Talk:Waukesha, Wisconsin
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The census bureau has two sets of statistics for this city. In one case it labels it as a "city" with 64,825 people, and in another entry it is labeled as a "town" with 8,596 people. I can't make heads or tails of this and many others like it. Maybe someone else knows more about this? -- Ram-Man
- I grew up in the Town of Waukesha, and went to school in the City of Waukesha, that's why I went to the trouble of doing my best Rambot imitation here. The City had a population of around 56,000 when I lived there; I think that was the 1990 census number, 1980 might've been 52,000 or so. This is just from what I remember on the city limits signs. Anyway, that's the City then. The Town is one of those square townships we have so many of around here, on and around the south side of the City, except this one isn't really square because it's had chunks chewed out of it (annexed, if you prefer) by the City. It's more rural, of course, so that would be the 8,596 population.
- Perhaps the best way to deal with it would be making Waukesha, Wisconsin a disambiguation page, with pointers to separate articles at City of Waukesha, Wisconsin and Town of Waukesha, Wisconsin, or Waukesha City, Wisconsin and Waukesha Town, Wisconsin (or perhaps Waukesha Township, Wisconsin?), and add in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, just to be on the safe side. The former (City of, Town of) way of putting it sounds much more natural to me, as a former native, but wouldn't alphabetize as nicely (if there's ever any need of alphabetizing it; well, I guess there is the Waukesha County, Wisconsin article, after all).
- Funny thing though; I downloaded the census info (places2k.txt) myself and went through it, and only found these numbers for the city. Where does the Town of Waukesha info come from, and the demographic details? -- John Owens 04:31 31 May 2003 (UTC)
- When I downloaded the raw census data, I downloaded all sorts of it. It just happened to include both places. I did a *lot* of post-processing of the data and sorted through it. I simply didn't make the articles that had duplicate names because I didn't know how to disambiguate them. You have been very helpful in explaining it, but other states like New York have similar issues. I don't know what to tell you though. The data is on their website and ftp site. You just have to find it somehow I guess! -- Ram-Man