Talk:Manassas, Virginia

message: Wondering how to edit this U.S. City Entry?
The WikiProject Cities standards might help.
: Since I've been placing a few civil war notes on this site, I've been pondering how to link "Union".  It's been going to a disamb page which says the Northern States in the American Civil War or some such.  I don't think linking to United States of America is satisfactory, either.  Confederate redirects to Confederate States of America, if I recall.  This is not the only place that I've linked to "Union".  I need to think of something....
how about  Union(Civil War), which specifies the time and circumstances, instead of the whole USA and every subtopic it presents.
Sounds workable to me.  -- Zoe
I've done this - except I made it Union (American Civil War), which is yet more precise. I'm correcting all the union links as well (I also corrected yours above.)
Derrick Coetzee 23:56, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: In updating the infobox, I put down the city manager (right now, from everything I've seen, acting city manager at the moment) instead of a mayor under "leader_title" and "leader_name".  Everything I remember from seventh-grade civics class at Metz (albeit eight years ago) is that the CM holds all the real power, and the mayor just runs the city council and is a bit of a figurehead, not unlike the "constitutional monarch" system of govt.  Do y'all think we should leave it as CM or change it to mayor? MessengerAtLWU (talk | contribs) 01:05, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  City Manager? 

message: I replaced the overly detailed info about two Amtrak trains with a more generalized description (that can be greatly expanded) on all of the rail services for Manassas, plus a bit of history.  I do not believe that the detailed schedule information belongs in a Wikipedia article at all, btw. Mmoyer 17:21, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rail Transportation 

message: I'm quite surprised that this page doesn't contain any word about the "Liberty wall", even if it is well known worldwide, maybe a little line could be interesting.
(sorry for my poor english, I'm European,. Klem 193.49.48.244 (talk) 15:56, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you talking about that large board with a long message about Mexican immigration? I agree, this should be included in the article. (You actually have good english.) 69.255.170.118 (talk) 01:30, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liberty wall ? 

message: There is a statement in the article that "Rabid white supremacist groups are expressing concern about the number of undocumented workers and have recently started to shoot Mexicans." I live in Manassas, and I'm pretty sure that this would have made the local, if not national news. Not only is the statement about "shooting Mexicans" not accurate, but I could not find any news articles to support this statement. 
69.243.5.247 (talk) 13:18, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rabid White Supremacists Shooting Mexicans? 

message: Also, someone has removed the References section from this page.
69.243.5.247 (talk) 13:23, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  References? 

message: I reverted a change by user Gurduloo today. He states that the Manassas is not the county seat of Price William, and quotes the Prince William website (in general; he gave no reference/citation).
It is true that the county government offices are in a campus called County Complex off of the Prince William Parkway near Woodbridge. However, I have found nothing that states that the county seat is Woodbridge. The county courthouse complex is housed in Manassas.
Historical documents on the 'net state that the old county seat was in what was then the Town of Brentsville, and in 1890 moved to Manassas. There is nothing stating that it is somewhere else.
If you do indeed have a reference to back up this claim, I invite you to bring back Gurduloo's change, and change the Prince William page, including a reference, and the page for the place that holds the county seat-dom. --Tim Sabin (talk) 23:55, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  County seat of Prince William County 

message: The list references the City of Manassas Public Schools website. Yet three schools on the list - Stonewall Middle, Stonewall High, and Osbourn Park, are not within the city of Manassas, and are not part of Manassas Public Schools.
I will remove them. However, if everyone thinks schools that have a Manassas address but are outside of the City of Manassas proper and are not part of the Manassas City School System, then those schools should be added back, along with Parkside Middle School.  --Goosedoggy (talk) 20:09, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schools in Manassas 

message: "Little Mexico"? Isn't this too derogatory and POV for Wikipedia? If I don't hear otherwise, I'm going to revert this edit. --Tim Sabin (talk) 15:31, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nicknames for Manassas 

message: I entered a couple of days ago a request for sources to support a paragraph that sheds a bad light onto the Manassas police and its practices. I hope that who entered that paragraph will find something. I will wait for a week before I remove the paragraph completely. Divide et Impera (talk) 18:38, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  References please 

message: Brandon Hogan is a notable person in the community due to his success in collegiate football at West Virginia University and progressing on to the Carolina Panthers NFL team Jnet teller (talk) 19:40, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable People

message: Who is he?
I live in the Manassas area, and have never heard of him. An IP user added this, and reversed my reversal. If anyone knows of a reason why he should be put in the list of "Notable residents", please let me know. Otherwise, I'll reverse this entry - again. --Tim Sabin (talk) 01:09, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mike Porterfield 

message: Under the History heading, I'd like to add a sentence or two mentioning the 1911 Peace Jubilee held in Manassas. It was a fairly big deal, as it was the first time in modern history that combatants from opposing sides of a battle returned to the scene (in this case, 50 years later to the day), met on the battlefield and shook hands. 1,000 veterans from the Union and the Confederacy met there, as well as some 10,000 spectators. The festivities were attended by President Taft, who gave a speech regarding the need for world peace (whouda thought?), and the activities that took place during the Jubilee (July 16 - 21, 1911) were used as a model for the 50th anniversary commemorations at Gettysburg. I'm in the midst of composing my thesis which is based around the Jubilee, so I can provide plenty of primary and secondary sources - just want to get the go-ahead from other contributors.
Thomstevenson085 (talk) 03:12, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  1911 Peace Jubilee 

