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Perhaps it is time to limit the number of images in the "gallery of city and town halls around the world" because there are now almost 200! It seems that this is more than adequate to "illustrate" this subject. This is just one thought from me — CZmarlin (talk) 23:57, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Useful, yes. Appropriate here, probably not. This is the sort of thing that should be on the Commons, not here. Wikipedia's image use policy is quite clear -- galleries are discouraged, and there has to be good reason to have one in the article namespace instead of using a Commons link. I can thin of reasons why galleries might occasionally be appropriate on Wikipedia (e.g. a series of photographs showing a process of some kind from start to finish), but this instance is not one of them -- it's just an illustrative selection of town hall photos. It's a very nice montage, but this is the sort of thing that for which the Commons was intended. Skeezix1000 (talk) 12:11, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I tend to agree with Skeezix, images are great when their useful or illustrative but a gallery of various city halls doesn't really tell us much about the concept of city halls other than the fact that they are buildings which could pretty much be summed up with one sentence and one image. A city halls gallery on the Commons would be a good idea if there isn't one already. --IvoShandor (talk) 15:45, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done — There exists a Commons page for City hall, as well as a category (see: Town halls by country). These are at least more useful because they are organized by nation, and then the category is further subdivided into individual towns. This is in stark contrast to the random, but alphabetical, collection of images in the gallery on this WP article. It seems images are expanding in this article, but there is no context to them such as by size of town, architecture type, historic significance, etc. Other than adding lots of color to the article, the images in the gallery do not provide any value to the subject matter. According to WP guidelines, only a few should remain that help the reader understand the various city and town hall buildings in organized categories and each having a complete explanation as to their significance. At this point, there is no need for any of the images in the gallery. It will also make loading this article so much faster. Another link to the images in Commons category will provide the reader with plenty of pictures of city halls! — CZmarlin (talk) 16:17, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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City and town halls → Local government administrative building — First the current name is plural and it should be singular. Second by only listing two types of these buildings, it is not a correctly named article for the scope of the article. By definition, the name of the article, and hence the categories that support it, excludes a broad class of buildings like, village halls, Rathaus, borough halls, council halls, Communal Palace and other similar buildings. Third it effectively is grouping only a portion of the broader class of buildings in an oddly named set of categories and lists to the exclusion of other similar structures. This prevents a category like Category:City and town halls from being parented in Category:Towns since not all of the contents are related to towns. If the goal is to not have an article on a city hall and a town hall, then this article needs some kind of a inclusive generic name. I am not stuck on the name proposed, but look at it as a way to start the discussion. While extreme, splitting this article into two articles could well be the easiest and cleanest solution. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:11, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
