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I am unable to make the online meeting. Will there be a recording or minutes posted? ~ Matthewrb ^{Talk to me · Changes I've made} 21:18, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Buaidh recently created the list articles Population history of Colorado counties, Population history of Colorado municipalities, and Population history of Colorado census-designated places as splits from the parent List of counties in Colorado, List of municipalities in Colorado, and List of census-designated places in Colorado, respectively. I commend Buaidh for all of the efforts in adding this content, but it seems that the organization of this content would greatly benefit from discussion and input from others. I understand these pages may still be under construction, and setting aside the potential WP:NOTSTATS issue, currently the content does not seem properly allocated between the new lists and the original ones and present WP:CONTENTFORK concerns. Population history of Colorado counties contains columns for land area, water area, min. and max. elevation, links to county websites, and links to maps that are not directly related to population changes and do not appear in the main article where they would be more appropriate. It may be possible to have a second table in the main counties list article rather than a separate article. Population history of Colorado municipalities only adds an additional census's worth of data over what is currently found in the parent list, but also adds land area and water areas, websites, and map links, which would be more appropriate in the parent list instead (perhaps coinciding with the removal of redundant population data from the main list). Finally, most problematically, Population history of Colorado census-designated places completely duplicates the content at List of census-designated places in Colorado with additional columns, some of which are unrelated to population, suggesting the new content could simply be added to the parent list. Additionally, when duplicating tables like this to create new pages, it is important to note in edit summaries where the tables originated per WP:Copying within Wikipedia, which was not done here. Overall, the list content should be appropriately distributed between the two lists, with minimal duplication of content, or they should be merged into the parent lists. Mdewman6 (talk) 00:11, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• @Mdewman6: I will remove the duplicate columns from the three offending articles. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk e-mail 00:07, 30 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• @Mdewman6: Done.  Buaidh  talk e-mail 04:53, 30 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• If anyone else has suggestions for these six articles, I would greatly appreciate the input. Thanks,  Buaidh  talk e-mail 23:44, 30 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This Thursday, I will be meeting with an archivist from the University of Denver's Special Collections to discuss access to their wealth of materials on Colorado history. As I am a student there, I don't expect this will be my only opportunity to access this collection. However, I would prefer to accomplish as much as I can in one go. If any members of this project wish for me to retrieve publications or public-domain images from this collection, please reply to this thread or ping me on my talk page by noon MT on Thursday. A full list of their collection can be searched here. My focus will be on assembling images of Emmanuel Chapel/Synagogue and Trinity Methodist Church, but I will have enough time for at least two other missions. Thank you! ~ Pbritti (talk) 23:09, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]