Talk:Administrative divisions of Wisconsin

message: I've set the "other named places" in its own category, since these places do not necessary sit only within towns.  Freistadt, Wisconsin is within the city of Mequon, for example.  (Hmm... that's a redlink.  Guess I've got to write the article now.)  Cheers --BaronLarf 16:23, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have expanded this section somewhat as I felt that the short paragraph there did not adequately explain why these place names existed if they had no governmental function.  I stopped short of getting into the discussion of confusion of duplicated names again.  The example I had in mind is the named place of Leeds located in southern Columbia county at intersection of State Road 51 and County Road K.  It is located the town of Leeds.Nyth83 (talk) 00:09, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Other named places

message: What are the differences between the "classes" of cities? (And why would/would not Madison want to change to a first class city?
Under "School districts," the term "hamlet" is used somewhat off-handedly. Do we really want to throw around unspecified terms like that, given the subject of the article? -- 19:02, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Cities of higher classes have different powers, but may also have greater restrictions placed on them. For details, see this analysis by the League of Wisconsin Municipalities. If Madison changed to first-class, it would be subject to certain restrictions passed during the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries by that element of the Wisconsin Legislature which particularly and peculiarly hates Milwaukee and seeks to curb Milwaukee's supposed arrogance, cosmopolitan population and general "foreignness". --Orange Mike | Talk 22:57, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two Questions 

message: I had to revert some changes that an anon editor had made. The changes removed some citations and change the wording and the accuracy of the article. I suggested to the anon editor to post concerns about the article on this talk page but this has not been done. I hope the anon editor will do so. Thank you-RFD (talk) 12:28, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert changes 

message: Hello, Wisconsin! To defuse the edit war that has started at :Category:County government in the United States, I'd appreciate some additional input on the topic of whether U.S. counties are (1) a level of local government or (2) an arm of state government. Discussion thus far is on my User talk page at User_talk:Orlady#County_government, but we could move it to a content-oriented talk page if desired. --Orlady (talk) 00:20, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello WI. I am the other side of the edit war. My claim is that although county officials may be elected or appointed locally (i.e. not statewide), the actual county government itself is an arm of the state government. This is consistent with the powers they exercise (elections, law enforcement, etc.). If we could have some academically informed input, I would appreciate it, because the general impression and intuition that people have is that county government is "local government," but to those who actually study political science formally, the difference is known. The compromise that I propose is the persons should be categorized under "local politicians" while the offices should be categorized under "state government." Greg Bard (talk) 00:36, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Gregbard started discussion of this matter at User_talk:Orlady#County_government. Please don't start a whole new discussion at some WikiProject page. If there is a desire to move the discussion, let's copy the pre-existing discussion to the new location. --Orlady (talk) 02:25, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  County government in the United States 

message: A statement was added to this article indicating that Wisconsin counties are arms of state government. This was based on a statement by a county executive in Manitowoc County in a 2003 primary-source document about state mandates affecting counties. It was a mistake to interpret the county executive's gripe about mandates as a profoundly significant statement about the legal situation of counties in the state. I reverted the edit. --Orlady (talk) 20:25, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Status of counties in Wisconsin

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