Talk:The Villages

In the entry entitled "The Villages":

First, generally good write-up.

Second, population in early April, 2006, is close to 60,000. Homes are being sold at the rate of over 400 per month.

Third, the link to the POA should be:  www.poa4us.org    which is the official web site of the Property Owners' Association of The Villages, Inc.

Thanks,

Joe Gorman President The POA email: poa@poa4us.org phone: 352-259-0999

Merged "The Villages" into "The Villages, Florida".
This merge had been proposed for some time, and seemed a very obvious and unobjectionable merge. Firstly, the overlap between "The Villages" and "The Villages, Florida" content was enormous. Secondly, the use of these two particular monikers to make a distinction was confusing and unclear.

Therefore, even though I'm something of a newbie at this, I tried my hand at performing my first merge. I chose "The Villages, Florida" rather than "The Villages" as the site of the merge, because this format (City, State) is used for almost all unincoporated cities / towns on Wikipedia.

Most of the important substance from the former "The Villages, Florida" article has been re-worked and is now under the "Census Designated Place / Micropolitan Statistical Area" section at the end of the new article. In that section, I attempted to clarify the 3 different uses of the term "The Villages". These 3 uses are 1) the enire retirement village / unincorporated city, 2) the census-designated place (only the part of The Villages in Sumter County), and 3) the micropolitan statistical area (which is identical to Sumter County).   Since the second and third uses of the term seem would seem to be fairly unimportant to most people that would look up the article, I left this section at the end of the article.

Redundant material was removed. Also removed was the detailed Census statistics which correspond to use #2 above. Since these statistics refer to only that small section of The Villages that is in Sumter County, I felt they were at best not especially significant, and at worst somewhat confusing. However, if someone else thinks it is important that those statistics be placed in the new article, and knows a way to clarify the purpose, than they can certainly re-add it.

Imput and feedback is encouraged. Thanks!