Talk:Urbana, Illinois

message: What are we listing in the media section?  Is it all stations that can be picked up in Urbana?  If so then we should add 105.9 back to the list.  Is it stations that broadcast from Urbana?  That reduce the list to a size of 1 I believe (WRFU).  Is it the stations heard in Urbana that broadcast from somewhere in Central Illinois?  DavidGrayson (talk) 08:37, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Exactly what are we listing in the Media section?

message: Let's make an Awards section, with two sub-sections: Tree City USA and 10 Great Neighborhoods
DavidGrayson (talk) 07:14, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: How about an Awards section?

message: I just cleaned up the Famous Urbanites seciton because it had a sign on it that said it needed to be cleaned up.  I think the section is good now, so I removed the sign.  If you disgree, feel free to put the sign back up.  The only major thing I did was remove some descriptions of Nobel prizes.  This information is redundant because you can easily get it by clicking on the name of the Noel laureate.  We have to give descriptions of ALL the nobel prizes or NONE, and in this case NONE is better.  I also reworded things, sorted it alphabetically, added bunch of links, and made the wording/punctuation consistent.
DavidGrayson (talk) 07:11, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Famous Urbanites

message: It seems to me that this article reads more like a pamphlet written by the Urbana Chamber of Commerce than an encyclopedia entry.  It's terribly POV.  
For example, "The best lunch place in Urbana is the cafe of Strawberry Fields..."  Best according to whom?  If there's some authoritative source for this like, say, a News-Gazette poll, there should be some indication of this.  If it's the personal opinion of one editor, it should be removed.
I'm of the opinion that the "Eating in Urbana" and "Lincoln Square Mall" sections at the least should be eliminated.  Eric 20:52, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and will volunteer to find some alternative information. Agriculture 05:26, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: I just added a section on the High School, mostly the architectural aspect. As a current student at UHS, I feel the architecture of UHS represents Urbana's history very well, or something like that.--DrumFreak 16:40, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Urbana High School information 

message: I don't know what was in this section before, but I'd think a discussion of the politics surrounding the building of the mall (and razing most of the former downtown, or so I've been told), would be a valuable addition to the article (but hard to keep NPOV). -- The Photon 03:41, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lincoln Square Mall

message: There is a list of analogue television broadcasters.  I thought the U.S. went totally digital. Kdammers (talk) 09:30, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Television

message: It would be nice if some-one could put in some of the history of the city, e.g., about the founding, Champaign's break-away, and the railroad strikes of 1877. Kdammers (talk) 09:30, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: I believe the fire that has just been added to the history section destroyed court-house records.Kdammers (talk) 00:22, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fire 

message: The map should have the option "Show map of USA", like Regina, Saskatchewan has the option "Show map of Canada". Thanks. Mateussf (talk) 01:06, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: The article states, "In Powers' novel Plowing the Dark, the Realization Lab's 'Cavern' virtual reality machine seems to be set in the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University, where the CAVE environment was first developed. " However, the Electronic Visualization Laboratory lies not in the Urbana campus but in the Chicago campus. As such, the statement is not relevant to the article, so I am removing it.
Thatsme314 (talk) 07:46, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Richard Powers]]'s novel ''[[Plowing the Dark]]'' and the [[Electronic Visualization Laboratory]]