Talk:United States micropolitan area

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This article and Micropolis both cover the Census Bureau definition and creation of micropolitan statistical areas. --Swid 19:15, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

If these areas are drawing "refugees" (bad terminology) as the article says, and have all sorts of advantages over larger metropolitan areas, then why isn't their share of the population set to increase? Article fails to explain. Mjk2357 19:36, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Much of this article seems to be lifted right from this magazine-feature-type article here: http://www.matr.net/article-11115.html —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.255.76.43 (talk • contribs) 16:51, 9 July 2007.

[edit] Abbreviation

Please note the following section of the Manual of Style:

Do not invent abbreviations or acronyms Generally avoid the making up of new abbreviations, especially acronyms. For example, while it is reasonable to provide World Union of Billiards as a translation of Union Mondiale de Billard, the former is not the organization's name, and it does not use the acronym or initialism WUB; when referring to it in short form, use the official abbreviation UMB. In a wide table of international economic data, it might be desirable to abbreviate a United States gross national product heading; this might be done with the widely recognized initialisms US and GNP spaced together, with a link to appropriate articles, if it is not already explained: US GNP, rather than the made-up initialism USGNP.

This article and others on Wikipedia use the made-up abbreviation μSA for Micropolitan Statistical Area. I have not seen this abbreviation used by OMB, the Census Bureau, or any other authoritative source. If anyone has a reference supporting the use of this abbreviation, please provide it, otherwise the use of this abbreviation violates the Wikipedia style guideline and should be changed. --Russ (talk) 12:49, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

This abbreviation has been used since the United States Census Bureau defined the concept of a Micropolitan Statistical Area. The Census Bureau itself does not use abbreviations for any of its statistical areas. The Greek lowercase letter μ (mu) is used to denote "micro-" in the International System of Units. --Buaidh (talk) 06:58, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

"This abbreviation has been used" -- yes, but by whom? The style guide cites WP:NOR, which means that reliable sources are needed to demonstrate use of the abbreviation. FYI, a Google search for μSA turns up about 3,790 hits, but "μSA -Wikipedia" returns only 1,330, and all the ones that refer to micropolitan areas appear to be Wikipedia mirror sites. --Russ (talk) 09:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)