Talk:Barnstable County, Massachusetts

message: Wondering how to edit this U.S. County Entry?
The WikiProject U.S. Counties standards might help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rambot (talk • contribs) 03:55, 27 July 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeh, well, this is a tough page to design. The reason is that all the entities you might want to put on it are fixed-width. The code is not accessible. That design feature is a design non-feature as far as I am concerned. What design? We have to accept all the constraints. I certainly am NOT going to give any advice as I know what the typical WP response to advice is, but if someone should happen to be a programmer for WP and if that someone should support the concept of more design flexibility, then it seems to me it might be an enhancement to evaluate whether the capability of entering width parameters should be coded as a rule.Branigan 12:53, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: County project standards

message: Whew, I did the best I could to produce a compact and good-looking page without the ability to vary widths, as these tables and graphs are all coded with fixed widths. I managed to keep everything that was there. Of course if you can do a better looking page, please do. An article consisting of lists of lists I do not find too appealing. By the time you get to the bottom you forget what the top said. List articles are distinct and say list at the top. This isn't supposed to be one.Branigan 13:00, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Page design

message: We are fortunate to have a second editor on this to back me up. I think however he goes a bit far, so discussion of his mark-ups is going to be necessary. Doesn't bother me| I think the result will be better with two pairs of eyes on it. In this section I will discuss the changes.Branigan 21:03, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  I noted several phrases which express conjecture without indicating who is expressing it. The reader can only assume that it is Wikipedia that is conjecturing, i.e. presenting OR. Even if the conjecture is supported by the source we need to write it so it's clear that it comes from the source, i.e. "which, Joe Doe says, must be the coast of Maine" or use a direct quotation "is clearly referring to the coast of Maine"[1] with attribution. Jojalozzo 21:42, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the interest in the article. I'm pulling out of it now. I know I said I would be with it, and I did intend to be, but the situation has changed. I noticed that a coastline of Barnstable County is given. It is not in the cited ref but I did find it in a book. I wanted to reference the ambiguity of coastline figures so I checked some material on the Richardson Effect under Coastline I had written in 2008 and found there a situation leading to my current decision. You can read it on my UP and discussion pages. Nevertheless I think this article was improved by me. Do what you think best. Luck.Branigan 17:00, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion of the history section

message: The phrase "3.6% spoke English" is using a very low number. This might be vandalism for 93.6%  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.152.162.31 (talk) 10:04, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: A more accurate figure appears now.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.152.162.31 (talk) 15:59, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
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message: I propose that Barnstable County, Massachusetts and Cape Cod be merged into a single article. The reason is because the two places are coextensive with each other. I don't have an opinion on which of the two names I prefer. 74.104.173.120 (talk) 17:59, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: * Disagree, for reasons that one represents the county government, the other a geographic feature. By this logic Formosa should be merged with Taiwan, the Pioneer Valley should merge with Franklin County, Hampshire County, and Hampden County... and Suffolk County should be Boston. These two should remain separate for formality's sake.--Simtropolitan (talk) 20:52, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

text: * Disagree for the same reasons as Simtropolitan. Jokullmusic 16:37, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

text: * Strong disagree as above. J 1982 (talk) 22:48, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

text: *Disagree. Understandable proposal, but seems better to leave county government article separate from geo/cultural one. Eric talk 01:43, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

text: *Disagree as per above, although recognize this suggestion was made in good faith.  "Coextensive" =/= "identical."Bigturtle (talk) 01:46, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

text: *Disagree. The county consists of Cape Cod and associated islands. So not exactly coextensive; the cape is a subset of the county; albeit a very, very large subset. – wbm1058 (talk) 04:00, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal