Talk:Tahlequah, Oklahoma

message: I'd be interesting in learning where the tracing of the word Tahlequah to tel-i-quah, or "plains", comes from.  I think that is the basic meaning of Hiwassee, but I hadn't heard it for Tellico.  Can someone enlighten me?  Thanks! Pfly 20:17, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of name

message: Who in the world removed my otherwise important edit? I have it copied/pasted here for examination. If my entry violated the WP:POV rule, I apologized. Tahlequah is a hub of American Indian cultural identity, but my point is the majority of residents aren't full-blooded Cherokee nor other American Indians. 
<<Tahlequah was long considered a place with a high percentage of residents with Native American ancestry, but the 2000 US Census statistics found only a quarter (25-30%) are classified as Native American. It's not exactly sure if the majority of white residents are also of Cherokee and other tribal ancestry, but many are undoubtedly exploring their Cherokee heritage. >> 
In recent years, Tahlequah has developed a large Hispanic/Latino population (farm laborers) and are in close contact with Native Americans but some resentment took place between Hispanic and Native American residents. There's a sizable Black/African American section (the East end), the legacy of the practice of slavery by the Cherokees whom adopted the practice from Southern US whites in the early 19th century. + 71.102.53.48 (talk) 16:47, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed your edits because we already have that information in the "Demographics" section and without a source I saw it as point of view.--CPacker (talk) 18:07, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Adding tall tales and urban legends seems like fun, but aren't suitable for an online encyclopediac web site meant for serious academic research. The site admins. are enforcing rules on the article edits must be accurate, correct and based on fact, not questionable stuff and unsourced trivia to dilute the article. The American Indian Revolution of 1933 was a small but historic group of American Indians in Oklahoma organized a rebellion to mark the beginning of the American Indian rights movement, but may have influenced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to sign the 1934 Tribal Reorganization Act to restore tribal sovereignity. The part on Walt Disney's illegitimate son coming by to the city in 1956 (or 1965) is very dubious, as well the mythology on a Cherokee-Chilean community coincedes with the rising number of persons around the world claimed to have Cherokee ancestry, and exaggerated details on the other events happened in Tahlequah.+ 71.102.11.193 (talk) 07:20, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

text: East end, Tahlequah is outside the city limits, it does have many Blacks, Latinos, Japanese and Samoans as a result of Eastern Oklahoma's and Northwest Arkansas' factories, like Wal-mart and Tyson Foods. 67.49.89.214 (talk) 06:51, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits

message: Right now, the Ken Purdy that the info bar thing on the right links to is dead; he died in, like, 1979 from a gunshot wound, but it still says this guy is their mayor.  I used to live in Tahlequah.  I remember Hugh Purdy was a good friend of mine, and I remember that his father, Ken Purdy, had, in fact, become mayor, but, uhh... I met the guy not 10 years ago.  He's definitely not dead yet.  Should probably make another page for the town's current mayor, or at least get rid of the association between this Ken Purdy and THAT Ken Purdy.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.48.61.43 (talk) 08:15, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Mayor information?

message: Here is the well mentioned but removed section on the article, about a mayor getting shot and other trivia. Wikipedian Uysudi treated it as his favorite act of wiki-vandalism, due to its' dubious yet "properly sourced" nature. A few parts are evidently invented or made up, others are misquoted and flawed, and the rest is up to personal judgement but doesn't make them actual or correct. + 71.102.11.193 (talk) 07:29, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fun Facts (removed) 

message: I can't find any reference at the moment, but no mention of David Letterman's choice of Tehlequah as the Home Office of the Top Ten List for a year or two a while back? I can't imagine any other single event brought more publicity on this relatively small town. I think it ought to be added, presuming a proper citation can be made. The only mention I can find is Wikipedia itself, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Show_Top_Ten_List#Home_offices
JZelazny (talk) 06:14, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I found the following two references:
* http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1992-04-07/news/9204070719_1_tahlequah-lebanon-home-office
* http://www.tvacres.com/cities_david.htm --Travis Northrup (talk) 22:20, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  David Letterman? 

message: The origin currently stated is a popular myth and not factual. --Travis Northrup (talk) 00:55, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Then request a citation for that statement. -Uyvsdi (talk) 01:24, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the updates. I'm still getting used to the "how to". --Travis Northrup (talk) 01:43, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

text: Words are contracted all the time, especially in the Overhill dialect. But any uncited theories on the name original should be removed anyway. -Uyvsdi (talk) 16:16, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of Name 

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thread_title: Article class

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message: * Turnpike Troubadors has no citation and nothing in its Wikipedia article shows a tie to Talequah. Therefore, I have removed this group from the list of notable people.
* Bill Keith (Louisiana politician) needs either a citation or a Wikipedia article showing why he belongs on this list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bruin2 (talk • contribs) 04:29, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed from Notable people 

message: Yes, the museum, Supreme Court building and National Capitol building are the same.--Tsistunagiska (talk) 13:36, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cherokee National History Museum