Talk:Halifax

message: I am restoring this as the Talk page of Halifax - it makes no sense to redirect a talk page to an article.  Guettarda 19:35, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, my fault entirely. -- Francs2000 | Talk  20:10, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

text: Changed my mind, based on the weird municipal government thing they have now --AW 19:12, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Halifax

message: * Personally I have no problem with Halifax being the page for Halifax, West Yorkshire, since this is the originally named town. I'd redirect Halifax, West Yorkshire to Halifax and use the Halifax (disambiguation) page for linking to all other articles containing the word Halifax. Plasma east 12:47, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just come here. That seems like the best plan. How can it be done? Billlion (talk) 08:57, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, Halifax, West Yorkshire should be the prime topic Crouch, Swale talk to me My contribs 15:26, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Halifax vs. Halifax (disambiguation) 

message: Halifax, Nova Scotia is a metropolition area and a community according to the Nova Scotia government.19960401 01:23, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Uh, but the metropolitan area is the Halifax Regional Municipality, "HRM" being the official acronym; Halifax, Nova Scotia is a certain part of it.  It's true the HRM includes lots of rural araes and other cities; but the Halifax Metropolitan Area, if defined separately, would still be larger than Halifax, Nova Scotia proper, if only part of HRM....Skookum1 (talk) 23:24, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Halifax, Nova Scotia

message: I added Halifax West, the other Halifax-named federal electoral districts; but there's also these provincial electoral districts:
*Halifax Atlantic
*Halifax Chebucto
*Halifax Citadel
*Halifax Clayton Park
*Halifax Fairview
*Halifax Needham
I wasn't sure they were to be included because of the compound names; I'd think so, as listings of electroal districts with "Halifax" in the name owudl seem to be necessary to make the dab complate.Skookum1 (talk) 23:24, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hm.  Maybe List of Halifax electoral districts might be necessary; these are former provincial electoral districts:
*Halifax (provincial electoral district)
*Halifax Bedford Basin
*Halifax Centre
*Halifax Cobequid
*Halifax Cornwallis
*Halifax County Dartmouth
*Halifax East
*Halifax Eastern Shore
*Halifax North
*Halifax Northwest
*Halifax South
*Halifax St. Margarets
Such items need more to be in chronological order and division-trees, if that's the way they evolved, rather than alphabetical; see Kootenay (electoral districts) and New Westminster (electoral districts).Skookum1 (talk) 23:29, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What about these?

message: There is a move discussing involving this page at Talk:Halifax, West Yorkshire. -DJSasso (talk) 19:24, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion. 

message: There is a discussion about a merger proposal to merge City of Halifax into Halifax, Nova Scotia here. This would facilitate a clean up of the entries on this page relating to the place in Nova Scotia.--Mhockey (talk) 11:43, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: Incomplete disambiguation page - complete dab is at Halifax. Merge proposal for this to be merged and redirected to Halifax#Nova Scotia to avoid the current duplication and move it in line with disambiguation guidelines, see WP:INCOMPDAB. Boleyn (talk) 10:32, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger proposal, [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]] to [[Halifax#Nova Scotia]]

message: Another discussion on Halifax, Nova Scotia, here. 117Avenue (talk) 03:35, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  January 2013 

message: After reading through the various discussions and votes, it seems clear to me that there are three primary uses - the Yorkshire town, the Nova Scotia city and the UK bank - and a number of secondary uses. Most of the discussion seems to revolve around which of the three primary uses is the most important. I think that is a false choice, I don't think that will ever be resolved, and furthermore I don't think forcing a resolution would be helpful to readers.
However the page until now had mixed these three primary uses in with the lengthy list of secondary uses. That is not at all helpful; the vast majority of readers would have wanted to head for one of those three primary uses, but were being forced to scroll through a long, long list of secondary uses. There seems very little discussion on, for example, the Irish bank, the mountain range or the river in Florida, and I suspect that the number of readers arriving here wanting to find those secondary uses are orders of magnitude fewer than those seeking the primary three.
Therefore I have been a little bold, and placed these three primary uses into the lead paragraph, giving each equal weight, whilst keeping the long list of further uses entirely intact. Andrew Oakley (talk) 10:05, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I should add that the controversy about which NS article is the primary, seems to have been resolved and stabilised by the redirect of Halifax, Nova Scotia to Halifax Regional Municipality as per the result of Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2013_January_16#Halifax.2C_Nova_Scotia. Ergo my lead article link also follows this convention. Andrew Oakley (talk) 10:17, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the principle of dealing with the most common uses first, but it is better to keep to the bullet point format for clarity.  See Lincoln for an example.--Mhockey (talk) 20:27, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I would agree with Mhockey. Bullet point is much more clear. -DJSasso (talk) 11:37, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The lead entries don't have to be pulled out of the full list, do they? 117Avenue (talk) 02:39, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: No I would still put them at the top. I just wouldn't write it with prose. -DJSasso (talk) 12:19, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Placed the three most likely uses - Yorks, Nova Scotia and UK bank - in the lead paragraph 

message: Hi. There are an awful lot of links in the body of this about Halifax, Nova Scotia. Really, some of those articles should be merged. However, for the moment, we do have all of them, and they should be clearly and simply described here so that people can find what they're looking for. Clearly, we have an article called "Halifax (former city)" about the city that existed pre-1996-merger, and the territory that it contained. I believe that "Halifax (former city), the city until 1996" is a sufficient description of that, because if you're looking for the former city, then that's what you need, and if you're looking for the neighbourhoods, there are several articles on them. The formal distinction of the General Service Area is about as relevant as a polling division or a zoning boundary, and we don't have individual articles for all of those. I do not believe that the line should read "Halifax (former city), the city until 1996 and the current community", which it does now - however, I was reverted when I removed it, and I want to have this discussion here, not via some sort of revert-war. I am interested to hear others' thoughts on this. AshleyMorton (talk) 17:31, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whether "and the current community." should be on the end of the [[Halifax (former city)]] line 

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Haligonian. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  feminist (talk) 12:53, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Haligonian" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: Not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover)  (talk) 09:23, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 18 July 2023