Template talk:Virginia

message: I do not agree with the changes in the template:Virginia. Washington DC is not a major city of Virginia, in fact, its not even in Virginia! And, how does one include Roanoke and exclude many larger cities? Please explain and perhaps we can work out the bugs. Vaoverland 06:23, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
I am reverting this template page to the earlier vesrion. The new version will be listed under draft. There are too many porblems which are not being addresses yet to not take this action. Vaoverland 01:34, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
Okay, I think I found where I erred.  I intended the Washington, DC link to go to access the 1,789,227-resident Virginia portion of the Washington, DC urban area.  I redirected that link to "Northern Virginia," a page that I didn't really notice already exists.  
Likewise, "Virginia Beach" now goes to "Hampton Roads," a metro area that includes Newport News, Hampton, Norfolk, Chesapeake, and Portsmouth.  
And Richmond (the metro area) now goes to "Richmond-Petersburg," the metro area.  
Roanoke, with 197,442 residents in its urbanized area, ranks next.  The larger cities (by population) are mostly included in "Hampton Roads," all included in the other metro areas, and in any case, are listed under "Independent Cities."  Roanoke apparently doesn't have its own metropolitan area page, so I just linked it to the city of Roanoke. 
Tell me if you like the new draft.  
Dufekin 13:49, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Changes

message: Hi all.  Mahtanza brought to my attention that the Virginia article still has its outdated template sitting at the bottom.  This new template looks great.  Is this project stalled or perhaps finished?  Is this go for launch?  Thanks!  Monkeyman 23:12, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New Template Ready?

message: Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. states/state templates lists and displays all 50 U.S. state (and additional other) templates. It potentially can be used for ideas and standardization. //MrD9 07:26, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: U.S. state templates

message: If Warrenton gets in, Leesburg and Culpeper ought to be included in that list. If Abingdon gets in, so too should Wytheville, Marion and maybe Norton/Wise (the two are virtually next door to each other). Maybe Pulaski can get in as well (I didn't know it was pushing 10k in population) and there is sufficient "open space" between it and Roanoke. If Suffolk gets in, then so should Poquoson and Williamsburg, although all three are really covered under the Virginia Beach/Hampton Roads area. FWIW, those outside the area refer to the whole cluster as "Tidewater" or "Hampton Roads" similarly to how those outside of Northern Virginia refer to the whole area as "NoVA." 
Also, should this template go in for any city or state in Virginia? Shawn Pickrell 15:53, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Smaller urban centers

message: Is there a particular reason why this template is light green?  I understand the idea of trying to match the flag, but it doesn't exactly match. Wouldn't it be better to just go with the default used by  to avoid having a rainbow at the bottom of the page when this navbox is next to another one and per WP:ACCESSIBILITY?  Please let me know if there is a strong reason to have it a particular color.  I noticed this was attempted recently, but was reverted, so I thought I would be proactive and start a thread here to avoid an edit war. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 21:51, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Since there were no objections, I went ahead and made the change.  Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 03:25, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Light green