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Talk:Travis County, Texas

message: Wondering how to edit this U.S. County Entry?
The WikiProject U.S. Counties standards might help.
:Thanks! Those guidelines were very helpful. -Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 16:27, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Current entry says "8000 b.c. Early native American inhabitants include Tonkawa, Lipan Apache, Comanche, Kiowa.[3]"
Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa were certainly not in Texas in 8000 B.C. Tonkawa maybe, but that is unknown. The type of Native Americans in Texas in 8000 b.c. is unknown (as I understand the state of affairs on the topic)rdenndy (talk) 00:34, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed so; hopefully the new section is more clear. -Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 16:27, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: The section titled "Culture" reads like the "Politics" section of this article as well as that of other U.S. counties. Some of the information in that section is already found in the Politics section. I feel like the Proposition 2 sentence should be moved under Politics, and the rest deleted. I do think there's plenty of culture in Travis County besides politics, but that's already in the Austin article. So while I'm not sure the Culture section should be kept or not, I definitely think we should remove the redundancies between the two sections, and prioritize politics under the Politics tab.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by T-Ro Trains (talk • contribs) 02:57, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely; the coverage is disproportionate. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 12:31, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should the Culture Section be Moved Under Politics?
Talk:Waller County, Texas

message: It seems to me that listing the US Senators for an individual Texas county is just silly.  I mean, every single county in the state has the same two Senators, so why is this listed in here?  Am I being too picky? Unschool 04:19, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Listing senators?

message: Should mention the periodic attempts to impede students from Prairie View A&M University from registering in the county and voting in local elections which have stirred up tension and created accusations of racial bias...    AnonMoos (talk) 23:52, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversy
Talk:Wichita County, Texas

message: Bad sentence, or is it just me?
 27.20% of all households were made up of individuals and 
aren't all households made up of individuals?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.242.167.242 (talk) 20:40, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm surprised the North Texas oil fields don't get much coverage here. So here's a start:
* History of Oil Discoveries in Texas Electra, 1911. Burkburnett, 1918.
Let's see, are these in the County writeup?: Nope. And. If anything, Geology_of_Wichita_Falls,_Texas#Oil_and_Gas_Resources is even more pitiful:
"Petroleum resources were discovered in the region in the early 1900s, and the area remains a locus of exploration and production." OK!
So, "Wichita County would eventually produce over 827,590,411 barrels of oil which defined the economic development of North Texas during the twentieth century: Oi Boom!  --a "Supergiant" field in oilfield terms, and with a present value ($US 50/bbl) of circa  $US 4 billion!
Current prodxn is less but still substantial. For 2012-2013:  source 
* Wichita County          2.1 MM bbl
* Archer County           1.15  MM bbl
Further east
* Montague County, TX     2.9 MM bbl
* Cooke County, TX           2.8 MM bbl
I presume the oilfield guys work like we miners  used to: "the best place to find oil is where oil was found before" ... 
  --Pete Tillman (talk) 21:12, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Burkburnett oil field/ Wichita County oilfields (incl Electra)
Talk:Wilbarger County, Texas

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The demographic statistics do not make sense. If you add all the numbers (excluding percent from two or more races) the total is 108 %. Something's off about this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.197.238.62 (talk) 20:07, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Zavala County, Texas

message: I have added the infobox as required, and thus deleted the cleanup tag. Quidam65 17:38, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox added
Talk:Jackson, Mississippi

message: The link to the citation failed. I searched manually for the reference. However,a reference to 'Parkerville' is not found as cited. The citation notes the name 'Lefleur's Bluff' rather than 'Parkerville'. I have corrected this once before so it might be vandalism.Church of the Rain (talk) 01:34, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Parkville?

message: I don't know if it's just me, but the "Native Americans" block of the article's history section appears to be wildly biased in favor toward the viewpoint of the native Choctaw inhabitants. This section below is just one such example:
I don't know who added this, but it is incredibly biased and lacks any encyclopedic nature. Even the "reference" cited is just a photocopied Wikipedia article on the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. I'd make the revisions to the paragraphs myself, but I'd rather report it and leave it to someone more informed on the background to resolve the issue. Vivaporius (talk) 13:06, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Native Americans section 

message: I didn’t see a section on Reconstruction? The Mississippi Plan and Sovereignty Commission also seem to be absent? And are crime issues covered? FloridaArmy (talk) 13:42, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I added sectioning for the Reconstruction. Coverage needs to be expanded. I noted the Mississippi Plan in context. The establishment of schools for African Americans and African American representation in government needs to be added to the Reconstruction section. FloridaArmy (talk) 13:51, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

text: Kwreview 197.157.187.147 (talk) 08:10, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing?

