Talk:List of census-designated places in Alaska

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According to the definition of cities, shouldn't the article rather be named "list of communities", since it goes down to villages with only 2 inhabitants? Jochim Schiller (talk) 13:08, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently cities in Alaska are completely different from cities everywhere else in the world.

Per Alaska's Commerce Department's Overview of Government in Alaska: "Alaska's municipal government structure has just cities and organized boroughs. City government is a community-based entity, while boroughs provide services on a regional basis. Cities and boroughs are organized as either home rule municipalities, which can exercise any power not prohibited by state or federal law or by the home rule charter; or general law municipalities, which derive their powers from state statutes. (Note: Unified municipalities are treated as boroughs in statute and regulation.)

"A city government is a municipal corporation and political subdivision of the State of Alaska. It generally exercises its powers within an established boundary that normally encompasses a single community. Under the state's constitution, a city is also part of the borough in which it is located."

--Ando228 (talk) 01:02, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Renaming

I noticed that there is a List of cities in Alaska by population page which is almost identical with this page. I propose a slight reorganization to these two pages.

1. Rename List of cities in Alaska by population to List of cities in Alaska to match other state pages.
2. Rename this page, List of cities and census-designated places in Alaska to List of census-designated places in Alaska, and remove the cities. The page is primarily census-designated places anyway, and the lead only talks about census-designated places. It would not be a difficult change.

The fork is eliminated, and the pages remain largely intact with minimal effort. What do you think? Mattximus (talk) 15:24, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]