County and City page cleanup
There appears to be a few states that have set up pages linking from a state to its various counties and then to the various cities under it. Overall that is fine, but unfortunately the pages were creates with no connection to the counties or states above them.
The biggest problem is we now have a ambiguity problem. Someone searches for Kern County and finds the page, but has no idea if this is in Maryland, California, Texas, etc.
This is easy to fix by creating a structure for all state specific pages. I will use Maryland as my example here. Start with the page Maryland. Now with a world community, we might argue this page should be a sub page of "USA", but I think most of the states in the US have unique names from others around the world. If I am wrong we can come back to this one.
Next we take To Do - Maryland. Since this is a subset of Maryland, it should be moved to a page called [[Maryland/To Do]]. Currently on this page are 1. Major Cities with To Do lists of cities, and 2. Counties with lists of all the counties.
For the Major Cities section, currently this page links to places like [[To Do - Baltimore]] which is non-existant, but I did find [[To Do - Baltimore-Towson, MD]]. All the other major cities on that page link nowhere. Not sure if there is intent to build them out or not, but if they were built, they should be [[Maryland/To Do - Baltimore]] or [[Maryland/To Do - Baltimore-Towson]].
For the Counties currently on this page, they mostly go to actual pages like Charles County. Unfortunately again there are many Charles Counties in the US. So this page should go to [[Maryland/Charles County]] or [[Maryland/To Do - Charles County]].
Under that page is only a single link to
I am not sure how many other states have this same structure, but I can go through and fix them for the state. I'll check the links after the move to be sure all source pages are linked correctly. The redirects will stay so any external links will go to the right place. This way any searches resulting on one of these pages, will end up on a Maryland subpage so at least the searcher will know what state the city or county is covering.
I will wait a bit for additional feedback before I start this process.
The biggest problem is we now have a ambiguity problem. Someone searches for Kern County and finds the page, but has no idea if this is in Maryland, California, Texas, etc.
This is easy to fix by creating a structure for all state specific pages. I will use Maryland as my example here. Start with the page Maryland. Now with a world community, we might argue this page should be a sub page of "USA", but I think most of the states in the US have unique names from others around the world. If I am wrong we can come back to this one.
Next we take To Do - Maryland. Since this is a subset of Maryland, it should be moved to a page called [[Maryland/To Do]]. Currently on this page are 1. Major Cities with To Do lists of cities, and 2. Counties with lists of all the counties.
For the Major Cities section, currently this page links to places like [[To Do - Baltimore]] which is non-existant, but I did find [[To Do - Baltimore-Towson, MD]]. All the other major cities on that page link nowhere. Not sure if there is intent to build them out or not, but if they were built, they should be [[Maryland/To Do - Baltimore]] or [[Maryland/To Do - Baltimore-Towson]].
For the Counties currently on this page, they mostly go to actual pages like Charles County. Unfortunately again there are many Charles Counties in the US. So this page should go to [[Maryland/Charles County]] or [[Maryland/To Do - Charles County]].
Under that page is only a single link to
That links to an unlinked list of City Names that apparently should not be on the map. This particular page could simply be moved onto the Charles County page as a section titled "Not to be added" or something like that.Charles City Names that should or shouldn't be on the map.
I am not sure how many other states have this same structure, but I can go through and fix them for the state. I'll check the links after the move to be sure all source pages are linked correctly. The redirects will stay so any external links will go to the right place. This way any searches resulting on one of these pages, will end up on a Maryland subpage so at least the searcher will know what state the city or county is covering.
I will wait a bit for additional feedback before I start this process.
Re: County and City page cleanup