Talk:List of former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia

message: It seems that much of the Jamestown material is unrelated to the toic of the article and is better put in the Jamestown, Virginia article.  Any thoughts? AjaxSmack 07:52, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Excessive extraneous info?

message: Hello. I may be wading into something that has been long resolved, or that no one sees any problem with, but I have a few short comments.
The article is very informative and well laid out, but the use of the term "lost" to mean "no longer an existing county, city, or town within the givernmental framework of Virginia" is rather atypical for Wikipedia. The tone of it reads more like a local history written from the point of view of Virginians. While this is not exactly biased, it does seen against the spirit of NPOV.
Also, the inclusion of issues as disparate as South Boston, Virginia, Indiana Territory, the former shires of Virginia, Berkeley County, West Virginia, and the Lost Colony all fit nicely into the literary conceit of "loss," but seem (for lack of a gentler,or more specific, term) unencyclopedic.
I would be happy to go through and make some edits to change the harmonious use of "lost" to more specific descriptions and categories (which would simply follow the current structure of the article), but I want to give others a chance to give me feedback before I dive into an aricle that has clearly taken a lot of work, and seems like a labor of love.
Thanks, BCorr|Брайен 21:14, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tone of the article around the use of the term "lost" and a suggestion 

message: This article has some duplication, like the shires, for example. --AW 19:37, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication 

message: Has anyone ever heard of Claudville, Virginia?  I can't seem to find it on any of the Wikipedia lists, and I'm wondering if it has an alternate name? --Elonka 00:26, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, looks like it was an unlisted unincorporated community.  I went ahead and created a stub. --Elonka 02:11, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Unlisted town

message: Put simply, the arrangement of the article is really sloppy.  We need to come up with a coherent arrangement for this article of former Virginia localities.  It currently doesn't "flow", but we need to determine how to make it so.  We need to determine an arrangement and make it consistent throughout.  Thoughts?  SchuminWeb (Talk) 15:18, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: As a former resident of Virginia, this page has been somewhat on my watchlist for awhile. It's very interesting and historical. But I think it's mostly a collection of notes, mostly written by User:Vaoverland, who died 2-3 years ago, sadly. There really is a lot of information here, and I'd hate to just delete it. Though maybe some of the lists of counties and cities might be better organized in categories? I think a photo or two -- possibly historical maps of Virginia -- could help the article a lot, too. WTF? (talk) 18:01, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed.  Not disputing the historical interestingness at all, but the citations are lacking, and that's a problem.  Once I get back from Chicago, I'm going to see if I can figure out what all is here and a logical way to organize it all.  Then we really need to get going on citations.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 14:59, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is a mess 

message: Usually when a comma is used, it is not located before an and. There are only very rare exceptions to this and this is not one of them. Difficultly north (talk) - Simply south alt. 10:08, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That is entirely true for British English, and this change would be proper and necessary if the article was about Wales instead of Virginia. The final comma is actually a standard in US English, which applies here per WP:TIES. I will revert to the previous title (but leave a redirect) unless you would like to discuss alternative article names not involving lists. My own attempt to move to a shorter name was blocked.--Martin Berka (talk) 16:10, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Some view the serial comma as a TIES issue.  Some view it simply as a personal preference that should not be changed without discussion and good reason.  Either way, the article used the serial comma throughout its history and should not have been moved to get rid of it.  Nyttend (talk) 17:11, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: If it is an American English thing, I will leave it. Simply south...... walking into bells for just 6 years  17:55, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comma in title 

message: I wandered into this set of cuff notes. There's some interesting narrative here I wouldn't have known. Much of the detail on city and county narrative history could/should be moved into the corresponding individual articles. The length and scatteredness of the text are offputting. I don't know how to synthesize it. "Lost" as in Roanoke Colony isn't the same thing as "lost" Bourbon County. We know where the county is, and it's in the same place as it always has been, though it, like many early counties has become some fraction of its former self. Many counties in Virginia have "lost" most of themselves. Saying "County X lost the southwestern portion, because it's now county Y" is quite in context with much of what is already here, and we'd have hundreds of those statements, to be true to form. Yo? The counties of Kentucky, West Virginia and maybe a few others weren't really lost, not in any common sense. If we just chopped those out, or if necessary, move the lists into footnotes, that'd clear out a lot of cruft. I'd have to think long and hard to make the rest of the article work. Sbalfour (talk) 18:02, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Lost" 

message: The lead tosses out this: "ascended to a higher level"... sounds like some divine or new age transformation happened, and presumably, they're now at a higher level of consciousness; or "descended to lower level", so they're now idiots and savages? It's worth lampooning. I'm not sure what those quaint phrases mean anyway - they suggest that for example, a city might become a county, or a county become a city. Bah. Sbalfour (talk) 18:19, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diction