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A couple of little things. One, no indication of San Jose's population is given. Second, Los Altos Hills and Los Gatos are incorporated as towns, not cities. Gentgeen 16:32, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Just a question out of curiosity, are there any counties in the state where the county seat isn't the most populous municipality? Gentgeen 15:56, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I like the new template, but after looking at it a while I started thinking it might be possible to make small improvements in two areas: 1) to increase the number of population groupings to make 'like' cities more apparent (EG Monte Sereno is nothing compared to Mountain View), and 2) to increase the 'content to blankspace ratio'. I created some examples of what I'm thinking of at User:Niteowlneils/Sandbox. I think I like the bottom one best, but am interested in seeing if any of them strike anyone else's fancy. Niteowlneils 22:52, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
OK, here's the bottom one, but with the seal on the left:
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I'm not sure if the population breakdown would be practical or helpful on the LA county one, but I could probably figure out how to move the seal and shrink the purple banner to reduce the height, anyway. Niteowlneils 02:53, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I just added some more detail to the template to make it more accurate, but I think we need to look at the bigger picture. Do we really need state parks and colleges and universities in this template? And if we allow those exceptions, where the hell does it stop? I could make a good argument that certain prominent K-12 schools are just as important (like Harker, Gunn, etc.), as well as county parks, transportation (we already have articles on VTA, the expressway system, and San Jose International Airport), utilities, and law enforcement. And so on, ad infinitum.
I think limiting the template to geography, as was originally done, is a much safer bright-line rule that is easy to enforce. A cluttered and three-page-long template is just as useless as one with categories that are not properly filled out (in attempting to expand the template, user Seven Days left out a lot of community colleges). If people are really interested in all that extra information, we can always stick it into a See also list at the bottom of the Santa Clara County article. --Coolcaesar 21:08, 21 April 2006 (UTC)