Talk:Tri-state area
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[edit] Rationale for double listings?
I haven't examined the list thoroughly for more duplications, but I see listings here for both
with no discernable reason for why both permutations found their way into the list. Any ideas? Tomertalk 02:13, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Fixed Up
The article is now fixed up. Anyone have PD pictures of tri-state markers? Nationalparks 18:26, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Virginia-Washington, D.C.-Maryland
There are a couple of problems with this "Tri-state area":
- First, there are two tripoints between these regions. A northern one near Little Falls on the Potomac and a southern point just south of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge. The list only counts it as a single tripoint.
- Second, these points are (usually) under water. Virginia ends at the low water mark on its side of the Potomac River so these should be considered water tripoints, not points on land.
- Third, D.C. is not a state. Should these points be in an article called "Tri-state area" at all?
--dm (talk) 04:06, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
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- First, agree entirely, I put another note in.
- Second, the reference lists these under the land points (as opposed to the water ones), so that's why I've put it there.
- Third, I agree, but at the start of the article it says three states or holdings meet at one point. So that and the reference are why I put it there.
- Nationalparks 06:37, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tri-state area/ region/ tri-point
I'm thoroughly confused by the title of this article. It is almost exclusively about tri-points as geographical curiosities rather than the area or region around them. Another article, "Tri-State Region," deals exclusively (mistakenly, IMO) with the Greater New York Met Region. That area is always referred to by its residents as "The Tri-State Area" and never "The Tri-State Region." There might be other metro areas that call themselves "Tri-State Area", but I don't think any use "Tri-State Region." There's an interesting discussion over at "Tri-State Region" that you guys should check out.
This article has nothing to do with either concept. I propose that this article's title, "Tri-State Area," be a general (not disambig) page discussing those metro regions which use the specific term "Tri-State Area" in the US (if in fact there are areas outside of NY metro that use the term) with links to the specific tri-state areas. I haven't really researched the topic, but if it turns out that "Tri-State Area" is only used to refer to the greater NY metro area, then it should re-direct to that page.
"Tri-State Region" should then be a page about the general topic of metro areas spread across parts of three states, regardless of what they call themselves.
Finally, this page should be titled "United States Tri-points" or something similiar, since, as I said, it is not about the regions at all.Armandtanzarian 21:29, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
"Chicago's tri-state region includes Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin and is commonly referred to as Chicagoland." no one calls it that. ever.
[edit] permuted list
The list isn't really that useful as a sortable table - I've made a possible alternative, shown below.—Random832 21:33, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
