Talk:List of Italian-American neighborhoods

message: I have completed the merge and changed the article title per suggestion in the AfD. Let me know if you have any questions. Alphachimp talk 05:05, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Complete 

message: Epodunk has pages for various ethnicities that rank US communities by percentage of the ancestry group in question. See here for Italian Ancestry. This is a great source because it already extracts and ranks the data for us, without needing to head to the Census Bureau. The problem is that the numbers don't appear to match the raw Census data that you'd find on http://www.Census.gov. It appears that Epodunk is adjusting the numbers to reflect that people can report multiple nationalities. For example, 19,383 people who live in Lyndhurst, New Jersey listed 23,389 different ancestries, a total of 120.7%. While the Census shows 40.8% of Lyndhurst residents reporting Italian ancestry, Epodunk appears to have divided this by 1.207 to come up with an "adjusted" Italian ancestry of 33.8% for Lyndhurst. Is this a proper step to do with the data? How can we download accurate raw data by place within state so that we can show the original Census data, without having to extract it one at a time for each municipality? Alansohn (talk) 17:00, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Data sources

message: An estimate of 20 million Americans are of Italian or Sicilian descent. New York City has by far the most Italian-Americans in one area though and is still a common destination for Italians coming over to start a new life in America.
The estimate from a 2006 U.S. Census estimate actually listed in a Wikipedia article is 17.8 million. While New York City is one of the largest areas for Italian Americans in numbers rather than percentages (like many other ethnic groups), there is no citation claiming it is a common destination for Italians coming over to start a new life in America. There is no report of any wave of modern Italian immigration. Or even previous decades. Why exactly would it require saying they'd need to start a new life in our country anyway? Italy is a very wealthy country. Most of their expatriates are in EU countries and to a lesser degree Canada and Australia. TomNyj0127 (talk) 22:39, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  There are 17.8 million Italian Americans and there is no citation to claiming NYC is a modern destination 

message: During the labor shortage in the 19th-early 20th centuries, planters in the Deep South did attract some Italian immigrants to work as sharecroppers, but they soon left the extreme anti-Italian discrimination and strict regimen of the plantations for towns or other states.
The only places Italian Americans immigrated to in the south in notable numbers were New Orleans and the area, eastern Texas, a little bit in other parts of the gulf port (ex. Biloxi, MS, Independence, LA) and Tampa, FL. There should be citation provided to this. There was generally less immigration to the south from all countries during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century at the peak of Italian immigration because the area was poor. Also, many African-Americans remained working on these farms and many hadn't left until after WWI when industrialization motivated them to move to northeastern and mid-western cities. Please do not say the Italian embassy made claims without providing citation. TomNyj0127 (talk) 00:01, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lots of cleaning up on quotes that either don't have citation, are misleading, incomplete or not true 

message: There is absolutely no citation nor reason to believe there is modern Italian immigration to New York City nor any city. It is a lie and promoting misleading ingorance if you put it back up. I will continue to delete it until citation is provided. TomNyj0127 (talk) 15:18, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  No citation for claim that there is modern Italian immigration to New York City 

message: With all due respect too, for you to delete Connecticut from the top 5 list state of Italian Americans when it is the second highest in terms of percentage is not helping your argument to leave a massively uncited and non-factual article up. Did you even look through all of the corrections I made? Or did you just change it back because you didn't like someone making changes? Please show respect. I did so by literally posting every single thing I'd do. Show the same courtesy. TomNyj0127 (talk) 15:20, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why would you delete Connecticut being in the top 5 Italian American states?