Talk:The Villages, Florida
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[edit] Merged "The Villages" into "The Villages, Florida"
This merge had been proposed for some time, and seemed a very obvious and unobjectionable merge. Firstly, the overlap between "The Villages" and "The Villages, Florida" content was enormous. Secondly, the use of these two particular monikers to make a distinction was confusing and unclear.
Therefore, even though I'm something of a newbie at this, I tried my hand at performing my first merge. I chose "The Villages, Florida" rather than "The Villages" as the site of the merge, because this format (City, State) is used for almost all unincoporated cities / towns on Wikipedia.
Most of the important substance from the former "The Villages, Florida" article has been re-worked and is now under the "Census Designated Place / Micropolitan Statistical Area" section at the end of the new article. In that section, I attempted to clarify the 3 different uses of the term "The Villages". These 3 uses are 1) the enire retirement village / unincorporated city, 2) the census-designated place (only the part of The Villages in Sumter County), and 3) the micropolitan statistical area (which is identical to Sumter County). Since the second and third uses of the term seem would seem to be fairly unimportant to most people that would look up the article, I left this section at the end of the article.
Redundant material was removed. Also removed was the detailed Census statistics which correspond to use #2 above. Since these statistics refer to only that small section of The Villages that is in Sumter County, I felt they were at best not especially significant, and at worst somewhat confusing. However, if someone else thinks it is important that those statistics be placed in the new article, and knows a way to clarify the purpose, than they can certainly re-add it.
Imput and feedback is encouraged. Thanks!
[edit] Article and external links clean-up
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[edit] Population
The article included a statement that the population of the Villages was close to 60,000 (I just removed it). The population of Lady Lake in 2005 was 13,244, and a good part of that is not in the Villages, so we might say 7,000 in the part of the Villages in Lady Lake (and that side is largely built out now). The Villages CDP had a population of 8,333 in 2000. We have no idea how many have moved into that area since then (and the Census Bureau does not provide updated estimates for CDPs), and no idea how many now live in the Marion County portion of the Villages. So, unless someone can ome up with a reliable published source for a population figure, we should avoid speculating in the article. -- Donald Albury 03:12, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
- An estimate of population is available at http://www.thevillagescommercialproperty.com/ which puts the number of residents at 68,000. I've been there, this seems reasonable. MatthewEHarbowy (talk) 12:34, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
- That's a promotional site for the developers, and does not strike me as a reliable source. I have been there as well, and it is big, but we require verifiability from reliable sources, and do not permit personal observations as sources, which would constitute original research. -- Donald Albury 14:16, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
