Talk:Yakutat, Alaska

message: I'm not sure that I agree with the "canoe bobbing" citation - I heard a presentation by a Tlingit lecturer last week that indicated the name meant "place where the canoes rest."  I suppose I could be confusing this with something else but I'm pretty sure I remembered it right.  If it's worth anything, this site corroborates my memory. -Etoile 18:56, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The speaker I heard on board the Oosterdam last week was Fred White, if I remember his name correctly; if he was not the speaker then he was the elder who sat in the audience and was introduced at the end of the lecture.  As a representative from the local tourism group I would trust him as an "official" source.  I found an interview with him here (I don't think that's him in the picture!) and he also taught Tlingit language classes.  I am comfortable trusting his statement about "where the canoes rest" but I would be fine with including alternatives in the article text. -Etoile 23:23, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Fred White is definitely a Tlingit speaker, and is a knowledgeable Yakutat elder with a long history in the area. I would feel most happy with the Tlingit words used to derive this meaning, but I will take Fred's word for it. I'll make the change, and I'll ask around for the derivation. — Jéioosh 19:06, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning of the name Yakutat 

message: Does anybody know the total area of the Borough (land+water)?--Whhalbert 07:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Total Area

message: This has been bothering me for quite some time.  Someone needs to go over this article again.  To wit:
* The 2010 Census population is 662, as confirmed at both the Census site and the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development's Community Information Summaries site.  I don't know where 4,035 came from, but it's obvious that the 2010 Census information hasn't fully made its way onto a lot of these pages yet.
* Yakutat is a "city and borough" in name only.  Specifically, the City of Yakutat was dissolved and a borough was incorporated in its place, inexplicably called the City and Borough of Yakutat even though it's actually just a borough.  CIS refers to it as such:
** "Incorporation Type: Home Rule Borough"
** "The City of Yakutat was formed in 1948, but in 1992 the city was dissolved and a borough was organized for the region."
** See also the borough's charter, which refers to it as a borough called "City and Borough of Yakutat."  Unless you'd rather just take what some disconnected entity says at face value and call it a "reliable source," or even just make stuff up on your own.
* Speaking of which, the article states: The city and borough has a total area of 9,459 square miles (24,500 km2). 7,650 square miles (19,800 km2) of it is land and 1,809 square miles (4,690 km2) of it (19.12%) is water.  The borough's certificate of incorporation (as found here) states that the borough consists of 2,878 square miles of land and 8,492 square miles of "submerged lands and tidelands."  Please tell me where this respective math adds up by any stretch of the imagination.  Furthermore, there is the caveat that "only 321 square miles of the 8,492 square miles of tidelands and submerged lands" fall within "the jurisdictional limits of the State of Alaska."
By this point, I am rather sick and tired of having to point out in article after article that copying and pasting PD material without verifying its authenticity by checking it against other sources is just so bogus.RadioKAOS (talk) 22:22, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Bogosity check

message: Other Alaskan city-boroughs all have shorter Wikipedia titles.  See Anchorage, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska; Sitka, Alaska; Skagway, Alaska; Wrangell, Alaska.  For consistency, perhaps this article should be titled Yakutat, Alaska.  Or does common local usage actually employ the longer name? --Joseph Hewes (talk) 19:22, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Change title back to Yakutat, Alaska

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message: Why is the area of this 100 sq miles. There's no way that Yakutat is 100 sq miles. Yakutat is longer than 100 miles. Julianstout (talk) 06:46, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Area