Talk:List of places in Kent

message: See List of places in Cornwall for comparison.
Tyrenius 02:01, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Expand

message: This page was the subject of an MfD debate, closed on 26 April 2006.  The result was Keep by strong consensus. Xoloz 19:43, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: MfD result

message: If you look at this list you will get some idea of how large the article will be! Peter Shearan 13:46, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: See what the result might be!

message: Hello! I have been interested in the interplay about this article, and your comments. However, although I agree in principle with your sentiments, and the comparison with Cornwall, it ought to be realised that in comparing the sparsely populated county of Cornwall with Kent, the latter will provide rather more "places" than the former. I invite you to look at the list here - there are over 400 of them! I am also putting forawrd a comment to the powers that be about the ubiquitous use in Wikipedia of the word "place", which in my mind can be a very woolly idea. How big (or indeed small) is a place? I quoted one 0.9 km² area in streetmap of a relatively rural area in Kent with eight "places" (two hamlets, four farms, and two isolated houses) on it. 
Where do we draw the line? Peter Shearan 13:56, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Peter, the list of 400 seems excellent to me! However, if it is too long, the obvious solution seems a division of some kind. This could be a list of towns, and another list of villages, or else divided by areas of Kent with towns and villages in that area. As to the cut-off point, that will have to be resolved by editors, presumably based on a comparison with other county place lists for consistency.  Tyrenius 14:33, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copied from user talk pages

message: I don't think the list would be unworkably long, even if taken to be the whole of Kent: the département of the Pas-de-Calais just across the Straits of Dover has 894 communes (see the list). Anything which is a civil parish should be included, although there may well be a need for editor discretion on some tricky cases. Physchim62 (talk) 11:49, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I tend to disagree about adding civil parish, since some have names which are nothing to do with the village(s) within the area enclosed; and some include more than one village (eg the civil parish Cobham includes the settlement of Sole Street; and some include three or more). It simply complicates the reader if two different things - such as village and civil parish are mixed together, even if the local population often sees them as the same thing. Population figures, for example, are given for the whole parish, and not just the village. 
Thankyou for your comment re Pas-de-Calais. Peter Shearan 13:31, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  My twopenneth 

message: Substituted at 22:16, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Link labeled Map of places in Kent compiled from this list gives a fail because it makes use of an outdated format. Google's error message reads
:KML content isn't available in Google Maps
:While using Google Maps, you might have received a notification saying "Some custom on-map content could not be displayed."
:That’s because a certain type of content isn’t available anymore in the classic version of Google Maps or in maps embedded on other websites from the classic version of Maps. The content type that’s no longer available is KML, the file format Google Earth uses for the exchange of geographic information.
:If you're the owner of a custom map with KML content, you need to update your content. Or, you can import your KML content into My Maps.
TwelveGreat (talk) 12:47, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken link to map