Talk:List of fictional settlements

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Cleanup : Remove non-notable items in list particularly any items that have wikilinks that do not link to information about the city. Expand : Introductory paragraph Verify : Some items on the list may lack articles or sections and may not be notable.

Adapted media

Emerald City is listed under films and Superman's Metropolis under animated despite both originating in print media first, yet Harry Potter's Hogsmeade is under literature despite being featured in film. So obviously there are some inconsistencies in how the problem of media adaptations is handled. Three options as I see it: 1) only list the fictional locale under the media form in which it originated, so Metropolis would only be listed under comics. 2) list the fictionale locale under every media form in which it has been portrayed, so Metropolis would be listed under, well, every medium. 3) list the fictionale locale under the media form in which it originated, and make a case-by-case determination as to whether an adaptation merits a separate listing.

I'm ultimately envisioning this as organized by the locale's type of setting rather than by medium, with medium(s) and originating work(s) just listed in columns, so this might eventually be a moot issue, but for now it's how this thing is organized. postdlf (talk) 02:18, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Inclusion criteria and references

All entries should either merit articles themselves (such as Gotham City) or should be integral to a work of fiction that merits an article (such as Cicely, Alaska, the setting of Northern Exposure) and substantively depicted therein. So no mere mentions, and I'm wary of including places that only feature in maybe one TV episode (such as "New New York" from Doctor Who).

With those standards, having a column for references doesn't contribute anything here. Are we providing cites simply to show that these actually existed in fiction? References to the fictional works themselves provide that. So I don't think references are necessary, or really anything more than clutter, until this list is developed to the point that it includes information about these places above and beyond that which is obvious from the fiction. postdlf (talk) 02:25, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

List of towns and villages in fiction?

Referred to as "List of towns and villages in fiction"? 124.106.141.70 (talk) 08:14, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

portsville, la.

Porstville, Louisiana is fairly important in Stop me. I can't tell by the criteria if it justifies being in the list. Kdammers (talk) 23:19, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

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Attribution

Text and references copied from List of fictional counties to List of fictional towns and villages, See former article's history for a list of contributors. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:56, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

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I've added some sources. More are out there. Important literary device. Important list for some of our readers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:00, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Missing from t.v.

Gravity Falls and Idaville from Encyclopedia Brown . Idaville is also the setting for the latter's original books and perhaps for the comic version.Kdammers (talk) 01:49, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 10 January 2021

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Moved as proposed. After much-extended time for discussion, there is a clear consensus that the article should be moved away from its present title, and a narrow consensus that the new title should be the title proposed. BD2412 T 05:36, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

List of fictional towns and villages → List of fictional settlements – The term "settlement" is an umbrella term for villages, towns, cities, etc. The current title does not include "cities" in it. JsfasdF252 (talk) 21:33, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

• Suggest alternate move to List of fictional populated places, per the category Category:Fictional populated places. It's less awkward than "settlements", which can have multiple meanings (such as a legal settlement)._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 12:48, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
  • Added note: this should apply to all sub-articles as well, such as List of fictional towns in animation. In fact, it's unclear whether this article needs to exist and may just need to be renamed to Lists of fictional populated places as a directory article._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 12:51, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
• Oppose, settlements can mean lots of things. neutral on List of fictional populated places, does that include planets, continents, houses, shoes? In ictu oculi (talk) 16:35, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

• While it definitely wouldn't include houses by virtue of the typical usage of "population", why couldn't it also be expanded to include notable continents? The inclusion only of towns and villages is totally arbitrary. As for planets, we could specify there's a separate list for that._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 01:02, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

• Support. List of fictional cities has existed for almost ten years and has always redirected here. So it's just adjusting the title to accurately reflect the scope, and there has been no better suggestion. Andrewa (talk) 22:09, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
• Support move to List of fictional populated places. To match category Category:Populated places and its category tree. Dimadick (talk) 16:45, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
• Support The word "settlement" has a much wider scope and can potentially include fictional nations and kingdoms. KuroNekoNiyah (talk) 02:19, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
• Support: the list actually does include fictional states, cities, neighborhoods, districts, etc. – settlements potentially both larger and smaller than towns or villages. Cnilep (talk) 00:33, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

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Mule Crossing, Wyoming

This wide spot in the road is the general locale of a fair amount of the story in the novel The Midnight line by Lee Child. See https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tie+Siding,+Wyoming+82084/@41.0877967,-105.5093726,11.25z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8768eec99ddec085:0x3c13138e8cc67dc4!8m2!3d41.080261!4d-105.5074918 Kdammers (talk) 03:16, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Pages in Category:Novels set in fictional cities, etc

Following consensus to delete at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_July_7#Category:Novels_set_in_fictional_villages, here are the current contents in case some may be worth adding to the main list. – Fayenatic London 11:06, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Category:Novels set in fictional cities

• Angry Lead Skies
• Bitter Gold Hearts
• Borne (novel)
• The City & the City
• City of Ashes
• City of Bones (Clare novel)
• The City of Brass (novel)
• City of Glass (Clare novel)
• The City of Woven Streets
• Cold Copper Tears
• Cruel Zinc Melodies
• Deadly Quicksilver Lies
• Dread Brass Shadows
• Faded Steel Heat
• Flight to Opar
• Foundryside
• Gilded Latten Bones
• Hadon of Ancient Opar
• Jade City (novel)
• The Lies of Locke Lamora
• Lud-in-the-Mist
• Old Tin Sorrows
• Petty Pewter Gods
• Red Iron Nights
• Sweet Silver Blues
• Un Lun Dun
• Whispering Nickel Idols

Category:Novels set in fictional towns

• Abarat
• A Bend in the River
• The Circus of Dr. Lao
• Dandelion Wine
• Dreamcatcher (novel)
• Insomnia (novel)
• It (novel)
• Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel)
• Stones from the River
• The Town (Richter novel)
• The Witches of Eastwick

Category:Novels set in fictional villages

• Anne of Green Gables
• Count Karlstein
• The Poisonwood Bible
• Stardust (Gaiman novel)
• The Village in the Treetops

Derry, Maine

Derry, Maine is a fictional town in a number of Stephen King's stories and could be added under the Literature section of this article. It is most notably the setting of the 1986 horror novel It. Not only that, but there's already a wikipedia article about Derry, which could be linked to the mentioning of it in this article. TheCoolestFool7 (talk) 03:14, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Craiger, Maryland

This is the town in Agent of Chaos, X Files origin story, by Kami Garcia, where Mulder goes to find more information and attends a meeting of the Illuminates. Is it significant enough to be included? Kdammers (talk) 00:19, 12 October 2024 (UTC)