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Talk:Houston, Alaska

message: I could have sworn that I commented previously.  Nonetheless, that whole entry is ill-formatted, poorly written enough to be somewhat confusing and contradictory, and comes far short of the necessary sourcing for something which undoubtedly falls within BLP.  That could possibly explain why people keep trying to delete it from the article.  I would go so far as to call the episode a pimple on the ass inasfar as Houston's history is concerned.  Certainly the Miller's Reach fire, which in comparison is given very short shrift in the article, was of far, far greater significance. RadioKAOS  –  Talk to me, Billy  08:08, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: KAOS...I took it out.  It had been there since 2010 and it undoubtedly was a BLP vio.  The only reference was to a political Wiki.  What baffles me is how it has stayed so long. Gtwfan52 (talk) 08:29, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It was well-reported, BTW.  I doubt that any media outlets aside from newspapers would still have the story on their website, however.  The dash cam video was even a YouTube sensation du jour.  From what little attention I've paid to this, I gather that someone is determined to keep it in the article.  Whether to defame Purcell, or because the existence of the Ballotpedia article is good enough evidence of notability in their eyes, is unclear.  Really, Houston is like any other small town that only has a police department because it has a highway running through it, travelled mostly by non-residents. RadioKAOS  –  Talk to me, Billy  09:34, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Roger Purcell controversy

message: Considering there are two ways to pronounce Houston --- either ( ) like the city in Texas or ( ) like the street in Manhattan --- would it be worth specifying which pronounciation is used for this city? (I don't know which one is correct myself). 209.165.166.193 (talk) 18:55, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronounciation 

message: Is there a way to remove the link to Flag of Houston in the infobox, since it links to the flag of Houston, Texas? It appears to be part of the infobox template. Raymond1922 (talk) 02:03, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistaken flag link
Talk:Palmer, Alaska

message: Need an article on Palmer High School Chris 23:50, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Put "perfect place to have a picnic." in parentheses because it is not fact an simply is opinion. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.223.169.153 (talk) 11:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opinion 

message: Article links to the wrong George Palmer, I'm pretty sure.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.170.149 (talk) 02:28, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  George Palmer 

message: Given that the person the town is named after arrived after the Purchase of Alaska, why should the russian transliteration of the town name be present?Naraht (talk) 17:16, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question. I have no good argument to offer for keeping it. Schazjmd (talk) 17:47, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing Russian
Talk:Sutton-Alpine, Alaska

message: Apparently Mia Rose (pornographic actress and avid WOW player) was born here.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.137.161 (talk) 04:00, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Unlikely.  The only hospital in Mat-Su is Mat-Su Regional Medical Center near the Glenn-Parks interchange (in the Gateway CDP), and before that opened, Valley Hospital within Palmer city limits.  There have been all sorts of claims of people being born in other places in Mat-Su besides those hospitals which have since been exposed as bogus (with little or no regard for whether WP:BLP was adhered to when making those claims in the first place).  Regardless, there's since been a concerted effort to scrub biographical details from porn actress biographies.  You can't say those articles are intended for a general audience when they give all the weight to awards that 95+ percent of the general public have never heard of and couldn't care less about. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  07:35, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Mia Rose
Talk:Susitna North, Alaska

message: Wondering how to edit this U.S. City Entry?
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I thought the U.S. Census Bureau didn't allow for placenames with less than one letter.  That's supposedly "why" Y, Arizona (named for a fork in the road) became Why, Arizona.
::Place names with 'less' than one letter? That would save on signposts, at any rate :) Anyway, this place Y doesn't seem to appear on any of those map links...
:::I couldnt find this on a paper map by DeLorme.  I guess it isnt a town though, its just a grouping of some towns.  There is a "Y Lake" about 100 miles to the east, but that's not close enough for it to conceivably be related. —Soap— 02:44, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I lived in Talkeetna for seven years, and the Mat-Su valley for 21 years. We always refer to the place where the Talkeetna Spur road starts as "The 'Y'," but the actual name of the area is "Sunshine."  Since it lies between Trapper Creek, Talkeetna, and Willow, this is where the high school (grades 7-12) is located.  All three towns share one school.  As far as I know, this entire area is Sunshine, and only the area around where the road forms a literal "Y" is called, "The 'Y'," and only informally.  See this map: http://g.co/maps/t7egw Rannmann (talk) 02:28, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I noticed that the coordinates on top of the page are different from the coordinates in the "Location and climate" section. Which ones are right? --Smeira 20:47, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Coordinate error?
Talk:Brevig Mission, Alaska

message: Holton first extracted infected lung material in 1951.  This material did not prove viable, though.  He returned decades later after reading about a researcher working on the DNA of the flu. This is reported in an extensive CDC article:  https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-1918-virus.html Kdammers (talk) 06:09, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Holton
Talk:Golovin, Alaska

