// Look in article text for up to 3 state names, culling out common street, river names etc.

// We will gather up to three states in this process...

///////////////// Byline search in the article text  /////////////////

// We will first examine the second word of the text to see if it is a state in a byline.

// We will also look after the first comma in first line (if any), just in case

// Expect to find US Postal Service abbreviation for state, but some papers use four letters

// while others use two letters and two periods.    And some don't use bylines at all. Why can't bylines be standardized??

///////////////// Look for country in article text  /////////////////

// We added a synonyms list to Countries so we can find "Canadian" etc.

// Need to null out certain items such as Jersey triggering for New Jersey

////////////// Examine URL for known foreign media or top level domains (TLD's)  //////////////

// Extract domain name

// List of known foreign news sites and their country; example www.thestar.com, Canada

BTW I added www.miragenews.com as an Australian news site today.

// And if still no country and no state, try the TLD of the domain name ; example .uk = United Kingdom

////////////// Get the state from this list of known US media sites  //////////////

// These are newspaper web sites (3505 currently in list)

// And these are TV station web sites- (1009 currently in list)

// And radio station web sites

// Pull the news site and state from it.

///// Here we look for large/common/unique city names to assign possible states/country  /////////  Examples, "Dalhousie,Canada" and "San Bernardino,us_CA"

BTW I added El Cajon to this list today

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// Assign state and country now.

// Byline is the most dependable.  If a state was found here, assign it the selection and make other stuff alternates.

// Next most dependable is to find a state in the text itself

// If that's no good, we rely on the country name found in the text itself

//  If we are still empty then go by the domain state

// If that's no good, then the domain country

// And our last-ditch effort, the city check

///////////////// End of creating location choices /////////////////////////////