Template talk:Los Angeles County, California

message: CDP is an unfamiliar abbreviation and should be spelled out. I didn't know what it was when I read it, and I have a master's degree. It is can also mean many things to many people. See CDP for a list of them. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 05:48, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Its pretty much standard across the county nav templates to abbreviate census-designated place as CDP.  If a user is unsure what CDP means, they can click on the wikilink.  VerruckteDan (talk) 13:32, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There are a few Louisiana parish templates that list them as "Census-designated places", but I don't think any navbox for a US county does, while hundreds list them as "CDPs".  Moreover, it's not like the link goes to CDP: it goes to census-designated place.  Nyttend (talk) 14:02, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

text: The idea of a "census-designated place" is unfamiliar to many people.  We don't need to use abbreviations with many other things too, but we do.  Navigational templates, after all, aren't everything; if you're looking at the San Gabriel article and decide you want to look at Lennox, it won't take that long, and as soon as you get to the Lennox article, you'll see an explanation of what CDP means.  Please don't continue taking the template away from the usual format.  Nyttend (talk) 17:50, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  CDP 

message: 18:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I would find Census-designated place only slightly less obscure than CDP. Since there's room, we could consider spelling out here; but it's not mandatory. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 23:46, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

text: I agree in every respect with PMAnderson.  Powers T 14:54, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for comment

message: I believe we should add the above link to the template because it gives more information about the cities in LA County and it's more specific than the List of cities in California. This page may be the first list of cities in a county, that's why there are no links in any of the county templates. Los Angeles County can be the first one and the rest of the counties may follow.--Crzycheetah 19:24, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It is most likely the first such article, but then again there is no other county/parish/etc. in the United States that has over 85 incorporated municipalities. Almost every other such page, if created, would be relatively short that they would eventually be merged back into their respective main article. For example, I personally would see no reason to split something like San Bernardino County, California#Incorporated communities, especially since that article is still below the recommended 32 KB limit. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 14:33, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You could find a few other counties with this many municipalities: Cook County, Illinois, St. Louis County, Minnesota, and a few Pennsylvania counties (perhaps Allegheny, Chester, and Montgomery) but they're not all the same type of municipality.  Thanks for the explanation: I didn't understand why you thought this should be any different from any other county.  Nyttend (talk) 17:39, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I am glad that my explanation helped you understand it now.--Crzycheetah 19:20, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[List of cities in Los Angeles County, California]] 

message: Hello all,
I just noticed that the bottom of this template includes places categorized as "ghost towns," but includes Tongva villages that were abandoned or depopulated by Spanish colonialism without leaving much in the way of ruins or structures. I appreciate the need for a category for known settlements that are no longer inhabited, but I don't think "Ghost town" is the proper designation for a category--am I totally off-base on this?--Rockero (talk) 23:15, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This could be changed to "Former settlements", like what is currently on Template:Alameda County, California, Template:El Dorado County, California, Template:Kern County, California, and others. Zzyzx11 (talk) 01:07, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ghost towns