Talk:Wenatchee, Washington

message: I'm not sure why this section got added.  Many towns have a convention center, that is not much of note.  Perhaps this section could be re-written to sound like less of an advertisement for the Center and Coast hotel. Lennon 02:26, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I simply removed this section.  Lennon 18:54, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Conventions

message: The user at 66.172.96.74 removed this paragraph from "History" section.
::Goodwin was openly resistant to changing his then new way of doing things and was therefore aggressively accused by the Washington State Department of Health's Examining Board of Psychology (EBP) of mental impairment, unprofessional conduct, negligence, and incompetence. All the charges were eventually dropped. Dr Goodwin was finally able to settle his 8 year battle admitting that he once got only a verbal rather than a written release for a client to talk with a prospective client with no danger to either noted; the issue of Prozac and his short-term psychotherapy by then widely accepted. Dr Goodwin continues his still ground breaking work in his office on Wenatchee Avenue.
This paragraph has been changed a number of times by a number of people.  Currently I agree with its removal, because is isn't NPoV.  However neither is the paragraph which remains.  The two should probably be rewritten to sound more nutral. Lennon 01:27, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm beginning to wonder why this is even in the Wenatchee history section. Perhaps this would be better suited for either inclusion on a page about Prozac or a page about Dr. Goodwin? Cascadia 01:34, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dr. Goodwin 

message: I'm seeing way too many "red internal links" in this article. Either link them, create another aticle for them, or simply don't link them!!!! JustN5:12 23:58, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Way too many unlinked "links"! 

message: Nearly every town, village, hamlet, etc. in America has some sort of Local band, or just some dude who plays the six-string at the local hole-in-the-wall bar. Notable music scenes are those that actually shape music nationally, such as Seattle, WA; Tempe, AZ; Los Angeles; etc.
While there have been some good acts to start up in Wenatchee, the city has nothing that anyone should call a notable scene. The closest thing to a notable band out of Wenatchee, the Olds Station Orchestra, is now defunct, and as the attempted addition states, the 'music scene' has all but fizzled out. Now, if some very good sources, such as some music industry magazine articles, could be found to support the notion that Wenatchee has a unique and notable music scene, then by all means, add it in. Myspace pages are not sources though... so please, don't use those as a reference of what constitutes a notable music scene. CASCADIAHowl/Trail 03:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wenatchee "Music Scene" 

message: I believe the Apple Bowl stadium used in this article is the one located in Triangle Park in Wenatchee, not the one in Canada. 66.172.102.80 00:18, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apple Bowl incorrectly linked. 

message: The climate is claimed to be "technically a desert," but by what technical definition is this?  Everthing I've found lists dessert as either <10 inches annual precipitation or too dry to support almost any plants.  Could we call it a shrub-steppe instead?  --Thomas (talk) 03:10, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The foothills are shrub-steppe climate, however most of the Wenatchee area proper is Desert (less than 10 inches of rain per year) according to the National Atlas annual rainfall map layer when zoomed in on the Wenatchee Valley. So yes, it is technically a desert. GusterBear (talk) 21:15, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not "Technically a Desert" 

message: I believe there is a mistake where it says that Wenatchee is from a Salish word. From my own conversations with Mark Behler, curator of the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, and from other research, I understand that while the Wenatchi were a Salish speaking tribe, they called themselves the P'squosa and were only called Wenatchi by the Sahaptin speaking people to the South. There is a short discussion of this based on the work of E. Richard Hart in this HistoryLink article about Confluence State Park. Also the German Wikipedia entry on the Wenatchi tribe (de:Wenatchi) has the same information, possibly from the same source. Unless there is any protest, I'll soon change this to say Sahaptin. I thought the meaning of the name was "water rushing forth" but I'll leave that alone for now.Scottfeil (talk) 15:15, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree the origin is Sahaptin http://depts.washington.edu/sahaptin/Sahdic.htm, however the entry could use more details on the name. The root word is Winátt, a verb meaning "spring", or "wanáytt" meaning "spring from water." http://www.native-languages.org/sahaptin.htm The word "Winátshapam" is the Sahaptin term for the Wenatchi tribe, with "-pam" being a locative suffix, similar to many tribes in the area (for example, Walla Walla was named after the Walawálapam). I believe dropping the "-pam" suffix from Winátshapam leaves you with a pretty close phonetic pronunciation of Wenatchee (Winátsha). Also, Winátsha was the Sahaptian name of the fishery at the fork of the Wenatchee and Columbia Rivers.https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7YeCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA160&ots=Xdd61m7uC6&dq=Win%C3%A1tsha&pg=PA160#v=onepage&q=Win%C3%A1tsha&f=false Wardlarson (talk) 16:26, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

text: I also can't find any source material that states "Awenatchela" is a word in any language, or that it means "people at the source [of a river]." Wardlarson (talk) 16:29, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roots of the name Wenatchee 

message: Only 20 km off the town could be mentioned. Helium4 (talk) 11:28, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Mission Ridge Ski Area]]