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The number of "Halifax" articles

I hate to bring this up for the millionth time, but honestly, there are too many articles for this city. None are particularly well-written. We shouldn't be divvying up a ton of articles based on administrative entities past and present, there ought to be a single "Halifax" article based on the entire HRM, with sections explaining the nuances of the administrative system and districts within the city. Kinou (talk) 07:50, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. It's unfortunate that the history of Halifax's municipal government is so complex, but that's no reason not to have a single proper article governing the city, which is a good deal more notable than any of the various councils who have governed it. David Arthur (talk) 15:03, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

I think a first step would be to rename the main article "Halifax, Nova Scotia" or something, in the same way that the article on Denver is named as such, and not "City and County of Denver". I don't know that the city has a terribly unusual governmental history - it's just that they called the new entity a "regional municipality" rather than a "city" like other places did. Kinou (talk) 13:23, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

It's a problem that exists on some level for most large places in Canada, because of the way local government is run. In Britain, if they merged all the councils in (for example) the Manchester area, the resulting body would probably be called 'Greater Manchester Council', and no one would dream of saying Salford had ceased to exist; in Canada, though, it tends to be called a 'city', and so people argue that Scarborough and Etobicoke are now 'former suburbs' of Toronto, or try to erase them entirely. (In Sweden, terms like 'city and 'town' have no role in local government, so everyone is quite willing to accept that Uppsala kommun is within Uppsala county, and that neither council is synonymous with the actual city of Uppsala.) This seems to produce more arguments in Halifax than elsewhere, though – whether it's because of the physical distinction between Halifax and Dartmouth, or the term 'regional municipality' I don't know.

I agree that a re-naming is the best place to start, although it gets difficult to decide which really is the 'main' article in this case. We have Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax Regional Municipality, Metropolitan Halifax, Mainland Halifax, City of Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Halifax Peninsula, and possibly others I haven't noticed; at most I think two main articles are justified here, though the exact division of content would take some thought. David Arthur (talk) 14:28, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

The palace "Halifax, Nova Scotia" is legal place as per the article City of Halifax. However Halifax Regional Municipality is not place in particular but an area that represents the area the Halifax Regional Council governs . Its not proper to refer the people living in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia or Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia as living in Halifax . Also the fact that there is no incorporated cities in the Nova Scotia Halifax Regional Municipality is not a city . I think it based on fact and what is in the real world if you want to change the article you base it on the real world and not it should be . Remember the Halifax Regional Council voted for the name to stay to be Halifax Regional Municipality not Halifax, Nova Scotia. People identify themselves from their community not their municipality. I say for the millionth time leave it alone . Cherry1000 (talk) 18:07, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I'm aware that this issue has been discussed multiple times without reaching a satisfactory conclusion. The problem is that as it stands, Misplaced Pages is so obsessed with accurately representing the confusion created by the multiple forms of local government and geography, that it simply does not provide useful coverage of Halifax. It would be far better to have one or two consolidated articles, which can cover the physical city and area, and explain the organisational complexities rather than requiring that readers already understand them as a prerequisite to finding any information. David Arthur (talk) 18:58, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

First the Halifax Regional Municipality is not a city its a Regional Municipality in fact there are no incorporated cities in Nova Scotia since 1996 . Secondly Halifax, Nova Scotia is not the Halifax Regional Municipality and it never will be . Thirdly the communities have their separate histories ,economies , and geography that its impossible to put in all one article to describe.Let put this way Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, City of Halifax and Bedford, Nova Scotia are three completely different communities that are completely different from each other . The only thing they have in common is they all are next to the Halifax Harbour that it . There 288 other communities that nothing in common with City of Halifax or Dartmouth, Nova Scotia other the fact they were in the former Halifax County, Nova Scotia . Any article of anyplace in wikipedia has to reflect the real nature of the place based on fact not a condensed version just on an authors wishes . The article City of Halifax is titled wrong it should be "Halifax, Nova Scotia" just as if you sending a letter there and the "Civic Address office of the Halifax Regional Municipality " has for civic and postal addressing . Cherry1000 (talk) 03:07, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Might as well add my opinion: create Halifax, Nova Scotia, based primarily on the current article City of Halifax, and use it as the beginning for an article about the city -- the history, urban geography, society, landmarks, tourism, and so forth -- what people mean when they say "I'm going to Halifax" or "I live in Halifax." Summarize the evolution of the municipal government in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing more detail in City of Halifax (about the former city municipality) and Halifax Regional Municipality (about the current HRM, from a government point of view). Agree with the above that the current situation is untenable. I can't even write that the Princess Royal was supposed to travel to Halifax without any link users abruptly getting a crash course on the minutiae of Nova Scotia municipal politics just to find out what the freaking city is. -- Montréalais (talk) 14:52, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

