Logan's Station, and Lexington were founded when it was known as part of Fincastle County. That was the right step (as opposed to adding the above entry to this DAB page), one that both improved the Fincastle County article and provided useful information for future readers. Drdpw (talk) 22:42, 19 March 2021 (UTC)