Talk:List of cities in Wisconsin

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It would be nice to be able to get a link to have all the content on one page.

The column for Incorporation Date is a bit deceiving. It's the date of incorporation as a city; not the original date of incorporation as a settlement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.169.188.225 (talk) 17:21, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

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merger proposal

This article should be merged with List of villages in Wisconsin and, provided that towns are in fact also municipalities, List of towns in Wisconsin, to List of municipalities in Wisconsin. Dylanvt (talk) 02:11, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Agree, this will standardize it with other lists of municipalities. Mattximus (talk) 15:32, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Before engaging in a mindless merger mania, perhaps you should do your homework. Towns in Wisconsin are UNincorporated. Ergo, they are NOT municipalities. MarconiCheese (talk) 15:58, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

No need for sass here, the user who proposed this did say "provided towns are municipalities" and so acknowledged this subtlety. Since they are not, then we can proceed with the simpler merger. Mattximus (talk) 15:56, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

"provided that towns are in fact also municipalities" says that the proposer did no research whatsoever before making this proposal. That type of lackadaisical editing, which relies on getting other people to do the research for you, is not helpful on Wikipedia. MarconiCheese (talk) 16:19, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

This page has been neglected for years. I've brought up many of these lists to featured status in collaboration with many others, however 50 states is too much for me. I know this person didn't do their research but it's better to encourage them if they are willing to do the work to upgrade this neglected page, no? Isn't that helpful for wikipedia? Mattximus (talk) 21:16, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

@MarconiCheese: People like you are what's not helpful for Wikipedia. This is a community. I know nothing about Wisconsin municipalities, but I knew someone else would. I'm terribly sorry for taking ages out of your day to do the research I neglected to do. I hope you will recover soon. Dylanvt (talk) 16:26, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

Looking at examples of other state lists, it appears that there is no consensus either way. There is in fact already a List of municipalities in Wisconsin by population, so I wonder if we just took that list, rebranded it, and made it "List of municipalities in Wisconsin", would that suffice? I could see a reason why someone would only want to look at a list of cities or villages, and if we already have the lists, why get rid of them? That being said, I feel this is worthy of a larger discussion into which types of lists are noteworthy, and maybe something that should be elevated to WPLIST? Griffinofwales (talk) Simple English Wikipedia - Come and join! 22:41, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

It is true that we don't need both a List of municipalities in Wisconsin and a List of municipalities in Wisconsin by population. How we achieve this outcome is not so important; either merge cities and villages and delete the current list by population, or expand the list by population to include all cities and villages and get rid of the current lists of cities and villages, etc. Dylanvt (talk) 21:50, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Thoughts on Merging - October 2021

It sounds like a good idea to merge these articles, however, it may be a confusing arrangement when merged. Users may want the data separated into villages and cities, as well as merged. I believe the solution to this issue would be to have three sections under one article or have two separate articles for the topic. We should really act on this merger proposal sooner than later, especially before 2020 census data is added. - 24vikie, October 27, 2021 14:09

In most cases we just put them together into one table. I think List of municipalities in Colorado is a particularly good example. List of municipalities in Connecticut has a separate list of just cities beneath the list of municipalities. For Pennsylvania on the other hand there is a List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, as well as separate lists of cities, boroughs & town, and townships, which I don't think is necessary. Is it possible to set up tables on Wikipedia to allow two-tiered sorting (e.g. if you first click on "type/designation", then on "population", you would get all the villages sorted from smallest to largest, then all the cities sorted from smallest to largest)? I think that would be ideal. Dylanvt (talk) 21:36, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

The table is sortable so you separate by village/cities in one click. but you are right it's an important feature for merged lists to have. Mattximus (talk) 21:38, 2 November 2021 (UTC)