Talk:Micropolitan statistical area

message: This article and Micropolis both cover the Census Bureau definition and creation of micropolitan statistical areas.  --Swid 19:15, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: Please note the following section of the Manual of Style:
Do not invent abbreviations or acronyms
:Generally avoid the making up of new abbreviations, especially acronyms. For example, while it is reasonable to provide World Union of Billiards as a translation of Union Mondiale de Billard, the former is not the organization's name, and it does not use the acronym or initialism WUB; when referring to it in short form, use the official abbreviation UMB.  In a wide table of international economic data, it might be desirable to abbreviate a United States gross national product heading; this might be done with the widely recognized initialisms US and GNP spaced together,  with a link to appropriate articles, if it is not already explained: US GNP, rather than the made-up initialism USGNP.
This article and others on Wikipedia use the made-up abbreviation μSA for Micropolitan Statistical Area.  I have not seen this abbreviation used by OMB, the Census Bureau, or any other authoritative source.  If anyone has a reference supporting the use of this abbreviation, please provide it, otherwise the use of this abbreviation violates the Wikipedia style guideline and should be changed.  --Russ (talk) 12:49, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This abbreviation has been used since the United States Census Bureau defined the concept of a Micropolitan Statistical Area.  The Census Bureau itself does not use abbreviations for any of its statistical areas.  The Greek lowercase letter μ (mu) is used to denote "micro-" in the International System of Units.  --Buaidh (talk) 06:58, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  "This abbreviation has been used" -- yes, but by whom?  The style guide cites WP:NOR, which means that reliable sources are needed to demonstrate use of the abbreviation.  FYI, a Google search for μSA turns up about 3,790 hits, but "μSA -Wikipedia" returns only 1,330, and all the ones that refer to micropolitan areas appear to be Wikipedia mirror sites.  --Russ (talk) 09:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

text: If the abbreviation is kept, it must be fixed to use the "micro sign" character (Unicode 0xB5: µ or Alt-0181 for Windows input) instead of the Greek letter mu (Unicode 0x3BC: μ).  They may look the same in many fonts, but have different semantic differences, and the micro sign may be present in some fonts that do not have the Greek subrange.  Also see Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 22#Greek letters for a request to correct all the redirects create with "mu" in the name.  — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:45, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abbreviation 

message: Whats mp on the map, guam, peurto trico, virigin islands and mp.  WTF is mp?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.238.18.213 (talk) 02:20, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The abbreviations are an add-on to the map, and appear to be described in List of U.S. state abbreviations TEDickey (talk) 09:58, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: MP?

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thread_title:  Possible standards revision 

message: This list is out of date per latest OMB list published July 2023 which has moved several micropolitan areas to metro areas and vise versa.  Estimates should also be updated for 2022 numbers to match updates to metropolitan areas. Kjslaughter (talk) 19:49, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I have taken care of this. Some of the statistical units don't have links. If there was an already existing page, I kept that link. If the micro area consists of only one county or county-equivalent, I just linked to that county or equivalent. If the micro area is new with no page associated with it and consists of multiple counties, I left it as text only. The same goes for the CSAs. If the CSA listed is not linked, it's because the page either does not exist yet or the related page associated with it has been completely redfined to the point where the old page is no longer accurate. Some of these pages will have to be created, or possibly have old pages re-written to redefine some of these micros and CSAs. Finally, there is some kind of broken reference or notes on this page (per the error message on the bottom of this page) but I am unfamiliar with what it is that is broken. If anyone has any questions, let me know! I will be moving onto the list of CSA page itself soon. Coulraphobic123 (talk) 20:19, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need to update list