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Should we bold every capital that's the largest city as well? Malcolmmwa (talk) 21:32, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I removed the capitals of Wales, Scotland and N.I. to make this list more consistent with others in the same series, i.e. it should reflect the capitals of sovereign states and their dependencies only, otherwise the rank's kind of meaningless. Thanks for your feedback, ҉ Randwicked ҉ 04:54, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
It seems unlikely Kingston's home to half the population of the island. It's a very small locality. And anyhow, the ABS doesn't publish separate population statistics for NI communities, and the provided reference is both apparently broken and marked as unreliable source. I'd remove it, but then what figure to put there? Maybe an n/a? - ҉ Randwicked ҉ 10:23, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
I have developed template:Population WD that retrieves the latest population number for any city or country from Wikidata. As an experiment, I used it in this version of this article. Does it look okay? Still it does not fetch citations from Wikidata, but you can find the citations by clicking on the pen next to the value. There you can also add newer values and sources. I have made the pen visible only to logged-in auto-verified users, to reduce the risk of vandalism and out of aesthetical reasons. Also, there are some other technical issues that need to be fixed in the template, causing the error message "The time allocated for running scripts has expired". So I reverted it. But once that is solved, would it be okay to use it in this article?Tomastvivlaren (talk) 15:29, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
I had updated the number of Dhaka and Dodoma to reflect 2022 census data using the references from these cities Wikipedia articles and the edits were reverted. Are these Wikipedia articles wrong, or does someone not want the page updated? Ntfriedrich (talk) 18:40, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
Should Diego Garcia, the "capital" of the British Indian Ocean Territory be included in this list? DSOFOreverTYU ~ talk ~ Eurovision 13:29, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Just a casual viewer of the page genuinely asking, how is the population of Gibraltar's capital 104.1% of its total population? It looks like Monaco has a similar statistic. Am I missing something really obvious, or is this an error? Mistskews1 (talk) 22:06, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Probably not zero. It's estimated on the Palau page as 18,024 as at 2021. Brettreasure (talk) 13:29, 19 February 2024 (UTC)