Talk:St. Petersburg, Florida

message: Should mention of the PSTA (Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority) and major streets/avenues and federal roadways be included in this section? Osemab (talk) 22:02, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Transportation Section

message: Although the current picture in the InfoBox is artistically beautiful, I believe a clear picture of downtown taken during the day would be more representative of what St. Petersburg looks like rather than a very dark picture of purple hue and light trails. Does anyone have a current high resolution daytime picture of the downtown skyline that would be a better representation of what the city looks like?
Would the picture on the following page be acceptable for the daytime picture of downtown St. Petersburg? The resolution is 800 x 222 pixels. view of downtown St Petersburg Florida from the waterOsemab (talk) 21:44, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Daytime picture

message: I have removed the most recent edit that suggests that St. Petersburg is frequently referred to as "The Burg" by locals, on par with "St. Pete." My own impressions are that "The Burg" is only rarely used, and usually in jest. "St. Pete," however, is regularly substituted for "St. Petersburg" by locals, and would be found acceptable except in formal occasions. Google seems to agree: A search of both "St. Petersburg" and "The Burg" together controlled for the word "Russia" yields 362 results; a search of "St. Petersburg" and "St. Pete" together controlled for the word "Russia" yields 1,820,000. ALC | Talk 21:05, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: The Burg

message: I believe Hogan lives in Clearwater, not St. Petersburg. I could be wrong about this. Anyone know? ALC | Talk 17:08, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: He lived in Belleair, but is moving to (I think) Miami.User:Mikereichold | User_talk:Mikereichold 20:36, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hulk Hogan

message: It was suggested that this article should be renamed St. Petersburg, Florida.  The vote is shown below:
Shouldn't this be at St. Petersburg, rather than Saint Petersburg?  The former is much more common in my experience. --timc | Talk 02:34, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: St. Petersburg is the current home of Jimbo Wales, but I think the actual servers are in Tampa, Florida and a few other places. It probably says somewhere where the physical home of Wikipedia is [the servers, I mean]. LockeShocke 01:22, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
The official name (I asked the Mayor's office) is "St. Petersburg," not "Saint Petersburg." I will put this on my list to fix, unless someone else wants to do it for me... ALC 27 July
I've moved it. violet/riga (t) 11:03, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename

message: We need to do some research and create a list of mayors and terms of office.
Hay am i allowed to do this?
I live here in St. Pete and I have never, ever heard of it as the burg. Well maby if i was drinking in Ybor, and wanted to sound like I was trying to yuppify what is commonly known as sleepy St. Pete. 
LOL
I have noticed that many online forms suggest/force one to put in Saint Petersburg spelled out. I believe it is indeed "St. Petersburg", and we usually say "Saint Pete". Canadians and other tourists misstakingly call it " Saint Pete's " which is cute but more annoying than the online form issue. 
There is a town on the beach named St. Petersburg Beach, which is also butcherd by tourists, being called "St. Pete's Beach". A Ray Leota and a Hulk Hogan film were both partially filmed there at the Don Ce`sar hotel, which incidently is pronounced Don "say-sar" not Don Cesar. This is the final and most embarrising miss-pronunciation, as it is an upscale hotel. Not as horrific as my spelling though- please edit
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:It is actually called "St. Pete Beach", not "St. Petersburg Beach". --Lakerdonald 01:03, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mayors?

message: Removed Hulk Hogan (he lives in Belleair) and Omali Yeshitela (not known outside of St. Pete and not very prominent even in St. Pete). 
Local Legend has it that Jim Morrison of the Doors lived here and attended St. Petersburg Junior College (now St. Pete. College.) Dr. Sylvia Holliday was his English teacher, and he performed on the ukelele at Beaux arts Coffee house, (then in Pinellas Park.)
Removed Omali Yeshitela.  While he's known by some interested in St. Petersburg politics, he's almost completely unknown outside of St. Petersburg.  I've deleted this before, not sure why someone keeps adding him here.  Maybe I should add my own name?
I guess that would depend on who you are. He and his organization have been well known in South St Pete.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C5E:2A00:2EE2:15A7:DCC7:CDAA:EBEF (talk) 11:18, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable Residents

message: From the article:
It is affiliated with the St. Petersburg Times, whose building is right across the street from The Poynter Institute.
The St. Pete Times' main office is located at 490 First Avenue South.
The Poynter Institute is located at 801 Third Street South.
The two locations are about seven-tenths of a mile apart. They certainly cannot be considered to be "right across the street" from each other.
Roger
I changed this section since the Poynter Institute is far more than just "affiliated" with the Times--it OWNS the Times. 24.193.95.184 04:33, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: St. Petersburg Times and the Poynter Institute

message: has added a reference to Lary Crews as a notable writer. Only about 1600 ghits I've asked him to review wp notability and get back to me. :) Dlohcierekim 03:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[User:Larycrews]]

