Talk:List of counties in California

message: Some helpful information on U.S. county lists can be found at WP:COUNTYLISTS. Tompw (talk) (review) 16:22, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikiproject help

message: I was looking at county maps, like :File:Alameda County.png and :File:LA County Incorporated Areas.svg. These don't seem to be as useful as the actual census maps, which show the names for the incorporated places.  It would be nice to either post the Census maps, or nicer ones which do show place names. -- Beland 23:01, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They likely came from the US Census Bureau TIGER data which contains maps of every state, county, city and CDP in the US, among others. Int21h (talk) 19:40, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Upgraded maps

message: In the table of counties, you can't see the tiny red dot indicating San Francisco for the San Francisco entry.
Use this map from the San Francisco article:  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:California_county_map_(San_Francisco_County_enlarged).svg
The fact that I cannot find this image to edit in the counties article is an object lesson on hideously overly-complex Wikipedia markup.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.205.210.143 (talk) 03:51, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Use This Map with Enlarged San Francisco

message: I tried to sort the counties according to population size, the result was everything but sorted. Is it just me or is the Javascript buggy? I'm using Firefox 3.6. --84.153.64.207 (talk) 02:13, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, the population row is sorted with the Nts template which doesn't like commas and high numbers. --84.153.64.207 (talk) 02:50, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorting? 

message: There are three sections which seem to have no reason to be here: "Failed attempts to organize counties," "County secession proposals", and "City-county-borough proposals". All have been tagged as needing verification for more than a year; all remain unverified. None of these supposed proposals seems to have any serious basis in reality or historical significance. I propose to delete all three sections, pending some time for discussion here. --MelanieN (talk) 23:58, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:BOLD. --Kurykh (talk) 00:10, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I'll be bold - but in a week or so. Give people a chance to chime in first. I take it you don't object to the deletion. --MelanieN (talk) 00:42, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, that's long enough. They're outta here. --MelanieN (talk) 20:51, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sections which should be deleted IMO 

message: This article is supposed to be a list. As of now, it duplicates and splits information with the Local government in California article. This information, sans the actual list, should be merged into that article (including information previously removed, because no one watches list articles for substantive information.) Int21h (talk) 05:01, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the lead section is inappropriate here and should be mostly moved to "Local government in California". It really doesn't belong in this article, which is excellent as a table-format list and needs only a brief introduction. However, IMO this does not need a formal "merge" request, since you are not proposing to delete this article or make it into a redirect; you are merely talking about taking some of the information out of this article and putting it into a more appropriate article. That does not require a formal WP:MERGE process, which is defined as a "procedure by which the contents of two or more pages are united within a single page". That's not what you are proposing and not something I would agree to. But I do agree that most of the prose introduction would be more appropriate in the "local government" article. I would suggest that you remove your "requested merge" tag, since that is not what you are asking for, and go ahead and insert this information where it should go (unless you want to wait a few days to see if anyone objects). --MelanieN (talk) 17:10, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I have done it. Int21h (talk) 18:36, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Good. Glad we are in agreement. --MelanieN (talk) 18:52, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Local government in California 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The FIPS code citation is a link to a non existing site at the epa. Looking up FIPS on wiki notes changes to the standard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_county_code  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:206:8480:D970:2DF4:26DD:B8E2:8EFA (talk) 03:06, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  FIPS codes