Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of municipalities in Washington/archive1

List of municipalities in Washington

Featured list candidates/List of municipalities in Washington/archive1

Nominator(s): Sounder Bruce 06:35, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One of my bucket list items is to visit all 281 cities and towns in my home state of Washington, so I thought it was high time to improve the massive list before I reach the 100% mark (which is only a few road trips away from being accomplished). This list follows the format set at other recent lists of municipalities, especially those from Mattximus, and I believe it is ready for review. Sounder Bruce 06:35, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

MPGuy2824

Tables need row scopes on the "primary" column for each row, which in combination with column scopes lets screen reader software accurately determine and read out the headers for each cell of a data table. You've added the scopes but the line needs to start with a "!" not a "|".
- Fixed.
Some of the number columns are right aligned, but not all. All the ones which have a varying number of digits should be right aligned. The year column can be left as is.
- Fixed for the center-aligned columns.
The order of precedence seems to be first-class city > second-class city > code city > town. It would be great to have that column sort in this way. I'm not sure where the unclassified city would fit in there.
- The current sorting uses the most common order that these classifications are listed in (code city, 1st class, 2nd class, unclassified, town) by the government and MRSC.
  - I didn't mean the default sorting order, but order encountered when the table is sorted on that column. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:23, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    - @MPGuy2824: I was referring to the order when sorted by "Type"; the sortkey is "City X" for the types, which is alphabetical (code, first, second) and coincidentally aligns with the preferred ordering. Sounder Bruce 03:22, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      I read through the Classification section again and it looks like my previous assumption was wrong. The order of precedence seems to be code city > first-class city > second-class city > town and the column sorts correctly. Support on accessibility. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:36, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Many of the refs are missing archive links. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:19, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- I will be adding archived links once the bot is finished with its run (which typically takes a few days). Sounder Bruce 08:02, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- Bot has been run and picked up most links; a few seem to be blocked (Reuters) or too new for it. Sounder Bruce 03:22, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments - I did a mini-review prior to nomination and all my recommendations were made. I believe this list is at the featured level. I can find only one issue. There is a paragraph on mayor and manager and a mention in the lead, but no mention in the table. I wonder if there is a way to incorporate this into the table without a new column because I like the table as is. If there are only those two, and only a few managers, could a note be made for those which says all others are mayor? Or is there another creative solution? It would be a shame to just remove that paragraph which is another option. Mattximus (talk) 22:50, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mattximus: I'm not sure if a new column would fit, nor would a separate notes system be warranted. I have added a sentence with the MRSC statistics, which show 227 mayor–council municipalities and 54 council–manager municipalities. MRSC also notes that the systems aren't fully separate, as some mayor–council cities have administrators who have powers similar to a city manager. Sounder Bruce 03:22, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well if nobody else has an issue with the mayor/manager being in the lead/text and not in the list, I will Support based on everything else which is excellent. Mattximus (talk) 21:37, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]