Talk:List of municipalities in Ontario

message: To GaryWill's edits: District in some places is synonymous with Region. The term needs to be clarified because Ontario's municipal structure is all ready screwed up and confusing enough without using terms people can misconstrue. This is a big problem with Ontario government propaganda. Wiki is not part of the Government Propaganda Machine.WikiWoo 21:31, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What's the point of this list? It's pretty much the same as List of census subdivisions in Ontario. -- Earl Andrew - talk 21:37, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: * This is the municipal structure of Ontario with the Single and Double Tier municipalities  categorized. Ontario has a very complicated patched up network of different structures not found in many other places of the world. I initially refered to it as the "unique structure of Ontario" and this has been evolving from there. The Census Divisions as a list is something different and it lacks any informative structure.WikiWoo 21:52, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

text: WikiWoo: the list CLEARLY states what is a single tier and what is dual tier in the first-rank headings.  You don't need to reiterate that in the second-rank headings.  If you want to make things clearer, what you should be doing is writing a blurb about each type under the heading.  That way the headings, which are already unambigous, despite what you claim, can stay simple and you can get your point across that districts are not counties. (Although this is already stated in one of the paragraphs--how many times do you intend to state the same thing in your work?) OzLawyer 22:43, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ok the way you have it now is less ambigious. I am not sure about the part that none of the ones you have listed as found in districts where never double tiers. There was a lot of activity with municipalities going single tier that were under other tiers over the last 10 years and the list keeps getting longer as more of them go Single-Tier. Where did you get the part about each of those never being under another tier? Muskoka for one had separation that I recall. I can't find the source of you info for your list. WikiWoo 23:48, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Muskoka is not in Northern Ontario. OzLawyer 18:53, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Neither the government site  nor AMO  list these as municipalities: Akron, Wawa, Shedden, Searchmont -- all in Algoma District. Do we have better information that says they are municipalities? --Gary Will 04:35, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I know for a fact that Wawa is in Michipicoten Township. I think the others are also in townships. -- Earl Andrew - talk 04:37, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: At the bottom of the MAH link is this Disclaimer... The information is provided as a public service and is not an official list of municipal names. Although we endeavor to ensure that the information is as current and accurate as possible, errors do occasionally occur. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information. Readers should verify the information before acting on it by contacting municipalities directly to confirm official municipal names. Although the list has been carefully prepared, the Ministry does not accept any legal responsibility for the contents of the list or for any consequences, including direct or indirect liability, arising from its use. This is the disclamer on the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs. They created them and even THEY don't know for sure what has been accumulated of the years in the close to 500 municipalities in Ontario they created...Says a lot about Ontario's Municipal Affairs, hey?. As far as AMO is concerned I would not trust a word they say or publish as an association. It's basically a group of Publicly Employed Gangsters. Ask the Mayor of Toronto David Miller even he said so. Its a self-serving club of corrupt bureaucrats and the politicians that bend over to serve them.WikiWoo 05:14, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Don't be foolish. Wawa has never been a municipality. -- Earl Andrew - talk 05:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've taken the four off the list, and that gives us 445 municipalities, which is how many the government and AMO say there are. --Gary Will 14:51, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are these municipalities? 

message: This link goes to a page which is a recreation of one which was recently deleted through AfD.  It has a slightly different name, but it is clearly the same article.  As such, it will be deleted.  In addition, if anything could be done to save that page (but seeing as it's a recreation of a deleted page, it should be speedied), it would be adding information which would be better on this page. OzLawyer 15:27, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recently deleted See also link 

message: First off, it is incorrect to speak of being found in "census divisions" because that would imply that the counties and RMs are not census divisions themselves, and they are.  And secondly, why do you keep insisting on reiterating the same information in your edits?  The fact that districts are not municipalities is already clearly stated in the article.  We don't need to keep saying the same thing over and over.  I assure you that people can read. └ OzLawyer / talk ┐ 13:54, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "found within..." 

