Talk:Northern Michigan

message: we need a map of Northern michigan with cities listed. I am lazy but will do it if nobody else wants to contribute to the legacy of wikipedia by drawing and posting one. MPS 20:41, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Map needed

message: DONE It should be reordered by someone based on the numbers, and create a 'dial' like the FM listing.  Right now its just random.
7&6=thirteen (talk) 01:29, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The AM radio listing is a complete mess

message: Somebody needs to do a commentary on US-31, US-27 and US-131.  I almost never drive those, and I'm bored with the size of putting this whole road thing together.  There are probably fairly good descriptions of at least one of them in Traverse City, Michigan.
DONE. We should also add in M-115 and M-13 (needs commentary)  (the latter runs north from Bay City to Standish and US-23, and is the hypotonous of a right triangle, where one might have considered using I-75 to get to US-23.
7&6=thirteen (talk) 19:29, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Road work

message: This article is completely lacking in a broader and better researched history section, which it really needs.
7&6=thirteen (talk) 16:49, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: There are relevant statistics on Michigan, which I believe are part of the larger picture.  One of our editors removed this as 'irrelevant'.  My request to him for more relevant data (presumably limited to Northern Michigan) has gone unanswered.  Here is the data:
 	 
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The geographical theme of this region is shaped by the fact that it is part of greater Michigan, which has:
	 
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* of land.
	 
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* of inland water.
	 
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* of Great Lakes water area.
	 
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* of Great Lakes shoreline.
	 
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*11,037 inland lakes.Michigan statistics 
7&6=thirteen (talk) 16:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Those stats are in the Michigan article already. Why re-add them here? Comparative statistics (as in, "this region comprises 1/4 of the land area of the state" (I made that up)) are useful, but not stats about the state and not the region. I agree with Rmherman on this one. Also, I don't think that a complete listing of every detail is really useful -- such as every single AM radio station. It doesn't add to the encyclopedic quality of the article and just adds a lot of extra material to wade through. That may be more relevant on, say, WikiTravel. -- dcclark (talk) 05:39, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Statistics on Michigan

message: As to the criticism on the radio stations, maybe it does belong somewhere else, and a simple link would solve the issue.  However, I don't think that this information is anywhere else, and simply deleting it makes little sense, as it is potentially useful to users.  On the other hand, it si at the end of this article, and doesn't really detract from the flow.
7&6=thirteen (talk) 12:13, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: List of radio stations.  The Central Michigan University NPR station has a bunch of stations ( that service northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula.  They probably should be included.  They are WCMU-FM 89.5 Mt. Pleasant; WUCX-FM 90.1 Bay City; WCML-FM 91.7 Alpena; WWCM-FM 96.9 Standish; WCMZ-FM 98.3 Sault Saint Marie; WCMB-FM 95.7 Oscoda; and WCMW-FM 103.9 Harbor Springs.  7&6=thirteen (talk) 13:00, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Lists of radio stations, etc.

message: Added it.  This needs a list of prominent Northern Michigan businesses.  Such a list exists in Western Michigan.
7&6=thirteen (talk) 16:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Business section

message: i need to know the population of humans in this region. i dont feel like spending hours looking at every individual county just to find out.
99.51.212.6 (talk) 17:08, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  what isw the population of northern michigan?

message: Is "Northern Michigan" a proper noun? Id est, should "Northern" be capitalized? Arbitrarily0 (talk) 19:05, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Northern Michigan's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "drury":
From Ann Arbor Railroad (1895–1976): 
From Pennsylvania Railroad: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 01:38, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Northern Michigan]] 

message: Although, some residents of the Upper Peninsula often say that "Northern Michigan" is not in the Lower Peninsula  It is a phrase without a noun or verb.  7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:42, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Residents - noun, say - verb  Rmhermen (talk) 02:20, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: This is not a sentence

message: I just added a bunch of stuff to the history section in the last few days and it s getting rather long... do you think it would be ok to start a History of northern Michigan article? I have not even touched the 20th century and there is still some stuff from the Louisiana (New France) era that I think would be valuable. Peace MPS (talk) 22:51, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: MPS FWIW, I think a dedicated article would be a good addition.  7&6=thirteen (☎) 00:27, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Northern Michigan's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "state":
From St. Ignace Mission: 
From Manitou Island Light Station: Manitou Island Light Station form the state of Michigan, retrieved 8/19/09
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 22:54, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Northern Michigan]] 

message: I noticed a number of references using the url to a Google Book link. I though editors might be interested in a tool which takes a link as input and creates a (usually) properly formatted ref.
Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books
I used it to improve two such references.
It really helps creates a much cleaner list of references. I hope you will try it. S Philbrick(Talk) 19:31, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  These were added a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away.  7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:32, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

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message: Article needs additional information on this, I think.  7&6=thirteen (☎) 12:38, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: List of museums

message: While the infobox map serves its purpose, I'm not a big fan of it.  Except the Upper Peninsula and Metro Detroit, no major regions in the state have any defined boundaries; the sub-articles themselves even admit that and don't provide any valuable references.  While that can be a discussion for another day, my easiest concern can be why is Bois Blanc Island colored as if it is part of Northern Michigan, when it is part of the Upper Peninsula?  I tried to upload a revised version of the map on Commons to change the island's color, but it said I don't have permission since it is not my original image.  I don't want to upload an entirely new image if there is a way that the simple error can be fixed on the original image. —Notorious4life (talk) 00:05, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox map