Talk:St. Louis Park, Minnesota

message: The edit history of this article is not truthful.  I've reported it to bugzilla.  It's bug #2930. Michael Hardy 20:55, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

message: Well, I basically brought it up to par times a million.  It's way better then Edina's page at least.
--Elfangor801 21:21, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What should we add next? 

message: I removed some speculation on Minnesota's first shopping center being the first in the world. See Country Club Plaza, built in the 1920s, for an older shopping district. Catbar (Brian Rock) 21:25, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  World's first shopping center? 

message: So, i noticed that the bullet points of the businesses in SLP are double spaced, but the hotel bullets and city government officals are single spaced.  One format should be picked and caried throughout the article, so, for now i am going to change the businesses to single spaced, but please feel free to change it all back if thats the formatting you like.  THankszoreos--Geppy 05:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Formatting

message: I noticed that the History section of the article is copied almost verbatim from the St. Louis Park history page.  Also, the picture of the grain elevator seems to be copied from the same source (and not from a U.S. government page, as the image tag asserts).  I think we might need to clean this up.  --Elkman - (talk) 21:44, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copying of the history section 

message: The infobox is fine, why does someone want to delete it?  The info is like six months old.
:Not delete, just replace.  There is an effort under way to merge all of the city infoboxes into standard template.  The infobox used by this article has been merged into Infobox City.  When the notices we're placed on the affected articles blank templates we're left commented out as well.  It's just a matter of copying the information from the old template to the new one.  Se the WP:CITY talk page for more info on the merge/conversion. --harpchad 12:54, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Yeah so what's up with that infobox stuff??

message: For those who plan on editing and expanding this article, please follow the Template for a U.S. City. Thanks!--Daveswagon 09:46, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Template for a U.S. City

message: Deducing racial make up by counting churches on the city's website sounds a lot like original research.  TableManners U·T·C 06:42, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  on original research claims 

message: Thanks M.Hardy for the edit.  I followed yours up with some others.  The next biggest problem I see is from the article:  "This is due to former discriminatory housing laws that prohibited Jews from purchasing homes in Minneapolis proper and in most suburbs."
Again, I think this is an overstatement.  See for example p. 107 of The Jewish Community of North Minneapolis by Rhoda Lewin.  It alludes to the African Americans moving in as Jews were moving out.  It also alludes to racial tension (or tension coincidentally among persons of different race).  I think other sources may make a more firm case (as I did in the previous section) that another part of the reason was "white (Jewish) flight", in addition to discriminatory practices, and possibly racial covenanents on properties.  It's late.  TableManners U·T·C 06:40, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just removed the part about being prohibited from purchasing homes "in Minneapolis proper" and in most suburbs because the above source says they were coming *from* North Minneapolis.  I probably should have left the "in most suburbs" but the whole sentence is dubious (overstatement, incorrect as previously stated, possibly still incorrect).  Also, I am not sure it was even "laws", so I kept the  (it may have just been discriminatory housing practices, e.g., redlining, etc. that kept Jewish people from certain areas of the city and suburbs)  TableManners U·T·C 07:00, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  due to former discriminatory... 

message: I am going to removemodify this sentence:  "The city's official web site contains a page listing 19 Christian churches and five Jewish synagogues" because
1 The page is http://www.stlouispark.org/about/worship.htm, I assume.
2 The above page does not indicate that all of the places of worship or within St. Louis Park City Limits.
3 The above page does not indicate the affiliation of every place of worship (e.g., Calvary Worship Center, Shalom Scripture Studies, Twin City Fellowship)
While much of this could be figured out with a little research, it would be original research.  This would violate, I think, WP policy.  TableManners U·T·C 05:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed the sentence to "The city's official web site contains a page listing 25 places of worship, including Christian churches and Jewish synagogues" and added a reference to the appropriate page.  TableManners U·T·C 05:26, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

text: A more recent develpment: Sharei Chesed Congregation has moved to a location maybe two or three miles west of where it used to be, which is not in St. Louis Park, and its building is now a church.  It still has cornerstones giving the date of construction in both Gregorian year (1965) and the year in the Jewish calendar (something over 5000). Michael Hardy (talk) 22:32, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The city's official web site contains a page listing 19 Christian churches and five Jewish synagogues 

message: I had heard that much of SLP was built on the site of an old manufactured gas plant. Anyone know if this is true?--Weetoddid (talk) 07:57, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: According to this article, the city has an area of 10.9 square miles (28.3 km²). Jonathunder (talk) 14:27, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

text: ....and just to be explicit: that is obviously only a very small part of St. Louis Park. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:16, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early developments