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:More on teh "Russian workings" would probably be a good thing....Skookum1 (talk) 02:02, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Old talk
Talk:Port Clarence, Alaska

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:What's the point of saying there are 2000 males for every 100 females, if there's only 21 people in all? Why not just tell the truth--there is one woman, 20 men? Doovinator 06:46, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: * I don't know what to do with the 'citation needed' about César Cascabel. The citation is for me the novel itself, and the novel is available to any reader through our very own wikisource... Hektor (talk) 21:11, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: César Cascabel

message: Why don't we merge LORAN-C transmitter Port Clarence into this one?  They're both stubs.  Yopienso (talk) 23:08, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging

message: The statistics are dubious.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:AC50:24C0:A592:A57B:D9A:69FC (talk) 06:30, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious 

message: The demographics section is ridiculous. Should the lines like the one that says 'There were 4 households out of which none had children under the age of 18 living with them, none were married couples living together, and 0.0% were non-families. No households were made up of individuals and none had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 0.00 and the average family size was 0.00.' be condensed a bit?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anticontradictor (talk • contribs) 08:58, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zero statistics?
Talk:Savoonga, Alaska

message: I find this slightly confusing:
Under Demographics it says:
The racial makeup of the city was 95.33% Native American, 4.35% White, 0.16% Asian, and 0.16% from two or more races.
... whereas the "history" section says:
Between 1878 and 1880 a famine decimated the island's population. Many who did not starve left. The remaining population of St. Lawrence Island was nearly all Siberian Yupik.
So they are certainly indigenous but not exactly indigenous Americans. --Johannes Rohr (talk) 13:00, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Are Siberian Yupiq Native Americans?

message: Fixed ref. It was inserted by WhisperToMe. Cheers.SWP13 (talk) 18:39, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Italic or bold markup not allowed
Talk:St. Michael, Alaska

message: I notice the word "Eskimos" in the article. Isn't that term generally considered an insulting slur? - Jmabel | Talk 03:38, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: At least you're not employing the awkward contextual hole known as "Inuit".  In Alaska, "Inuit" typically refers to Canadian indigenous people.  So I thank you for that. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  23:02, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: "Eskimos"

message: :There is some confusion concerning the article title. St. Michael is used in the lead and the "Geography" section. In the "Demographics" section "Saint Michael first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as the unincorporated Inuit villages of "Saint Michael and Tachik".", and "It returned in 1890 as Saint Michael. After this St. Michael is used.
:I will add "Saint Michael" as an alternate spelling but there needs to be some tie-in as to why it is referred to as the shortened "St. Michael" in the title. Otr500 (talk) 01:47, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name
Talk:Wales, Alaska

message: It surely has too few inhabitants to be a city.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.140.57.113 (talk) 15:10, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In Alaska, a city is a type of incorporated municipality.  Nothing more, nothing, less, which is why it may be confusing to outsiders used to a city perhaps being something else.  In the latter territorial and early statehood eras, there were incorporated cities which were basically neighborhoods with as little as five or ten people.  Alaska's local government structure underwent a substantial overhaul in 1972.  Even so, I believe the prevailing standard since then is that communities with at least 25 people can incorporate.  Some have fallen below that mark, but the minimum population only applies to incorporating, not to remaining incorporated. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  20:50, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: city

message: Could someone comment on whether there are roads there? Skysong263 (talk) 23:11, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  How do you get there?
Talk:Alpine, Alaska

message: Somebody is having a joke at wikipedia's expense. I spent 12+ years living in the North Slope Borough, and nobody ever mentioned a location named 'Alpine'. The Lat/Lon take you to the village of Nuiqsut, which is indeed a real place. "Alpine's" zero population is thus a tipoff to the bogosity of this entry.
File this one in fictional towns like Cicely, Alaska.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.16.96.33 (talk • contribs) 09:26, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: There is no Alpine, Alaska
Talk:Point Hope, Alaska

message: A Tiny Alaska Village Stares Down Big Oil; Far-flung Point Hope puts Shell's plans for Arctic drilling on ice from September 22, 2011, 6:30 PM EDT BusinessWeek (pages 38, 39, & 40) by Katarzyna Klimasinska.  The bottom line: Shell, which spent nearly $4 billion for rights to drill in Arctic waters, has been stymied by villagers suing to stop the oil giant.   97.87.29.188 (talk) 22:26, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe a wikipedia article, such as Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corporation?   99.119.128.87 (talk) 23:54, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: What is the case name for this one?  99.190.87.183 (talk) 05:58, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Resource regarding [[Royal Dutch Shell]] and the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency]], [[United States Fish and Wildlife Service]], [[National Marine Fisheries Service]]

message: Arctic Village Is Torn by Plan for Oil Drilling ... The residents of Point Hope, Alaska, have long fought outside forces trying to change the nature of the town; now the fighting is from within.  October 26, 2011 by William Yardley and Erik Olsen 
97.87.29.188 (talk) 22:51, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Extraction of petroleum  99.190.85.15 (talk) 03:43, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: [[New York Times]] resource
Talk:Wainwright, Alaska

