Talk:Quincy, Illinois

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I was the one who put the Corporations, radio, growth, famous Quincyans, as well as others and in response to the person above. I am sorry for my bad use of grammer and sentance structure, I am only fifteen years old and wanted to contribute to the Wiki community, so I apoligise. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.138.20.114 (talk • contribs) 
:You can only learn by doing.  Don't worry about it; you'll get better with practice.  Kelly Martin 19:18, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
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message: Census counts include all the people residing in a city as of a certain date, and normally this will include "temporary" residents such as the QU students mentioned in someone's addition.  Therefore it's not correct to take a count of 46,966 and add QU's 1200 students to get a population of 48000---they will already have been included in the original 46,9.  /blahedo (t) 02:46, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Census counts 

message: I am a Quincyan and often make quite frequent visits to this site, but I believe that there isn't enough pictures on this site for Quincy, I would try, but I just don't know how, the whole process here to do that is quite confusing. I was going to post a picture of the Quincy sunset at the river on here, but couldn't figure out what I needed to do first.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.138.20.114 (talk • contribs) 
:If you have the picture in electronic format already, it's easy.  Click the "Upload file" link in the navigation bar (beneath the search field), and follow the instructions there.  Then, if you named it "Foo.jpg", you could use it on any wiki page by making a link to Image:Foo.jpg.  /blahedo (t) 23:25, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
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thread_title:  More pictures 

message: This list will be maintained as a template for what to do in the future with the article Quincy, Illinois.
# Article is missing an introductory paragraph. It contains a history but not a suitable introduction as to what the city is now.
# List of attractions needs to be summarized with respect to the city, turned into prose, and its specific events split off.
# List of events needs to be summarized with respect to the city, turned into prose, and its specific events split off.
# Media absolutely needs a summary paragraph, and its specific elements split off.
# At some point the History section needs to be peer reviewed. It looks good at first glance.
# Suburbs sub-section is good, but can afford to be moved somewhere else in the article. It's just a matter of where. :-)
# Need a Quincy skyline picture... I didn't really mean for the one I took to stay up so long. —Rob (talk) 18:29, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Todo List 

message: What are the top three attractions in Quincy? Those stay, the rest go into List of attractions in Quincy, Illinois unless the Talk:Chicago, Illinois page comes up with a more adequate solution. Thanks! —Rob (talk) 19:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Attractions

message: I disagree. List is too big to be included in the article. —Rob (talk) 18:30, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding merging in List of people from Quincy, Illinois 

message: The category does not seem appropriate. Mike Linksvayer 03:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quincy a university town? 

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message: * http://jalopnik.com/5604559/how-one-good-samaritan-was-arrested-for-driving-drunks-home?skyline=true&s=i
The story there has references if anyone's interested. Kylu (talk) 14:59, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Catbus" drunk driving bus owner arrested 

message: Someone posted Sherdan Estates as being one of the Quincy suburbs.  However, after some investigation, it seems that Sherdan Estates is really more of a subdivision rather then a suburb. As I do not live in this area, I am hesitant to delete it so maybe someone more familiar with the area can assess this claim.Gagman385 (talk) 22:20, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Sheridan estates is a subdivision, not a suburb. I would have caught it earlier, but I haven't been checking Wikipedia as often as I used to (Tigerghost (talk) 04:07, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sherdan Estates 

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message: Leaving a note on the talk page to designate a place for the discussion I anticipate will arise from my recent edit. This article is weird to begin with, and it feels like it's been written by someone with a conflict of interest. I find it hard to believe that anyone could have a conflict of interest over the city they live in, but after reading this article... Anyway, this was an out-of-place single-sentence section that was original research and very factual. However, because it is so factual, I think that makes the original research more of a problem than if it were less factual because it's either a "100% right" or a "100 % wrong", with no shades of grey. Please discuss here if you have any problems or anything to say. Thanks. Charles35 (talk) 01:54, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Basically, it feels like it was written by someone with a COI. What that COI is, I do not know. But the tone of the article has a "feel" to it that suggests a COI author. For instance, before this edit, the article claimed that Quincy was an economic and regional "hub" that "anchored" and "catered to" well over 300,000 people. In reality, the city has 40,000 people. That's kind of an exaggeration and is misleading, and uses some funny colorful language (ie catered to, anchors, hub). The only scenario I can imagine is that the primary author is an extremely overzealous Quincian. But I just read at the top of this page someone suggest that the author was a person who works in tourism, which might make sense. Basically, there are a lot of "eccentric" little facts and mannerisms in here, such as the fact that it is a "river city" (in these technologically and industrially advanced times, the term is archaic and rivers make little difference to cities). That's just the way I see it. Charles35 (talk) 06:13, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  deletion of "Government" section 

message: It should be noted that the native people refered to in the article - the Sauk ( aka Oθaakiiwaki ), Fox ( aka Meskwaki ) were actually from the Northeast, immigrating from the Wisconsin region. The Meskwaki tribe, like the Oθaakiiwaki, originated in the St. Lawrence River Valley in Ontario, later moving to Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa. The Kickapoo ( aka Kiikaapoa ), inhabited a large territory along the Wabash in the area of modern Terre Haute, Indiana. They were confederated with the larger Wabash Confederacy. 
No mention is given to the Peoria, Miami, or the Illini confederation ( Illiniwek ) of the Quincy area. There are enough reliable historic resources & references to correctly present the native people of the region, and where those that might have survived are found today. The regional eradication of native language place names and hydronyms reflects a historic period of cultural ethnocide following their removal. 
In the course of time most surviving Illini moved to a reservation in Kansas. In 1865, they numbered only 220 persons. The Peorias were given a reservation in northeastern Oklahoma. In the 1950's the Peorias numbered 466. There is no need in the present to continue that ethnocide by distorting documented history. Sudowite (talk) 15:39, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Native Peoples of the Quincy region - History vs. hearsay 

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message: It is stated in this section that slavery was a "major religious and social issue" in Quincy. No mention of how slavery was a religious issue to Quincy is mentioned however. Were there church leaders causing divisiveness in the community or something? 
There doesn't also seem to be any indication of divisiveness in Quincy itself about slavery or how it was a "hotbed". The article discusses it's quarrels with other cities nearby but not so the issues within the city that would make slavery a divisive issue for the city. ChrissyJensen (talk) 22:32, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slavery section 

message: I would say that the presidential visits the city has had would be important to note in this article. Both President Clinton and President Obama visited Quincy. At least in the note about the 2008 flood it would be an interesting fact that then Senator Obama came to the city. ChrissyJensen (talk) 22:37, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Presidential visits 

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message: I was looking up Jesus Tree and it redirected here.
VickiMeagher (talk) 15:09, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does Jesus Tree redirect here?  

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