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Talk:Sleetmute, Alaska

message: The article on Nightmute says: "Negtemiut literally means ‘the people of the pressed-down place’.[8] The first element is negte- ‘to press down on’. The suffix is -miut ‘people’.[9]."
It seems safe to assume that Sleitmiut/Sleetmute is from a similar construction, being in the same county. But what, then does "Sleit" mean in Yupik? Anyone have access to the sources from the Nightmute article? Might they shed some light on Sleetmute as well?
*Fienup-Riordan, Ann (1983). The Nelson Island Eskimo. Alaska Pacific University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-935094-09-1. "Nightmute (Negtemiut, lit. people of the pressed down place)"
* Bright, William (2004). Native American Placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 326. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4. "From Yupik (Eskimo) negtemiut, perhaps containing negte- 'to press down on'; the suffix -miut means 'people' (Jacobson 1984)."
67.8.203.16 (talk) 20:00, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Meaning of original name
Talk:Toksook Bay, Alaska

message: An anonymous editor changed the Yupik version of the name from "Nunakauyak" to "Nunakauyarmuit". That URL has been used for vandalism before and since (Contributions/192.234.141.17), but I don't know Yupik, so I don't know if this edit is too.
—WWoods (talk) 18:26, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism?
Talk:Naknek, Alaska

message: There are several weasel words and what appears to be original research in this section, so it needs to be removed or rewritten. Verifiability is necessary for statements like "friendly and knowledgable library staff" and editors cannot rely on personal experience to make such statements even though it may well be true. Besides which we would expect all library staff to have these qualities. I am not going to tag each individual statement but suggest someone interested try to comply with policy and guidelines on these matters. ww2censor (talk) 00:15, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fun things to do in Naknek
Talk:Anderson, Alaska

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Sbmeirow (talk) 08:58, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Important Notes Before Editing This Article 
Talk:Cantwell, Alaska

message: According to an article I read, this is where principal photography for the film "Into the Wild" took place. Is that true?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.185.174.18 (talk) 13:12, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd write it as a paragraph... something like "Although events of the feature film Into the Wild did not take place in Cantwell, so and so production company filmed some shots there." If, on the other hand, events from Into the Wild did take place in Cantwell, that's even more material. —Rob (talk) 20:26, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Into the Wild 
Talk:Denali Park (CDP), Alaska

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved   Calidum 18:57, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Denali Park, Alaska (census-designated place) →  – This article was moved to its present title in accordance with the Census Bureau changing the CDP's name.  An undisambiguated title would not work on two fronts.  First, in most people's eyes, "Denali Park, Alaska" would likely refer to Denali National Park and Preserve rather than the CDP.  The CDP contains a small portion of the park surrounding its main entrance, but the majority of its permanent population and other human activity is centered on privately-owned lands along the George Parks Highway east of the park boundaries.  Second, the area north of the park entrance, where most of that activity occurs, is colloquially known as "Glitter Gulch".  While that term has received coverage from reliable sources (Frommer's, Anchorage Daily News, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner), "Glitter Gulch" is a dab page and this is clearly not a primary topic for that title.  That leaves us with options for parenthetical disambiguation.  For one, WP:ATDAB suggests that parenthetical disambiguation be kept as short and sweet as possible.  For another, a title search suggests that the present title falls outside of accepted convention.  A search for the present title's naming convention turned up two articles, Jefferson, West Virginia and Thorncreek Township, Whitley County, Indiana, both of which were previously at similar titles before being moved to undisambiguated titles.  OTOH, a search for the target title's naming convention turned up scores, if not hundreds, of simliar titles.  The URL syntax made a direct link difficult, but the search engine has a intitle search option, so direct links shouldn't be necessary. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  05:10, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 6 April 2022
Talk:Dillingham, Alaska

message: Cause of plane crash on 9 August 2010 is speculative as no report has been released.
TW (talk) 14:37, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crash cause speculative 
Talk:Ester, Alaska

message: I added a section on Ester wildlife. 137.229.78.131 (talk) 01:18, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  new section--wildlife 

message: I added two women to the Notable Esterites section. I could use some help in finding birth and death dates for Ruth Long and Ida Laine. Are there other notable women? AnaSoc (talk) 03:17, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: found Ida Laine's birth and death date.AnaSoc (talk) 02:31, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable people 

message: Worked on the lead summary paragraph today to bring it more into alignment with Wikipedia norms. There is still the issue of the style not being sufficiently Wikipedia. Anyone want to assist with remedying this? It would be cool if we could get those two critiques off the article.AnaSoc (talk) 18:45, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  lead summary paragraph and more changes needed
Talk:North Pole, Alaska

