Talk:List of municipalities in Montana

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Montana

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Please Read Prior to Adding Place Names

As the article says, this is a complete list of cities and towns in Montana. This list does not include unincorporated places or census designated places. For a list of places, see List of places in Montana where additions may be made.

Please read the text of the paragraphs that preface the list. Do not add places that are not incorporated as either a town or a city. Places that are not municipalities do not belong on this list. Your assistance and cooperation in keeping this list clean is appreciated. Thanks. -- Ltvine | Talk 18:27, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

what about "Joe,Montana" i heard a little town in mt. changed their name to Joe,4TILDES_4:43PM_10/11/7 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Otis66Driftwood (talk • contribs) 20:48, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was an unofficial name change for the town of Ismay, Montana in 1993 and was not permanent. -- Ltvine | Talk 20:58, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rename article

Could someone rename this page to "List of cities and towns in Montana (U.S. State)" because there is a "Montana" in Bolivia or was it Bulgaria?

--Wolfdog1 (talk) 07:44, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is the Bulgarian province named Montana. Montana and Montana Province are at the same level of sub-national subdivision. There was a discussion about the naming convention for Regions of Bulgaria and they currently remain named "province". Contrast this with the article naming convention for U.S. States which--with the notable exception of Georgia (U.S. State)--maintain the common one or two word name. Your question points to the larger issue of naming conventions for U.S. state articles which conflict with other geographic entities and has been extensively discussed in the case of Georgia. I'm sure the Montana example would make for lively discussion too. Thanks. -- Ltvine | Talk 19:52, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hannah, Montana

is there realy a town called Hannah in montana like it says in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.57.76.73 (talk) 19:33, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Meriwhether, MT needs a Clark

Cross posted, for someone's attention: Talk:List_of_places_in_Montana#Wiki-missing, Thanks // FrankB 00:48, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

County Seats

Do county seats really need to be noted in two ways, by a dagger and with a colored background? One or the other, I'd think. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.144.170.66 (talk) 17:14, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's for accessibility reasons. Some users have trouble seeing colours. Mattximus (talk) 14:32, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Completeness vs. Accuracy

This page currently uses the 'Convert' template to switch from square miles to square kilometers. This works well for the land area, and whoever updates the land area using any changes that might come out of the 2020 Census data (which is not yet available) assuming ANY of these municipalities changed their borders in the past 10 years, will only have to input the square miles and not the km2. So far so good.

However, the 'convert' template doesn't do such a good job on the population density conversion. For example, Big Sandy should currently show 550.0 persons per km2 but instead shows 530.9. Cascade should show 461.5 people per km2 and instead shows 445.5. The template itself can't be fixed (apparently this was all hashed out thoroughly back in 2008/2009) so the options would be to change the page to NOT use 'convert' and instead hand-enter the km2 area and population density stats each time the area and/or population is updated. Or just delete the people per km2 from the table and leave only people per square mile. Or leaving it as-is, which is more 'complete' information, but unexpectedly inaccurate data. Just looking at it a reader would never know about the miscalculations occurring. Wilburchloe (talk) 22:49, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for catching this error. It's fascinating. I wonder if the best issue is to try and fix the convert function, if it wasn't fixed in 2008/9 maybe someone new can fix it in 2021? Mattximus (talk) 01:03, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]