Template talk:Subdivisions of British Columbia

message: How do "regions" relate to Regional Districts? Near as I can figure the "regions" are a B.C. tourism categorization. Regional Districts are local governments. Not exactly comparable.  --maclean25 06:54, 7 September 1996 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/discussion#Harmonizing_province_templates. Circeus 18:39, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I know this is a deviation from other provinces, but under the Local Governments Act, communities of over 5000 with a certain population density (can't rememember what it is now) must be incorporated as cities.  The Union of BC Municipalities lists fully 46 communities incorporated as cities - from tiny Greenwood to mighty Vancouver.  Meanwhile, large incorporated districts like Saanich or the District of North Vancouver, don't qualify to be on the list.  Hence my change.  Hope that this meets with general approval.  The figures come from the 2001 census, and the "other major communities" are those communities that fill out the top 30 in the province. Fishhead64 01:47, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I fully support the change, as it makes the template much more useful. It has been cycling back and forth as to what is included or not. If it's restricted to only cities, then some significant population centres are omitted, which diminishes the effectiveness of the list. (I don't think someone reading this template cares whether or not a place is, legally speaking, a city. They're more likely to be interested in what the larger population centres are.) Plus, the template would omit (for example) the District of North Vancouver and the Township of Langley, but include the adjacent (and significantly smaller) City of North Vancouver and City of Langley (respectively). I seem to recall an earlier argument that it was to do with matching the other provincial templates. From what I can see, the only standard with the other templates is that they're all non-standard. Some have counties, some have electoral districts, etc. Definite improvement, and the population breakdown is even better. --Ckatz 01:56, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Changed from "cities" to "major communities"

message: The template has been moved twice in the last few months, and now there's a number of doube redirects. This prevents the template from being displayed, see Maple Ridge, British Columbia , Regional District of Comox-Strathcona, British Columbia, etc (all transclusions (and direct links) from the old template). --Qyd 22:08, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I fixed the links in the other provincial templates, so now there's less than 100 pages left where  has to be replaced/updated. Either that, or moving the template back to . --Qyd 14:08, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Nevermind, fixed with redirect bypass, thanks Gpvos. --Qyd 04:27, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double redirects 

message: Haven't noticed this template in a while, noticed the way the communities section is broiken down.  RD Electoral Areas are scarcely communities, though often scanning several within a wide-ranging boundary;they're also redundant as a section here because RDs themselves are listed separately.  What I'm weighing in on, though, is the inclusion of the ghost towns here, also the First Nations; granted, there is no separate List of unincorporated settlements in British Columbia or List of First Nations communities in British Columbia but these should be the terms of reference; the ghost towns are not all relevant as habited, or even ever habited; and the link to the First Nations directly isn't quite right, as even within a given reserve there can be more than one community potentially listed; in general b3ecause many aboriginal communities are also non-aboriginal, and many incorporated settltements are heavily aboriginal either from flanking major reserves or even without them, I'm not sure tehre's a point in trying to list aboriginal communities separately; the rough equivlanet ot actual First Nations if the RDs, though not in a protocolic sense.  Anyway the sections here jump over towns and villages to go straight from municipalities to FNs and ghost towns; this isn't right.  Don't have time to tweak it, had dropped by here to leave a note before proceeding to Talk:List of regions of Canada where some tweaking on the BC section is needed.Skookum1 (talk) 13:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Electoral areas are not listed at all in this template. Regional Municipalities are, and they are important, as they are a form of government (municipal incorporation). First Nations in British Columbia and List of ghost towns in British Columbia are both linked here. It would be a stretch to make a group with all first nations (how many are there in BC, 500?). As far as ghost towns go, most pages are still missing.--Qyd (talk) 15:35, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Oops, retract, read your comment more carefully, you are right, will move the electoral district to the subdivisions list. --Qyd (talk) 15:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unincorporated settlements v. ghost towns

message: What is the legal status of this communities, and how are they different from any other unincorporated settlement? It is not explained in List of communities in British Columbia. --Qyd (talk) 15:35, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Generally speaking, there is no legal status... Oyama et al exist as discrete electoral wards and may or may not appear in the Lake Country District Municipality letters patent, but I imagine the majority see no mention in the consolidated statutes.  In that respect, yes, they're like an unincorporated community, in there isn't a municipal corporation with their name but they do nonetheless exist in terms of Wikipedia articles.  They aren't strictly speaking unincorporated though, as they fall within a municipality.  The Tom (talk) 18:58, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The parallel would seem to be Clayburn and Bradner and Matsqui and Clearbrook and Huntingdon and so on within the City of Abbotsford, or Stave Falls and Steelhead and Silverdale, Silverhill, Cedar Valley, Hatzic and Ferndale and various others within the District of Mission; the distinction is that Oyama and its other Lake Country siblings (what a dumb name for a municipality....how realty-promo flavoured...) used to be incorporated separately (or not?).  Matsqui of course was incorporated separately, although Matsqui Village was not within the District of Matsqui (a big distinction)Skookum1 (talk) 19:34, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Detached Communities

message: Hey Skookum, if you want, you could do subgroups for "interior" and "lower mainland." It might be easier to understand than various regions within brackets. Not a necessity, just a suggestion. - TheMightyQuill (talk) 04:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  regions subgroups 

message: |group12 = List of Geological Regions
|list12  = 
*Cache Creek Terrane
}}
|group13 = List of Ecological Regions
|list13  = 
*Vancouver Island
}}
Eyreland (talk) 21:02, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Geology + Eco Regions