Category talk:Populated places in British Columbia by regional district

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Bad grammar in cat titles

I just stumbled over the catnames while adding some to Category:Communities in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia because of hte lack of the proper "the" befor the name of the RD......these are not county-names and need to be referred to so Category:Communities of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District. "Of Squamish-Lillooet Regional District]] is ungrammatical and a-stylistic; it's not the same as saying "in Whatcom County" or "in Truro County". This is one of hte only relevant subcats to the RDs, by the way; I'm very opposed to the people-from categories defined by RDS, and even more to using RD cats for geographic features and BC parks and Indian Reserves/governments, but that's a separate issue; for now, the communities cats need to be properly grammatized; right now they're pidgin-sounding.Skookum1 (talk) 14:57, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And further I think the addition of comma-British Columbia in these is redundant and cumbersome....Skookum1 (talk) 14:57, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note my choice of "of" rather than "in"; RDs are formed of municipal governments and unincorporated community representatives; there's no "in" unless RDs are equated with a geographic unit/subdivision, which they shouldn't be, i.e. because there are other government regions that are just as much or more valid, especially for certain kinds of articles (BC Parks esp.).Skookum1 (talk) 14:59, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just made the same typing mistake again - I naturally included "the" which is of course the proper usage; "Squamish-Lillooet Regional District" is not a proper name in the same way that Whatcom County or Pembroke County is; here's waht the catnames should be IMO:

If we're going to use these highly-artificial creations for cat hierarchies, we should at least use them properly, no?Skookum1 (talk) 18:13, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

increasingly irrelevant/undue weight category

This went from "communities" to "settlements" to "populated places" and with that last one it crossed over into the realm of "things that should not be being classified by regional district". Regional districts are not geographic regions and should not be used to divide the province that way; especially because populated places such as Indian Reserves are not "in" the regional district because they are outside their governance; but also because people just DON"T speak of their communities that way... "Communities in the ' Cowichan Valley" is a relevant name; that that regional district includes places on the West Coast of Vancouver Island" obscures the reality of the REGION known as the Cowichan Valley, which doesn't touch the West cost of VAncouver Island. And even more, there is a BIG difference between the Fraser Valley REgional District and the Fraser Valley proper, about half of which is in the Greater VAncouver Regional District. I think the regional district-defined subcategories have to be stopped in their tracks, and there's a case to be made for deleting the regional district categories as a whole as an incorrect method - an original research method - with which to classify places in BC, populated or otherwise. I tire of this, I know I'm the only one who cares, but someone has to....the blind leading the blind is what Wikipedia is turning into, and the inertia of categories such as these, re-classified and obsessivelyi renamed and re-tweaked, leads into that nostrum about a camel being a horse designed by a committee of blind men....Skookum1 (talk) 08:33, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]