Talk:Florida Panhandle

Why was this page moved? The previous version fit in well with our Article naming conventions. --(WT-en) Evan 17:07, 24 May 2004 (EDT)


 * I moved it because "Florida Panhandle" is what I've heard it called as long as I remember. It seemed less awkward than "Panhandle (Florida)" as well. -- (WT-en) Infrogmation 17:34, 24 May 2004 (EDT)

Subregions
The sub-regions seem to overlap each other here. (WT-en) OldPine 10:18, 7 October 2006 (EDT)
 * Wikipedia:Emerald Coast
 * Wikipedia:West Florida
 * Agreed. Research at Wikipedia seems to indicate that "West Florida" is a name for a different concept and we should keep only the three remaining subregions under the Panhandle. (WT-en) gamweb 10:27, 24 August 2008 (EDT)
 * They still overlap even if you remove one. On my map of Florida, I just used West Florida and Middle Florida, as those two covered all of the counties in the panhandle.  Emerald Coast and Forgotten Coast seemed redundant.  (WT-en) LtPowers 19:14, 24 August 2008 (EDT)
 * I believe we are just going to have to "pick and choose" the counties for the sub regions under the Panhandle to eliminate any overlap. (WT-en) gamweb 20:35, 24 August 2008 (EDT)

Found a Florida counties page with maps that might help: Florida counties. All the counties have their own maps, which are Public Domained at Wikipedia. So we can use them over here. (WT-en) gamweb 20:41, 24 August 2008 (EDT)
 * West and Middle do seem to be all we need here. Could probably redirect the other names appropriately. (WT-en) OldPine 21:53, 24 August 2008 (EDT)
 * Agreed, though Gamweb has a good point that "West Florida" has a different historical meaning. "Middle Florida" is also potentially problematic, as it apparently extends into our "Northern Florida" region.  We may need to rename them.  (WT-en) LtPowers 08:31, 25 August 2008 (EDT)

How about, "East Panhandle" and "West Panhandle?" Leave the division along the lines of the map that LtPowers made. (WT-en) gamweb 13:27, 29 August 2008 (EDT)

Cities
The list of Cities needs to be narrowed to at most 9, and less if there are not 9 critical cities in the region. I know that Tallahassee, Pensacola, and Panama City should be on the list, which others? (WT-en) Jtesla16 20:03, 8 September 2008 (EDT)

Overlapping subregions
The subregions of this region overlap, as you can see from the maps in the subregion articles. The simplest solution would be to just get rid of the Forgotten Coast region altogether—then West Florida and Middle Florida would fit together with no overlap or gaps. But I don't know the area, so I don't know if a different solution would make more sense. Any thoughts? (There's also another minor issue, which is that the subregions don't fill up all of the red area in the map in this article, but this isn't really a problem, because the two missing counties are already covered by North Florida.) —Granger (talk · contribs) 01:59, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * See the section above for previous discussion.  Powers (talk) 20:31, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that out. If I understand correctly, your suggestion there was to get rid of Forgotten Coast and merge Emerald Coast with West Florida—do you still think that's what we should do? —Granger (talk · contribs) 20:45, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * At that time, West Florida included the Emerald Coast counties. I don't know anything about the panhandle, I'm afraid. Two subregions seems light, but we have that problem in Central Florida as well. Powers (talk) 21:11, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * By the way, there was a discussion about reducing the number of levels in the Flordia hierarchy at Talk:Florida. Input would be appreciated. Powers (talk) 21:14, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Looks like I fixed this "by accident" ... Don't get that in the way of reworking the region split though, hopefully in the next 10 years? :-D Andree.sk (talk) 18:43, 3 July 2018 (UTC)