Talk:Local government areas of Victoria

2005 elections - councillors and wards
I have decided to place the 2005 councillors on the appropriate pages for each Local Government Area of Victoria, as this hasn't been done before or only on some pages, like the Frankston City Council and the Banyule City Council. How much detail is proper? For example, the Cardinia representation review where one ward has three councillors and the other only two, is very different to something more straightforward like three councillors for all wards. If it's a straight dump of all the councillors that would be all right. --EuropracBHIT 03:36, 29 November 2005 (UTC).

LGA Template
I have added a LGA template: Template:Local Government Areas. Would be good to see it used throughout Victorian LGAs, have only done it so far for Casey and Cardinia --Crazycrazyduck 11:18, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
 * how do you think it will translate to rural LGAs?--A Y  Arktos 20:29, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

It should be fine, because it doesnt mention the city or anything. The box categories are Mayor/President, CEO, Divisions (Wards or Ridings), Councillors, population, size, key suburbs/towns, foundation date and website. --Crazycrazyduck 21:23, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Have completed Bass Coast, South Gippsland, Warrnambool and Mornington Peninsula. --Crazycrazyduck 07:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Definitions and significance
This page, viewed in isolation, may raise more questions than it answers. What is a LGA? what's the significance of one, how are the boundaries determined? What's a Rural City? A shire? Links to articles that explain some of this stuff would make this list a lot more than just a bare list. Not being from Oz I of course have no idea. ++Lar: t/c 18:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I actually think the Statoids link gives a pretty good explanation, even though it's a little out of date WRT current LGAs. RoscoHead 21:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Good to see you again ROSCO, I was wondering when you'd next turn up on a page I'd been editing... Are you saying that none of these terms have Wikipedia articles? Typically it is far better to link to articles explicitly rather that giving the reader a pointer to an external site (and no hint that there are definitions to be found there), no matter how good the site might be. Hope that helps clarify what I was referring to. ++Lar: t/c 01:33, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I was wondering when you'd next turn up on a page you have no idea about - BTW I'm not sure Dorothy or the wicked witch would know any more about it than you ;) Maybe things such as LGA, Rural City, and Shire could be categories, with a short explanation at the top? I defer to your vastly greater knowledge of wikis. RoscoHead 02:41, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Now why would you be wondering that, ROSCO? Unless of course you were stalking me (as your contributions log strongly suggests might be the case, you know... a pattern of editing things just after I've edited them that otherwise have no connection to each other or to you is pretty strong evidence of stalking), why would you even care about what I did or didn't edit? Tell you what, I'd rather wait for someone with an actual interest in this topic, rather than an interest in me, to comment constructively. ++Lar: t/c 15:38, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, wikistalking, now there's an interesting phenomenon. But back to the subject at hand, anyone here have any useful opinions to throw in? RoscoHead 20:02, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I actually have an interest in the topic, so to help you out, I've added the obvious link to Local Government Area in the See Also section. Of course, an article titled Local government in Victoria or the like would be useful to explain the entire set up and its history, but researching and writing such an article was a pipe dream of mine that got lost amidst the demands of real life... Thylacoleo 06:28, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Unincorporated areas
"There are 79 Local Government Areas in the Australian state of Victoria. LGAs are constituted as cities, shires, rural cities and, in one case, a borough. In addition to the LGAs, there are also a number of small unincorporated areas; including Mount Hotham and Falls Creek (surrounded by the Alpine Shire), Mount Buller (surrounded by Shire of Mansfield), French Island, the Yallourn Works Area and Lady Julia Percy Island."

This introduction looks very strange to me. The shires and cities cover the whole land surface of Victoria ( unlike SA and NSW where some of the remote areas are not part of any shire ). Don't they? What exactly is special about the ski-resorts? Is it that they don't have their own municipal subgovernments? Well, most small settlements in rural Australia (call them what you like, villages, hamlets, townships ), don't have their own separate incorporation, there are just part of the shire. So what exactly is special about the ski resorts ?Eregli bob (talk) 04:18, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * This comment is old and the article has been changed since then to explicitly refer to the ski resorts. But it is clear that Alpine Resorts are excised from local governments and many coastal islands are not part of the municipal district of the adjacent mainland, from both legislation and government-provided maps. —Felix the Cassowary 15:56, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I understand the reasoning behind the proposed merger of List of local government areas of Victoria and Local government areas of Victoria and mostly agree with it as there really is no need to have the words "List of..." in the article title. However, I must ask why the latter page's redirect was reverted and content re-added and with only a one-word edit summary that doesn't explain anything. The content at that article is redundant to List of local government areas of Victoria and Local government in Victoria. Anyway, that being the case, and as the substantial portion of List of local government areas of Victoria was done by me, I've redirected it myself.  Claret Ash  23:48, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Naming standard
Going by Vic Councils website, it appears that the naming standard for Victorian LGA's needs updating. The only one to remain in the old format is the Borough of Queenscliffe. This will also be useful in making the LGA's easier to find if it's type is unknown, alphabetically (old way was either using actual starting letter, B, C, R, or S) or if it used the old or new format (inconsistency - Alpine Shire, Shire of Moira‎). -- ThylacineHunter  (talk) 08:04, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
 * "City of xxx" are now "xxx City"
 * "Rural City of yyy" are now "yyy Rural City"
 * "Shire of zzz" are now "zzz Shire"