Talk:List of people from Columbus, Ohio

message: Looking at lists of people (List of people from Columbus, Ohio, List of people associated with San Francisco, List of people from Chicago, List of people from New York City, List of people from Los Angeles) there is no clear standard as far as formatting the information or how it is organized. Some have lists by field or alphabetical, or both. Only Columbus has chronological (which doesn't make much sense if the person wasn't born here). Of those above, I like the Chicago list the most. It's well organized, with only sections by field. Also, it does without birth/death dates. I'll try to clean up the Columbus list to make it more like the Chicago list. Rwalker (talk) 14:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I started the list with a chronological ordering because it was the only way I could see to give a sense of who was connected when, and birthdate seemed the best proxy for that even though it's obviously not a perfect match.  I think it's extremely important when seeing a list such as this to know whether we're talking about a contemporary person or a 19th century figure.  Is there a way we could make the list sortable, such that it could be sorted by name, by birthdate or deathdate, or by general field of accomplishment?  I like what the List of people from Chicago is attempting but the groupings seem arbitrary; why should musicians be separate rather than part of "entertainment figures", for example?  And the Chicago list doesn't annotate the connection at all, so we don't know specifically why they're on the list.  postdlf (talk) 14:27, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The idea of a sortable list is interesting, but I don't think all the information is conducive to that format. But if you'd like to try that, be my guest. In the meantime, I've made extensive edits, combining the three lists on the page (and there were people missing from one list that were in others), preserving the birth/death dates and annotations of why they're on the list. I like the idea of this format: Name (birthyear-deathyear), field of notability, connection to Columbus. Rwalker (talk) 16:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sortability in a table can be limited to only certain columns, so it isn't prohibitive that some information is conducive to sorting and other information is not.  I'll try to do a mockup here soon to see how it might work.  BTW, I appreciate your work on this even if I may not agree with you on everything; it's nice to see someone who initially thought something should be deleted quickly shifting to working on it to improve it.  Not everyone is that openminded.  postdlf (talk) 16:18, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Just noting a couple missing people that I don't know how to add to this list. Jeff Smith (cartoonist, writer, animator) grew up in Worthington and graduated in 1978 from Worthington High School. Susan Diol (actress) attended and graduated from Worthington High School in 1980. Tom Patchett (who does not have a page) is one of the creators of the TV show ALF and attended Worthington High School, as well. 
50.13.99.248 (talk) 13:46, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

text: The list is missing Frank Howard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Howard_(baseball) and Paul O'Dette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Dette. I tried to add them but your bots drove me away. i don't have the time or the energy to combat the bots. 173.88.52.151 (talk) 17:05, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvements and Standardization 

message: This article lists specifically 'people' from Columbus. I don't think this list should include bands, only their members. Without this rule, one could justify listing any group or organization that was founded in Columbus. Comments? Rwalker (talk) 16:04, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No strong opinion, though often a band may be notable though its individual members do not merit their own articles.  A band is a much closer proxy for the individuals that comprise it than an organization, and if the band started in Columbus that means its members were "from" there.  Another option might be to list the band members individually though they aren't independently notable, providing links to redirects or just to the band article.  postdlf (talk) 16:15, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Include Bands? 

message: Really? It's a suburb. —valereee (talk) 20:23, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it's considered a suburban area, part of the Columbus metropolitan area. It is not however part of the Columbus city limits, it is a separate city with its own government. Similarly, most of Westchester County is made up of suburbs of NYC, but none of those communities are part of New York City. ɱ (talk) 20:37, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It's 100% surrounded by the city of Columbus and, yes, part of the metro area. To anyone outside of Columbus, which is 99.9999% of readers, someone from Bexley is 'from Columbus.' The fact Bexley is an unincorporated doesn't make the people who live there not from Columbus. Does this list have a rule that says everyone on it must be from Columbus proper? If so, it probably needs to be moved to that, and maybe a list created of people from the Columbus metropolitan area. —valereee (talk) 12:59, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, on Wikipedia we strictly adhere to political boundaries. That ensures we don't list the millions of notable Westchester residents as living in New York City (they're not), nor anyone who grew up in the posh suburb of Bexley as living in the city of Columbus. That's why other political enclaves have categories for their residents: :Category:Sammarinese people, :Category:Lesotho people, :Category:Vatican City people. To say these people are from Italy or South Africa simply is not true. ɱ (talk) 15:45, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

text: I Live in Bexley, but my postal address is Columbus. 173.88.52.151 (talk) 19:21, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  bexley not part of columbus?