Talk:La Pointe, Wisconsin

message: The sentence "La Pointe is an unincorporated community in the town of La Pointe, Ashland County, Wisconsin, United States." fundamentally fails to communicate to the vast majority of Wikipedia's readership. It assumes the reader is familiar with Wisconsin's idiosyncratic legal definition of "town", which for 99+% of the readership is a false assumption. It thus misleads and fails as an introductory sentence for this article. It's also a false statement because the community of La Pointe is in fact part of an incorporated entity. That entity just happens to include additional uninhabited territory, which is not that unusual for sub-county and municipal entities. If you're going to persist in the conceit that the legal entity is separate and distinct from the community it was meant to serve and govern, then at least make a decently communicative introductory sentence. My own opinion is that a separate article for the legal entity is unnecessary and confusing and ought to be merged. If it was merged, then you wouldn't have a problem writing a decent introductory sentence because you wouldn't be trying to use inappropriate legal jargon. Why does Wikipedia care what Wisconsin's legal definition of "town" is in the first place? Wikipedia's job is to communicate. The purpose of legal definitions is to obfuscate. Since you seem pretty committed to doing the wrong thing and not merging the articles, I suggest as an introductory sentence for this article "La Pointe is a community in Ashland County, Wisconsin, United States." or "This article is about La Pointe, a resort community on Madeline Island in Ashland County, Wisconsin, United States." Further on you can explain about the town of La Point being legally distinct from the community (if, in fact, that is the case), but leave aside such legal fictions and difficulties in the introductory sentence. Dlw20070716 (talk) 15:41, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
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