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I was thinking about this list, and I'd like to change it to look more like this. I think the fields in the proposed list are more interesting, and perhaps more useful, as some of the data on the existing list is only current as of the 2000 census. I'm not sure how many red links we might end up with, but hopefully, not enough to prevent a featured list nomination. Please give me your feedback. Acdixon 14:46, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
After I revamped this list, it contains the same information as the list being merged from and more, plus, this list is properly cited. Acdixon 04:54, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Just letting you know! :D Ancjr 23:17, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Suggestion to add Beckham County, Kentucky and any other defunct counties. Ancjr 13:59, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
With the implementation of clickmaps so that an image becomes "Clickable" and someone can click on an image to go to the specific location, I think the extra maps for each county become superfluous. When I put the clickmap in I removed the individual county images because the page will load a lot faster and is more accessbible for people on slow connections. Someone else has put them back because they feel it is important to leave them. My thought is that they are now superfluous since someone can locate a county by name or by location on the map.
When the capability for clickable maps was unavailable in Wikipedia, the use of a map on each individual county was a reasonable solution. But now, since there is a full-size map with each county labeled, I think putting the map on each county is no longer required.
I have a DSL connection and even after 45 seconds all of the images had not yet loaded. Now, someone using a modem would probably find the page load time impossible. Plus, to get all those image maps Wikimedia has to make 120 database dips and the user's browser has to make 120 image requests to get them, then resize each image to fit. So I'd like to get some kind of consensus because I think, now that we have a clickable map, mapping each individual county is now unnecessary. I also think the clickable map should be placed at the top of the page. I'm admitting that there may be someone who has a good reason to argue otherwise, and I'd like to hear it. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 19:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Something that might bear mentioning somewhere in the article:
One list at County (United States) shows Kentucky as having the fourth largest number of counties. This article says third. A quick look shows why: Virginia, in one sense, has 95 counties. But Viriginia has 134 county-equivalents in the political sense (their independent cities are politically equivalent to counties and are not politically part of any county). Hence the discrepency.
Not sure what I'm trying to propose, but it is confusing to read in one place that KY has the third largest number of counties and in another the fourth...
-- tilthouse 18:35, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Some helpful information on U.S. county lists can be found at WP:COUNTYLISTS. Tompw ( talk) ( review) 16:25, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Just to let y'all know. Anjaco ( talk) 09:37, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Many of the etymological references in this do not have articles. Does that take away from its featured list stance? Zobango ( talk) 15:56, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
It seems implied from looking at the "origins" column that when the Kentucky constitution was introduced, the county borders were redefined. This needs to be stated, not implied. The pre-constitution era county borders also need to be drawn out.
Listed under Fayette county's origin is "one of the three original counties". What were these three counties? How was it transferred from the 3 county system to 120? Were the county borders redefined after the Kentucky constitution was introduced? If so, how? How many times have the county lines been defined? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.131.192.194 ( talk) 00:10, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
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How come the time zone division of Kentucky isn't closer to a north/south division line? I do see the challenges about placing the entire commonwealth of Kentucky in the same time zone, but seen from my side (that is way out of Kentucky) the counties Meade, Hardin and Larue ought to be in the central time zone, while the counties Adair, Russell, Cumberland and Clinton would easily match the eastern time zone. Were there some historical borders left in, or maybe some trade districts in some way related to more central towns or cities? TorSch ( talk) 13:36, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
A sentence in the lead paragraph states that Kentucky has 120 counties and 53 independent cities. I was not personally aware that Kentucky has independent cities the way neighboring Virginia has. This is the first time I have read this assertion. In what way are they independent? Independent of any county? That is a very high number of independent cities. Could someone point out what cities they are? Thanks!
P.S. 53 independent cities is actually 14 more than Virginia has! 173.69.178.182 ( talk) 02:43, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
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I was thinking about this list, and I'd like to change it to look more like this. I think the fields in the proposed list are more interesting, and perhaps more useful, as some of the data on the existing list is only current as of the 2000 census. I'm not sure how many red links we might end up with, but hopefully, not enough to prevent a featured list nomination. Please give me your feedback. Acdixon 14:46, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
After I revamped this list, it contains the same information as the list being merged from and more, plus, this list is properly cited. Acdixon 04:54, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Just letting you know! :D Ancjr 23:17, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Suggestion to add Beckham County, Kentucky and any other defunct counties. Ancjr 13:59, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
With the implementation of clickmaps so that an image becomes "Clickable" and someone can click on an image to go to the specific location, I think the extra maps for each county become superfluous. When I put the clickmap in I removed the individual county images because the page will load a lot faster and is more accessbible for people on slow connections. Someone else has put them back because they feel it is important to leave them. My thought is that they are now superfluous since someone can locate a county by name or by location on the map.
When the capability for clickable maps was unavailable in Wikipedia, the use of a map on each individual county was a reasonable solution. But now, since there is a full-size map with each county labeled, I think putting the map on each county is no longer required.
I have a DSL connection and even after 45 seconds all of the images had not yet loaded. Now, someone using a modem would probably find the page load time impossible. Plus, to get all those image maps Wikimedia has to make 120 database dips and the user's browser has to make 120 image requests to get them, then resize each image to fit. So I'd like to get some kind of consensus because I think, now that we have a clickable map, mapping each individual county is now unnecessary. I also think the clickable map should be placed at the top of the page. I'm admitting that there may be someone who has a good reason to argue otherwise, and I'd like to hear it. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 19:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Something that might bear mentioning somewhere in the article:
One list at County (United States) shows Kentucky as having the fourth largest number of counties. This article says third. A quick look shows why: Virginia, in one sense, has 95 counties. But Viriginia has 134 county-equivalents in the political sense (their independent cities are politically equivalent to counties and are not politically part of any county). Hence the discrepency.
Not sure what I'm trying to propose, but it is confusing to read in one place that KY has the third largest number of counties and in another the fourth...
-- tilthouse 18:35, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Some helpful information on U.S. county lists can be found at WP:COUNTYLISTS. Tompw ( talk) ( review) 16:25, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Just to let y'all know. Anjaco ( talk) 09:37, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Many of the etymological references in this do not have articles. Does that take away from its featured list stance? Zobango ( talk) 15:56, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
It seems implied from looking at the "origins" column that when the Kentucky constitution was introduced, the county borders were redefined. This needs to be stated, not implied. The pre-constitution era county borders also need to be drawn out.
Listed under Fayette county's origin is "one of the three original counties". What were these three counties? How was it transferred from the 3 county system to 120? Were the county borders redefined after the Kentucky constitution was introduced? If so, how? How many times have the county lines been defined? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.131.192.194 ( talk) 00:10, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
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How come the time zone division of Kentucky isn't closer to a north/south division line? I do see the challenges about placing the entire commonwealth of Kentucky in the same time zone, but seen from my side (that is way out of Kentucky) the counties Meade, Hardin and Larue ought to be in the central time zone, while the counties Adair, Russell, Cumberland and Clinton would easily match the eastern time zone. Were there some historical borders left in, or maybe some trade districts in some way related to more central towns or cities? TorSch ( talk) 13:36, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
A sentence in the lead paragraph states that Kentucky has 120 counties and 53 independent cities. I was not personally aware that Kentucky has independent cities the way neighboring Virginia has. This is the first time I have read this assertion. In what way are they independent? Independent of any county? That is a very high number of independent cities. Could someone point out what cities they are? Thanks!
P.S. 53 independent cities is actually 14 more than Virginia has! 173.69.178.182 ( talk) 02:43, 30 August 2019 (UTC)