Talk:Unorganized territory
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There are unorganized territories confusingly listed by organized town names in Wikipedia for Minnesota and perhaps other states, however they have no legal or local meaning. I suggest these pages be removed from Wikipedia, or perhaps renamed to refer to the zip code that serves the incorporated town and surrounding areas. My frame of reference is for the unorganized territory of Northome page. There is also a more valid entry for the town called Northome, Minnesota (no crosslinks between these two pages before today). In this county there are surrounding townships which at one time had a civil meaning, but they were forcibly disbanded, so now they essentially hold survey purposes only. These townships (Bridgie, Engelking, etc) are named, but none are named Northome. There is no unorganized region of any size called "Northome". Possibly these pages were generated by zip codes? There are probably many other pages in a similiar situation, which is why I bring it up on this page. Nerfer 18:47, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
- I don't see the problem. There is an article at Northome, Minnesota, which where most people would expect to find the city info. The unorganized territory is a designation by the Census Bureau for representing statistical data in ten states where no minor civil divisions exist in all or portions of some counties. The statistical data is real, and may be of some minor interest. There seems little risk of confusion with the names of the articles being what they are. There should certainly be cross-links from the UT to the city (and perhaps vice versa). older ≠ wiser 22:36, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Okay, thanks to Wiki members I now realize that the term "unorganized territory" is used by the U.S. Census Bureau in these cases (but not apparently by any governing or surveying entity). So for the page I'm interested in, I added a cross-link and a description. The census map link that somebody added is apparently broken, but I was able to find something related. (I left the link there in the hopes that it's restored or somebody else knows what was intended and how to fix it).Nerfer 19:18, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
