Talk:Hickory, North Carolina

message: The whole sinkhole story seems really out of place. What are the arguements for retaining it? I can understand a sentence, but to devote a whole paragraph to an episode that occured 5 years ago seems odd. Maybe append it to Hickory's history or something? Just curious: any other thoughts? --Derek 18:17, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I asked the same question in an edit summary a while back, then forgot about it until I saw your comment on my watchlist. I recommend ditching it, especially since there are no references cited to support it. (Even if there were, it would only merit a sentence at most). --A. B. 20:52, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I noticed you removed it: Looks much better! --Derek 20:17, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sink Hole

message: I'm not sure how notable some of these residents really are, but I cleaned up the section and put it together as a list. The only ones I removed from the original paragraph were vague references to famous relatives without the actual resident's name. --Derek 19:10, 4 May 2007 (UT)
*I thought it was downright hilarious that a recent malicious poster to "Notable Residents" can't even spell the name of his/her high school correctly! Good work, Class of 2008! ++Malco23 02:31, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Considering that Vale is an unincorporated municipality this is understandable. Many people from many of the smaller towns around Hickory will say that they are from the Hickory area so that people from other parts of the state and country might understand where they are from. It's all part of the Hickory metropolitan region anyway. 199.90.28.195 (talk) 14:43, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable Residents

message: The entire economy section seems like one long commercial.  Anyone familiar with the area want to take a crack at fixing it (with sources)? ++Arx Fortis 03:31, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economy Section 

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message: I'm curious as to the predominant pronunciation of the town's name. The "Yankee" way would seem to be "hick-or-ee" or "hick-er-ee", whereas I expcect the local pronunciation would be more like "hick-ree". Does anyone know? Thank you! ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:21, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: All three variations you listed are present along with "hick-o-ree". The "native" pronunciation is probably closer to "hick-ree" for the city and "hick-o-ree" for the tree, but all variations are pretty well attested. --Khajidha (talk) 18:39, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation? 

message: This facility hosted many NASCAR races in the early days.  Does this merit mention under sports? Modor (talk) 02:00, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hickory Speedway 

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