message: I don't have time to do it myself but many sections of this article read like an 8th grade history report, and there are some subtle grammar errors, for instance missing commas between clauses. It doesn't affect the factual content to my knowledge, but it was distracting enough for me to notice. The Native American section with the quotations from the Choctaw is particularly bad. Many sections are also poorly organised and as noted elsewhere read like bullet-point lists. 87.254.85.72 (talk) 06:46, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poorly written 

message: On the “quick facts” part of the article, the flag is showing a old version of the Mississippi flag. please fix this. 2600:1700:35A0:6930:D917:3335:B97F:4832 (talk) 20:14, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag is not up to date 

message: Anyone know how to add the average dew points? I have noticed that on other cities but missing on this one. 132.147.157.65 (talk) 04:34, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weather stats
Talk:Guam

message: It is across the International Date Line from North America, and therefore the Easternmost point!— Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.71.146.77 (talk • contribs) 19:41, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. Any reason why we can't fix this or remove it? If you look at all the territory of the United States in a certain way, ignoring longitude and the IDL, then, yes, it is the westernmost land. But that's arbitrary. Going by longitude (a less arbitrary way of looking at things), it's far to the east. (But it is NOT the easternmost land because NMI is further east.) Unless you define your context, any discussion of "easternmost" and "westernmost" is arbitrary. Let's remove this description or clarify what it means. Holy (talk) 19:22, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Nor is it "the westernmost point...in the United States."

message: Is my edited article description about Guam better? RFG101 (talk) 12:00, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The difficult issue with short descriptions is that they ideally are less than 40 characters. See WP:SDLENGTH. Best, CMD (talk) 13:47, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article description
Talk:Columbia, Pennsylvania

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:Other than the 2000 Census information, this article appears to have no historical information for Columbia, PA, as a borough, for any year after 1972. Dcattell (talk) 19:14, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit?
Talk:Paradise, Pennsylvania

message: In light of today's events, please take a moment of your time to honour the children whom have perished both in Lancaster County and in other schools throughout the country during this past week.  I would just like to ask that, due to today's tragedy, those whom wish to learn more about the Amish please understand that they are a people whom mean no harm of any kind toward the outside world.  They are by their very creed a peaceful and non-resistant culture.  I know this school well, and I am acquainted with many whom have grown up around it.  May they all someday find peace.  --Thisisbossi 23:25, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, I am curious to know how this should be approached on the city page.  On the one hand, on other location pages, we don't keep track of every crime committed.  On the other hand, yes: this is a very major event for such a small community as this.  If we're going to keep it in this article, we should expand it by 2 or 3 more sentences and give it its own subsection -- though I believe that such should wait until the event's details are more thoroughly understood and released to the public.  The single sentence at the beginning just does not fit with the flow and trend of this and other city entries.  --Thisisbossi 23:37, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Technically, yes; though the region bounded by Strasburg, Salisbury, Georgetown, and Leacock tends to be referred to, in general, as Paradise. --Thisisbossi 02:33, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tragedy in Paradise
Talk:Manheim, Pennsylvania

message: "See also: Manheim Township" deleted.  Manheim is a small town that is distinctly different from the Lancaster suburb of Manheim Township.
--NYCinephile 23:29, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification
Talk:Boulder, Colorado

message: How about Nobel laureates Eric Cornell and Thomas Cech? I’m pretty sure Cornell lives in Boulder. Both are CU professors. Physics and chemistry seem at least as notable as rock balancing. 2601:281:8081:A410:80FF:3E6B:A584:A5D4 (talk) 19:54, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable People 

message: I've added paragraph on the Front Range Passenger Rail proposal, which I believe is the most current. The paragraphs that follow are for earlier proposals (2012, 2016) which I suspect are now superseded/abandoned, but haven't found info to confirm this. Any volunteers to check this, and amend as necessary? Kokopelli-UK (talk) 20:42, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Future Transit Plans 

message: surprised there's no Wikipedia article, or AFAICT even mention of, famous photographer and storyteller Rocky Mountain Joe Sturtevant, a Boulder institution. (Most recently reminded of Joe's work while researching Fort Chambers, Boulder Poor Farm in Valmont, Colorado.) I seem to recall an unfavorable experience ☹️ trying to start a new WP article, so not prepared to do so, but will contribute if others can get it started. Doug Grinbergs (talk) 17:25, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you post some citations here? 〜 Adflatuss • talk 18:20, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rocky Mountain Joe 

message: I know I'm a little bias because I was apart of the documentary; however I think "This Is (not) Who We Are" should be on here. 2600:1700:8B81:6A00:B51D:FFEA:B958:185 (talk) 09:29, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boulder's Documentary that was featured on PBS
Talk:Alf Landon

