Category talk:People from Providence, Rhode Island

Defining "Greater Providence"
This category was previously scoped to include every county in Rhode Island (not to mention one in one in Massachusetts). It doesn't make sense to have a subcategory which is entirely redundant with the parent category, so I have scaled down the definition to limit it to what I think might be fairly called "Greater Providence".


 * Providence County
 * Providence
 * as far north as Central Falls, including Pawtucket
 * as far west as North Providence and Johnston
 * south to the border with Kent County, including Cranston, and to the border with Bristol County, Rhode Island, including Riverside
 * east to the border with Bristol County, Massachusetts, including East Providence and Rumford
 * Other areas (notably Woonsocket) : use Category:People from Rhode Island
 * Bristol County, Rhode Island
 * Barrington
 * Other areas (notably Warren, Bristol): use Category:People from Rhode Island
 * Bristol County, Massachusetts
 * Seekonk, Massachusetts
 * Other areas: use Category:People from Bristol County, Massachusetts
 * Kent County (notably Warwick)
 * use Category:People from Rhode Island
 * Washington County
 * use Category:People from Rhode Island
 * Newport County
 * use Category:People from Newport, Rhode Island

Please redraw the boundaries where you think it might be helpful. -- Shunpiker 06:50, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

More categories!
Since I last edited this page, more categories have been added. There's no more reason to list people from the following communities as coming from Providence:


 * Category:People from Cranston, Rhode Island
 * Category:People from Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Now, there are also categories for:


 * Category:People from Warwick, Rhode Island
 * Category:People from Woonsocket, Rhode Island

If someone wants to create a category for Bristol or Cumberland, I think there are quite a few people who could be moved into those categories from Category:People from Rhode Island.

-- Shunpiker (talk) 19:49, 12 April 2008 (UTC)