Template talk:Maryland

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The footer is way too large and will force people to scroll I don't see the relevance of the governor here. All the other listings are places. There can be a MediaWiki:Maryland_cities but trying to include every remote political division or related topic of Maryland is absurd. --Jiang 02:43, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Which of the cities listed do you feel is a "remote political division"? I do not understand how you can claim that the Governor of Maryland is not relevant to Maryland. Tuf-Kat 02:50, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)

A footer should not be a replacement for a List of Maryland-related topics. What does the governor have to do with the other items listed? Why not keep the subdivisions at the county level? It's more manageable that way. Footers should be made only for cities within each individual county. --Jiang 02:54, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

If a list of Maryland-related topics existed, it would contain many more links than were in this box. The Governor I could lose, but the cities are relevant. I don't want to keep the subdivisions at the county level because the cities are far more relevant for learning about Maryland geography, and there are no "manageability" issues since neither cities nor counties change very often. I'm not willing to argue this with you, Jiang, go ahead and do whatever you want. Tuf-Kat 03:27, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Notable cities 2 U.S. state templates 3 Harmonizing Template:Maryland 4 Notable Cities 5 Standardization of state templates

[edit] Notable cities

I believe that this title refers to both incorporated and unincorporated cities (or it should in any event). If it is only referring to officially incorporated cities, then the title is only relevant to 2 cities in Maryland, Annapolis and Baltimore (Boothy, Frederick? It has never, then or now, even in Antietam times, been an important city). --Noitall 13:03, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

I know for a fact that Bowie is incorporated (since I live there). --tomf688^<TALK> 21:18, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

True, but that is not what I am stating. Notable "cities" refers to both incorporated and unincorporated cities, especially since Maryland is dominated by the latter. --Noitall 01:00, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Therefore, I would like to make the notable cities consistent with the Maryland page. Since I suppose it should be limited, I propose the following (any questions and I will go into my rationale -- and forgive me Tom for not including Bowie):

Annapolis | Baltimore | Columbia | Ocean City | Rockville | Towson

--Noitall 01:46, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Not Acceptable. , and until a appropate solution is compiled and reasonable resons for changes besides, "Frederick? It has never, then or now, even in Antietam times, been an important city, which is total bs based on the changes, then i will change it back to what it was at the start and will revert changes. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 05:37, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

This discussion has been here for awhile and you did not respond. "Not acceptable" is not a reason and makes me think you have some POV town at stake here. In any event, the notability should correspond in some manner with the Maryland page. I think that can be pared down to what I proposed. The problem with your proposal is there is no limit and nothing is notable. We might as well dump every single city and town in it. My initial edit is the only workable proposal unless you want to make some argument more than "not acceptable".--Noitall 05:47, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

The only POV i see is from you, and i don't see you making an argument for any change. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 05:49, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

You are the one trying to revert and change my edit, you tell me what is wrong with it and why yours is better. I wrote a couple paragraphs on my rationale already. We haven't heard anything from you except that you love Frederick. --Noitall 06:00, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

A paragraph after someone challanged you n your edits, i didn't see you trying to discuss any changes before you did them, nor did i see you give any kinda of rational behind you changes untill i challanged you on it, and the only thing you could do was put up the bs Frederick statement. So the burden for changes from the start is in you hands, so unless you plan onhaving a revert war, then you mine as well start discussing. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 06:43, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

You are lazy and have stated some misleading statements, which does not get you off on a good start for any rationale that you refuse to state. See if you can use your brain instead of your revert button. Let me start you off here: Important cities and towns See incorporated cities at List of cities in Maryland and unincorporated cities at List of census-designated places in Maryland.

• Annapolis – state capital, home of United States Naval Academy
• Baltimore – most populous city; commercial and cultural hub
• College Park – D.C. suburb, home to the University of Maryland, College Park
• Columbia – large unincorporated planned community managed by The Rouse Company; were it incorporated, it would be Maryland's 2nd largest city
• Ellicott City – county seat of Howard County
• Frederick – western gateway to Appalachian Mountains, suburban center
• Hagerstown – largest community in 3 county Western Maryland region, has decaying industrial base
• Ocean City – very popular beach resort on Atlantic coastline; 2nd most populous city in numbers of residents during the summer months
• Rockville – county seat and business center of Montgomery County northwest of Washington
• Salisbury – largest city and business center of Delmarva pennisula
• Towson – county seat of suburban Baltimore County

--Noitall 06:56, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Wow thats not even what was on the template you proposed, and would not say that you any less lazy then my self. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 06:59, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

It was a direct cut and paste from the reference I gave twice on this page and which either your lazy eyes or your lazy brain refused to notice. Let's see if you can read what else I wrote about paring it down. At least I am willing to consider any proposal you make, if you have ANY rationale at all, even going so far as to include your cherished city of Frederick (but reserving the right to keep laughing as to your assertion that "Frederick as that is one of the most important Cities in the state") --Noitall 07:11, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

You know what about about this, no change. you dont like it to bad, but i am not going to work with the likes of you. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 07:14, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Fine, this is not a charity where anyone has to edit article OR work with lazy POV pushing editors. Take your Frederick POV elsewhere. --Noitall 10:19, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] U.S. state templates

Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. states/state templates lists and displays all 50 U.S. state (and additional other) templates. It potentially can be used for ideas and standardization. //MrD9 07:16, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Harmonizing Template:Maryland

Finished harmonizing Template:Maryland User:BigBang11 00:05 PST 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Umm yeah, wasnt really harmonized. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 08:09, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable Cities

The previous Notable Cities list seemed to pick cities at random so I replaced it with one based strictly on population with a cutoff of 20,000.

Baltimore 636,251 Columbia 88,254 (unincorp) Silver Spring 76,540 (unincorp) Gaithersburg 58,091 Rockville 57,100 Frederick 57,009 Germantown 55,419 (unincorp) Bethesda 55,277 (unincorp) Bowie 53,840 Towson 51,793 (unincorp) Hagerstown 37,536 Annapolis 36,217 College Park 25,350 Waldorf 22,312 (unincorp) Greenbelt 22,176 Laurel 21,048 Cumberland 20,957 from http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/tables/SUB-EST2004-04-24.xls, unincorporated populations looked up at http://censtats.census.gov/cgi-bin/pct/pctProfile.pl Kmusser 19:21, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Standardization of state templates

There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding standardization of state templates (primarily regarding layout and styling) at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. states/state templates. An effort was made earlier this year to standardize Canadian province templates (which mostly succeeded). Lovelac7 and I have already begun standardizing all state templates. If you have any concerns, they should be directed toward the discussion page for state template standardization. Thanks! — Webdinger ^{BLAH | SZ} 22:48, 27 August 2006 (UTC)