Category talk:nl:Towns in the Netherlands

RFD discussion: May–July 2020
Dutch makes no distinction between "town" and "city", every inhabited place is classified as either or, primarily based on whether the city has city rights. Since we already follow the terminology of the country at the regional level, i.e. we use "province", "state", "prefecture", "region" etc depending on the country, the terminology for inhabited places should follow what is normal in the country as well. —Rua (mew) 14:53, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. Things aren't as Manichaean as presented above, a small settlement with city rights will often be called a stadje in Dutch; this roughly correponds to town. There may also be regional alternative terms for large settlements that are not considered a city. Any solution is bound to be messy because in practice places can be called a stad based either on city rights or on size. I think that calling a place with city rights but fewer than 1000 inhabitants a "city" will probably be misleading to users. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  15:18, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Between parentheses it's worth adding that "every inhabited place is classified as either dorp or stad" is not quite correct, at least as far as the language is concerned, the classification gehucht ("hamlet") exists and there is also the term buurtschap, though this last type of settlement is not entered in official registers. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  17:01, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep We're not writing in Dutch but English and there is a different between "" and "". —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:33, 13 May 2020 (UTC)


 * RFD-kept. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 02:05, 13 July 2020 (UTC)