Category talk:Pages using US Census population needing update

Adding parameter

@Jonesey95, what would it take to add this parameter to this category, in order to catch pages that never had estimates added?

A value for |2010= but no value for |2020=.

I'm not really sure how documentation works for tracking cats. Star Garnet (talk) 19:24, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Having a value for 2010 but not for 2020 is a valid edge case for a historical place that existed in 2010 but no longer existed in 2020. See, as an example of something not exactly the same, Manganese, Minnesota. I suppose a new parameter could be added to the template to indicate a formerly populated place that should not expect further updates, but until that exists and is placed into the articles that need it, testing for 2020 without 2010 could result in false positives. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:24, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There are already a number of false positives (Atkinson, Maine, Borough of Princeton, New Jersey, etc.), and there's only roughly a 10% chance that an extinct locale's most recent census figure is a decennial one, so I doubt adding this would increase the false positive rate by much if at all. If we consider the final census estimate for an extinct locale to be meaningful info, it would help to identify instances where that info is missing. Star Garnet (talk) 02:07, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

We should probably check for extinct places. I recommend starting a new thread at Template talk:US Census population to discuss what it should be called, along with the if/then conditions that would make it work properly. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:24, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]