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List of towns in British Columbia

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Nominator(s): Cos (X + Z) 19:15, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Another BC municipalities list that I have done work on. I hope you enjoy. Cos (X + Z) 19:15, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

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  • Lead image could be made larger
  • "Towns, cities, districts and villages in British Columbia are referred to as municipalities and all are included in local governments in the province, which may be incorporated under the Local Governance Act of 2015." - this sentence is confusing - what does the "which may be" refer to? The province? The local governments?
  • "In order for a municipality in British Columbia to be labelled as a town" - "labelled" implies something that people just informally call something. I would use a more formal verb such as "categorized"
  • "Although the population of Port McNeill fall below this threshold, and all the populations except for Princeton, Lake Cowichan, Golden and Gibsons go above this threshold, they are still categorized as towns" - I would redo this whole bit as "Although the population of Port McNeill falls below this threshold, it is still categorized as a town, as are nine settlements with populations greater than 5,000."
  • " while the province's newest town is View Royal on December 5, 1988" => " while the province's newest town is View Royal, which incorporated on December 5, 1988"
  • That's what I got :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:55, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @ChrisTheDude I have resolved your comments. Cos (X + Z) 14:43, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:10, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Generalissima

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I'm judging things here by the basis of List of cities in New Brunswick, a recently promoted and similar FL; it appears you based the body off of this, good choice.

  • Optional: Add the variable "abbr=on" to your convert template in the lede; with the large numbers already, we gotta do what we can to shorten it.
    done
  • You should cite every instance of the regional districts in the list; because the list can be rearranged by the reader, "first usage" doesn't really apply.\
    done
  • I would take a leaf (heh) from the New Brunswick article and put the whole population through density columns under a first order "2021 Census of Population" column. Makes the population density unambiguous.
    done
  • Give units for the population density. 1,103.2 per what?
    km2. clarified.
  • Are there any sources that talk about the structure of local governments for towns? Do they have mayors, councils, what? Those would be good to include for context.
    all municipalities have councils.
  • Like in the New Brunswick article, you should also have a column for the province as a whole so you can see what percentage of people live in a town (I assume a very small number here.)
    done.
  • Former town section looks good.
  • The one image is relevant and correctly formatted.
  • Were any of these settlements villages before they became towns? If so, which date does "Incorporation Date" reflect?
    The Incorporation Date reflects when the municipality got promoted to a town. clarified.

@CosXZ: That's my piece. Thank you for your good work. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 18:35, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Generalissima I have resolved your comments. Cos (X + Z) 19:43, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
CosXZ This looks great! Support. Optional, but it could be good to indicate if a settlement was previously a village or unincorporated before it became a town. maybe just adding (from village) in parentheses after the date? Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 19:51, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments (source review)

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  • The first and second sentences should be flipped. The second sentence lists the topic of the article pretty directly.
  • I would also drop the "As of 2024", which seems silly for something that doesn't really change very often (the last one was in 1988)
  • became a town on October 31, 1987[7] and then amalgamated with the Northern Rockies Regional District on February 6, 2009 to you need commas after each year in this sentence
  • Is there a reason to use amalgamated instead of a more common English like "combined"?
  • In the table, text should either be centered or left justified, but definitely not right justified
  • Source review:
    • Refs 2, 4 and 5 all cite the Government of BC. Ref 4 has this italicized, while the others dont.
    • Ref 9 is a dead link for me
    • In the table, where is the "Regional district" information sourced from? I can't find it in Ref 3
    • All other spot checks look good.

CosXZ, nice work! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 16:23, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gonzo fan2007 I have resolved your comments. Cos (X + Z) 17:10, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

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I know I'm being repetitive with this comment, but isn't this page a fork of List of municipalities in British Columbia? In that the table is entirely a subset of the table from there? Mattximus (talk) 16:33, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I made the table styled like List of cities in New Brunswick. Cos (X + Z) 21:32, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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