Talk:Lewiston (town), New York

This article was nominated for deletion on 24 March 2018. The result of the discussion was Editorial solution required.

Sidebar is combo of Town and Village Data[edit]

The sidebar on the article has the Label Town and demographic and geographic data for the Town of Lewiston and the graphic red map placement for the Village of Lewiston. The Town has a separate page without this sidebar. Not sure how to edit/correct these components and to place appropriate material on the respective Town page. MandellBrad (talk) 19:43, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate of Lewiston (village), New York[edit]

This article is almost identical in content to Lewiston (village), New York. How should this be cleaned up? --Gapfall (talk) 10:07, 11 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Gapfall: This happens too often on New York state articles. It's partly due to the Administrative divisions of New York (state), which divides counties into "towns" (similar to "townships" in other states), with one of the villages within the town sharing the same name as the town. What appears to contribute to the town/village confusion on Wikipedia's New York State articles is that "town articles" have been named in a way that makes them easy to confuse with "village articles".

Compare that to:

Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Cheltenham, Pennsylvania (notice the hatnote so it is not confused with the township)

As well, New York's town articles are well developed (a good thing!), while the township articles in many states are often just red-links (see List of townships in South Dakota). My suspicion is that editors are frequently confused (I've been), and don't know if they should add new information to the town or the village. There seems to have been little discussion about this (I only found Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York (state)/Archive 2#Disambiguation pages for New York villages within towns.). I will add a link to this discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York (state). Magnolia677 (talk) 11:05, 11 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, looking at the page history, Lewiston, New York used to be the main article with Lewiston (village), New York redirecting to it. User:DemocraticLuntz manually swapped this around in September 2015 so that "(village)" became the main article with the other redirecting. In November 2016, User:Penale52 undid one of those edits (but not the other), creating two parallel copies of the article, both of which have been edited a bit since. --Gapfall (talk) 12:02, 11 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect or Disambiguation page?[edit]

As this is a near total duplicate of Lewiston (village), New York and we have an article about a town it's located within called Lewiston (town), New York, what is the best course of action for this article, redirecting to one of those articles or turning this into a disambiguation page? 69.118.33.213 (talk) 19:00, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Article histories indicate that this article is a duplicate of Lewiston (village), New York and both article have been updated in parallel. Changing Lewiston, New York into a disambiguation page makes sense, but let's get a consensus. • Gene93k (talk) 19:53, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This was discussed above, see Talk:Lewiston, New York#Duplicate of Lewiston (village), New York. This seems to be a New York phenomena. I'm not sure what the reason for it was. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:59, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

After looking at the A's in Category:Towns in New York (state) and Category:Villages in New York (state), I find that 14 town-village pairs have town articles without the (town) disambiguation (Adams, Addison, Afton, Alden, Alexander, Almond, Andover, Angelica, Antwerp, Arcade, Argyll, Athens, Avoca, and Avon), while three have (town) in the title (Albion, Allegany, Attica). This agrees with my own opinion, that the town is the primary topic. I've updated Lewiston (village), New York with the slightly later (2016 vs 2015) population estimates; everything else is now, AFAIK, the same or better (e.g. notable residents, reference definition issue) in the village article. Therefore, I propose that Lewiston (town), New York be moved here (with an optional hatnote to the village). Clarityfiend (talk) 08:58, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've redirected this to the town as the simplest and easiest solution. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:42, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]