Talk:Largest cities in Japan by population by decade

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Nmdwolf in topic The list should be in descending order.
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There are several mistakes in this article. Total population counts based on revised koseki system has begun since 1872, and "Nihon chishi teiyo" (someone has translated as "Japanese Topographical Outline") is rather an irregular book to summarize the geography of Japan.Aurichalcum (talk) 09:20, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

I also suspect whether this article is necessary. Some comments on city populations are not objective.Aurichalcum (talk) 09:31, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

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The list should be in descending order.

I'm a strong believer in that the most relevant information should be at the top of the page.

There are very few cases where 1873 census data would be more relevant than 2010+ census data.

I couldn't find any help articles from Wikipedia that writes about how lists should be sorted, nor could I find a precedent of how other list articles have done it.

If there are precedents or a good reason for why the list should be sorted oldest -> newest, please inform me.

Soffagrisen2 (talk) 14:03, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

After just having consulted this page, I had the same idea. For this kind of data it just does not make sense to have the oldest information on top. I know that certain other pages do it as well, but having to scroll down a 15-section page just to find the most up-to-date information is not efficient.

Nmdwolf (talk) 07:10, 23 August 2021 (UTC)