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Ukraine–Commonwealth of Independent States relations

Hello! I see that you are interested in articles about membership in international organizations and you are improving their quality. And you are doing it carefully. Can I invite you to improve the articles on the Commonwealth of Independent States and agreements within the CIS? I'm trying to improve, but I can't do all the work alone. _ruASG⁺¹ 15:51, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of U.S. and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports teams

Regarding the above referenced article, I note that you changed "metropolitan area" back to "urban area", even though there are articles for both. So, please explain what you mean by "align with cited source". Alielmi1207 (talk) 00:20, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Someone had changed Salt Lake City's population, so it did not align with the source cited in the header of the table: [1]

That source uses urban populations, rather than metro populations, since they are more meaningful and comparable across jurisdictions. TDL (talk) 02:55, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the feedback, much appreciated. I found the following Wikipedia article that could apply here:

List of North American metropolitan areas by population

Wouldn't it make more sense to extract the population data from it and list it as the cited source, instead of the current source (Demographica report)? If yes, then references to "urban area" can be changed to "metropolitan area". Alielmi1207 (talk) 18:42, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That list is probably too granular, as for instance San Francisco/San Jose and Baltimore/Washington are separate metro areas even though they are considered to be part of the same market.

An issue with using a list based on political boundaries (as the link you shared does) is that they are not consistently defined by the statistical agencies in the USA and Canada, so combining them into a single list is not really meaningful. Relying on an independent source to apply a consistent approach based on urban areas eliminates that problem. TDL (talk) 23:43, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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