On 25 Jun 2007 at 02:26:22 +0000 (UTC), Benjamin Esham bdesham@gmail.com wrote:
In any context other than a strictly legal one, however, both the town and village are simply "Geneseo", and I believe that Wikipedia should reflect that fact with a single unified page.
I grew up in (the town of) Poughkeepsie, New York, and there, the town and city of Poughkeepsie are recognized by everybody as distinct things, culturally as well as legally. However, there's still some blurring; I see the article on [[Poughkeepsie (city), New York]] mentions the IBM plant in the "Industry" section, when that is actually in the Town of Poughkeepsie. When locals reflect on what's significant about Poughkeepsie to the rest of the world, they tend to blur together things in the city and things in the town (and maybe sometimes even drag in things in adjacent towns like Wappinger and Hyde Park), but when thinking locally they recognize the distinctions.
Maybe it's just me, but I think that gives you/us an excellent reason to put them both in the same article and explain the difference (as long as the article length allows it). That should make it easier to catch mistakes with people mixing up town and city - if it's named in the first line.
On 6/25/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On 25 Jun 2007 at 02:26:22 +0000 (UTC), Benjamin Esham bdesham@gmail.com wrote:
In any context other than a strictly legal one, however, both the town
and
village are simply "Geneseo", and I believe that Wikipedia should
reflect
that fact with a single unified page.
I grew up in (the town of) Poughkeepsie, New York, and there, the town and city of Poughkeepsie are recognized by everybody as distinct things, culturally as well as legally. However, there's still some blurring; I see the article on [[Poughkeepsie (city), New York]] mentions the IBM plant in the "Industry" section, when that is actually in the Town of Poughkeepsie. When locals reflect on what's significant about Poughkeepsie to the rest of the world, they tend to blur together things in the city and things in the town (and maybe sometimes even drag in things in adjacent towns like Wappinger and Hyde Park), but when thinking locally they recognize the distinctions.
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