message: There are now 444 municipalities in Ontario (as of 2009), I will change this number on the main page but I can't find which ones amalgamated. So there is one municipality on this list that no longer exists.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattximus (talk • contribs) 16:42, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New amalgamation 

message: The City of Toronto is not subject to the Municipal Act, 2001 (see s. 7.1 of the Act), but rather is unique in Ontario in that it has its own complete governing statute (City of Toronto Act, 2006) (there are are municipalities with their own statutes in Ontario, but none of them displace the Municipal Act as is the case with Toronto).  I don't care how this information is presented in the article (so feel free to revise my edit), but I thought it was sufficiently important to mention (given how the Municipal Act was described in the first few paragraphs). --Skeezix1000 (talk) 15:33, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Skeezix1000. Definitely important to mention. Hwy43 (talk) 20:48, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toronto 

message: I reverted this addition of municipal restructuring content because its placement at the end of the first paragraph in the lead interrupted the flow and the two references provided didn't support the content (the first of the two was a deadlink though). I do however think it would be great to have this type of content, properly referenced, added to the article within a new "Municipal restructuring" section. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 05:41, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Municipal restructuring 

message: Does anyone know how to format the second table so that the images can be on the right of the table instead of on top with a lot of white space? Mattximus (talk) 23:05, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Try adjusting your screen resolution. Hwy43 (talk) 06:32, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formatting 

message: This "List of municipalities in Ontario" is a list and there is no need for any of those superfluous photos. A gallery is not a tool to shoehorn images into an article especially when they disrupt the prime purpose of the article - which is to the list of details about Ontario's municipalities. Secondarywaltz (talk) 19:49, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand where you are coming from, but this list is a FL. Per #5(b) at WP:FLCR, a FL must have images and other media, hence these photos. Inclusion of these types of photos and formatting oddities due to different screen resolution choices have not been issues that prevented successful WP:FLC reviews for this list and subsequent nominations for the equivalent lists for four provinces and three territories. Hwy43 (talk) 22:12, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there any way to force the table to conform to a certain width that allows the images to be on the right side of the table? Although my screen has the images on the right side, I tried another and found them all stacked above the table with lots of white space. This isn't a problem for the other lists. Any formatting ideas to keep the table and images in place? Mattximus (talk) 13:54, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Throw them out! They serve no purpose and disrupt the viewing of the list content. Secondarywaltz (talk) 00:55, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

text:  Comment: It is a problem on other lists, as I discussed with you previously. This page layout issue affects at least the B.C. and Quebec municipalities list too; I suspect it affects all of them. Failing a good solution, I'm with Secondarywaltz here – it is probably better if the images get tossed (or at least hidden for now as 'comment code') so that they don't "break" the table layout on certain computer displays. --IJBall (talk) 02:23, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  They were present when we brought up to featured status, and they add nicely to the otherwise very long table, so they should stay. The question is how do we better format the table so they fit along the right side on certain screens. I've tried the other provinces on several screens and Ontario is the only one that caused a problem, and then only on one of the many screens I tried (a small laptop screen). It works fine on mine. Mattximus (talk) 02:37, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: PS to IJBall, yes I read our exchange before, your issue stems from reading off a very small screen. There is happily a very easy solution for your case. If you are using chrome you can just zoom out 10% and it should fix the issue, also it will make browsing easier as well (my personal preference anyway). Mattximus (talk) 02:40, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

text: Fixed. Mattximus (talk) 15:41, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Pretty pictures

message: The population numbers for Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry are way off.  The census division for this area is 111,164.  Then you have to subtract Cornwall from that, because it's not part of the upper tier government, which has a population of around 47,000 and then you have to subtract Akwesasne for the same reason, with a population of around 10,000.  The upper tier municipality is only responsible for a population of just over 50,000.  I wonder how many other population mistakes there are in this table.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.19.52 (talk) 02:16, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe your observation is correct. When the upper tier municipality table was built, it was probably built using the populations of them as census divisions, which would have been inclusive of any single tier municipalities and Indian reserves enclaved by the upper tier municipalities. This is something that should be audited and corrected accordingly with accompanying notes that explain why the population counts are no longer consistent with the sourced census division populations. There is at least one eager editor watching this page in addition to me that could pull this off in due course if you don't have the time to undertake yourself. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 03:01, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

