Talk:List of census-designated places in Alaska

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According to the definition of cities, shouldn't the article rather be named "list of communities", since it goes down to villages with only 2 inhabitants? Jochim Schiller (talk) 13:08, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Apparently cities in Alaska are completely different from cities everywhere else in the world.
 * Per Alaska's Commerce Department's Overview of Government in Alaska: "Alaska's municipal government structure has just cities and organized boroughs. City government is a community-based entity, while boroughs provide services on a regional basis. Cities and boroughs are organized as either home rule municipalities, which can exercise any power not prohibited by state or federal law or by the home rule charter; or general law municipalities, which derive their powers from state statutes. (Note: Unified municipalities are treated as boroughs in statute and regulation.)
 * "A city government is a municipal corporation and political subdivision of the State of Alaska. It generally exercises its powers within an established boundary that normally encompasses a single community. Under the state's constitution, a city is also part of the borough in which it is located."
 * --Ando228 (talk) 01:02, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Renaming
I noticed that there is a List of cities in Alaska by population page which is almost identical with this page. I propose a slight reorganization to these two pages.
 * 1. Rename List of cities in Alaska by population to List of cities in Alaska to match other state pages.
 * 2. Rename this page, List of cities and census-designated places in Alaska to List of census-designated places in Alaska, and remove the cities. The page is primarily census-designated places anyway, and the lead only talks about census-designated places. It would not be a difficult change.

The fork is eliminated, and the pages remain largely intact with minimal effort. What do you think? Mattximus (talk) 15:24, 10 August 2015 (UTC)