message: The WikiProject U.S. Cities standards might help.
It seems like there should be some mention of the oil refineries at North Pole.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.112.168.106 (talk) 17:36, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I know.  Too many articles needing help for the kind of time I may actually have, unfortunately.  This one's usually near the top of my list, though.RadioKAOS (talk) 21:55, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "The Polar Bears of this region are some of the greatest animals to view in the wild.  
As a young infant I was taken there and was able to watch them fish in the river.  This 
is and experience that I will never forget along with the white snow.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Calevingston (talk • contribs) 17:15, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: For the record, there are no actual polar bears in the vicinity of the geographical North Pole either. They never wander quite that far from the coastlines, or that far north. :) 188.150.75.100 (talk) 23:08, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polar Bears 
Talk:Excursion Inlet, Alaska

message: I began some preliminary research into the history of various canneries in the Inlet in an effort to add sources to these currently unattributed sentences, "Excursion Inlet has had a fishing cannery since 1891. The current plant, constructed in 1918, still functions to this day. It mostly processes pink and chum salmon, as well as salmon roe, salmon caviar, halibut and sablefish. It is located near the mouth of the inlet, about 40 miles (64 km) west of Juneau. Its seasons run from late June to mid-September. Excursion Inlet Cannery is one of the largest fish canneries in the world and was acquired by Ocean Beauty Seafoods in 2003." 
However I was overwhelmed by the many canneries operating over the years so am stepping back but including some potential sources for further exploration if other editors want to take this up.
References
*Jim Mackovjak (2013). Canning Salmon at Excursion Inlet, Alaska: The First Century. Alaska Historical Society, https://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/tag/excursion-inlet/
*Pacific American Fisheries Records, 1875-1994 1899-1967. Western Washington University, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv45835
*Alaska State Historical Library, Photographs of Excursion Inlet, https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg21/search/searchterm/Excursion%20Inlet%20(Alaska)/field/locati/mode/exact/conn/and
*Grantham, Anjuli, Janet Clemens, Karen Hofstad, Dave Kiffer, Bob King, Howard M. Kutchin, Jim Mackovjak, Sue J. Paulsen, Oscar Pen��aranda, Patricia Roppel, Mark Sandvik, Wayne Short, Gary E. Williams, and Robert Yates. Tin Can Country: Southeast Alaska's Historic Salmon Canneries. , 2019. Print. https://www.worldcat.org/title/tin-can-country-southeast-alaskas-historic-salmon-canneries/oclc/1100643370  Shackpoet (talk) 01:14, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of Canneries
Talk:Haines, Alaska

message: The last paragraph of the "History" section seems to dismiss fishing and logging as sources of commerce (granted, logging in Haines hasn't been steady for decades), but then leaves the reader with tourism as the only remaining alternative.  Combined, these points clearly implicate tourism as the only source of commerce in Haines.  Can anyone offer some up-to-date data here? Chrishibbard7 (talk) 20:25, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Tourism main source of commerce?
Talk:Anchor Point, Alaska

message: This has come up on some other talk page, but I'm not sure if a reliable source has tackled it or not.  Since I had a second, I took a look at Google Maps.  As precisely as I could pinpoint things, it appears that the end of the Tofty Road is at 151.949441 W, while the end of the road at the Anchor Point beach is at 151.867788 W.  Pinging , who has shown an interest in this issue and may have been the one to raise this point in the discussion I refer to above. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  04:30, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: It is written in this article: Anchor Point is the westernmost point in the North American highway system (linking to National Highway System (United States)). But I think that the Tofty Road is a local road, not a part of the highway system. I don't know where this was discussed, I was probably not involved. Because of this ping I searched and found an article listing Northernmost or Westernmost US road, List of extreme points of the United States. It has "Westernmost point on the continuous road system of North America" which however seems to be Tofty Road.--BIL (talk) 19:22, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Westernmost highway point
Talk:Bear Creek, Alaska

message: Driving around the area provided by the coordinates, didn't see much. How are these determined? - Scarpy (talk) 19:29, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I think they often come from GNIS. Bear Creek doesn't have a main drag or a downtown or anything like that, it's kind of like Kachemak, Alaska, a small, not entirely seperate community right outside of a larger one. I believe both were created largely to avoid being annexed by Homer or Seward respectively. (Is it greening up over there yet? We're just getting started here, but sometimes they seem to be ahead of our side of the Peninsula) Beeblebrox (talk) 20:19, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lat/Long?
Talk:Beluga, Alaska

message: First it says none of the households in the CDP anyone over 65, then in the next paragraph it says that a non-zero percentage had someone over 65. It says there were kids, then it says there were no kids. It says _all_ the income was $0, then immediately says no one had income below the poverty line! 
What gives? Is one set of data from 2000 & one from 2010? If so, that needs to be mentioned! 
Right now, the data as listed seems to make no sense at all... ProphetZarquon (talk) 03:57, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Census data contradictory as listed?
Talk:Crown Point, Alaska

message: Is this worth mentioning?
U.S. Geological Survey agents reported a railroad station called "Trail Lake Station" at this site in 1912.
http://www.explorenorth.com/library/communities/alaska/bl-CrownPoint.htm
66.41.195.142 00:04, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trail Lake Station 
Talk:Fritz Creek, Alaska

