Talk:Whatcom County, Washington

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Point Roberts
Point Roberts seems to be counted in the Census, as discussed in its article, shouldn't it be moved to the census-recognized section? Murderbike 00:48, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Looks like someone moved it. Sehome Bay (talk) 11:35, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Lummi
And what about Lummi Island and the Lummi Indian Reservation? shouldn't they be in census-recognized communities? Murderbike 17:52, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Someone moved the Lummi Reservation. Lummi Island is gone from community list. They are distinct places and should be listed separately. Sehome Bay (talk) 11:35, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

4th regional district bordering
I don't have a map for comparison of the inland boundaries of Whatcom County vs the boundaries of the regional districts in BC; but I suspect that on the northeast, montane, border, the Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District also borders Whatcom County; I think but am not sure that the boundary between the Fraser Valley RD and the Okanagan-Similkameen one is the "divide" between the Fraser and Okanagan basins, which woudl be in the area of the Manning Park Lodge; the Whatcom-Okanogan Counties boundary is, I think, the Skagit-Chelan divide wherever that winds up being....not sure where the Pasayten Wilderness/River fits into that scheme, but when it crosses teh border it does so into the O-S, as the Pasayten is a tributary of the Similkameen...IF you can give me a specific line of longitude where the Whatcom-Okanogan boundary is I can check the BC-side map to see if it "jigs" with the Fraser-Similkameen divide....it may very well, I thought I better check though. Just to note also, that RDs are far less important in terms of governance and regional identity/cohesion in BC than counties are in the US; more relevant to governance are things like which Forests District, and to identity a loose system of "countries"/regions whose names don't correspond (usually) to the same terms as applied to regional districts, e.g. the Fraser Valley RD includes areas not part of the Fraser Valley as a region, and doesn't include all of what we mean when we say "the Fraser Valley" (which is pretty much all of the Lower Mainland except for Vancouver, Burnaby, Port Moody and the North Shore); and "Fraser Canyon" and "Fraser Valley" are mutually exclusive (other than a vague cross-over area from Hope to Yale...).Skookum1 (talk) 15:07, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, the boundary between the RDOS and the FVRD is at 120-50-30 W, more or less due south of Lightning Lake; does that correspond to the Whatcom-Okanogan Counties boundary; if the latter is farther east than that, then the RDOS also borders Whatcom County. And btw some of Whatcom County is part of hte traditional territory of Canadian First Nations; those from the Chilliwack area frequented the upper Chilliwack River and also into the Maple Falls area via the Columbia Valley (the "pass" south of Cultus Lake), the Hope-area bands in the upper Skagit, and the Nlaka'pamux Thompson into the spine of the Cascades around that same boudnary I'm puzzling over; I think the Nlaka'pamux territory is more into Okanogan County though....Skookum1 (talk) 15:21, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Changing date formats
Hi You made an edit yesterday changing date formats. I understand the urge: I think European date formats are much intuitive, cleaner and don't require commas. However, the Wikipedia Manual of Style is indifferent between mdy, dmy, and yyyy-mm-dd formats. You should only make changes which are improvements, but the policy states changing between these formats are not improvements. The relevant policies are WP:DATE and WP:DATEUNIFY. The second of these says that an article should use the same date format throughout, so edit an article following the one of the three acceptable formats already being used. I have made the same mistake from not understanding the Manual of Style. Just yesterday I found a page where I had improperly converted date formats, and restored them. (Note: oops! There are a few stragglers that I need to change.) Please let me know if you have any questions, Oldsanfelipe (talk) 17:59, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Sentence verbatim
The sentence in the article is verbatim from a source, "The name Whatcom derives from a Nooksack word meaning "noisy water", and it was the name of a Nooksack chief." This is word for word from. Oldsanfelipe (talk) 20:01, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

2020 census update?
How and when is county demography data section updated to include the 2020 US census data? Phil Wolff (talk) 23:39, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

1948 US presidential election Democratic vote total for Whatcom County
Was the 1948 US presidential election Democratic vote total for Whatcom County 13,736 or 12,736? This question alters the winner because the Republican vote total for Whatcom County in 1948 was 12,850. I've added up the entire 1948 Washington state vote total for the Democratic candidate, Truman, using 13,736 for Whatcom County and the Washington state total for Truman came to what's listed as 476,165, yet is this accurate? 13,736 is listed on the 1948 United States presidential election in Washington (state) for Whatcom County, yet it's listed as 12,736 on the Whatcom County, Washington page. The latter would mean a Washington state total of 475,165. It's difficult to find a source either way. 79.66.96.149 (talk) 18:16, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

the MSA

 * Its county seat and largest population center is the coastal city of Bellingham, comprising the Bellingham, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, …

This literally says the Bellingham MSA consists of nothing outside the city of Bellingham. Is that intended?

Bellingham, WA MSA redirects here, so maybe the MSA is the county? If so, the sentence needs to be broken up. —Tamfang (talk) 02:58, 16 October 2023 (UTC)