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This discussion of one or several categories is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive. Category:Cities and towns in Hawaii This category links to en:Category:Cities in Hawaii which states that "Honolulu is the only city in Hawaii". At least some of the populated places in Hawaii categorized here as "cities and towns in Hawaii" are categorized under en:Category:Census-designated places in Hawaii on wikipedia and under Category:Census-designated places in Hawaii here. We have no Category:Villages in Hawaii either. I would suggest we delete this category, and merge the subcategories to "Populated places in Hawai" (e.g. Category:Cities and towns in Lanai would become Category:Populated places in Lanai). -- Themightyquill (talk) 09:28, 11 March 2021 (UTC) Yes maybe delete the Wikipedia category or perhaps rename this to Category:Cities in Hawaii if it is an exception to w:WP:SMALLCAT. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:26, 15 March 2021 (UTC) The subcategories were all created buy Howcheng and Reykholt. Are you okay with moving them to "Populated places in X"? (or, now that I think of it, maybe "Populated places on X" since they're all islands?)- Themightyquill (talk) 07:51, 6 April 2021 (UTC) In a legal sense, Honolulu is the only city (technically it's a city–county), but in everyday parlance other CDPs are called cities. See for example, "The best city or town in Hawaii", "Big Island Towns" ("Hilo is the county seat and the only major city on the island's windward coast"), and "New report says the happiest city in Hawaii is ... Pearl City!" (note that Pearl City is not actually a city). So with that mind, I think the categories are fine the way they are. —howcheng {chat} 02:40, 7 April 2021 (UTC) @Howcheng: Is there any reason not to move to "populated places" like the rest of commons? Surely there are some places small enough in Hawaii that they are not referred to as cities. - Themightyquill (talk) 07:18, 7 April 2021 (UTC) The standard for U.S. states is "Cities and towns in [state]". Granted, those are actually incorporated cities and towns, but it seems to me that Hawaii should follow the same pattern, otherwise it's not particularly user-friendly to have this state be different simply because these aren't de jure cities. —howcheng {chat} 00:54, 8 April 2021 (UTC) @Howcheng: I don't see any other "Cities and towns in [state]" categories, so I'm not sure how that is the standard. It is not very user friendly to have a category name unique to Hawaii. - Themightyquill (talk) 08:26, 8 April 2021 (UTC) My mistake, it's "Cities in [state]", and it appears that Category:Cities in Hawaii is a soft redirect. I'd be happy with making Hawaii match the other states. —howcheng {chat} 06:32, 9 April 2021 (UTC) Moved to Category:Populated places in Hawaii and Category:Cities in Hawaii. -- Themightyquill (talk) 07:38, 11 April 2021 (UTC)