I agree. It needs to be split into one article on the city of Halifax itself, and another dealing with the local government issues in a separate HRM article. Other notable communities in the HRM, like Dartmouth, should have their own article. Referring to a place as far away as Ecum Secum, as being part of Halifax, is ridiculous. 142.165.239.230 (talk) 17:33, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

I find that Halifax shares a lot in common with Honolulu - perhaps that can be a model for any reorganization effort. In common usage, Honolulu refers to the urban area on the southeast coast of the island of Oahu from Pearl Harbor to Makapuu Point. But like Nova Scotia, Hawaii has no municipalities below the county level, so the entity that governs Honolulu, the City and County of Honolulu, encompasses not just urban Honolulu but the entire island, including rural areas on the other side of Oahu (geographically and culturally). I personally live on the east coast of Oahu in the suburban beachside community of Kailua, so I get the same services there as those in "town" would. But you wouldn't hear me say that I live in Honolulu unless I'm far from home talking with someone unfamiliar with local geography. I would probably recommend getting some sort of a consensus about what area comes most to mind when you say "Halifax" - is it the HRM or some subset of it? - and set that as the default article with cross-references as necessary. The Honolulu article, for instance, focuses on the urbanized area with some discussion of the consolidated city-county arrangement, with more details in the Honolulu County, Hawaii article. And Oahu deals with the area from a geographic point of view. Just my 2 cents (which at current exchange rates is just about the same in CAD as in USD). KeithH (talk) 20:01, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

It's been a few years, and nobody's made a move, but I concur: the main article should be called "Halifax, Nova Scotia". Mark M (talk) 15:09, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Actually things were changed about two months back now with a solution that appeased most people involved in the discussion. -DJSasso (talk) 16:43, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

(link to discussion?) Oh.. well, it still seems silly. It really feels like "Halifax, Nova Scotia" should be an article.. Mark M (talk) 18:26, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

"Demonym Density" in info box

I think that's a mistake. It doesn't mean anything. Anybody have any idea how to fix it? I think it's some kind of bug in the infobox. Maybe that's supposed to be the Metro density? 64.141.49.29 (talk) 22:20, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Main Page Link on 4/1/10 doesn't seem to be relevant

The main page link to this article on 4/1/10 reads "1996 – The government of Nova Scotia ordered the people of the City of Halifax to mate with over 200 multiple partners around the area." The words "to mate" are bold and are supposed to link to an article that is relevant to this main page title. It takes you to the Halifax article where there is no content about what the link says. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.69.4.81 (talk) 00:03, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

It looks to be temporary vandalism. I don't see any such link as of right now. —C.Fred (talk) 01:35, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Sable Island in Geography

From what I understand, Sable Island is part of the HRM, but it's only mentionned offhand once in the Economy section. Would someone with a bit of knowledge care to make a bolder mention of it somewhere, perhaps in the Geography section? Thanks, -M.Nelson (talk) 04:37, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Why I deleted the "Ethnic Groups" Table

It used data from the Statistics Canada Tables here: , yet it had the following problems:

• It called these classifications "Ethnic Groups", when in fact they are listed as "Visible minority population characteristics". NOT the same thing, and I'm not being politically correct.
• The table took the numbers for "No Visible Minority" and listed them as "White". That's completely incorrect. The numbers from the Stats Can info specifically counts aboriginal Canadians as non-visible minority, so this number includes people who are white, people who are aboriginal, and people who chose not to answer. Definitely not "White".
• The table had lumped together numbers for South Asian, Southeast Asian, West Asian, Japanese and Korean to come up with an "Asian" line in the table. This is original research, but it's also false. Even if you are one of those people who care what someone's visible minority designation is (i.e. what they look like), I don't think that you would consider people whose background is in China to look like those from Indonesia and/or those from Pakistan...

