Talk:Hamlet (place)

message: User:William Allen Simpson seems to have problems with understanding of
In numerous provinces in Canada, there are officially designated municipalities, generally smaller than villages, classified as hamlets. There are some exceptions, such as Sherwood Park, Alberta, which has a population of more than 50,000 – well above that needed for city status — but which has retained hamlet status
and constantly deletetes the :Category:Subnational entities with the claim that it is not a subnational entity or not an administrative division.
He is known for making wrong claims and insisting on them without any possibility to talk. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (subnational entities). Don't be surprised if he will start calling other peoples contributions vandalism.
Tobias Conradi (Talk) 17:33, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone else is obsessed with called Fort MacMurray a hamelt when it is not. It is an unincorporated urban zone with the funding status of a city. I get this information from the regional communications officer, who emphatically said it is not a hamlet and quoted from the regional amalgamation agreement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.75.25.247 (talk) 22:09, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:CITE.  --Yamla 22:11, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion 1

message: (see also Talk:Hamlet (disambiguation))
The present page should be divided up in
* places named "Hamlet",
* meanings of the word "hamlet"
rather than dividing it in Geographical sections containing each a mixture of both of the above:
I think its not useful to classify "Hamlet (Oregon)" in the same section than 
"in (...) New York, hamlets are unincorporated areas...", for example.
— MFH:Talk 19:18, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I thought Hamlet (Oregon) was like Hamlet, Indiana or so... in fact, it should be referred to as hamlet (Oregon) to avoid such a confusion. — MFH:Talk 19:31, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  separate places ''named'' "Hamlet" from meanings of "hamlet" 

message: I think this page should be moved to Hamlet(settlement) or Hamlet(Municipality). Place is very general and could include the things mentioned above, as well as Hamlet Place(a street in New Jersey) or other things--Whytecypress 20:37, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  (place) 

message: "The name comes from Anglo-Norman hamelet(t)e; Old North French hamelet, the diminutive of Old North French hamel, another diminutive of Old North French ham of Germanic origin, cognate with Dutch heem, German Heim, Swiss German cham or -kon, Old English hām and Modern English home, all derived from the Proto-Germanic *kham-.[1]"
It's extremely unlikely that that few if any Old French words were borrowed from, or originated from Proto-Germanic. There is no verifiable evidence for this and I believe this excerpt is just poorly written enough to imply that the Old French term for hamlet is descended from Proto-Germanic. A change might be necessary.Napkin65 (talk) 14:49, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untrue information 

message: What are the population margins for a hamlet? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Biglulu (talk • contribs) 00:29, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Population

message: I propose to add Galician and Asturian (Sapin) hemlets, called "aldeas" (as well as other regions with this type of territorial organizations, as French Britain, in order to complete the document.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.111.155.172 (talk) 11:54, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: To complete

message: From the article, Canadian hamlets are village sized, and not what I would call hamlets, which would have a population of less than say twenty people and have around half a dozen houses or less. Or is the Canadian information some kind of vandalism? 92.28.255.228 (talk) 17:23, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Hamlet definitions and sizes differ from country to country. Within countries, they can differ between their provinces, states, and territories. What a hamlet is typically known as in the UK can be different than what it is typically known as in the US. Similarly, what a hamlet is within the Province of Alberta in Canada is different that what it is within any of Canada's three territories.All the content within the "Canada" section is supported by references that are reliable sources, with the exception of one excerpt relating to Ontario. In fact, 13 of the article's 16 references are inline citations from within the "Canada" section. Content based on references from reliable sources does not constitute vandalism. Hwy43 (talk) 06:23, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canadian "hamlets" 

message: Both "Weiler 2 and "Heim" are southern expressions. Where do you get your information that they mainly exist in the south?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.220.132.212 (talk) 08:24, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weiler and Heim 

message: This article says that a hamlet lacks a church, but I thought that the way a hamlet differed from a village was that a hamlet just has houses, lacking a church, school, shops, pub, village green or anything apart from the houses. Vorbee (talk) 16:59, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The article says, both in the introduction and in the section "Germany", that hamlets lack a church. That is not true. Some German hamlets (Weiler) and some French hamlets (hameau) do in fact have a church. There is even a specific term for this in German, they are called "Kirchweiler" (church hamlets). The linked German Wikipedia article mentions this, in the second paragraph of the section "Der Weiler als Siedlungsform" (footnote 4). And the article contains an image of the church in Haynes Church End. If that is a hamlet, then the claim that hamlets don't have a church isn't true for Britain, either.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.2.84.46 (talk) 10:30, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Hamlet in British geography

message: The use of "Hamlet" is under discussion, see Talk:Hamlet (disambiguation)#Requested move 27 August 2018. Crouch, Swale (talk)  08:38, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Hamlet"