message: Creating section for RfCFasttimes68 (talk) 16:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think an RfC is necessary. Re-state the current contention and then seek a third opinion as per WP:3. IRWolfie- (talk) 17:24, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Technically we already have a 3rd opinion (and 4th, yours) as someone else came in and looked at this (unsolicted on my part, though he recenetly posted on my talk page about another issue so I suspect that is how he came here).  I suppose I could go ahead and make the change right now, but I would prefer a wider net to be cast.  Unless you have a other objections I would prefer to leave this in RfC to address the larger style issue. Fasttimes68 (talk) 18:05, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  I would like to point out this is not a futile exercise.  The style guidline could be updated as a result of this discussion.Fasttimes68 (talk) 18:09, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, I saw the post on your talk page and came over to have a look. I think the real issue here is a single editor editing against the consensus of three other editors. Wikipedia is not a vote, but if the issue is discussed and the result of the discussion is that most of the editors agree on a course of action that is consensus. I would suggest WP:DRN at this point.-- — Keithbob • Talk •  20:54, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mike O'Meara RfC 

message: There is demographic information in this article from 2000, 2005, and 2010. Do we really need all of them? --Tim Sabin (talk) 17:48, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems redundant to me.  Though if you read it in sequential order I'm not sure what years some of the "stats" refer to.  For the graph that starts with The median income for a household in the city was $60,409..., is that referring to the 2005 information?  Very hard to tell.  I'd be in favor of deleting the lot and just keep in the 2010 information, and possibly the blurb about the 2007 Hispanic increase.  Do the representatives belong in this section?  I've no idea if there is a MoS for this.   Help desk might know, but I wouldn't object to you being bold and taking a swipe first.  IAR and all that.  Fasttimes68 (talk) 17:55, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics 

message: Any info about the dates of establishment? All I found starts with Civil War...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dako59 (talk • contribs) 23:19, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: History before Civil War? Toponimy?--Manfariel (talk) 22:14, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: An editor has added a 400px wide map to this article showing many of the neighboring counties, some over 50 miles from this city.  Similar maps have been added by this editor to a number of city and county articles.  There is already a map in the infobox which seems very adequate.  Also, WP:USCITIES#Geography suggests that a map be used to illustrate the "geographic space" of a settlement; it does not suggest that a map showing 20+ surrounding counties be included. MOS:PERTINENCE states that "images must be significant and relevant in the topic's context, not primarily decorative".  It's not clear how the readers of this article about a city would find a map of all the surrounding counties relevant.  The input of others would be appreciated.  Magnolia677 (talk) 16:30, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You can easily change the size of the map: | width = whatever. Abel (talk) 16:39, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

text: The current Adjacent counties and independent cities section is an example of riveting text: "Prince William County, Virginia – northwest, west, south, east, Manassas Park, Virginia – northeast." Seeing how those counties relate to each other by location, size, and space on a map could not possibly help anyone in any way. Abel (talk) 16:44, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: If the map you added "could not possibly help anyone in any way", why did you add it?  Magnolia677 (talk) 17:05, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Irony. Abel (talk) 17:28, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Large map 

message: I don't have the resources to compile the data myself but to whoever has put data out there for the rest of the counties of Virginia, if you could post the results of Manassas, VA that would be totally awesome. Thanks!!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JustinSFCA (talk • contribs) 13:38, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Presidential Election Results. 

message: The recently added section on neighborhoods has some problems:
* The description of Georgetown South portrays the neighborhood in a negative way that is inconsistent even with the 6+ year old Washington Post article that it cites, even while also borrowing text liberally and directly from that article
* While I’m sure the residents of Oakenshaw might be pleased to see their neighborhood appear here, there doesn’t appear to be any notable information offered about the neighborhood to distinguish it from other Manassas subdivision built during the 1980s/90s, or to justify its inclusion. If it deserves mention at all, it might make more sense to mention it as part of a larger discussion about the city’s development in the late 20th century. 
* The section on Old Town has some interesting historical information that might be worth preserving somehow, but some of the information, particularly the discussion of later development, has no citation, is factually incorrect, and does not seem to be written from a neutral point of view. 
* As far as I know, the area bounded by Grant, Sudley, and Portner has never been known as Old Town Triangle, and no citation is given for this. That area (which I believe is actually called Northwest) is part of the Manassas historic district, which most simply call “Old Town Manassas”. Old Town is not generally thought to be limited to downtown, despite what the cited tourism website says
* Citations to Google Maps and Zillow are not helpful, and the inclusion of current home values in specific neighborhoods doesn’t seem at home in this article.
* In general, the idea of a section on neighborhoods in Manassas seems like a good one, but the current iteration needs a lot more information from a larger collection of quality sources to justify its inclusion.
Jbholes (talk) 02:14, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neighborhoods 

message: Is it pronounced like "molasses" or "Arkansas"? Any ideas on a source to add the IPA to the lead (I couldn't find anything)? —[AlanM1(talk)]— 06:55, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: This video shows the Manassas Police Chief pronouncing it like "molasses". Dictionary.com has an entry as well; I added the IPA to the lead and cited it. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 19:58, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Where does the word "Manassas" come fruit m? Aboudaqn (talk) 22:05, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology?