Talk:Lake Edward Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 22:26, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Lake Edwards Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota → Lake Edward Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota – Significant available references, including the United States Census Bureau and Crow Wing County's website name the township without the extra "s". ACME Mapper, Bing Maps, and Google Maps all show a lake in the eastern part of the township as "Lake Edward" or "Edward Lake". Backspace (talk) 18:07, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why not just Lake Edward Township, Minnesota? Vegaswikian (talk) 02:12, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Standardization? Just check all of the other townships in the county (or just about any other county). Backspace (talk) 10:52, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No, the county should only be added if the township name is applied to multiple townships in the state. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:57, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I would be a little more worried about "is" than "should". It's a bit less subjective. That would leave it as the sole "odd man out", not only in Crow Wing County, but probably the entire state of Minnesota as well. I am aware that there are cases in other states/provinces where this does not appear to hold, but generally, I think that it is standard practice. Backspace (talk) 17:32, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The standard practice with Minnesota townships has been to use Township, County, State. For consistency, this one should remain that way too. Omnedon (talk) 17:36, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for chiming in. I actually have the authority to move this page myself, but since it's not something that I normally do, and I wasn't immediately aware of how to do it, I just defaulted to asking an administrator. I notice that you do maps. I think that we need a new one for Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, which I recently edited. Backspace (talk) 19:56, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Vegaswikian: According to WP:USPLACE, the convention for minor civil divisions such as township is made on a state-wide basis. If the convention for Minnesota is to always include the county, we should follow that. Jafeluv (talk) 11:24, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support. I see that the USGS, US Census, etc. identify the township as Lake Edward. ╠╣uw [talk] 10:14, 31 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.