Talk:Lexington, Kentucky/Archive 1

message: I'm removing this link  because it doesn't seem to add any knowledge to the article and appears to be an advertizing ploy.  If anyone disagrees, let us converse. --Robby 21:40, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links: Clark's 2006 Almanac 

message: Why is...
: "Within a day's drive of 75% of the population of the United States, Lexington is strategically located at the intersection of Interstates 64 and 75. Lexington is accessible by air with approximately 100 direct and nonstop flights from Blue Grass Airport."
in the Geography and Climate section? --Anthony5429 17:44, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categorization 

message: I have proposed that the articles Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky and Fayette County, Kentucky be merged into this article. Any content in one of these articles applies equally to the others, and there is no sense in having three articles with identical content! Comparing the current content of these articles, there is no unique content in the Lexington-Fayette article, and only a small bit in the Fayette County article, which could easily be worked into this one. Cmadler 17:49, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would agree about merging the Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky article, but counties, even where a city-county merger has occurred (Jefferson County, Kentucky, Marion County, Indiana), should have their own articles. --rogerd 18:05, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree it's bad to merge city and county entries. It's confusing enough that so many already duplicate. Imagine merging Lexington Ave. (NYC) as well, or Indiana, PA  with the state of Indiana. Carrionluggage 20:05, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have completed the merge of "Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky" into this article. Cmadler 18:11, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Fayette County, Kentucky should remain separate. Fayette county has a distinct history. Also, counties are thought of differently than cities by other government and non-government organizations. For example, Fayette County Board of Education is not part of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. In KY, most people ID by county rather than city. For this cultural reasons, I think we should keep Fayette County separate. FloNight 17:25, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Fayette County, Kentucky should be merged into Lexington, Kentucky.  An example of this type of action is Orleans Parish, LA (to New Orleans, Louisiana).  I'm not sure there would be as much confusion as people are thinking.  The county and the city are the same entity.  How many people in Kentucky say "I'm from Fayette County." rather than "I'm from Lexington."?  What is truly gained by having them separate?  Those are my thoughts on the subject. RobbyPrather (talk) 04:18, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

text: What is the harm in having separate articles? Why are you so intent on merging them? I might agree if we were only talking about the present. In an encyclopedia, we mostly write about history. The history of the two is completely separate. There were other towns in Fayette county with a distinct history. Many of them disappeared well before the government merged. --FloNight talk 22:41, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

text: K3vin points out yet another good reason to keep a separate Fayette County article. Counties aren't cities, and their histories are quite different. Bill 15:44, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

text: The fact that Fayette County and Lexington, Kentucky have had significant history as separate entities is in my eyes sufficient reason to think that they should continue to hafve separate pages.  Having said that, I can easily imagine that most of the overlapping data could be contained in one article.  Badbilltucker 13:23, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur 100% with Badbilltucker. The merge templates should be removed. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:20, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merges 

message: I've heard that Lexington is the largest city in the US not built on a body of water. Is this correct? Dynzmoar 11:33, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not on water 

message: I have removed the following line because it makes no sense:
 Fayette County's population has doubled since 1950 and tripled since 1960.
I doubt there was a population decline between 1950 and 1960 since that was the peak of the baby boom, so how can the current population be 2 times the 1950 population and 3 times the 1960 population? If you can clarify/correct this, please do so. Until then, this line is probably best not included. ⇝Casito⇝Talk 18:27, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Factors during that era, such as the opening of the IBM research facility and the creation of many jobs around that as a result do not go along with a population decline. Nor does the completion of East New Circle and the expansion eastward towards East New Circle via Winchester Road. Seicer 17:19, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Likely factual error corrected (population doubling and tripling) 

message: The Nickname the article gives is that this is the "Horse Capital of the World", but I'm not sure that actually passed. (If I remember right it reach some controversy with a few other cities who also called themselves the horse capital of the world, so it was desolved.)  What I do know is that Lexington is known as (or at least was known as) "The Athens of the West."  (If not its still sort of nostalgic.) I went ahead and added it.  I don't think there should be too many objections.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by N@vigation (talk • contribs) .
:I'm not aware of what passage (or failure to pass) you're referring to, but "Horse Capital of the World" is a fairly common nickname for Lexington, although there are other cities (such as Ocala, Florida) with the same nickname.  At least one official site (visitlex.com, maintained by the Lexington Convention and Visitors Bureau, uses the nickname.  The urban county government also sponsored an essay contest with a theme of "Why living in the Horse Capital of the World is important to me". Michael Slone (talk) 17:40, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nickname 

message: I'm new to the Wiki thing so I don't want to go into the main article and mess up the layout, but I really think there should be a list of cultural organizations in Lexington.  I know they aren't as well attended as the basketball games but Lexington has a lot of professional and semi-pro performing arts organizations for its size and people should know about them.
*The Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra 
*Actors Guild of Lexington
*Lexington Childrens Theater
*Lexington Chamber Chorale 
*The Lexington Singers 
*Lexington Opera Society 
*Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras 
*Lexington Ballet Company 
*Kentucky Ballet Theatre 
*Studio Players 
*Lexington Arts and Cultural Council 
*Singletary Center for the Arts 
By no means an exhaustive list but these are the major performing groups in town.  One might also list art galleries, the Carnegie Center, etc.
Hope it makes it in!  Thanks!
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.31.73.34 (talk • contribs) Aug 17, 2006.
:I'm not a fan of putting lists in articles, but I do agree that this article might benefit from an "Arts & Culture" section. Cmadler 10:42, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See Louisville, Kentucky#Culture and List of attractions and events in Louisville for templates. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 15:06, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  cultural organizations 

message: Perhaps it would be possible to make links to things like the city department of commerce or perhaps some major media outlets?  The existing list includes and even seems dominated by new home and real estate agent links which is not entirely a bad thing but kind of a distraction and not really encyclopedic. -- M0llusk 18:48, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. I'll look at adding them. --FloNight 05:35, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Commercial spam links should always be zapped out.  Anytime they appear, remove them, and say "Wikipedia is not a web directory". Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 15:08, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  external links feel like ads 

message: Notable residents/people have been moved off of the main page in an effort to condense the information at Lexington, Kentucky and create sub-pages so that they can be expanded upon. See Notable residents of Lexington, Kentucky. Other headings have been reorganized and further cleanups should make this page more concise :)  Seicer (talk) (contribs) 05:21, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanups 

message: Seems strange that the 'History' ends in 1935.
Sca 17:50, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Like all Wikipedia articles, this is a work in progress. Feel free to expand. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 17:55, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: History

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thread_title:  Commons files used on this page have been nominated for deletion 

message: LeXington-Fayette County adopted a city flower in the fall of 2019. America in Bloom Lexington helped initiate this project. Echinacea Purpurea” also known as the purple coneflower was recently named Lexington – Fayette County’s Official Flower.It's a Kentucky native, perennial beauty! https://aiblexingtonky.org/coneflower/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.31.152.189 (talk • contribs) 07:56, May 22, 2020 (UTC)
:We would need some independent sources to show notability before including this. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 13:38, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  City Flower