Template talk:Cobb County, Georgia

East Cobb

East Cobb is not simply a geographic designator for the eastern end of Cobb County. It is a well-known community and fits all the definitions in Unincorporated_area#United_States. Mmann1988 has done a great job of showing how it functions as, and is considered to be a single community within Cobb County and Metro Atlanta. To keep removing it from the list of unincorporated communities, in my opinion the editor would need to introduce some other, stricter definition of what an unincorporated community is, such as a CDP or having a post office in the community's name. Keizers (talk) 19:32, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

East Cobb should be on there. It isnt fair that one editor (Nyttend) gets the final say. Who else agrees? --Mmann1988 (talk) 22:45, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

So what's your opinion of this edit? You have repeatedly failed to prove that it fits the definition of a populated place, and you've edit-warred and made disruptive deletion nominations because not everybody agrees with your opinion. Nationwide, we only include unincorporated communities in this section, not regions of counties. Nyttend (talk) 22:54, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

There are many unincorporated communities included in templates nationwide that are not populated places. Can you show me the exact Wikipedia rule that requires this? East Cobb is NOT a section of the county. It is an unincorporated community. --Mmann1988 (talk) 22:57, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Here you go: we've decided that this is the way to go. That's why the template says "Municipalities and communities", not "Municipalities and communities and other things". And by the way, you need to read Wikipedia:Canvassing; when you advertise to fight dictatorship, you're canvassing, and votes drawn in by canvassing are generally held not to count toward consensus. Nyttend (talk) 23:01, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

You don't get the final say. Other editors need to weigh in. Your consensus doesn't mean anything if you're the only one consenting.--Mmann1988 (talk) 23:05, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Other editors have weighed in on the design of these templates; what you call my consensus is the result of dozens of editors working over the years on this subject. People who edit war to push their own opinions against nationwide consensus and then falsely accuse others of doing the same are disruptive, and they don't get to make the rules. Nyttend (talk) 23:19, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Other editors have not weighed in. Show me the page. No other editors have even weighed in on THIS template. Either way, exceptions are allowed. It's not breaking any laws. Give it up!--Mmann1988 (talk) 23:57, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

It's been discussed through lots of pages, including templates throughout the country. Here at Wikipedia, policy generally follows process: Wikipedia is not governed by statute, and as such, we don't always have specific pages on which things are written down. One template does not get to break an established format that's followed throughout the country, especially when the person pushing it is violating multiple policies in the process. Nyttend (talk) 19:43, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

We are going to make an exception for this page: Exceptions It's a common sense exception Policy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmann1988 (talk • contribs) 23:29, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Seems mostly directional. Not sure we want a "South Cobb, "North Cobb", West Cobb", and "Central Cobb." It's not a Census Designated Place. It was something someone appeared to want recently, not a historic designation or anything. It appears to be little used except for a few Wikipedia editors. Yes, Cobb County uses directions in naming things. Not sure that, in itself, means anything. Student7 (talk) 11:33, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

It's not directional. It may have started out that way when the community was first formed, most likely due to lack of a better name, but since that time, it has become the name of the community. If it was purely directional, then it would be referred to as "east Cobb", much like "south Cobb" or "west Cobb". But that isnt the case--every reference on the East Cobb page refers to it as "East Cobb", with both words capitalized meaning it's a proper place. This is elementary grammar! And the rest of your argument is moot--there is no "West Cobb" wikipedia page, or for any other direction you cite. East Cobb may have an awkward, directional name, but that is the name of the community nonetheless. It's been thoroughly documented in the page's reference section. Also, take a look at the template's history--there are multiple editors in the past who have tried to put East Cobb on there. No editors have edited the Cobb County template to include other "directional markers" such as "South Cobb", etc. --Mmann1988 (talk) 15:57, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

I totally agree. Anyone who lives in Metro Atlanta knows that people refer to East Cobb *as a place* not just directionally. It is very similar to Brookhaven where the official census designated place is called "North Atlanta" but that ceased to be relevant decades ago as universal usage changed to Brookhaven. Keizers (talk) 17:08, 9 April 2011 (UTC)