Talk:Lakeland (Alberta)

Is the intention of this article to merge into it the content of Lac La Biche, Bonnyville, and St. Paul (and also Cold Lake)? If not why not add the POIs in this article into the other town article. Places to visit listing in a town article can be a little outside of the settlement. --Traveler100 (talk) 07:38, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

That entirely depends on what the community consensus is. I'd be happy to merge those guides (excluding St. Paul, which is part of Kalyna Country) in to this one, but if that's not the general will, then so be it. As for "why not just move the content into the towns' guides?" I have a couple of reasons: 1) people travelling to this region are generally coming for outdoor life, so it seems counter-intuitive to group everything by town. 2) some of the parks, lakes, etc. are roughly equidistant between two towns, leading to duplication. Likewise the multi-use trail belongs to the whole region and not any of the towns particularly 3) if you are planning a trip, you'd want to know what the whole region was like first before choosing what specific town to go to, which is why we have the region->subregion->city structure, BUT, the parent region of those towns, Eastern Alberta, is currently a hot mess, and it's just easier to write this subregion than to wait for a consensus to form on breaking up or otherwise changing the parent region. Kevlar67 (talk) 16:24, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

The point to having a region article is to summarize things there and put the details in child articles. Child articles for regions, when they aren't other regions, are generally called cities, unless they're islands or airports or something. That doesn't mean such articles can't actually cover rural regions: See Rural Montgomery County for one example. But it does mean that having complete listings in a region article is messy. And if there are listings that are halfway between two cities, they can be listed in "See" or "Do" for one city and then mentioned and linked in the "See" or "Do" section of the other city's article. Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:38, 28 January 2020 (UTC)