Talk:Saulkrasti

City vs. town
Nice work! I spoted, though, two issues, that I think you might want to do something about - afaik two of the `Closest cities` are villages and perhaps you shouldn`t link to Krimulda parish as the article is is on modern entity) Xil  (talk) 17:44, 13 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm just used to call them "city" in Latvian, I'm not sure why they are all called towns here. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 19:06, 13 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Apparently there is size diffrence, anyway that is not my point - Carnikava and Ādaži don`t have town rights Xil  (talk) 20:01, 13 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I meant in general; I corrected about the "closest cities". Saulkrasti has city rights (pilsētas tiesības) but I'm not sure why enWiki calls all Latvian cities towns. Although it seems to be the same thing: "In Latvia, towns and cities are indiscriminately called pilsēta in singular form." from Town. So I guess consistency. Then again, noone calls Rīga or Liepāja towns. I'm thinking this needs to be brought up on the WPLV.— HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 23:34, 13 September 2010 (UTC)


 * At one point a wiki user changed most Latvian "cities" to towns since many Latvian "cities" only has a couple of thousand residents. A city normally has a downtown or similar, which is difficult when the "city" perhaps just takes a couple of minutes to drive through. Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\Work 04:41, 14 September 2010 (UTC)


 * It is just strange that we call one city "city" and other city "town" because of some subjective measure of its size. In Latvian they are all called the same. I suppose the state cities can be called "city" and other cities "towns". Should probably bring at least this up on WPLV. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 09:57, 14 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Perhaps we call one town "city" and another town "town"? — Nah, just kidding. ;o) In Latvian they are both called the same, which is quite a strange rationale to use. Jauns in English means both new and young, but "young potatoes" and "new daughter" does sound wrong. It is about semantics. A highway intersection with some buildings around it is not a city, and it is not called Old City Riga — it is old town Riga, since Riga has grown quite a bit since then to a city. Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\Work 14:28, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Or, we could just refer to section 6 of Law On Administrative Territories and Populated Areas Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\Work 14:40, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * More like section 10. we could just leave it as it is, call all of them cities (or towns) or call everythig but 9 largest towns. I kind of am startig to favour last option as someone always needs to change cities to towns Xil  (talk) 15:52, 14 September 2010 (UTC)