My primary concern is that this is invented data, NOT a replication of what the source actually says, and this is *especially* critical in such a delicate area. We have a table for Ethnic Origin, which is much more useful and interesting data. I don't believe that we need this pseudo-racial one. AshleyMorton (talk) 01:18, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Personally, I don't think the whole table should have been removed. I actually found it to be more accurate than the current one. The current table shows that 37.7% of Haligonians claimed they are "Canadian", when in fact everyone in HRM is Canadian! It also shows a small population of Black/African people, which is less than half of the population taken from the removed table. While the removed table strictly shows the percentage of visible minorities and non-visible minorities, I find that it gives an accurate depiction of HRM's racial diversity. I agree, the Asians were lumped together, but they can be separated. Likewise, non-visible minorities are Whites and Aboriginals, that can also be fixed. If we can't agree on restoring the table, with some changes, we should list the top 4 or 5 visible minorities (and percentages), similar to the Toronto article. Blackjays1 (talk) 21:49, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Okay, I generally disagree that "racial diversity" is as interesting and relevant as the "origins" of the people in a place. Remember that this is about origins, so "Canadian" can be a valid option - One branch of my family has been in territory that would become Canada for 14 generations - therefore, "Canadian" is part of my origins. However, a recent immigrant has other origins. I completely agree that the recent immigrant IS Canadian, but that's different from having Canadian ethnic origin. I am, generally, opposed to these visible minority statistics. The only ones we have available are the Statistics Canada ones, and they have a raft of problems. For example, if someone puts down multiple responses, then there are formulas about what gets counted as a vis-min, and what not. (Black & White = vis min. Arabic & White = non-vis-min) For a thorough description of how this works, see . The bit about what gets counted and what doesn't if you put down multiple responses is about 3/4 of the way down, under "Classifications". My biggest problem is really philosophical, though - This takes the concept of race, and treats it as if it's one of the defining elements of a place. I think that's bollocks. However, If we must, I'd be willing to buy into the "summary sentence" idea that you pointed to from the Toronto article. For one thing, it avoids the need for a "non-visibile minority" population number, which is one of the most frustrating things about the StatsCan data in general, and it certainly lends itself to having people show up and change the text to "White". So, how about the following:

In terms of simple visible minority status (as opposed to ethnic origin), the following are the four visible minority populations in the HRM for which there were more than one thousand respondents, as of the 2006 Census: Black (13,270 - 3.4%), Arab (3,840 - 1.0%), Chinese (3,105 - 0.8%) and South Asian (2,900 - 0.8%)

To reiterate, I don't think even that information should be included, but I'm not one to stand in the way of consenus, so I think that this would be the most appropriate way to display this information, if it is considered important enough at all.AshleyMorton (talk) 14:46, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

I think the sentence that you provided would be fine. It should be considered important, partly because HRM is the center of Nova Scotia's black community, and also because the region has many other visible minorities and Aboriginals. Maybe the Aboriginal population can be included in that sentence (5,230 - 1.4%) . Blackjays1 (talk) 05:23, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

I feel strongly that we can't just mix it in - in Canada, "visible minority" does not include aboriginal Canadians, regardless of whether it seems like it should. See, this is part of the problem, and makes me stronger in my opposition to including this info - we're conflating two concepts: visible appearance ("visible minority") and ethnic heritage ("ethnic origin"). And StatsCan doesn't give us any way around it - they don't provide us with vis-min stats that include aboriginal identity. The only way to include aboriginal people in the vis-min stats to pull them from ethnic origin. But if we do THAT, then we should pull the "black" vis min stats from "African" ethnic identity. ...But wait, those numbers don't come out the same. See? I would like to see at least one or two more opinions that are not me or you. I am willing to go with the majority, but at the moment, we've only got we two who are speaking up.AshleyMorton (talk) 08:55, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

The Navy in Halifax

Being one of the two navy bases in the whole country, I can't believe that there isn't a section on the navy in Halifax. This is a serious deficiency for this article! — Preceding unsigned comment added by HiFlyChick (talk • contribs) 21:40, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Links to other languages

Since this is the article about the current municipality of Halifax I added the corresponding link to the German article about the municipality of Halifax.

