Talk:Salt Lake City/Archive 1

message: I de-wikified the neighborhoods in the list.  The exception was the Federal Heights link; that article exists primarily to mention the neighborhood's connection with the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping.  The other neighborhoods should probably remain link-free until somebody decides there's something notable enough about them to justify separate Wikipedia articles for them.
I also re-wrote the paragraph about LDS wards to add some clarity as well as mention stakes as another geographical region commonly encountered in Salt Lake City.
Alanyst 07:13, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough.  I'm not convinced that an article needs to be written about every single neighborhood unless there's something notable to write, but I don't feel strongly enough to get into an edit war over it.  That said, I wonder if the wiki pages for the neighborhoods shouldn't be given more specific names.  I'm sure there are other locales called Rose Park or the Avenues elsewhere in the world.  How do we disambiguate?  "Rose Park (district of Salt Lake City)"?  Alanyst 16:36, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Neighborhoods

message: Not to be nit picky, but is this neighborhood one word or two? Ive seen it both ways, although the little signs on the street signs have it as 2...Anyone know for sure...?
--JonMoore 09:25, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question.  I was sure it was one word, Sugarhouse—until I started researching it.  According to the USGS GNIS system (official place names index of the U.S.), "Sugar House" is the main entry for the locale, but "Sugarhouse" is listed as a variant name.  See . Alanyst 17:43, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Sugar House vs Sugarhouse

message: A couple of users have made changes that I have had to revert, so here's a heads-up so I don't have to explain the same revert each time.
The sentence in question is "The LDS church also divides the city (and other locations where it is strong) into stakes and wards."  Some people think it should read "other locations where it is organized" or something to that effect.  I think the original is more accurate; the church does not have stakes and wards everywhere it is organized, or else districts and branches would not exist.  It's a pretty minor point for an article about Salt Lake City, but I like to be as precise as possible.  Perhaps it needs to be reworded entirely to avoid this conflict in the future, but I'm not going to tackle that myself right now. Alanyst 00:52, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that's a sensible thing to do. I would have put it into the main article except I was afraid it would overwhelm the existing content. As it is, I think the Salt Lake City article is inadequate, but don't have the time to fix it. Also, the "Buildings and sites" articles has a large number of wikilinks to articles that do not exist, but I think should be written (many of which I'm working on). That's in contrast with the Salt Lake City article that has few red links. Even those red links--the neighborhoods, for example--are apparently controversial. I support incorporating the material as long as the wikilinks remain to show the names of articles that should be written. CHL 19:00, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stakes and Wards 

message: I've been adding local media, ie, TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, and magazines...it's getting quite long...should i move it to a seperate "List of Salt Lake City Media"? JonMoore 17:38, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: did it...JonMoore 17:48, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Media List

message: How should the mayor's name be presented? By his offical name: Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson, or what people know him by: Rocky Anderson. -Jon 20:15, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Rocky would be better. Media usually use that name unless they're being very formal. For an article, one should just redirect to the other. CHL 04:02, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Mayor Rocky

message: I guess there are people better versed in wiki markup than I, but as well as I can tell the box wants to sit a tad to the left of the Utah capitol pic.  I took the capitol pic out of the box to make it conform a bit more with the info boxes in other large city pages. See: Seattle, Washington; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Miami, Florida; etc. As near as I can tell it has to do with the size of the font, the amount of text in the intro, as well as the size of the pic, hence reducing it to 200 pix. If anyone knows how to fix this better than I, I would be eternally grateful... -Jon 04:42, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I ripped off what Seatle was doing. Basically, it's a table in a table. The image and box are both in a large table with zero borders. I love the new flag and seal, BTW. Now I just wish we could get better pictures of Salt Lake. (I really don't like the hazy picture of the Capitol and tops of buildings.) Cool Hand Luke 06:41, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: The "Box"