Talk:County/Archive 1

message: There are counties in Canada, but I have no idea how closely they relate to the counties in the United States.  Could some kind Canadian, or someone with knowledge, add to this article as appropriate?  -- Zoe
:user:Bryan Derksen is Canadian if I recall. --maveric149
::I'm a Canadian...right now, I could probably add some bare-bones information, limited to Ontario, because, without research, I'm not sure how similar other provinces would be...but I may look into that in the next few days - Cafemusique
::: Apparently all Maritime provinces are completely divided each into around or less than a dozen counties (see List of New Brunswick counties and List of Nova Scotia counties). PEI has 3 counties. So I assume each county comprises of several towns or cities, and isn't an equivalent of a city ever. But I think only very southern Ontario has counties. --Menchi 01:48 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)
::: For Central Canada: See List of Ontario counties & List of Quebec counties. --Menchi 07:44, 19 Oct 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it's misleading to say that counties exist in ON, since, well, they do.  Regional municipalities are simply taking the notion of a county one step further, and they are usually restricted to urban areas anyway.  Counties in Ontario function very much as counties in the US do; they handle unincorporated lands as well as overarching services such as water, sewage (if any), hydro, etc.  Also, county governments do exist; they are not just a simple "geographic division" or for the sole purpose of promoting tourism.  Needless to say, the notion of a "county" -- especially in Canada, where municipal subdivision types vary widely across the country -- is somewhat complicated.  But that is no reason to change anything, or to try and come up with an overarching definition of what it is with respect to Canada. Darkcore 00:33, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Counties in Canada

message: It seems there is a lot of duplication in the country-specific sections with the
separate articles for those countries.  In particular the section on UK appears
to be identical to the entire article Counties of the United Kingdom.  I
think it would be better to just include a much smaller synopsis in this article
and then link to the full article, somewhat like the US section does.  If
no one has an objection I may try to do this (although I'd prefer somebody
more familiar with the UK do it). Dmeranda 21:51, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication of other article contents 

message: Quote: "In most cases, the shires were named after their shire town (for example Bedfordshire) however exceptions to this rule exist, such as Wiltshire." 
Question: Was Wiltshire not named after its then shire town, Wilton? Or did their names have a common origin?
Quote from History of Wiltshire: "By the 9th Century the district had acquired a definite administrative and territorial organization, Walstan, ealdorman of the Wilsaetan, being mentioned as early as Soc as repelling an attempted invasion of the Mercia".
:replying to anonymous:  Though I'm not an expert, I would be willing to bet that Wiltshire is not an exception. By the way, please sign (using ~~~~) when posting, thanks. --Storkk 01:56, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming shires in England

message: That first paragraph is legalese, as far as I'm concerned.  Do Jacksonville, Florida and Miami, Florida qualify under that convoluted definition?  Zoe (216.234.130.130 00:13, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Counties switching into Regional or Metropolitan Municipalities

message: Should this part of this article be seperated out?  There's about as much here on Atlanta as the rest of the US combined.
CSZero 22:00, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Atlanta 

message: Very little is mentioned of County Councils in Australia, however until recently County Councils were responsible for issues such as distribution of electricity. They had boards and significant turnovers, and board membership on a county council may have been an important step in a political career, or a reward for loyalty.
It would be worthwhile to have some articles regarding the major county councils in at least NSW - not sure of other states.
Garrie 05:00, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  County Councils in Australia 

message: As this article has a reference section that directs the reader to appropriate sources a more specific tag is probably neccesary perhaps the "citation needed" tag could be used if a specific statement is a problem. The tag that was used was the wrong one for this article. --Matt 08:03, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove Source tag 

message: German Länder are no Counties but federals states. German Kreise are sometimes called "counties", sometimes "districts" in English. Consequently the link Counties of Germany is going to Districts of Germany. Therefore I changed it from Länder to Kreise. --213.182.122.47 12:41, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Counties of Germany