Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Colorado/Communities

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The List of cities and towns in Colorado now includes every incorporated city, incorporated town, Census Designated Place, and U.S. Post Office in the State of Colorado.

The Colorado municipalities article includes a sortable table of all 270 incorporated municipalities of the State of Colorado.

--Buaidh 00:40, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Demographic information for low-population regions

The detailed demographic information for low-population regions, while it may be mathematically correct, looks quite ridiculous. For example, Lakeside, Colorado shows "For every 100 females there were 233.3 males." That seems tremendously unbalanced until you realize that for a town of 20, it's only 6 to 14. Other statistics also look greatly out-of-proportion due to the low population sizes. Interestingly, Bonanza, Colorado reports that "Males had a median income of $0 versus $0 for females" despite recording non-zero income figures for households and families - probably representing that at least 5 of 9 males and 3 of 5 females didn't earn income, thus putting the median of each on one of the non-earners.

Furthermore, a single simple event (birth, death, relocation, even change of job) in any of these places would also completely invalidate these figures (as opposed to being statistically insignificant in a much more populous area).

Thus, I would suggest that such ridiculous-looking detailed information should not be included in articles about regions with populations less than 100 (e.g. anywhere a single-person change would represent more than a single percent change), and that those statistics which are included be clearly marked with the date such information was pulled from. John Darrow (talk) 20:45, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

I agree. Furthermore, I think that while demographic information is useful there are many more interesting things to add about these towns. I recently edited the article for Brush, CO, my hometown, and included a section for local culture and local notables. The template used for low-population areas neglects to start 2nd level headings for culture and local public figures. I'd like the template better if it included those two sections. Chicagolive (talk) 22:09, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Morrison question

Hi, I need advice on editing the page for Morrison. (Please redirect if this is not the appropriate place.) Morrison is a very small town (<500) but has a very large zip code (~5000). A lot of people "from Morrison" are actually from unincorporated Jefferson Co. I believe this is probably true of the 3 people listed as "Notable Residents." Park and Feinberg seem to be deserving, but are likely not truly Morrison residents. Wells is, apparently, a criminal/suspect, more notorious than notable, who is also probably not "from Morrison." Some of these edits may be vandalism. I'd appreciate advice on whether any of these should be removed, or perhaps should be annotated to show that they are AREA residents. Thoughts? Araucana (talk) 17:11, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

This is an interesting question. Articles about incorporated places are primarily about the incorporated city or town, but may also include information about the surrounding area including the postal address. If you are discussing both the town and the surrounding area, just make that point clear. In the case of Morrison, the fact that the surrounding area is so much more populous than the town itself is an important point of the article. Yours aye,  Buaidh  18:20, 28 December 2011 (UTC)