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 | Deprecated essay This essay emerged from July 2016 discussions of the New York case, as an effort to find compromise over primary-topic status of New York State vs New York City vs absence of primary topic for this name. Numerous counterexamples were provided, making this criterion impossible to apply without contradicting extant titling practice, WP:PTOPIC and WP:AT policies. This page is retained for historical purposes only and should not be invoked in titling discussions (except to prove its impracticality). |
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 geopolitical or judicial subject areas have the same name, and one is a subset of the other, the larger subject area may be regarded as the primary topic. |