text: By quick review, Bruce, Dufferin, Durham, Grey, Haliburton, Halton, Huron, Lambton, Lennox and Addington, Muskoka, Niagara, Northumberland, Oxford, Prescott and Russell, Waterloo, and York don't appear to have single tiers and thus should have accurate populations, unless there are Indian reserves in some of these. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 03:18, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. The IP editor was correct, Cornwall is not part of that Upper Tier Municipality. I've made the changes, but the Akwesasne figures have already been removed so no change was needed there. I also fixed the percent change and area/density figures. Mattximus (talk) 16:51, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect population

message: I had turned the images in the "List of local municipalities" section into a gallery at the top of the list because in the current style, if the browser window (or the screen) isn't wide enough, images and table get stacked above each other instead of side-by-side, leading to a few pages' worth of whitespace between the section heading and the beginning of the table. I just noticed that despite repeated comments about these formatting problems the images are present not because they are felt to improve this particular article but because, quote, "a FL must have images and other media, hence these photos", and since the article passed FL review with several pages' worth of whitespace (or with reviewers whose screens were wide enough to not notice the issue), that's not seen as an issue in need of a fix. I disagree with this fixation on the FL review; that should not stand in the way of improving the list. Apparently the style of gallery I had chosen, which displayed the captions only if one hovers the cursor over the images, was a little too fancy; I'll choose a different style of gallery. If there is some genuine benefit to the whitespace layout, I'd ask those reverting me to please explain it to me. Huon (talk) 23:52, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: Note that Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands changed its status from "town" to "municipality" on February 1, 2011 (see here). Similarly East Ferris and Strathroy-Caradoc have both changed from "township" to "municipality". Hwy43 (talk) 05:46, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Status changes 

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message: For the single-tier municipalities of Haldimand County and Norfolk County, two inexistent census divisions are given by the table of local municipalities. Haldimand and Norfolk are actually within the single census division Haldimand-Norfolk with the generic type "Census division". Similarly, the County of Brant and the City of Brantford are single-tier municipalities within a single census division with the generic type "Census division".
The reference for the census division column is List of Ontario Municipalities. On this government web page, the column "Geographic Area" was mistaken for a column of census divisions. The entities given in the column "Geographic Area" are the geographic areas defined in Schedules 1 and 2 of O. Reg. 180/03.
--2607:FEA8:7A1F:F41F:5D18:AB8C:E3F2:58E7 (talk) 02:23, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct. Nice catch. We have two options. First is to change the column title to "Geographic area". Second is to correct the census division for the two entries and source to ,  and . Hwy43 (talk) 07:12, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

text: Would an easy fix simply be renaming this column "Geographic Area", and provide the source you gave in the references? Mattximus (talk) 03:33, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a lot to sort and digest, especially at this late hour. Will circle back on the weekend to respond/address. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 04:37, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

text: Nice catch on Greater Sudbury's census division as well. Not sure I am seeing any further action necessary as it relates to Muskoka, but if I am missing something, please advise. If you are requesting action on how districts are presented on this article, please advise as well. Hwy43 (talk) 07:26, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  my suggestion would be abandoning the current source for the Census division column and replacing with the sources I link in reply to the anon's first post under this thread. I think having both Census division and Geographic area columns would be too confusing and would clutter. It is already a very wide table to begin with. Thoughts? Hwy43 (talk) 07:26, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  hearing nothing, I have implemented what I suggested on December 17, 2018. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 08:04, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect census divisions 

message: The definition of "single-tier municipalities" here contradicts the one at List of census divisions of Ontario. Please see Talk:List_of_census_divisions_of_Ontario#Definition_of_"Single-tier_municipalities" for discussion. - Themightyquill (talk) 14:45, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of "Single-tier municipalities" 

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