Talk:List of municipalities in Nunavut

About 60 people missing?
Looking at the list of the 2016 population by settlement (the long list), I find that there is a difference of about 60 people between the count of those living in settlements, and those living in the territory. I take it the about 60 people live outside settlements (e.g. research stations, or similar)? - If this is the case, it should be mentioned in a footnote...--Eptalon (talk) 15:39, 21 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Good eye, however it already is in a note: The remaining 0.19%, or 62 residents live in the unincorporated settlement of Umingmaktok. Mattximus (talk) 16:13, 21 January 2018 (UTC)


 * The note is incorrect. Umingmaktok had recorded a population of zero in 2016. The remaining population lives in three unincorporated settlements and three unorganized areas, of which all 62 lived in Baffin, Unorganized in 2016. Hwy43 (talk) 20:13, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Quite right, note fixed. Mattximus (talk) 23:59, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Instructions, things that don't exist, and repetition
My attempt to improve the article by removing irrelevant and redundant material was reverted, on the rationale that 9 years ago, three other people supported making it a "featured" list, when it had that stuff in it. So... where are the written criteria specifying that material is necessary for that status? The featured article discussion didn't link to them. Do they really spell out that such an article must contain instructional material for getting a community incorporated as a town/village/etc? Why is that material required in the Canadian list-of-municipalities articles, when it does not appear to be required in any similar articles? Also, requiring a section about Towns for a territory in which there are no towns seems rather illogical. And is there really a requirement that the same statistics be repeated in multiple sections? I would like to propose changes to those criteria, with input from others besides their authors. Jason A. Quest (talk) 19:21, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I see you want 3 changes correct?
 * Removing the legal requirements for incorporation as a municipality?
 * Removing section on a type of municipality in Nunavut that does not have any current municipalities?
 * Statistics that are repeated? (This one I can't find any repeated statistics, would you be able to point me to one?
 * This can be the basis for discussion, if I summed your recommended changes accurately? Mattximus (talk) 20:40, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Re: legal requirements for incorporation: this content was identified by reviewers in one or more of the five successful FL nominations that preceded this list's nomination. Each subsequent nomination built on what was learned in the previous nominations.
 * Re: section removal: this is unique to Nunavut. No other province/territory has legislated municipal status types that have no instances but previously had instances. Saskatchewan now has a new municipal district status, but no history of usage yet (an application has been made however). It is not mentioned at its FL, only because this new status wasn't legislated until after it achieved FL status.
 * Re: repeated stats: only instances I can find are between the lead and the and Cities and Hamlets sections (smallest and largest instances). Leads are supposed to summarize contents of an article. So in the instances I have found the repetition is acceptable. Hwy43 (talk) 05:38, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Regarding those three changes, I agree that the CTV sections ought to be consolidated as I did in a now-reverted edit. I might feel otherwise were there actually-existent towns and villages, or if the three had any substantial governmental differences, but I do not interpret the FLCR to require anything more than single-sentence mention of "Nunavut currently has no villages or towns, but the capital Iqaluit had those statuses between..." in each the lead and the relevant body section. Legal requirements and governmental differences enrich the article and would in my opinion be necessary for comprehensiveness; if you strongly feel different, and if one wants to spin off the Local government in Nunavut redirect, you can put that material there. Given everything, however, I don't feel it necessary to spin off such a niche article into two. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 19:07, 6 September 2023 (UTC)