Talk:Unionville (Ontario)

The type of this article
This is currently classified as a district article... Is this really the right "box" to put it in? It appears to be somewhere in the ballpark of Toronto, so maybe similar places may be useful for guidance... Hobbitschuster (talk) 17:25, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
 * It's part of the city of Markham, so my thoughts are the district box would be fine. I think the bigger question is whether it should be an article at all. Markham doesn't have any other districts and the Unionville article states there are no places to sleep (and refers you back to Markham). I've been to Unionville and while it's a nice spot to walk around and much nicer than the surrounding suburbia, I don't think it needs it's own article. I recommend merging it into Markham. -Shaundd (talk) 00:57, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * It's permissible for a district to not have a hotel of its own --Manhattan/Central Park is an example. The deciding factor is usually the size of the articles. Ottawa-Gatineau is borderline (we seem to have marginal articles on Kanata and Carp but no other districtification; Manotick redlinks) and maybe someday will have districts. Toronto is clearly districtified; for something Prince Edward County or Napanee sized we amalgamate villages to get an article of reasonable size.
 * Markham/Unionville has enough to stand as a district (although Toronto/Unionville would be just plain wrong as Trawna is the six boroughs (Scarberia, Etobicoke, York, North York, East York, old Toronto) only. GTA is a container and should not contain full local listings.
 * If these remain as districts, I'd suggest naming them using the district convention, Ottawa/Kanata and Markham/Unionville, then listing them in the parent cities as:
 * Markham: The Unionville historic district, formerly a separate village. See Markham/Unionville.
 * Ottawa: Watch an Ottawa Senators game in Kanata, a west-end suburb just outside the Greenbelt. See Ottawa/Kanata.
 * (I still haven't gotten around to creating Depot Harbour/Fashion and Theatre District but it can wait.)
 * K7L (talk) 16:10, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not familiar enough with Ottawa to comment on Kanata, but I don't think Unionville should remain as a district. Our guidelines on when to districtify state districts shouldn't be created until there's enough content in the city article to warrant districts and the districts need to be comprehensive with no gaps. In this case, there's no consensus that Markham is a huge city, there isn't a lot of content, and no one has created any district articles other than Unionville. As such, this article doesn't comply with our policies and (i) should be merged with Markham, or (ii) we create a district structure for Markham. My thoughts are Markham doesn't need to be broken into districts so the article should be merged.
 * From a non-policy perspective, I also don't see the benefit to the traveller of creating a separate article just for Unionville. Why have two little articles and make someone read an extra guide. -Shaundd (talk) 17:14, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Merge it. Powers (talk) 20:40, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I've gone ahead and merged this article with Markham. -Shaundd (talk) 00:05, 9 March 2016 (UTC)