Category talk:Towns

Unincorporated Towns? -- Chuckhoffmann 15:09, 15 February 2012 (EST)
Would a more correct categorization of the articles in this category be "unincorporated towns"? There are three incorporated towns in Fairfax County: Clifton, Herndon, and Vienna, but then there are places like Annandale, Burke, Centreville, Springfield, Reston, et cetera, that would be towns if they were formally incorporated. --Chuckhoffmann 15:09, 15 February 2012 (EST)

Re: Unincorporated Towns? -- Frank Muraca 15:39, 15 February 2012 (EST)

 * Good catch. I'm going to make those sub-categories of "Towns".

Re: Unincorporated Towns? -- Joshdoe 07:27, 16 February 2012 (EST)

 * I would suggest that rather than using the term Category:Unincorporated towns, we use the more widespread term Category:Unincorporated areas or Category:Unincorporated communities (WP). I live in Burke, and would definitely say that it does not have a town feeling, town center, or other characteristics that would make me think of it as a town. I'd guess the same thing goes for the other places you mentioned. Note also that many of those are Category:Census-designated places. See how Wikipedia handles these places on this template navbox.