Category talk:Denver metropolitan area

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Archived discussion regarding deletion

The decision was to KEEP this category.

Category:Denver_metropolitan_area -> Category:Denver, Colorado
- Category:Denver_metropolitan_area is probably the better named category as the metropolitan area includes more than just Denver. —Mike 19:54, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
  - Yeah, I think we need to create categories expressly for metropolitan areas...I started doing this at first by creating "(city) suburbs" categories, but I think the better idea is to follow the MSA designations, as in Category:New York metropolitan area. Postdlf 01:57, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I restored this after it was improperly deleted—comments above make it two votes to keep vs. the one deletion nomination. It makes absolutely no sense to make the metro area a subtopic of the Denver city category—that reverses the actual relationship. Including the other cities within the metro area within the Denver city category also wrongfully implies that they are not independent municipalities. Please take a look at the category's current contents. I haven't finished filling it yet (I am currently running on a ten-year old backup computer thanks to my lousy laptop burning out again), but you can see how it is supposed to work. Postdlf 02:07, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)