message: Looking for information about Weedon Island, Florida, which is apparently located here and is on the List of ports in the United States.
: Weedon Island is a port? This must be a technical designation from the early 20th century or something. There's not much port activity out there so far as I've ever seen. 128.164.100.122 19:43, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion request

message: I put the historical population data into the graph, but its length spills over into the next section. I added white space to compensate for this, hopefully someone can flesh out the Demographics section to fix this. --GeneralAntilles 09:39, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Demographics Section

message: Where do the percentages in the census numbers come from?  Last time I checked, going from 8000 to 90000 is a tad more than a 15% jump.  How are they determined and should they be changed to show the real rate of change? EaglesFanInTampa (formerly Jimbo) 14:56, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: According to From Pines and Palmettos-- A portrait of Largo., the Largo Historical Society's history of Largo, the whole Peninsula had about 50 people in 1850. That's derived from primary sources and land grant info. Cheers, :) MikeReichold  01:00, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Census numbers

message: From near the end of the lead section:
:With a purported average of some 360 days of sunshine each year, it is nicknamed "The Sunshine City."
360 days is quite a claim - we can't just let that stand as "purported"; we need both a solid reference to someone (other than Wikipedia editors!) doing the purporting, and a solid reference for whether the claim is accurate. Loganberry (Talk) 16:02, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I note that one reference has now been added, which is welcome. Loganberry (Talk) 23:43, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sunshine figures

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:St. Petersburg, Florida seal.png

message: This section looks like a list, and should probably be a separate article. 
There is info  about this at WP:NOTLINK. 018 (talk) 01:14, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Neighborhood section

message: (Moved to bottom of page per talk page guidelines)
This unscientific concoction of statistics is an unmerited, offensive slur against the city. What is the worth of it to anyone? I guess we will have to live with its being forced on the public, but I don't understand why Wikipedia is forced to exclude material that properly represents the atmosphere in the city, even when citation is included. If St. Petersburg is sad, that is probably why.— Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎71.99.15.218 (talk • contribs) 
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thread_title: Men's Health Controversy

message: Hi.  I'm going through all the US Cities (as per List of United States cities by population) in an effort to provide some uniformity in structure.  Anyone have an issue with me restructuring this article as per Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline.  I won't be changing any content, merely the order.  Occasionally, I will also move a picture just to clean up spacing issues.  I've already gone through the top 20 or so on the above list, if you'd like to see how they turned out.  Thoughts?  Onel5969 (talk) 19:59, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Structure 

message: Hello I'm a new member of Wikipedia and I came across the neighborhood page which hosts a lot of neighborhoods however there is a separate article already listing all those neighborhoods. Should be delete the section and leave the link to the Article? -Adog104 8/12/2015 12:19 PM EST
: Hi and welcome to Wikipedia.  Yes, I would delete the list of neighborhoods, since someone has created a separate article on it.  I would leave the lead-in sentence however. Happy editing. Onel5969 TT me 16:51, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neighborhoods Section 

message: With looking at the St. Petersburg Article compared to other cities in the area this article seems like a mess where some sections don't belong in others and some things are repeated. For instance under Geography and climate, Downtown & Neighborhoods are listed under this section which doesn't make a whole lot of sense where others have that information under its own Downtown section and neighborhoods as a sub section. Attractions and Points of Interests should be a sub category of Downtown. Under Crime some those demographics are outdated however some information can stay (or can be sub categorized) because crime is a great deal in St. Petersburg (From experience in my neighborhood and response time it takes Police Officers to get to an area and how big of a deal the crime is) . A Government section should be added since there is none. Under Downtown maybe there can be "Landmarks", "Architecture", "Parks" as a subcategory rather than "Points of Interests". Ill start editing if someone would like me too. -Adog104 8/14/2015 3:33 PM EST  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adog104 (talk • contribs) 19:33, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi  - take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline for a guideline to the structure of a US city article. Onel5969 TT me 23:26, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Over Haul 

message: To get a clear consensus from the previous RFC (as all opposed the nickname in the introduction, but most concluded the infobox as a possible place):
Question - Should the nickname, The Burg (stylized as the 'Burg from sources), be included in the St. Petersburg, Florida's infobox? Please indicate support or oppose of the nickname with a short explanatory paragraph. 21:12, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Updated RFC

message: What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content. Contributions are welcomed. Thank you. Adog104 Talk to me 03:13, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Timeline of St. Petersburg, Florida]] 

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message: Hello, I modified the cable and fiber providers in the city under the media section. The previous three providers listed had part or all of their assets sold to the newly listed companies. Fairhopeal (talk) 18:35, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
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message: This section is both outdated (all "most/largest" data over five years old) and has a skew towards highlighting certain types of crimes in certain sections of the city, and not either overall crime and/or all of the city. As a longtime resident, I appreciate what is being said, but I also see the direction the editor was (perhaps unintentionally) headed in. StPeteRays (talk) 00:07, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crime