There are a lot of other language articles about Halifax (the present city and municipality). I think we should also add them here.

Regards, Kmw2700 (talk) 03:06, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Halifax which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. --Jiang (talk) 20:43, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Collage Image

The collage is a problem - it only reflects landmarks of the urban core. At the very least shouldn't an image of the Peggy's Cove Lighthouse be included? If someone knows how to make changes to collage would you consider this suggestion.--Hantsheroes (talk) 12:13, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Halifax Regional Municipality/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: TBrandley (talk · contribs) 05:07, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

I will be reviewing this nomination. TBrandley 05:07, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

I am sorry, but I have to quick-fail this nomination on the basis that the article contains mostly unsourced sections, some of which contain {{citation needed}} tags. Other large concerns include:

• The lead needs to meet WP:LEAD, thus needing to summarize every section.
• Please remove the airport climate data table, because it is located in a nearby community, not this for which a different table serves it directly above.
• The references that are already include are bare references, use {{cite web}}.
• Some of the external links fail WP:ELNO, which states it should only be based on the municipality itself and not its contents which are for seperate articles.
• There are mixed date formats, please check.

TBrandley 15:37, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Another go-around on Ethnic / Visible Minority Statistics

Hi all. I deleted a table of statistics this morning, and here's why:

• The statistics cited a source that had nothing to do with the data (the source cited was for Pickering, Ontario)
• The statistics had been modified in order to be included in the article (A category for "White", that did not exist in the data, had been created).
• The table listed as "Ethnicity" a group of categories that were actually about "Visible Minority" or "Aboriginal Identity" groups (closer to "race" than "ethnicity", but certainly not what was being advertised).
• The table included a really selective listing of the author's thoughts on ethnicity. For example, "Inuit" was listed, with 155 people, and apparently 0% of the population, yet there was a category called "Other Visible Minorities" that had over 6,000 people in it.
• The core problem, however, is that this takes "Aboriginal identity" numbers, mixes them into "Visible Minority" status, does some mathematics to come up with a remainder, invents a category called "White", publishes it under the label "Ethnicity", and then provides a source that has nothing to do with the topic. It is original research that borders on fiction, with a link to an irrelevant source.

Then, without addressing the concerns (truncated, I know) that I put in the edit summary, my edit was reverted. The edit summary for the reversion claimed that the source was "reputable", which it is, but its statistics about Pickering are still not relevant for Halifax, and the statistics for Visible Minorities and Aboriginal Identity are not the same thing as Ethnicity. Please see the discussion that took place 3 years ago (above). I believe that this was done in good faith, but I still believe that it was incorrect. So I reverted it, and started writing this explanation. Before I could finish, it had been reverted again. So - I'm going to delete this material again, now that I've explained why I believe that it cannot be included. I understand that some will say "then make it better", but I believe I did several years ago when I included the "Ethnic Origin" table further down the same section. This data is really just manufactured, and in my opinion neither it, nor anything closely similar can be included. AshleyMorton (talk) 14:48, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Here's an idea, why don't we just redo the table without linking the Pickering stats as a source? IMO, this issue would be resolved if it linked to the Halifax stats only. Or if the table is too much, why don't we just list the top 5 visible minority groups by population percentage, alongside the Aboriginal population percentage, in a sentence? I think that's better than completely removing the table, with no mention of visible minorities and Aboriginals afterwards, and relying solely on the ethnic origin responses as the be-all end-all. Blackjays1 (talk) 04:28, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Well, I don't personally think that's of huge value, but I totally understand that some people would disagree with me. As long as the data isn't original research, isn't so large as to take over the entire section, and cites a reasonable source (the StatsCan sources for this stuff aren't too hard to find), then I won't go deleting it again. Your suggestion seems completely reasonable to me. AshleyMorton (talk) 17:34, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Requested links under "See also"

Hello, I suggest adding the following link under "See also": Destination Halifax.ReegieD (talk) 21:56, 20 November 2013 (UTC) ReegieD (Nov. 20, 2013)

