Template talk:Wausau, Wisconsin

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[edit] Font sizes of suburbs

I'm trying to figure out the factors used to determine that Weston should be listed alone and at a standard font size while the others are listed small and below. I went to the Appleton template and found the separation of suburbs in that template no more obvious. I'm not sure if there are guidelines for MSA templates. Anyway, it seems to me that generally an incorporated city (such as Schofield) would take precedence over a village. -Acjelen 23:12, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

It took me a while to figure out as well. The difference has to do with population. The municipalities in small typeface have fewer than 10,000 inhabitants. As for the comparative importantce of a city over a village, that takes some explaining...in Wisconsin, these two words refer to two different forms of municipal incorporation, rather than having anything to do with size or importance. There are "villages" with over 30k inhabitants, and cities with less than 500. On the Appleton template, you'll notice Grand Chute...which is actually only a Town (which, in Wisconsin, is what are called "townships" in many other states), although it has something like 19k people. As for MSA templates, I couldn't find the guidelines either...but there are a lot of municipalities left out of these templates that are included in the MSA data from the census bureau. If you find guidelines, please let me know on my talk page. Meanwhile, I hope this has cleared things up a bit wrt your question. Tomer ^TALK 01:06, May 16, 2005 (UTC)