Talk:List of people from Las Vegas

message: I belive the Maddux edit should be reverted.  He is recognized my most las vegans as "from" here.  Whenever mentioned on the local news he's refered to as "Las Vegan Greg Maddux".  Thoughts?
:Bottom line is: he is not from Vegas.  Was not born there, hence is not a native.  It is not that uncommon for someone to be "adopted" by a place and be viewed as [almost] a local.  Therefore, there would be no obstacle to adding him to the "Non-natives" section, provided he made a significant enough contribution to the city (naturally, as a celebrity, his mere being there could attract some degree of visibility to any given place, and it could be enough).  I didn't find any evidence to as much, and that is why I removed him altogether (otherwise I'd simply have moved the name to the non-native entry).  It's a tricky business: someone who wasn't born in a city (in this case, Las Vegas), can be more of a "local" than someone who was born there but doesn't really relate to the place anymore (such as actors who just happened to have been born there).  But still, the criterion is objective: automatic inclusion, in the "Native" section, is only for those who were born there.  Other people may be included under "Non-native", but some sort of tangible contribution to the history/mistique (or whatever one might call it) of Las Vegas must be verified.  In conclusion, if Maddux had or has an impact on the city on some level, he should be included in the "Non-native" section.  But we cannot include him under "Native", not unless he was born there (which he wasn't).  Regards, Redux 03:27, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Is his being there usually noteworthy?  That is, is there an impact on the population (who might relish his presence) or maybe even the city itself (which may get press attention on account of his being there)?  That might be sufficient.  Regards, Redux 22:44, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Att. Redux Maddux Edit 

message: A page similar to this one. List of people from San Francisco, is currently under review as an article for deletion, for reasons which would apply to this article as well.  I am conducting an RfC on the talk page of the above-mentioned list to determine whether the concensus agrees on keeping such lists or not.  Any and all comments are more than welcome.  Badbilltucker 16:15, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I see the pages you mentioned.  But this particular article includes a list of people that played a significant role in the city's history, even though they are not from Las Vegas.  I do believe LV is a unique case in that regard, in view of its history (or rather, that of the gambling industry's history).  Those people are not covered in a category of people from Las Vegas, or any other single category, particularly because they come from several walks of life.  It is true though that the article's title is somewhat inaccurate in that regard.  If you check the threads above, you'll see that we started work to come up with a better naming for it, but so far the much needed help from Las Vegas locals has not come through.  Redux 16:56, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for Comment 

message: How about adding Charlie Stewart(now a teen actor[age 15 now], he is best known for playing Bonnie Hunt's younger son on "LIfe with Bonnie on ABC a few years ago)?...and also Thomas Ian Nicholas, most recently seen as Frank Sinatra, Jr. in a cable biopic five years ago?...Baldwin91006 (talk) 03:07, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Two more actors need to be here...

message: To add: Anetra ---Another Believer (Talk) 22:56, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anetra