Talk:List of towns in Alberta

Photo gallery
At 800x600 (and a little wider), the table displays under the photo gallery, making the column of photos very obtrusive. Besides, using a gallery tag to display a gallery of photos makes more sense. --Kmsiever 00:00, 30 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Having pictures in this type of article (basically a list) is not really necessary. I added those pictures only to give the page a little color. Now I've adjusted the table width to 60%, so that even 800px wide displays would accomodate both table and picture sidebar (just in case). On a sidenote: is anyone still using 800x600 resolution for their screen?--Qyd 05:56, 30 October 2006 (UTC)


 * It's not just screen resolution; it's also browser width. Not everyone maximises his/her browser; especially on larger resolutions. The list of images looks better than originally. --Kmsiever 13:00, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

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Rename article

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: no consensus; not moved. Aervanath (talk) 12:11, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Would you believe I was closing this discussion at the same time but Aevanath beat me to it. For what it's worth here is my closing rationale:
 * There is no consensus to move the article at this time. Despite it fitting more consistently within the other Alberta articles, it seems there is more of a tendency to use "List of ..." in the encycopledia generally.
 * &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:15, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

List of towns in Alberta → Towns of Alberta —The name of this article is inconsistent with the name conventions used for Villages of Alberta, Summer villages of Alberta and Hamlets of Alberta. Also, the name of the article is redundant with a section title within the article. To address these two observations, I would like to propose that this article be renamed to Towns of Alberta. Thoughts/questions/concerns? --Hwy43 (talk) 08:11, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Support, I like consistency. According to the history of Towns of Alberta, it was moved because it qualified as a list, I think this isn't the case any more. 117Avenue (talk) 00:10, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose since this clearly is a list as defined in Wikipedia:Lists as a list article. Would be better to rename the others to match this one. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:04, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Support since the path of least resistance is to rename this article rather than propose renaming Cities of Alberta, Villages of Alberta, Summer villages of Alberta and Hamlets of Alberta. If this proposal was to be denied and resulting proposals to make these other four consistent with List of towns in Alberta were also to be denied, we would still have inconsistency and be no further ahead. After the rename/move, we could always make List of towns in Alberta a redirect to Towns of Alberta (or more specifically Towns of Alberta). --Hwy43 (talk) 22:47, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * So doing an incorrect rename is better then doing the correct actions? Vegaswikian (talk) 21:37, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I've re-reviewed Wikipedia:Lists. I was under the impression that List of towns in Alberta qualified as an embedded list according to Lists and, as such, a non-list article name could be considered.  Upon further review at WP:EMBED it appears that List of towns in Alberta does not qualify as an embedded list. However, is there no flexibility for the evolution of stand-alone articles into articles with more substance? This article has evolved from a purely stand-alone list to an article that no longer primarily consists of a list (or a group of lists), but an article where both lists and informative sections about the Alberta's towns coexist. Despite these circumstances, if you feel strongly that it is not reasonable to rename it as proposed above, I suggest that you initiate proposals to rename the four other articles in order to address the inconsistency in naming conventions that we are trying to address here. --Hwy43 (talk) 04:12, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Vegaswikian. This a list, and not an article with an embedded list. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:24, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.