Category talk:Ohio cities, villages, and townships

"Cities, villages, townships" category. Something I am not in favor, considering this can blow up into unmanageable category. I recall a guideline to keep a category to contain less than 200. Dsammy 16:00, 22 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I initially thought this would be a good idea, seeing as there is an Ohio counties category...but you make a good point...there could easily end up being hundreds, if not thousands of articles here. I will ponder whether this category has any useful purpose or not... I will say it was useful in knowing whether the names of each were appropriately standardized, as someone had gone through and added an article for each of the 18 townships in Columbiana County and had not given the articles names that would not conflict with other townships throughout the country and even throughout the state. I am interested in opinions on this... - LeeTHawkins 16:09, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Another thought - if 200 is the max guideline for categories, then how are you handling the state civil war categories? It seems that almost every state has at least 200 of these...
 * Also, I have to say that I am not entirely comfortable with having individual articles for each and every city, village, and township (at least in Ohio)...it seems a bit silly, especially when a large number of them don't even have 1000 people living in them and probably never have. I can see having individual articles for major cities, like Cleveland and Cincinnati, and cities with a long history, like perhaps Marietta or Warren, where a lot of early Ohio history hatched, being as both those cities were "gateway" cities like Independence, Missouri was for the Oregon Trail. I do not, however, see a good reason to break things up to a township level unless there's a good reason for it--not even every city has a lot to write about that wouldn't fit nicely on the county page, or on a special branch county page (like "Columbiana County Cemeteries" for example). Again, I am interested in opinions... - LeeTHawkins 16:29, 22 August 2011 (UTC)


 * You brought up several things at once. There is already state/national civil war categories and we aren't having problems with this. Ditto for Oregon Trail. Townships are something else from genealogy point, are the records referring to the township or is it to the village of same name in same township? This is difficult to sort out. And as for itty bitty places, as long as there are records for that particular place, there will be a page, which bring up another problem, determining the priority of naming the pages (normally the cities do not require county name included in the url naming. Beyond this, evaluation of information is needed to determine. Townships with common names have to have county included. Uncommon ones do not normally require it. Washington Township is the one in particular that is practically in almost every state in northeastern USA. Can count on many of them in Ohio as it is in Iowa, too. Dsammy 17:22, 22 August 2011 (UTC)