Talk:Chicken, Alaska

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In the main body of the article it says the population is 17 and in the sidebar 170. Which is it? --41.222.129.145 (talk) 14:29, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Misc.

message: Good Question. In the late 1800's, early miners traveled far in search of gold. Food was sometimes scarce, but a particular area near the South Fork of the 40-Mile River was abundant in Ptarmigan, now the state bird which bears a resemblance to a chicken (Ah the foreshadowing is thicker than steel.) The miners kept themselves alive with the help of the Ptarmigan (if you consider being eaten as helping.) 
In 1902, Chicken was to become incorporated, the second town in Alaska to do so. The name "Ptarmigan" was suggested. Many people liked the name, but felt the quotation marks were too presumptuous. The name was shortened to Ptarmigan. 
The only problem was that nobody could agree on the correct spelling. They didn't want their town name to be the source of ridicule and laughter, so they decided on "Chicken." (The irony is thicker than the foreshadowing.)
:I hear that this is an apocryphal story, but that the term "chicken" was used as a synonym for ptarmigan, since they were plentiful and a staple meat. Deirdre 19:33, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If it's apocryphal, why is it stated as fact in the article? StaticElectric (talk) 01:23, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know if this was excised from the article or if it's an unsigned talk page post.  Either way, it's plainly intended to be whimsical enough to where it shouldn't be taken that seriously.  Just in case it is, however: the statement "In 1902, Chicken was to become incorporated, the second town in Alaska to do so" needs to be checked.  It may be factually accurate to state that it would be the second town to incorporate in that part of Alaska, following Eagle in 1901.  Juneau, Ketchikan and Skagway all incorporated in 1900, with Eagle as well as Valdez in 1901.  There may be others I'm missing.  Therefore, by 1902, it would be impossible to call it the second incorporated town in all of Alaska.  If Chicken did incorporate, something which can be verified through reliable sources, that would be of interest to the subject of the article, I would think (see discussion below on raging edit-warring dispute, as incorporation would also pertain to the community's history and demographic makeup). RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  00:41, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Why Do They Call it "Chicken?"

message: Chicken has one important former inhabitant: The teacher Anne Hobbs Purdy, co-author of the book TishaShe was certainly the most notable person from Chicken, but to refer to her as the only one is stretching it.  I take it that no one has ever heard of Robert S. McCombe?  He was a gold miner in that country for probably a half-century or better, and also served in several early Alaska state legislatures and wrote multiple books about his life (one of which is in my library, but I haven't read it yet).RadioKAOS (talk) 21:45, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable residents

message: A couple years ago, the external links to businesses (3) in Chicken were removed, including the link to the business "Downtown Chicken", which has been added again under the heading "Homepage". It is not the home page for Chicken, but a webpage for the business that holds the name "Downtown Chicken" per the State of Alaska website. Same is true of the photo on this page, it is of the business and not downtown Chicken, as Chicken has no downtown. There are two other businesses in Chicken, a Post Office and a number of scattered residents, who mostly leave for the winter months. There are only 4-5 people who stay through the winter. If one business is promoted on this site, then all 3 businesses should be.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Chickengold (talk • contribs) 9:04, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Here are some realities of how Wikipedia works: 1) Any bottom-feeding non-profit or government agency can promote themselves to their hearts' content and no one blinks an eye.  For-profit enterprises are held to a different standard.  2) Too many articles to count or mention are filled with crappy, subpar sources due to the mentality that "no URL = no verifiability".  URLs which are not offered in this context tend to be deleted out of hand, often without much thought as to whether they are actually useful or could provide clues to reliable sources which could improve the article.  Oh yeah, then there's this recent idea that notability is black and white and there's no such thing as notability within the context of an article.  Eliminating mention of Anne Purdy and Tisha only pushes this article further in the direction of promoting the fiction that it's only notability is as an enumeration district of the U.S. Census Bureau. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  01:52, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits...external links and photo

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