message: Being concerned about the poor grammar and punctuation in the quote supposedly sourced from ProQuest ("Maryland GOP mails checks to colored clerics in vote bid, proquest") I started digging and can find absolutely nothing similar to this in ProQuest or any other of the dozens of databases accessible from the university with which I'm associated. In fact, the phrase "colored clerics" shows up nowhere in a full-text search of every available database. The only online sources I can find that refer to this article are sourced from Wikipedia with the same typos, and there's nothing in Google Scholar, either. The only conclusion I can draw is that this was added as a hoax and therefore should be removed until a legitimate source can be identified. Accordingly, I am removing this reference and ask that it not be restored until someone can provide a properly referenced source. B.Rossow · talk 14:15, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The questionable material was added 24 November 2008 by an anonymous editor in this edit. Further research indicates that other material supposedly sourced from ProQuest by this same user (see this revision) doesn't exist and will be similarly removed as apparent fiction. B.Rossow · talk 14:26, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: More extensive searching found nothing more for the "GOP mails checks" claim, but I was able to turn up some mid-1930s articles with the quoted material removed in my second pass.  I re-added the information along with appropriate citations. B.Rossow · talk 18:53, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  ProQuest reference nonexistent? 
Talk:Colonial Heights, Virginia

message: Hi everyone! I am a student at VCU who grew up in Colonial Heights. I will be on working on this article for a class project. I am currently planning on making contributions to the Parks & Rec section specifically and maybe the politics section as well.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Finesslyn (talk • contribs) 19:41, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plan on editing 

message: I grew up in Colonial Heights and read this entire history w/great interest! I have two comments and a question.
As a young girl, I lived at 702 Forest View Drive, and used to walk to Lakeview Elementary each day, traveling down Woodlawn Ave and passing the city dump along the way. This was between 1968 and 1972. The dump was adjacent to the dam, and we also used to play in the stream next to the dam as children. In 1994, I brought my two children to visit my home town and was absolutely delighted to discover that the dump had been transformed into a beautiful park!
While there, we visited Lakeview Elementary where, as it happened, they were setting up for their 25th anniversary celebration. Except that 25 years prior was my 2nd grade year, and I definitely attended school in 1968-1969! I tried to bring this to their attention but they insisted that they had not opened until the following year.
I lived in Colonial Heights with my family for a few years before I started school (I also went to "nursery school" in Hopewell) and distinctly remember my first grade year at Lakeview Elementary, where my teacher's name was Mrs. Gray. I wonder if anyone else can corroborate the opening of my elementary school, and whether anyone ever noticed the discrepancy? Kcf549 (talk) 21:11, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lakeview Dam and Lakeview Elementary 
Talk:Radford, Virginia

message: Nothing in  the "local sports accomplishments" section is actually noteworthy.  It doesn't belong in this article.  No encyclopedia has information about some high school kid winning a state wrestling championship. Furthermore, even if this was noteworthy, the section is still woefully incomplete.  Wfredmason (talk) 04:21, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Emporia, Virginia

message: I have removed this statement: "Most of the city's revenue comes from traffic citations." The public budget reveals that this statement isn't even close to being true. Vaoverland 15:49, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Revenue

message: -24°F is incredibly low for this area and I can’t find that result when I use NOAA’s site. Is that possibly an error? Anne Marie (talk) 19:43, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Record Low Temperature 

message: Emporia is a trap on all angles.  The fuel pricing is $.40 higher than the surrounding area.  The speed trap issue is also criminal.  Lodging is also questionable at best.  AVOID THIS TOWN. 2600:1004:B235:47EE:CA2:29E1:B14D:5C59 (talk) 11:53, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Money trap
Talk:Manassas Park, Virginia

message: There is an IP user, 74.96.116.60, who keeps putting in the statement that Manassas Park "tax their citizens to death" and "Don't do business with Manassas Park". This kind of POV material does not belong in an encyclopedia, and I will keep on reverting these statements as I find them. --Tim Sabin (talk) 15:26, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV from 74.96.116.60
Talk:Galax, Virginia

message: The main photo of this page depicts someone's business. I see no other reason why it would be the photo chosen to represent the town of Galax. There are many city-sanctioned photos that would do a better job, such as: http://www.visitgalax.com/%5Cuploadimages%5Cweblinks%5C1248285%5Cgallery%5CIMG_5102.JPG . I would change it but I can't figure out how.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Balibones (talk • contribs) 21:51, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Main Photo

message: I'm interested in the origins of this city's name. The article mentions "processing of condensed milk" in the history section, so it seems likely that this is the reason for naming the city "Galax" (after the Greek word for milk, see also Galaxy), but it's not explicitly stated in the article. Maybe someone can find an appropriate source? Of course it would not be in order to add this as unsourced, though likely, speculation. Gestumblindi (talk) 18:37, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, I found something... sometimes I miss the most obvious - according to this Galax Time Line, the city was named "after the evergreen growing in the area", i.e. simply after Galax. Who would have thought that Galax was named after Galax! ;-) Gestumblindi (talk) 18:56, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 
Talk:Salem, Virginia

