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We have two reliable sources,
StatCan and the
GoNWT, reporting conflicting municipal statuses. Looks like some further careful research is necessary to confirm which is correct or most official of the two.
Hwy43 (
talk)
21:50, 10 November 2013 (UTC)reply
It looks like the NWT one lists both municipalities and communities, whereas the statscan one (which I used to build this list) lists just municipalities. Perhaps I am wrong...!
Mattximus (
talk)
22:13, 10 November 2013 (UTC)reply
My concern was moreso whether
Behchoko was a "community government" or "town". I think there is a couple more inconsistencies of this sort with others currently on the list. I think you are correct that their are 24 municipalities. The others must be communities of a lesser status.
Hwy43 (
talk)
22:26, 10 November 2013 (UTC)reply
Sorry I had to revert, the wording you used was very confusing. I think we should discuss changes here and then apply them rather than revert/change/revert etc... At least for now, this
[1] is the most up to date census based data on the land area of all provinces and territories, do you have a different source you would rather use?
Mattximus (
talk)
22:32, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I first saw
this with the summary "round to nearest km" but that was an odd looking rounding. I checked the source but I got "
Warning The website is currently unavailable We are currently experiencing a large volume of requests. Please try again later." I took that to mean that it would be up again later rather than dead. I went to check in the NWT article and noticed the 1,183,085 figure which was aalso sourced. Because the correct source was missing I figured that you had intended to round something else in the article. When I saw the
by
Hwy43 and checked
their source I saw that it uses the 1,143,793 figure. However, most people when thinking of the land area would expect that it is referring to the higher one. Thus it should be defined as to what land area is being talked about. By the way there is nothing wrong with the source it was just not working when I looked.
The second thing was that it was listed as second largest territory. That's fine for Canadian readers who know that Quebec is a province and Nunavut is a territory but the
List of Canadian provinces and territories by area only shows one Territory and two areas larger than the NWT. So it could confuse a non-Canadian reader who does not know that territory is talking about a specific term (it may also confuse the
simple minded at first glance).
By the way the reason for the difference is size might be accounted for by the removal of the
National Parks. They add up to 63,390 km2. Of course that adds up to more than 1,183,085. But if the parks area includes water then that might account for it. Pure speculation and nothing to use in the article.
CambridgeBayWeather,
Uqaqtuq (talk),
Sunasuttuq01:11, 6 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Hi
CambridgeBayWeather, your original good faith revert was totally warranted given the edit summaries that were accidentally misleading (also made in good faith). Had I not been privy to what the true intent here was, I would have reverted it myself. The source of the alternate land area value of
1,183,085 is back. If I can speculate based on my GIS training,
Natural Resources Canada uses a different cartographic projection than
Statistics Canada. Further, the precision and accuracy of freshwater bodies and coastal shorelines used by each agency could very well differ. Since the primary source for population counts and land areas of the municipalities in the article is from StatCan's latest census, it is best to use the same source at the territorial level rather than the different NRCan source. Hope this helps.
Hwy43 (
talk)
02:29, 6 February 2017 (UTC)reply
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