Talk:Decatur, Alabama

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I am currently working to establish citations where they are warranted.  Sedriskell (talk) 23:49, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
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message: There is a problem with the areas in square kilometers and square miles in the table on the left. I don't know the correct values to insert.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by KudzuVine (talk • contribs) 21:27, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
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message: Decatur has it's own Wikipedia page, and it's huge. It makes this tiny little burgh look vastly more important than it really is. Alright, which one of you Morgan County Economic Development Board folks made this? Let's not pretend we're *that* much of a "city". ;) Reverend Raven 07:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually I've contributed the most to the article, but I'm not a member of the Economic Development Board.  Haha, I'm really not that old. AlabamaGuy2007 07:27, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

text: That's not really an appropriate attitude to have here. One of the fundamental principles of Wikipedia is a neutral point of view. Decatur, regardless of how you may feel about it personally, is one of the largest and most important cities in North Alabama. And to me, the beauty of Wikipedia is that almost anything people care about is notable enough to have a significant article, and that because Wikipedia is not paper, it has infinite capacity for information. Though you may argue about their relative value, Decatur does have its own history and culture, and I expect this article to grow a good deal more. —LonelyPilgrim 16:36, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You may not share my opinions of the city of Decatur, and that's fine. However the tiny passage I added about one of Decatur's nicknames was valid. It is a phrase I have heard many times during my lifetime of living in Decatur, and I added it to the main wiki page because of this. It is as NPOV of a statement as any of the other statements on the page (some of the other statements even come across as not having a NPOV, but a positive POV). I encourage considering this, as I feel strongly that the tiny passage in question should be restored. Decatur also has a darker, more insidious side than the article mentions, and information along these lines shouldn't be downplayed simply because some Decaturite doesn't like the sound of it. Reverend Raven 01:12, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've also lived in Decatur my whole life, and have never heard anything close. By that virtue alone, I don't think it's common enough to warrant mentioning as a nickname, but it also comes across as somewhat offensive. It's true that Decatur, like any city, has its share of blights and dark spots. I'm not trying to whitewash them. Feel free to write about them at great length in an unbiased, neutral historical context. But inserting this as a nickname is only a step or two above name-calling. —LonelyPilgrim 04:49, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Decatur a "tiny little burgh" 

message: The Alabama Jubilee Hot-Air Balloon Classic is *not* the oldest balloon race in the South. That designation would probably have to go to the balloon race that is held in conjunction with the Kentucky Derby, in Louisville, Ky. However, the Alabama Jubilee is indeed one of the oldest hot-air balloon races in the U.S. The 30th Jubilee will be held in 2007.
When they say "The South", they refer to everything south of (and including) Tennesse, North Carolina, and Arkansas.  They also do not include Oklahoma, and most of Texas.  Most people in this area where the event is held do not consider Kentucky part of the South.  Especially as far north as Louisville.AlaGuy 21:24, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 10-Aug-2007: (11 months later) I checked that Kentucky was also part of the Confederacy (with 2 rival governments), so it could be called "South" in the sense of the "War of Northern Aggression" (Civil War).  I recommend stating, "south of Kentucky's Great Balloon Race (1973)" as a better phrase for all, so I will insert that, replacing "in the South" as previously stated.  This is in the spirit of Alabama as "The Heart of Dixie" for a well-mannered solution, as might have occurred in that southern civilization "gone with the wind" (original meaning).  -Wikid77 08:28, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems a bit tedious to explain.  How bout we just put "in the Deep South".  I think that works best.  AlaGuy (talk) 21:14, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alabama Jubilee 

message: 10-August-2007: Many other city articles have been created in a massive push simply to convert demographic tables into town articles.  That was the era of "Wordipedia" (2003-2005) when Wikipedia articles were mostly words.  Since Decatur is a major city in the whole state, an Alabama roadmap has been added noting Decatur's location, along the Tennessee River, southwest of Huntsville, north of Birmingham, etc.  The structure of the text allows the map to be wide, displayed mostly along the Table of Contents, as 310px width, which is a common size in other Alabama articles for rapid redisplay of the cached map-image.  The map has been relabeled from the US National Atlas of the United States, as a reasonable sized reduction, of those enormous, slow, gargantuan Atlas PNG-format files that crash browsers with many windows open.  As a reduced image, there is ample space to add other labels or major suburbs in the Decatur area, with the luxury to show the whole state, putting perspective on Decatur's northern location.  
Roadmaps are generally very tedious to create, so Wikipedia had avoided them like the plague, instead using bizarre blank maps and tons of text to convey a "picture" of a town's place in the region.  While the world websites have progressed now to showing video-clips, "Wordipedia un-illustrated" had become a friggin joke, but at least adding maps can vastly improve the value of WP articles, as a major illustration of a region. -Wikid77 06:57, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
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message: I was reading about the Delta IV Heavy and that Wikipedia article said that they were made in Decatur. "What?!?" I thought. I know enough geography to know (1)Decatur is in the far northern part of Alabama, and (2) there are no roads nor railroads big enough to transport these rockets. I came to this article and clicked on the "transportation" section and saw nothing to explain how they got these rockets to the space ports. Then I hunted for and found the part of this article about the rocket production facility which said they were shipped by water via the Tennessee River. That is a pretty important "Transportation" fact about Decatur.Nick Beeson (talk) 13:10, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  water transportation 

message: Is the "busiest intersections" section really necessary? Most people are not going to know those intersections' locations, the roads, and so on; who gives a damn? People seeking information on traffic are not going to turn to Wikipedia, anyways. Bmag32 (talk) 01:46, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
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