message: The introduction to the article says that the Red Sox are "formally" the Avalanche.  Is that true, or is it that they were "formerly" the Avalanche?  I admit to ignorance about baseball, but I was under the impression that they had changed their name.  68.106.89.64 (talk) 11:35, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red Sox 

message: Shouldn't the Salem Fair be mentioned?  From my understanding, the Taliaferro complex starts their fiscal year right before the fair and operates at a profit for the rest of the year due to profits from the fair.  It is also advertised as the largest free gate fair in the US.  Seems like it would be much more representative of the topic than the Borat incident.  UselessToRemain (talk) 23:53, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Salem Fair
Talk:Winchester, Virginia

message: Just wondering if it's true Wincheste, VA, changed hands total of 72 times during USCW. If so, include on Civil War page?  Trekphiler 08:28, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Welcome to wikipedia.  Here we draw a major distinction between untraceable hearsay, and published sources.  I'm not seeing anything in this thread but the former, but nothing personal. Til Eulenspiegel /talk/ 14:04, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Thread begun in 2005, discussing whether Civil War history is relevant enough to Winchester to merit inclusion...

message: There is currently no medical school in Winchester and I removed the reference for now.  If the sentence was referring to the 19th century school it needs more clarification.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.77.126.50 (talk) 03:17, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Medical School

message: I weeded out most of the external links - some I converted to references, some I got rid of as they were for places or things not mentioned in the article and did not meet WP:EL. The links for the newspaper and TV station are still in - I think they would work better as refs for a media section but do not know the city well enough to make such a section. I also cleaned up the headers a bit per WP:HEAD and tried to remove duplicate historic sites (things listed both in the NRHP section and the Historic sites section following that). I also moved the images out of the gallery. Apologies for any errors, please fix if I made any. Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 02:30, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's Washington.  Click on the picture and read.MartinezMD (talk) 14:59, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It is indeed a young Washington. Coal town guy (talk) 01:56, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up 

message: I removed the section referring to Union atrocities during the occupation of Winchester.  While I have no doubt that atrocities occurred, the section in question was written in an obviously biased POV and totally unsourced.  I have no problem if a properly written and sourced section regarding Union atrocities is readded to the article. Safiel (talk) 22:51, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This was not a "biased" section, these things actually took place.  Please look for sources, don't delete whole sections all "willy-nilly". - NeutralHomer • Talk • 22:57, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed biased section 

message: I grew up in Winchester and always assumed that the title of "lord" Fairfax was in fact a title yet on his grave marker at Christ Episcopal Church I was pretty sure that it was listed as just his middle name and not a title per se.  Does anyone have any insight on this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pswanson1126 (talk • contribs) 21:16, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron it's a title. Not sure what the grave marker meant.MartinezMD (talk) 23:11, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas Lord Fairfax
Talk:Harrisonburg, Virginia

message: Hello, The year 2000 will be, in 20 days, 16 years behind us.  It's entirely past the time to update the census info, in this wiki. N'est pas?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.187.17.0 (talk) 13:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year 2000 census data? 

message: Please see Wikipedia:BIO regarding the requirements for including individuals in this section. As long as an individual meets the general requirements of the standard, they can/should be included. The list should also be kept alphabetical, per Wikipedia:MOSLIST --TRL (talk) 16:08, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Natives and residents 

message: I've noticed there are quite a few categories related to Harrisonburg now and I think we might have a case of over-categorization.  For instance, having JMU listed under separate buildings and structures, education, and visitor attraction categories is overkill.  Education is enough. A buildings and structures category is for articles about buildings, not a university itself, which is far more than just buildings.  Attractions really doesn't apply either since it's an educational institution, not a tourist attraction.  All universities attract visitors, but that doesn't mean they would be considered a tourist attraction; most people come to a university for a specific purpose, not as tourists.  Usually if the main category has a large amount of articles, then you start branching them off.  Having a "Schools in Harrisonburg" and "Education in Harrisonburg" is redundant in any city, but especially in one the size of Harrisonburg.  Because Harrisonburg is an independent city, having a separate category for the schools is needed since it can't be in a county, however, there is no need for both education and schools.  Outside of the "James Madison University" category, "People from Harrisonburg, Virginia" category, and "Education in Harrisonburg, Virginia" (or "Schools...") category, there really isn't a need for the additional categories as each has just 1 or 2 pages in each and in several cases, one article is present in 2 or 3 categories.  This makes it far more difficult to find things that are related because you have to go through a category tree. --JonRidinger (talk) 20:17, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category overkill 