Talk:Tri-Cities

message: It is used as a proper noun in some areas, but as a subject it is not a proper noun and is properly spelled with a lowercase c for Wikipedia. All Tri-Citys are tri-cities, but not all tri-cities are Tri-Citys. --Walor 06:08, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 20:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tri-cities 

message: * The Tri-Cities, Tennessee, Tennessee and Virginia, consisting of the twin cities of Bristol, Tennessee [1]/Bristol, Virginia[2], Kingsport[3], Tennessee, and Johnson City[4], Tennessee
The non-sensical "Tri-Cities" moniker for Northeast Tennessee has long been a subject of heated debate within the "letters to the editor" published within Northeast Tennessee newspapers for many reasons:
*Tri-Cities, Tennessee (former use) would be accurate if only excluding the separate and independent city of Britsol, Virginia;
*confusion of Tri-Cities, Tennessee with the many other Tri-Cities or Tri-City areas across the United States;
*not a reliable or precise geographic reference, for reasons above, that is easily identified bv those not already familiar with the area (contrast with Northeast Tennessee), and;
*"Tri-Cities" moniker is not all-community inclusive as in the term "Northeast Tennessee".
I think that this debate of "Tri-Cities" versus "Northeast Tennessee" was pretty much decided several years ago when the postmaster of the U.S. Postal Service regional office in Johnson City, Tennessee selected "Northeast Tennessee" for the postage cancellation marks within the regional post office and also when the regional tourism office incorporated Northeast Tennessee into its name --- Northeast Tennessee Tourism Association http://www.netta.com/ .  And when more of the slack-jawed, old-timers around here start dying off, you will verly likely see the monkier "Tri-Cities (Tennessee)" being kicked (along with the pharase "Upper East Tennessee", as if there is a "Lower East Tennessee") with them into the obscurity of their graves.
At this point, I do not yet know how to suggest a page for renaming the "Tri-Cities, Tennessee"  page as "Northeast Tennessee" and/or re-directing "Tri-Cities, Tennessee" to "Northeast Tennessee".
:Whew. I think you probably are right... I would advise you to be bold and fix it. Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 22:22, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tri-Cities, Tennessee(/Virginia): Quad Cities???

message: The current arrangement of sections (Australia, United States, Canada, Mexico, Asia, South America, Europe) seems to go in neither alphabetical nor any discernable geographical order. Would anyone object to an alphabetization (Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Mexico, South America, United States) or more comprehensive organization by continents: either as Asia; Australia; Europe; North America; South America, or with Americas together, or with Oceania in place of Australia? --96.49.80.208 (talk) 03:52, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alphabetical order? 

message: I have done a lot of cleanup on this page, and to keep it that way, I ask editors to do the following:
1 - Do not add new entries that you can't source
2 - If the Tri-City article is a redlink, also link the three cities, but nothing else. This contradicts normal policy to only have one additional link, but here is necessary
Ego White Tray (talk) 07:04, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  About this article