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<blockquote data-quote="saulan" data-source="post: 899533" data-attributes="member: 60236">Just because I point out that something is flawed, doesn&#039;t mean that I have to correct it. But for the city populations, here is StatSA, which is the most reliable source on populations in South Africa since they are the ones that run the Census in the country: <a href="http://www.statssa.gov.za/?page_id=1021&amp;id=city-of-johannesburg-municipality" target="_blank">http://www.statssa.gov.za/?page_id=1021&amp;id=city-of-johannesburg-municipality</a>I mean, it isn&#039;t really. Generally work and professional research absolutely reject anything from Wikipedia. If you are creating stats, one should never use Wikipedia. But if you are going to throw something together, at least do a bit of research and try to make it correct, right now it really isn&#039;t. I have local knowledge on South African cities, but it is available online, and the person who did create that should have done their research before throwing up something misleading (Also, you keep mentioning the OP, I have nothing against OP, as I agree, it would be interesting to look at, I just pointed out that its flawed).Yes, but it&#039;s referring to Cape Town as the municipal area, not the actual city centre, so the municipal population should have been used, not the city.Smartcooky also makes a good point there, especially for SH teams.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="saulan, post: 899533, member: 60236"] Just because I point out that something is flawed, doesn't mean that I have to correct it. But for the city populations, here is StatSA, which is the most reliable source on populations in South Africa since they are the ones that run the Census in the country: [URL]http://www.statssa.gov.za/?page_id=1021&id=city-of-johannesburg-municipality[/URL] I mean, it isn't really. Generally work and professional research absolutely reject anything from Wikipedia. If you are creating stats, one should never use Wikipedia. But if you are going to throw something together, at least do a bit of research and try to make it correct, right now it really isn't. I have local knowledge on South African cities, but it is available online, and the person who did create that should have done their research before throwing up something misleading (Also, you keep mentioning the OP, I have nothing against OP, as I agree, it would be interesting to look at, I just pointed out that its flawed). Yes, but it's referring to Cape Town as the municipal area, not the actual city centre, so the municipal population should have been used, not the city. Smartcooky also makes a good point there, especially for SH teams. [/QUOTE]

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