Template talk:Subdivisions of British Columbia
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How do "regions" relate to Regional Districts? Near as I can figure the "regions" are a B.C. tourism categorization. Regional Districts are local governments. Not exactly comparable. --maclean25 06:54, 7 September 1996 (UTC)
- See Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/discussion#Harmonizing_province_templates. Circeus 18:39, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Changed from "cities" to "major communities"
I know this is a deviation from other provinces, but under the Local Governments Act, communities of over 5000 with a certain population density (can't rememember what it is now) must be incorporated as cities. The Union of BC Municipalities lists fully 46 communities incorporated as cities - from tiny Greenwood to mighty Vancouver. Meanwhile, large incorporated districts like Saanich or the District of North Vancouver, don't qualify to be on the list. Hence my change. Hope that this meets with general approval. The figures come from the 2001 census, and the "other major communities" are those communities that fill out the top 30 in the province. Fishhead64 01:47, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
- I fully support the change, as it makes the template much more useful. It has been cycling back and forth as to what is included or not. If it's restricted to only cities, then some significant population centres are omitted, which diminishes the effectiveness of the list. (I don't think someone reading this template cares whether or not a place is, legally speaking, a city. They're more likely to be interested in what the larger population centres are.) Plus, the template would omit (for example) the District of North Vancouver and the Township of Langley, but include the adjacent (and significantly smaller) City of North Vancouver and City of Langley (respectively). I seem to recall an earlier argument that it was to do with matching the other provincial templates. From what I can see, the only standard with the other templates is that they're all non-standard. Some have counties, some have electoral districts, etc. Definite improvement, and the population breakdown is even better. --Ckatz 01:56, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
