Talk:List of people from Minneapolis

message: I see absolutely no citations that these people were ever actually called Minneapolitans. Where did this moniker come from? Some cheap magazine? Some politician once? I have lived in the Minnesota Twin Cities area for 47 years and have NEVER heard a person call themselves a Minneapolitan. Like that would be something extra special instead of being from the Twin Cities, or Minnesota.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.55.210.44 (talk) 06:58, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Minneapolitans

message: Proposed criteria for changes from Minneapolis talk page developed when this list was part of Minneapolis, Minnesota
*Maximum of 50 people
*Residence however brief in the city of Minneapolis (for example, not Saint Paul or Bloomington)
*Influence outside Minneapolis (for example, an award or obituary might establish this)
*Notability compared to others in the list
*Balance of field of interests (for example, if the list has three musicians and you add one then remove one)
*Exceptions as agreed on this talk page (for example, careers of women and minorities may not be as well documented as white males)
*Birthplace of Minneapolis is not a requirement as Wikipedia already generates Category:People from_Minneapolis, Minnesota — Preceding unsigned comment added by UnitedStatesian  (talk • contribs) 15:37, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe this made sense at the time, but it's badly outdated. There's no good reason to restrict this list to fifty people, and I've removed the HTML comment discouraging additions. Look over the rest of  and you'll see most other lists try to be comprehensive; this article should be too. Also, this "list" is not presented in a list format. I admire the attempt to make good prose, but this is one of those cases where a list format is more appropriate. I've tagged it accordingly. --BDD (talk) 17:22, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Criteria

message: Hello. I went to considerable trouble to put this into prose form. Why on earth would you want a plain list? -SusanLesch (talk) 21:52, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems to me that a list is tantamount to opening this article to drive-by additions by anybody, their grandchildren and their grandparents. For that reason, I for one do not have time to maintain a plain list. I will leave a note on the talk page of the person who tagged the article. -SusanLesch (talk) 14:10, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Look over  and you'll see this is how these lists are normally formatted. You say "drive-by additions," I say "building the encyclopedia." Perhaps you misunderstand the scope of the article based on the name. Don't read the name literally—absolutely no one is suggesting we tilt at a comprehensive list of all people from Minneapolis. They have to be notable. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists#List naming for more. Therefore any notable person—simply judged by whether he or she has an article—can and should be added to this list, probably sorted by fields of work or study. It makes no sense to derive further arbitrary inclusion criteria or to cap the number of people who can be mentioned here. Now, if there were ever a notable TV program like 100 Greatest Britons, about the 50 most famous people from Minneapolis, we could make a list there. But there's no reason Minneapolis should be treated so wildly differently than all these other American cities. --BDD (talk) 14:50, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I am sorry but I have no interest in supporting your project. Good luck to you, BDD. -SusanLesch (talk) 15:06, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
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