Talk:List of villages in Massachusetts
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[edit] List cleanup
The differences between a "village" and a "neighborhood" and a "census-designated place" and a "section" or "district" are quite fuzzy, and in many cases there are different terms used to refer to the same thing.
I've just added a long list of named places from the Secretary of the Commonwealth. I think this list is too long to keep here, and I would suggest the following:
- Weed out any names that are railroad stations and not neighborhoods. Usually the articles on the (possibly former) railroad line will list stations, and these railroad articles can be linked from the article on the municipality.
- Weed out any names that are for post offices only. I don't think Wikipedia keeps track of this information.
- For each real neighborhood (XXX), make a redirect from "XXX, Massachusetts" to the article on the municipality that it's in, unless there's already an article on that neighborhood (like say for Savin Hill).
- Chop up the list of real neighborhoods among the articles on each municipality.
I wonder if we should just merge the categories for Massachusetts villages, neighborhoods, and CDPs (see Category:Settlements in Massachusetts) into one big one, while maintaining the local terminology in articles. These are really one class of thing with local variations as to the name.
I'm not sure that we need to list neighborhoods in county articles, though that does seem more useful if there is an actual article for the sub-municipal entity, or for those that cross municipal boundaries.
It would also be nice to have maps for each municipality, of course, but that will require a lot of local research. -- Beland (talk) 14:47, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