Addition under "Tourism"

I propose someone add "Destination Halifax is a not-for-profit society fulfilling the role of destination marketing organization (DMO) for 201 communities within the Halifax Regional Municipality. It is a partnership between the Halifax Regional Municipality, the Hotel Association of Nova Scotia, the Province of Nova Scotia, and participating industry members. Its mandate is to dramatically increase tourism expenditures on a year round basis. The organization is responsible for promoting to both business and leisure travelers from external markets. The organization’s priority is sales and marketing programming directed to audiences in the domestic, cross border and international markets." ReegieD (talk) 22:02, 20 November 2013 (UTC) ReegieD (Nov. 20, 2013)

Requested move 2014

The request to rename this article to Halifax, Nova Scotia has been carried out. If the page title has consensus, be sure to close this discussion using {{subst:RM top|'''page moved'''.}} and {{subst:RM bottom}} and remove the {{Requested move/dated|…}} tag, or replace it with the {{subst:Requested move/end|…}} tag.

Halifax Regional Municipality → Halifax, Nova Scotia – The Regional Municipality have now had their say on this. Effective today, the name for all but the most formal legal processes is to be simply "Halifax". Here's the Municipality's "rebranding" site: . Here are two news reports from local media: , . Here is the report from the staff with the recommendation within it . This has long been the accepted way to refer to the location in general, if not the formal Municipality. Even at that, it can be seen that most organisations ignore the "...Regional Municipality" outside of the most formal situations - the way people don't usually call it the "Commonwealth of Virginia" - they just call it "Virginia". Here's an example of that - the 2011 Census results, when searching for "Halifax" in Nova Scotia: We can see that the Population Centre is called "Halifax", the Census Metropolitan Area is called "Halifax", and the Census Division is called "Halifax (Regional Municipality)". The airport is the "Halifax Stanfield International Airport", not the "Halifax Regional Municipality Stanfield Airport" . Once (if!) this is accepted, I (and I'm sure others) will go about fixing the other required changes, such as the opening text, etc. Finally, this would much better meet every one of the Misplaced Pages Article Title guidelines: Recognisability, Naturalness, Precision, Conciseness and Consistency. AshleyMorton (talk) 03:18, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

• Alternative move it to Halifax and displace the disambiguation page to Halifax (disambiguation); considering its importance in WWI and WWII, and the Titanic disaster, this should be the primary topic. -- 65.94.77.36 (talk) 04:59, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
  • Oppose moving to just Halifax While I kind of support your argument, this would clearly be a very contentious move (as indicated by the very first comment response below). To me, finally, after all these years, having a clear indication from the Municipality means that we should finally be able to solve this efficiently. I worry that your proposal, meritworthy though it is, would make that process long and confused. AshleyMorton (talk) 11:48, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

• Confused There seem to be rather a lot of articles about various configurations of "Halifax" in Nova Scotia, to the point I'm not sure that Halifax, Nova Scotia is actually redirecting to the specific place most commonly given as "the Halifax in Nova Scotia". Strong oppose just "Halifax" - the British town and the bank are both highly prominent, and the regional municipality postdates all the events cited above. Timrollpickering (talk) 11:39, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
  • The confusion makes total sense. There has been a lot of argument around this issue, not least from a former mayor who was not from Halifax (former city), but found himself mayor of the broader regional municipality - he argued strongly against any usage other than all three words, or the acronym "HRM". Unfortunately, the resulting articles (not just their titles) reflect a fair bit of awkward writing done to be as true as possible to the titles - which were themselves significantly problematic. Therefore, the appropriate locations for text about e.g. pre-settlement history were tough to determine. As a result, *once* we have this title changed, I believe that we will be able to improve the coherence of all of the articles about this region. AshleyMorton (talk) 16:20, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

