Talk:History of Cape Town

Timeline of Cape Town
What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content. Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 15:26, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

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Historical population - percentages
I'm a little confused why the percentages of population growth are presented. It seems to suggest information, but it's mostly misinformation as the time spans between the data points are wildly different. A 20% increase over 6 years (2001-2007; 3.09% per year) is actually much steeper than the 533.5% over 95 year (1.96% per year). Also the significance of the percentages is way too precise (I assume 40,000 and 25,000 are mostly estimates with a fair amount of inaccuracy).

Therefore, I'd suggest:
 * 1) Normalize the percentages to year-over-year or get rid of them altogether. (the template already offers this option of per annum growth rate)
 * 2) If we keep percentages, round them at least to whole percentages. Don't keep decimals.

If there's no objection, I'll make the change. effeietsanders 17:48, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. effeietsanders 04:22, 6 August 2018 (UTC)