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If the majority of the residents rely on subsistence hunting, why is the average household income so high?  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.138.54.40 (talk) 00:28, August 20, 2007 (UTC) 
:Probably because Arctic Slope Regional Corporation tends to issue rather generous dividends.  Plus, unlike most Native corporations, they enroll newly-born descendants as shareholders.  Oh yeah, and Inupiat also tend to have large families.  Despite all that, subsistence is important.  Sam Taalak, who was mayor of both Barrow and Nuiqsut, testified in 1982 on proposed oil development in NPR–A.  The gist of what he said is that if hunting and fishing habitat was sacrificed and not preserved, the only alternative the people living there would have is to go to the store and buy a chicken for $25.  Oh yeah, there's also the aspect of them living in a far corner of the earth where consumer goods are exorbitantly expensive in many cases, as I hope I just made clear. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  21:03, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
Talk:Deering, Alaska

message: As I'm reading it, the article reflects an editor's apparent belief that the name Deering came from a ship, but I see no RSes anywhere which may confirm that.  However, there are numerous contemporary mid-20th century sources which indicate that the community was long known as Fairhaven (for the surrounding mining and recording district), which is completely unmentioned (not at all surprising). RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  06:50, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development says the following on their website:The village was established in 1901 as a supply station for Interior gold mining near the historic Malemiut Eskimo village of "Inmachukmiut." The name Deering was probably taken from the 90-ton schooner "Abbey Deering," which was in nearby waters around 1900. The city was incorporated in 1970.This could be taken as reliably sourced information, but it it still sounds to me like guesswork more than anything else.  It's probably where that editor obtained their information from, too. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  07:40, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

text: The village was founded by Johann Paul Richard Escholt (called Richard), born in Germany 1870. He married Maggie Kusugnalook Riley from Little Diomede Island 1903 on the Shooner Deering. This might be the reason for the village name. JanX (talk) 20:00, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Original research?
Talk:Noorvik, Alaska

message: The following coordinate fixes are needed for
—2600:1:C332:D168:E36:CCF9:DFBE:A199 (talk) 10:47, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You haven't explained what you think is erroneous about the coordinates, and I don't understand your heading. I've tweaked them coordinates slightly to correspond to a point nearer the center of the settlement, but if you still think that there is an error, you'll need to give a clear explanation of what is wrong. Deor (talk) 15:28, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idenity theft to thmd comm
Talk:Red Dog Mine, Alaska

message: Proving a negative is a difficult task.
In this case I want to prove that no one "lives" in the Red Dog Mine CDP, but am unable to find a published source stating so. Nor can I find a published source stating that no one lives on top of Mt. Edgecumbe, near Sitka. But I could create a published source (the US census for 2010) claiming that the summit of Mt. Edgcumbe is indeed inhabited if I report in 2010 that I live there with my 15 children.
All employees of the Red Dog mine work and stay at the mine in shifts several weeks long. All stay in the mine's PAC (Personnel Accommodation Center). No houses or homes exist in the CDP (as correctly reported by the census).
The census data for the Red Dog Mine CDP is a result of the reporting oddity that of the hundreds of employees of the Red Dog mine, a few individuals chose to report the mine, their worksite, as their home. A perhaps not unreasonable choice, if those individuals actually were "homeless" when not at work, e.g., staying with friends, family, or traveling the world.
My point is that the reported census data gives a ridiculously wrong report; at any given time there are hundreds of people working, eating, and sleeping within the Red Dog Mine CDP - this is verifiable - see the references within the Red Dog mine article; but zero people (not 32) "live" there.
Are aircraft carriers reported as CDP's? Certainly some of the hundreds of military teenagers who serve on them have no houses or apartments back in the US. But to have a Wikipedia article blandly stating that the population of the USS Nimitz is 32 would be absurd. As is the census report that the Red Dog Mine CDP has a population of 32.
It is still my contention that the Red Dog Mine CDP does not warrant an article. It is of interest only to statisticians, mensurators, and census-takers interested in how difficult it is to catagorize data, and how that data can be mis-collected and mis-represented. The article as it stands, although it accurately parrots the 2000 census data, has a 100% misleading/false demographics section, and makes Wikipedia look like the unintelligent junk some people (not me) like to claim it is.CGX (talk) 05:35, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Census data

