Talk:Halifax (former city)

message: This article tells us virtually nothing about Halifax other than its history and is thus extremely defective. One would like to know the usual things about Halifax that one finds about other cities (or municipalities!!!) in wikipedia such as tourist attractions, educational instutions, current cultural activities, etc. The article should be renames "History of halifax."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.237.57.74 (talk) 14:59, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Something to be aware about is that there only is a history. The city of Halifax no longer exists. The information you are looking for is in at the Halifax Regional Municipality which is what now exists where Halifax (and some other cities) used to be located. -DJSasso (talk) 15:49, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  The problem highlighted by the comment of IP 69.237.57.74 underscores the reason why this article must be moved to a more descriptive name (such as Halifax (former city)), because users looking for the article about the capital of Nova Scotia will find this article, when they are actually looking for  Halifax Regional Municipality! This "City of Halifax" title should be used as a redirect to "Halifax Regional Municipality" to eliminate such confusion. Dolovis (talk) 17:54, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The IP claims to have read the entire article, but his comments implies he didn't make it to the second sentence. 117Avenue (talk) 05:53, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
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message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Halifax which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 05:44, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: All of this page should be included in the Halifax Regional Municipality article. Seriously. This is so unnecessary. Or rename this page History of Halifax. NickCochrane (talk) 03:36, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: When a city is disestablished, it does not lose its notability. The city and the regional municipality are completely different municipalities. 117Avenue (talk) 04:35, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly the shift from city to municipality can be adequately noted in the HRM article.  A HRM history page needs to be created that includes the development of the municipality that provides a general history/ overview of all the communities within it (i.e., starting with the founding of Halifax in 1749, the forts built at Sackville and Dartmouth the following year, migration to Lawrencetown in 1754, to the amalgamation, etc.).  This main history page for HRM can link to other history pages of specific local communities in the HRM. The current Halifax (former city) should be integrated into an article on the History of HRM --Hantsheroes (talk) 10:27, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

text: No because you would then have to merge every community that merged into the HRM in the HRM page and there are well over 100. Keeping them separate and discussing their individual histories makes sense as it allows for more information and more expansion which in the end is better for the readers. -DJSasso (talk) 13:11, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a Wiki article on the History of Canada, the History of Nova Scotia but there can't be an article on the History of HRM because it contains too many communities?--Hantsheroes (talk) 02:37, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: There should certainly be articles on each of the small communities (and some moderately sized e.g. Dartmouth) included in the HRM, but there should be a separate history article to link to from the Primary topic, which is what this article currently functions as. LenaLeonard (talk) 17:20, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
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message: We're getting into another situation where information is being added to the hatnote in this article. As per [],do we really have to go through this again? Regards,  Aloha27 talk  13:38, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
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