Talk:Ocala, Florida

message: This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page.  Peer reviewers: Elovece. 20:56, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

message: I feel that information about Perry's Swim School is relevant to the Ocala, Florida wiki page because there is a rich history within. Several famous people have learned how to swim at the Perry's institute and you have mentioned most of these famous people already. North East 17th Avenue that runs in front of the Fort King Middle School was rededicated as Honorary Perry Avenue. Newt Perry and Dot Perry remain local legends in and around the community and impacts of their lives are still remarkably felt all over Florida. Please include Perry's Swim School in your Ocala, Florida wiki as a local School for Learning as well as a landmark in Ocala History. 
Gadgetry Unlimited, LLC Custom Built Computers 18:58, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not Midas Mufflers of Ocala?  Several famous people have had their mufflers replaced there.  Sorry, I don't think such a thing as Perry's is notable.  --CliffC 02:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newton A. Perry - Perry's Swim School. Who's Who of Ocala learning to swim at an institute that is over 50 years old. 

message: I went through this article and began a fairly thorough rework.
I cleaned out unused sections of the infobox, added a picture of the Downtown Historic District to the infobox, added information about the government, and updated all of the population figures. I reorganized the article to conform (better) to standard organization, and I fixed all of the references, which were not formatted correctly. I also removed one that was not needed, and commented out another because it's not a reliable source. I fixed the meaning of the city's name (some IP editor added blatantly incorrect information some time ago), and added a reference to support it. I stripped out all external links in the article (as per the Wikipedia Manual of Style) and removed a blogspot link in the external links section. This article still needs a lot of work, which I will tackle over time. Horologium t-c 22:59, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rework 

message: Any mention of this city because of Wesley Snipes now having his trial here?  Should this be mentioned that Wesley feels this is a biaised place for him to have a tax trail because of talk of gathering of KKK members.  Is this vivable to be put in the article or mentioned?<P>
ORLANDO, Fla. - Federal prosecutors said there is "no basis in reality" for Wesley Snipes' claims that he cannot get a fair trial on tax evasion charges because of racial prejudice in Ocala. 
 
In recent court filings, Snipes' attorney called Ocala, where the January trial is set, "a hotbed of (Ku Klux Klan) activity," and alleged prosecutors chose it to get the best chance at an all-white jury.
"Defendant Snipes' motion hurls scurrilous and baseless accusations at the prosecution and citizenry of Ocala in an overwrought attempt to have this case dismissed or transferred to another venue," U.S. Attorney Robert O'Neill wrote in a filing Monday.
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The Cleveland Browns are awesome! (talk) 17:26, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, this does not need to be added in, because there is no basis for his accusations. He's just another criminal, using whatever defense he can cobble together. Considering that Marion County's proportion of African-Americans is pretty close to the national average (it's 11.55% in Marion County), playing the race card doesn't work. It can (and should) be mentioned in his article, but not in this article or the one for Marion County.  Horologium t-c 18:05, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wesley Snipes 

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message: I live in Ocala and that entire thing was complete BS. There are no wet and dry seasons here and most people who live in Florida will tell you that the weather here is really unpredictable. If for some odd reason any one disagrees with my edit then by all means reverse it.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.127.127.131 (talk) 22:16, 13 November 2008.
:I reversed it, and added a weatherbox, with all of the information in the box referenced to the Weather Channel (there's a citation link). If you look at the numbers, it is plainly obvious that there is a rainy season in Ocala, as there is in every city in Florida. Some of the other information needs to be referenced, corrected, or removed, but that didn't merit nuking the entire section. I'll deal with it later today. Horologium (talk) 11:51, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Weather Article

message: I see too much misused, uncited information going on to the Ocala page.  People are creating whole sections for a sentence or to on things such as bands, and education.  Hopefully people will read this first before posting.  But I think there really needs to be a goal of expanding sections, while giving truthful details and citing sources.
Just my opinion of course, but I think it would help keep the Ocala page from becoming a joke. Nomardll769 (talk) 23:42, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  More detailed sections 

message: It looks really ugly and is out of sync with the general style of pages of cities to just have a table of the FBI crime rates as the sole content of a Crime section. Hiding it pending additions to this section. DemocraticLuntz (talk) 21:14, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hiding Crime section 

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message: I would like to suggest that the following changes be made to the "20th century establishment as horse capital" section to make this article more accurate and up to date.
a. "…  a Dressage/Jumper event lasting about two months…" should be amend to, "… a Hunter/Jumper competition that takes place over the course of ten weeks…"
b. "The show features classes for over 100 different breeds, including Tennessee Walker, Paso Fino, Morgan horse, SaddleBred, Draft horse and the American Quarter Horse," should be amended to, "The show includes a variety of equine breeds, mostly surrounding the warmblood types and off the track thoroughbreds, however there are no limits or requirement to have a certain breed in the competition."
The reference supporting this information is linked below. It is the official website of the HITS Ocala horse show.
http://www.hitsshows.com/ocala/hits-ocala-winter-circuit
Elovece (talk) 21:02, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "20th century establishment as horse capital" Section 

message: I've seen a tremendous increase in crime homelessness and drug use in Ocala. We live in the Ft. King area and let me tell you it's turned into I cesspool.
Hell we have a meth house two doors from my house and everybody on the police forced to include our mayor is aware of it and do nothing while 11 children ages 3 to preteens are right outside playing with all this going on around them.  I've tried to work with deputy chief biondi the mayor Quinn the district attorney and many other people of the City and county government with no resolve only lip service. The police force here is an incompetent and impotent police Force  based on my two plus years of experience trying to work with them . It sure seems the Ocala police and the Marion county district attorney  pick select cases and choose which laws they  want to prosecute and or enforce while we the law abiding constituency at the city has to suffer. My neighbors and I have had meetings with the mayor and Deputy chief biondi and I have spoken to the district attorney office for Marion county to include Ashley Moody's office our State attorney general's office inquiring about trying to form a legal armed security Force for our neighborhood since the police will not and cannot protect us from the drug addicts and criminals. 2600:8807:C802:EA00:F8DB:C6B4:639A:F19D (talk) 01:55, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ocala turning into a waste land 

message: Hi, maybe I’m just naive as I’m not someone who normally edits Wikipedia articles. But shouldn’t someone be allowed to post the 2020 census metro population in this article? Nearly every other article related to a sizable city has the 2020 metropolitan population except Ocala, which keeps getting them reverted to the 2017 estimate. Am I missing something? 2600:8807:C800:2820:D52A:6687:C889:A330 (talk) 13:28, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not see any attempt to edit the 'Metro' population in the infobox in the past year. Anyone can indeed update that figure, but we do ask that whoever does so makes sure that the population figure comes from the official Census Bureau report of the 2020 census. Donald Albury 16:01, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  2020 metropolitan population