[WikiEN-l] Separate articles for U.S. villages and towns

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 25 Jun 2007 at 02:26:22 +0000 (UTC), Benjamin Esham 
<bdesham at 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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