• Support but I might take it a step further. In the past I was opposed to the HRM article and the Halifax (former city) being merged. But now that they are named the exact same thing, maybe they should also be merged into one article. Other people used Toronto and London as an example for when the cities merged with surrounding cities that there continued to be only one article. -DJSasso (talk) 14:33, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
  • I might support that, too, but I recommend we start with this step, so that the appropriate location for the "core article" becomes unambiguous. Then, we can identify which of the closely-linked articles should be restructured, and how. AshleyMorton (talk) 16:20, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
• Strong support This is overdue. WP:COMMONNAME and WP:CRITERIA support the move, and I believe WP:CANSTYLE does as well. It specifically mentions this case as a "special case" without really explaining why, or whether this is correct. The current title continues to WP:ASTONISH. For just one example, compare the results for "going to halifax nova scotia" versus "going to halifax regional municipality". Don't want to check the links? It's ~80,100 to 1. --BDD (talk) 19:14, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
• Strong support per BDD. Absent some elaboration regarding the basis for this peculiar name, there is no reason to maintain it as an exception to the normal conventions. The current title does indeed WP:ASTONISH. Xoloz (talk) 21:27, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
• Support. I've never understood why we've used an administrative name decided by government. At least now we don't have to use the WP:OFFICIALNAME. Zarcadia (talk) 17:14, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
• Support. Per BDD and Zarcadia. Name should never have been changed in the first place. Aloha27 (talk) 21:03, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
• Support Let common sense prevail. Saffron Blaze (talk) 00:56, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
• Support At last!!! Let the confusion of the Halifax's come to an end! Let's do this sooner rather then later...--Kylestewart98 (talk) 04:06, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
• Non Support The legal name is Halifax Regional Municipality the charter is 'The Halifax Regional Municipality Charter "and the press release clearly states the legal name did not change as Halifax NS is only the area within the former City of Halifax any change will create confusion between Halifax the Regional Municipality which no different CBRM and halifax the place name . There 288 place names in HRM has anyone looked at the civic address webpage . Halifax is not the whole HRM Halifax is where Halifax the place is .As for the airport it was Halifax Internal Airport before 1996 when HRM was created and it is not in Halifax but in Enfield — Preceding unsigned comment added by 19960401 (talk • contribs) 22:45, 19 April 2014‎
  • I cannot disagree more. effectively every other merged city on earth has exactly the same concerns, and effectively every other city has resolved this by using the name of the place, in the general sense, rather than the name of the Municipality. The decision by the Municipal Council confirms what everyone has been operating under in real life for a long time - the "place", in the general sense, is simply "Halifax". Of course, the formal municipal body will need to be described in the article, as will the evolution of the boundaries, including mention of where the former city had its borders (which have actually moved several times through history). Misplaced Pages policy is crystal clear on this - WP:OFFICIALNAME - "People often assume that, where an official name exists for the subject of a Misplaced Pages article, that name is ipso facto the correct title for the article, and that if the article is under another title then it should be moved. In many cases this is contrary to Misplaced Pages practice and policy." This is clearly the case here. "halifax the place name" *does* now apply to the entire area, and it is WP:ASTONISHing to see anything else there. Of course, Dartmouth is still Dartmouth, the same way that Etobicoke is still Etobicoke, but that does stop us from quite reasonably saying that it is "part of Halifax". The airport is a perfect example - it is in Enfield, of course, but it is the airport "for Halifax" and "of Halifax" - and when we say "Halifax" like that, we mean the general place - which is what this article is about. AshleyMorton (talk) 23:24, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

I disagree -Halifax Nova Scotia is boundaries are where the formal city of halifax where before Apil 1,1996 .That the legal placename determined by The Halifax Regional Municipality -nothing changed since other than what the civic address office changed and who has the only authority to determine the boundaries of the communities including Halifax NS .This article is about the Halifax Regional Municipality which the official name is the same just the "logo" changed there is a big difference between a logo and the legal corporate name of the municipality . Halifax NS is a placename where the old city of halifax existed just like Bedford , Dartmouth and Enfield nothing changed in any of these .The Halifax regional Municipality like the Cape Breton Regional Municipality are the corporate governance not the placename .If you lived in Glace Bay you do not say you are fron Cape Breton nor if you lived in Fall River like me we do not say we are from Halifax . Like I say There is a difference between a place and a municipality and this where people will getting confused . If this is the case than the article on the Cape Breton Regional Municipality should be "Cape Breton " and if this goes ahead I will be pushing wikipedia for that article to be changed .

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