message: But lots of people are interested in the mine.
The Red Dog Mine CDP wikipedia article is number 2 when one googles red dog mine.
All those googlers are after facts on the mine, not the CDP.
That is why it is appropriate to strip the article on the CDP to a bare minimum, rather than leave misleadingly-summerized references to the mine on the CDP page. Let them click through to the mine article.CGX (talk) 05:42, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: NO one cares about the CDP
Talk:Metlakatla, Alaska

message: Don't know how to put this in right, or to change it right, but Metlakla doesn't do daylight savings time, its also a dry community-Jason  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.223.206.197 (talk) 09:46, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

message: I just wanted to point this out to anyone who may be interested in using them for something, perhaps to expand this page or for a local history project. Most of them were taken in 1917 by a Sir Henry Wellcome, who seems to have liked the place. Or had a new camera :)
National Archives pictures are free to use on Wikipedia or elsewhere, since they belong to the US government. Some of them are in a gallery here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metlakahtla,_Alaska
I do not remember which of the NARA batches they were in, but if you search the site commons.wikimedia.org for Henry Wellcome you will find literally hundreds of photos that have not yet been sorted.
Hope that helps someone. Please feel free to ask me a question on my talk page if you are interested but not sure how to proceed. Elinruby (talk) 09:22, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The National Archives Project has a huge number of images on this topic 
Talk:Naukati Bay, Alaska

message: For Alaskans in South-Eastern Alaska, the water, Inside Passage a.k.a. Inland Passage is the major "road".
Links to nautical charts (even if they are "Public Domain") are relatively more important
than than "Public Domain" Census data.
Perhaps you should start by deleting all the Public Domain Census data?
Please restore the chart links and the short nautical narrative text which you removed.
I do not want to undo you edits nor have to again sort out what someone else deleted.
What is it with you "Census" folks?
LeheckaG (talk) 22:14, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Census "borgs" at it again ... 

message: Also, if you look at the example "Featured" city articles,
they do not begin with the "Census paragraph", especially not a "Census sentence".
They begin with where the location is at and some interesting relevant facts about it.
Reading about the Census in the first paragraph is mildly annoying,
in the first sentence is too much.
LeheckaG (talk) 22:21, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style 
Talk:Hobart Bay, Alaska

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"The bay was named in 1889 by Lt. Commander Mansfield of the U. S. Navy." Huh? Recury 02:53, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

message: According to this, there's only one person left. Did the couple move out? Who is that remaining person? I think we should be told. Milliped (talk) 17:37, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is left then?
Talk:Skagway, Alaska

message: According to the criteria for third-letter "s" climates (C and D main groups) in the Köppen climate classification system, a true "s" ("Mediterranean" in the broadest sense) climate should have its driest summer month with a precipitation less than 40 millimetres and less than one-third of the wettest winter month's precipitation. "Winter" and "summer", unlike in the aridity threshold criteria for B climates, are here defined as the meteorological seasons each spanning three months (and not six like the low-sun and high-sun halves of the year). So, as Skagway's driest summer month (June) receives 28.3 mm of precipitation, the first criterion is met, but not the second - the wettest winter month (December) has only 63.7 mm, the quotient of both is still 28.3 / 61.7 ≈ 0.45, which is clearly above the threshold for dry summers.--Yadgar (talk) 20:55, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: If winter is indeed defined as three months for determining if a climate has a dry summer, then Salt Lake City also doesn't qualify for Dsa, since none of the three winter months have precipitation more three times that of the driest summer month. — Eru·tuon 01:48, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Köppen climate formula 

message: I’ve asked for third-party assistance with this at Help talk:IPA#Skagway, Alaska Beeblebrox (talk) 03:01, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPA pronunciation 

message: The site in this ca. 1898 photofraoh is labeled as Foster Glacier near Skagway. I can't find a glacier by that name in the area. Does anyone know what it is? FloridaArmy (talk) 12:42, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: GNIS lookup says that Taku Glacier was named Foster Glacier in 1890 by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in honor of Charles Foster.  Not precisely "near Skagway". RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  00:10, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Glacier

message: The article claims prospectors jumped the Moore family claim when it is more complex. The Moore's were British subjects and so were not eligible for a United States homestead. At the time they came it was uncertain if Skagway was in Alaska or Canada. RichardBond (talk) 11:49, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moore family claim 

message: I take issue with the note that claims Jesse Murphy is accredited with the killing of Soapy Smith. By definition, accredited means “officially recognized,” and at the Skagway coroner’s inquest held after Soapy’s death, the jury under oath determined that Frank Reid killed Soapy Smith, not Murphy. That is the only officially recognized verdict, rendered after two autopsies and the interviews of numerous witnesses. 
I don’t have a problem with people saying that Murphy killed Smith if that’s what they believe, but in legal terms, describing it as official is simply not true. 24.237.31.191 (talk) 06:12, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jesse Murphy NOT accredited with killing Soapy Smith