Talk:List of municipalities in Texas

Merger Proposal
I propose to merge List of cities in Texas and List of cities in Texas by population into List of municipalities in Texas. This new destination page contains all the information found in both of the source pages, as well as more information about municipalities.Inkan1969 (talk) 05:01, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree with the merge, and I agree with how you propose it. Both the first two should be merged into the third just as you indicated. Ideally we can match Texas with the "standard" format for featured lists, removing the entire "rank" column as wikipedia already has a sort function built in. Mattximus (talk) 15:04, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Since the proposed merger has been previously implemented, I have gone ahead and removed the merger proposal tag from this article.--TommyBoy (talk) 02:31, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Merger?
I absolutely have no idea how to do this, and I am hoping some of you who successfully created the last merger could be of some help.

The List of municipalities in Texas contains all the incorporated municipalities of Texas: cities, towns, and villages. This makes sense for Texas because, as the introduction accurately states, "...965 cities, 232 towns, and 23 villages, although these names have no specific designation in law." There is no logical or purposeful reason to separate Texas cities, towns, and villages, as they serve the same purposes and their numerical parameters overlap, ie there are very tiny cities and very large towns and villages. Anyone searching for a Texas city, town, or village will not automatically be able to guess which list they are on.

The merged list of all municipalities is the right choice for Texas. However, that makes List of towns in Texas and List of villages in Texas redundant and obsolete. I have carefully analyzed those two lists and every village is already in this municipalities list. All of the towns that are actually towns are also already in this list. The village list is up-to-date but the town list is very out-of-date, has less information than this well-maintained municipalities list, and contains many entries that are not towns. I have checked, and made sure that all the populated places in the towns list are now in their correct list (List of municipalities in Texas, List of unincorporated communities in Texas, or List of ghost towns in Texas).

How can I propose a merger of the towns and villages lists into this all-inclusive municipalities list? Thank you Katrazyna (talk) 05:31, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Please read the instructions at Merging Inkan1969 (talk) 01:09, 3 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Inkan1969, thank you for the advice. I am unsure if this merger counts as "uncontroversial". It seems like an obvious continuation of the last merger to me. If, no one objects, I can make the changes, ie. merge List of towns in Texas and List of villages in Texas into this all inclusive list as per the merging instructions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Katrazyna (talk • contribs) 01:28, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Cities missing
There are cities missing from this list. From the Houston area alone, I spot Aldine, Channelview, Spring, and the Woodlands. The Woodlands has over 100,000 population. I have a strong sense that there are many more missing cities and that simply adding these four will not make the table accurate. I believe a look back at the source data and the methodology for compiling the list is required. DavoLWS (talk) 19:35, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Every place you list are census-designated places. This is the list for municipalities; places with municipal governments.  Please see List of census-designated places in Texas instead.Inkan1969 (talk) 02:20, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

Partial Edit
There was an update today updating the population estimates, but only 65 municipalities were updated. Isn't it a bad practice to update only some of the numbers on a published page? That leads to confusion and erroneous numbers: The column says 2023 Population Estimates, but only 65 of the values are correct. Shouldn't someone then update the numbers using their sandbox page, and then update the actual page only when they've finished updating all numbers?Inkan1969 (talk) 14:38, 27 June 2024 (UTC)