Talk:List of municipalities in Rhode Island

message: It would be nice if populations were included with this list.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.30.138.128 (talk) 00:32, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Include populations?

message: I removed the part about Foster and Glocester sometimes being referred to as Ponaganset. Unless somebody can source that, I can't help but to think it is not true. I have often heard them talked about together aka "no school Foster/Glocester" due to the towns sharing a school district, but never referred to simply by the name of the high school.68.9.130.10 (talk) 01:35, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
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message: User:Dilidor made some changes and I just want to explain the revert. Almost all of what was chanced was factually incorrect. For example, claiming there are 3 forms of government, when the Home Rule Charter states: "Rhode Island’s municipalities operate under 4 different forms of government: 1) mayor-council, 2) council-manager, 3) administrator-council and 4) town council-town meeting. " Changing dates from sourced official sites [] to completely unsourced dates, etc. Also moving an image into the reference section is against the style required for featured list status. I hope this explains the revert. Mattximus (talk) 00:34, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Your huge reversion was utterly unacceptable. If there are specific details that you disagree with, change them individually. I made a great many edits, the vast majority of which were improvements and necessary corrections. A large percentage of the dates are wrong and need to be corrected. You contend that my corrections are unsourced—but most of the wrong dates are already unsourced. The images shredded the article's layout, and that's the reason why I moved them down. The map appears to be in the reference section, but it's not. Nonetheless, to alleviate your concerns, I will move it up to the top where it ought to be in the first place. Now if my edits have produced any inaccurate information, edit it individually rather than a wholesale revert.  —Dilidor (talk) 10:34, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

text: I have now moved the map to the top and the gallery to the bottom—where galleries belong—and have restored the fourth form of government, despite the fact that it does not exist in RI. If some of the date changes are inaccurate, kindly address them individually. The countless other edits that I made are improvements.  —Dilidor (talk) 10:42, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem is that your edits you made did not change the source. For example if you want to change if from 4 forms of government to 3 forms of government you also have to change the source, which states 4. And yes your change did move an image into the reference section. All the dates were accurate to the source, so every single one of your changes (each one was unsourced!) had to be reverted. You didn't add a single source for any of your date changes. You also made some linking changes that are unexplained and make this list different from all the other list of cities. Let's discuss any specific changes you would like to make here before beginning an edit war. At the very least you need to source your changes. Mattximus (talk) 10:50, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

text: I did not change it from 4 to 3—I reverted it to 4 and restored the fourth form! I do not understand what you are suggesting when you write "you also have to change the source". The image is not in the references, it is in the into! Did you even look at the changes which you most recently have wantonly reverted? And if "all the dates were accurate to the source", then that "source" is utterly unreliable. The article initially claimed that Providence was established in 1832! That is utterly ludicrous! What is your source for that absurd date? —Dilidor (talk) 16:42, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a list of municipalities and the source gives incorporation dates of those municipalities (click the reference for Providence, and then explain why you think the official Rhode Island website is "ludicrous"). The problem with many of your efforts are that you are changing them without giving a proper source. Also with respect to formatting (be it linking and moving around the images), these were already discussed during the featured list nomination and this was the conclusion. I do welcome any changes that are sourced, but if you want to make sweeping changes to the format, please discuss here first, before changing a featured list. Your changes could cost the list featured status otherwise. Mattximus (talk) 23:39, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

text: Clarification on my recent revert. You changed the official name "council-manager" which is the language present on all official documents, with "council and manager" which is not. Unless you provide a source for this new terminology, this is the example of adding something that is factually incorrect. Mattximus (talk) 23:42, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok now you reverted with no explanation. Your revert uses the term "council and manager" which is not the official name for this type of government. All the sources use "council-manager". Please stop edit warring, if you really want this change you will need a source. Mattximus (talk) 11:25, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

text: "I do welcome any changes that are sourced". I appreciate your magnanimous generosity. This article clearly belongs to you. I have asked you several times to name your source and you only reply with vague references to "the source" and "the official RI website". You also appear to be ignorant of RI history and the fact that Providence was established by Roger Williams in 1636. That is what is ludicrous in the absurd date which you continually revert to without resolving it here. Desist from your edit warring and discuss it here. Dilidor (talk) 12:32, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: First you have a history of edit warring, which leads me to believe this isn't your first target. Second, every date is sourced in the article itself, you just have to click the reference. Second you also didn't read the column note which shows that these are incorporation dates, since the article is about incorporated municipalities. Before you continue your edit war, please click and read the reference for that date. Mattximus (talk) 13:17, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know how to get this notion through to you: there is no "note" or source on Providence! I have asked you at least three times: what is your source? And you continually evade with non-answers telling me to "read the note" which is not there. If you cannot provide a source, then the date stands at 1663.  —Dilidor (talk) 12:45, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: You don't have to ask me, you just click on the little 6 or 7 (the references were there the whole time, you just never clicked on them). I cross-referenced all dates with those two references, you just have to click on the little number right beside Date Incorporated. Again, you have a history of edit warring, so please stop adding dates without any sources, and changing the wording (from council-manager to council and manager) that not only is incorrect but breaks the wikilink. Mattximus (talk) 22:38, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

text: OK this is getting ridiculous, it's council-manager, not council AND manager (as per all sources cited). You changed the terminology but provided NO references to back it up, then broke the wikilink to council-manager. And you can't add founding date to a column called incorporation date, that makes no sense. Columns are for 1 concept. Please discuss changes one at a time on here first, because the changes you are making will mean that this list no longer meets featured list standards because of random fact placement, unsourced changes, etc... Mattximus (talk) 00:18, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent changes by Dilidor 

message: “Exter” 100.40.110.193 (talk) 17:44, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exeter is misspelled on the second header image