Talk:List of counties in Delaware

Wikiproject help
Some helpful information on U.S. county lists can be found at WP:COUNTYLISTS. Tom pw (talk) (review) 16:22, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

FL Nomination
The reason why this article its FL nomination was that the consensus was that this article isn't really a list (at just three items). As it's not a list, it's eligable for GA status. 20:38, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

GA Nomination
This article has failed the following GA criteria:
 * 1b - The lead is not a summary of the article and it is much to long for an article of this length. Currently, the lead is almost all of the article, which causes it to also fail based on layout, or lack thereof. It also does not include a bold title. Wikilinks are also improperly done.
 * 2a - References are not consistent in their formatting. WP:CITE details how to cite material and what information should be included. References should also appear after punctuation with no space.* For example, where the "*" appears at the end of the previous sentence, with no additional punctuation following.
 * 3a - The article is not broad in coverage, I don't feel. The article doesn't give me that much information past origins and name changes.

If you feel this decision was made in error, you make seek remediation at WP:GA/R. Once issues have been addressed and it is felt that the article meets all of the GA criteria, the article may be renominated at WP:GAC. Regards, Lara Love  T / C  05:55, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

2nd GA Nomination
diff since last GA nomination. Tom pw (talk) (review) 16:19, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

I've passed this. It's a bit skinny, but I can't really think of what should go in here, aside from a bigger recap of the different counties in prose form.  Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 02:22, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

GA Pass
This article has been reviewed as part of WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Regards, Epbr123 20:57, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Featured List
I am pretty sure lists can not be Good articles. There is now a featured list project for high quality lists. AIR corn (talk) 23:58, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The problem is that it was considered too short to be a list. Do, despite the name, it's not a list, and hence can be a GA. Tom pw (talk) (review) 15:48, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

County government in the United States
Hello, Delaware! To defuse the edit war that has started at Category:County government in the United States, I'd appreciate some additional input on the topic of whether U.S. counties are (1) a level of local government or (2) an arm of state government. Discussion thus far is on my User talk page at User_talk:Orlady, but we could move it to a content-oriented talk page if desired. --Orlady (talk) 00:27, 18 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Hello DE. I don't know why Orlady is bothering you with this, as it has no impact on any Delaware articles. However, if you are interested....I am the other side of the edit war. My claim is that although county officials may be elected or appointed locally (i.e. not statewide), the actual county government itself is an arm of the state government. This is consistent with the powers they exercise (elections, law enforcement, etc.). If we could have some academically informed input, I would appreciate it, because the general impression and intuition that people have is that county government is "local government," but to those who actually study political science formally, the difference is known. The compromise that I propose is the persons should be categorized under "local politicians" while the offices should be categorized under "state government." Greg Bard (talk) 8:39 pm, Today (UTC−4)

'''I have posted this issue to WikiProject United States, and WikiProject Politics. Please take your input to one or the other so I don't have to have 50 discussions.''' Greg Bard (talk) 01:25, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * User:Gregbard started discussion of this matter at User_talk:Orlady. Please don't start a whole new discussion at some WikiProject page. If there is a desire to move the discussion, let's copy the pre-existing discussion to the new location. --Orlady (talk) 02:32, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

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Discrepancies
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that the two (out of three, yes, just three) counties that have areas listed are NOT the same as the two (again, need I remind you that there are only three counties in Delaware) that have populations listed? Ian9113 (talk) 16:21, 18 May 2018 (UTC)