Talk:Ville

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Bold textEssentially merely an impossibly long list. --Wetman 01:44, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Should -ville be added to the suffix template? Revolución 21:16, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Notable -ville cities
The list of notable -ville cities has blossomed in the last week or two. I've never even heard of most of these cities. What is notable about them? To avoid listcruft we don't need to list every -ville, just the ones that are especially large or famous, I think. Pfly 08:12, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

The list of notable -villes has suddenly gotten long. Too many wikipedia articles have unnecessarily long lists. Let's try to keep this one under control -- particularly large or famous -villes, or -villes that are fundamental to the history of naming cities -ville. And remember, this is a world-wide scope, not just the USA. Add a -ville if it is globally notable. I deleted all the -villes from the list that seemed unnotable to me. If I made a mistake, I apologize. It might be a good idea to describe the notability of a new -ville listed here on the talk page, if it isn't immediately obvious. Thanks! Working to make wikipedia less like Powerpoint and more like an encyclopedia.. Pfly 09:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

"Ville" has its origins in aj term used by Anglo and Saxon nobels to describe the common man thought to be literally 'vile', a threat to their security; therefore 'ville' and 'villager' had base and vulgar connotations in their beginnings. 65.95.181.157 12:46, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Not wrong but unprecise : ville and vile are from French and the Anglo-saxons spoke Old English. The lords who first used these words spoke Anglo-Norman and had more or less French origins. Your etymology between ville and vile can be considered as a popular etymology. The word that had a vulgar connotation was villain Nortmannus (talk) 17:48, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Terrakinesis
Terrakinesis is manipulting the matter of earth by mind —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.54.18.100 (talk) 03:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC).

Coalville
The former mining town of Coalville is about the only example I can think of of an industrialised English town being named in the way more familiar in the USA. There may be others, but Coalville is certainly very rare in that respect. 109.151.0.183 (talk) 02:09, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

The list of notable -villes has suddenly gotten long.
I couldn't agree more with this comment, from 2006(!) It's complete cruft. While I'm sure the denizens of the town itself think it's "notable", listing McMinnville, Oregon (Pop 32,187) or Zanesville, Ohio (25,487) epitomize how silly this has become. Look at it: it's a 2-page list of "-villes".

The entire section seems worthy of deletion. To go about such a procedure is delicate, so as to avoid charges of "vandalism" and edit wars with the residents of the respective towns. Does anyone else concur? --Petzl (talk) 15:22, 13 June 2018 (UTC)


 * I agree with @Petzl. This is not a list page. There are options:
 * We delete the list.
 * We pare down the list, including only a few examples, per the Canadian section above.
 * We move the list to its own article, leaving a section hatnote behind.
 * We collapse the list so it does not take up as much space for most readers.
 * — HTGS (talk) 21:14, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Williamstonhead I noticed you have been filling the USA -ville list out, presumably towards completion. How do you feel about maybe splitting the list off to its own page? — HTGS (talk) 23:27, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
 * But I was telling the truth Williamstonhead (talk) 13:10, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I know that these places are genuine, but the list is distracting for the article. Would you mind if I moved it to another page, such as List of places in the United States ending in -ville — HTGS (talk) 21:01, 29 January 2024 (UTC)