Talk:List of towns in New York

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Does it means something to list 932 towns on one page ? I think we should transform this page in a : List of towns in New York by county. --Revas 10:56, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * That should be a part of every individual county article. I don't know if that's the case, but I made sure Westchester County, New York contains that data. Nelson Ricardo 16:56, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunately, this list still contains poor or bad links. Stepp-Wulf 05:20, 13 February 2006 (UTC).

Checked
I checked out every single county and town in New York. I found that eight of them in this list were not in template pages for the counties named here for those towns. I fixed six of them. I am not clear about two others: Clermont and Dansville. hello (talk) 22:32, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Added
I added Lyonsdale (in Lewis County), Pitcairn (in St. Lawrence County), and Tuscarora (in Steuben County) to the template pages for those counties, because this page says they are towns, the pages themselves say they are towns, and they seem that they may be distinct towns. I cannot be sure of this. hello (talk) 22:32, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Removed
From this page, I removed Eagle Bay, as it is a hamlet, not a town, in Herkimer County. From this page, I removed Glen Cove, as it is a city, not a town, in Nassau County. From this page, I removed Honeoye Falls, as it is a village, not a town, in Monroe County. hello (talk) 22:32, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Recounted
There were 935 towns in the list, though the top of this page said there were 932. I removed three from this page. I did a simple cut of the entire page, pasted into Notepad, cutting out all but the items, then replaced each asterisk (*) with a line counting code. I verified this was correct. Then, cut this from Notepad and pasted it back into the page, finished the numbering codes, and previewed it (no save). There definitely are 932 towns in the list now. Exactly. I did the same with the pages for all villages and all cities and found no extra or missing entries and no counting errors. hello (talk) 22:32, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

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Merger proposal
This article should be merged with List of villages in New York and List of cities in New York, to be consistent with other states. Dylanvt (talk) 17:51, 7 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Agree, this is an odd one to not have been standardized by now. Mattximus (talk) 20:09, 7 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Support per previous.2601:241:300:B610:ACCB:842D:41B1:D966 (talk) 22:24, 25 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Partial Support. Villages and cities should definitely be merged. Not sure about towns, since those are a different level of government: villages are within towns. What do we do in other states where townships or similar exist? -Apocheir (talk) 03:07, 2 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Disagree. Villages and cities can maybe be merged (even though there are several differences between both). But towns are a completely different level of government than the other two. No matter what, I strongly advise for the retention of a standalone article on towns. AITFFan1 (talk) 16:45, 5 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Agree Whatever the pros and cons of having separate articles may be, for those of use looking for statistics, it is very awkward to have to refer to three different articles to get simple population comparisons. If some feel that having all populations in one list would be like comparing apples to oranges, two or three lists could still be incorporated into a single article. Krispar (talk) 17:00, 26 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Support p  b  p  13:14, 6 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Support Per nom. 2001:8003:9008:1301:2492:B8B3:D1:47D4 (talk) 07:06, 20 October 2021 (UTC)


 * The list of municipalities in Pennsylvania puts them all together. In states where township-equivalents have no municipal functions we are currently inconsistent: e.g. for South Dakota they are listed separately, while for Michigan townships are included. However, I'm pretty sure that in New York, towns do, like cities and villages, serve some municipal function, unlike in South Dakota and Michigan. Dylanvt (talk) 21:18, 26 October 2021 (UTC)


 * I think a table like is fine. Maybe add an extra column saying which town a village is in. Changing to Support.-Apocheir (talk) 21:34, 26 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Oppose It is actually better to have separate articles so we could link them to the infobox and intro of each city, town or village article. I reckon other states should have separate articles for the lists of their cities, towns and villages too. 144.130.162.86 (talk) 08:44, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Merger
Hello, I'm currently on the process of creating an article for "List of municipalities in New York", which can be seen here. Obviously it's a WIP, but I'm planning to finish it eventually and have both cities, villages and towns, with a separate section for towns. LibertarianTed (talk) 17:56, 18 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much for taking the initiative to do this! The table looks great so far. Hopefully we can get every state looking like this pretty soon. Dylanvt (talk) 01:59, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
 * glad you like this! I've been taking a long break from Wikipedia due to a lack of free time, but I promise I'll try to speed it up if I ever have the time. my only experience so far doing those tables are a few CDP lists that didn't exist before. LibertarianTed (talk) 22:56, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Would it be okay if I jump in there and help you a bit? Monkeylol (talk) 15:02, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * hello, sorry for the extremely late reply! like i said, I barely check this wikipedia account. if you wanna take what I have and fill it up yourself, you're free to do so LibertarianTed (talk) 21:34, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for doing this work. I would also recommend you make a separate category in your table for the coterminous town-village.  This link lists five conterminous town-villages, plus two pairs of towns and villages that come close. Inkan1969 (talk) 01:30, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

I think we should make an article of the largest cities and towns in New York.
These to separate articles make look New York look fully unincorporated when all of the state is in fact incorporated. AndrewSan12 (talk) 16:51, 4 July 2024 (UTC)