message: There's another article on the fire from the Peninsula Clarion, but they only give you one "free" article before the paywall comes down, and I had to go with the one about the cat, so I can't see the one about the fire. It's at  if anyone wants to take a peek. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:20, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I managed to get a look at it, it is mostly a retread of previous coverage. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:40, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  another article
Talk:Funny River, Alaska

message: It says funny river. TheMisterMooseMan (talk) 16:40, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  This city name made me laugh
Talk:Hope, Alaska

message: This article is a very rough draft, and was not proof-read to a great degree.  I am currently working on getting the information from the State of Alaska's community information database copied over for each community, at which point I will come back through and start editing.  If this message is still here, that means I have yet to come back.  Of course, please feel free to clean this up, hopefully to conform with the WikiProject_Cities standards (or at least, as well as can be done for Alaska's unique villages and towns).  Thanks!!  —akghetto talk 10:56, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Status of article
Talk:Kalifornsky, Alaska

message: FYI.  A few days ago I edited this article with additional info from the Alaska Community Database & from some other sources in order to help make clear its status as not a town or city (no local government), to add some local history, and to disambiguate it from  Kalifornsky village.  I also changed the page Kalifornsky from being a redirect page to being a disambiguation page.  I'm working extensively on improving the article on Peter Kalifornsky, after whose ancestor Kalifornsky village was names (& eventually also Kalifornsky Beach Road, & hence Kalifornsky CDP).  Also added sources for the info I provided; the original article has no sourcing, though given its standard look in comparison with other Alaska community pages, it looks like it came out of somebody's database -- maybe one from the U.S. census, since it doesn't have the look of the Alaska Community Database, with which I am intimately familiar. -- Yksin 00:48, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: *And FYI, two years later, I have undone this split and re-merged the two articles. While the article on Peter Kalifornsky looks good, the article on the village never really went anywhere and was still mostly word-for-word the "History and Culture" section of this article. If more information is found it may be appropriate to split it back off, but there honestly doesn't seem to be much more to say. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:27, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Distinguishing Kalifornsky CDP from Kalifornsky village
Talk:Nikolaevsk, Alaska

message: For anyone interested in updating this, a bit of journalism was written about the town: "Town clings to customs despite external influences". There's not too much to take from the story, but a couple snippets might help. — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 02:53, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Journalism about the town 
Talk:Ninilchik, Alaska

message: User:Olegwiki just posted this very interesting link on the Russian America article; some of its history shoudl be integrated here, I'll suggest it to him.....  I also added the Indigenous peoples wikiproject, which should be added to all Alaskan communities with dominant indigenous-origin populations...Skookum1 (talk) 16:44, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: *I have redirected the Ninilchik Russian article here, as it was a one-line stub and already covered in this article. Also, all of the sources were self published websites, so it is not really verified properly that this is recognized by linguists as a separate and distinct dialect. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:30, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: *There is a academic publication in Russian by Kibrik that recognizes the Ninilchik language as a dialect. Link in the refs in ru:Нинильчикский_диалект_русского_языка. Also he wrote book in English, probably it's self published. 85.140.186.85 (talk) 02:58, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Ninilchik Russian]] language

message: I believe this term was being used because it is substantially longer by road, maybe we should clarify that. "As the crow flies" it is only 100 miles, but according to The Milepost it is 188 miles via the highway. Between Cook Inlet and the mountains the options for road building in this area were rather limitedBeeblebrox (talk) 04:56, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Air miles" 

message: Mention should be made of the research on the Russian of Ninilchik reported here: http://home.uchicago.edu/~jkantarovich/kantarovich_bathesis_nov2012.pdf
See the bibliography at the end of the report for the full bibliographical reference for Bergelson and Kibrik's publication on the subjectS. Valkemirer (talk) 13:47, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  More on the Russian of Ninilchik.
Talk:Port Graham, Alaska

message: :There was a town or village at the location earlier than 1883. The Augustine Volcano eruption (50 miles away) of July 6, 1883, that destroyed the summit, apparently created a tsunami that carried away boats and deluged houses. 
:In 1786 the bay was named "Grahams Harbour” by Captain Nathaniel Portlock. In 1788 it was named "Cool Bay" by Captain John Meares and the Russians called it “Bukhta Anglitskaya” (“English Bay”) but now this name refers to a small bay around Nanwalek. The bay around the village (locally referred to as Paluwik) is now known as Kachemak Bay.
:The Fidalgo Island Packing Company (pp.28) built a cannery at Port Graham in 1901. 
:By 1909 there was a cannery still in operation, wharf, and a post office in operation between 1938 and 1961.
:The Alutiiq (Sugpiaq) is a federally recognized tribe and member of the Chugach Native Association. The area is serviced by the Port Graham Airport. 
:Sources
*A Short History of Port Graham
*The McMullen road runs east and ties into the Port Graham road.  --  Otr500 (talk) 14:49, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  History
Talk:Seldovia, Alaska

message: I don’t get why we have a seperate article on Seldovia Village, Alaska. Are they not the same place? Seldovia is not exactly a major city. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:15, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: As usual, I wait until I have to be running along to come around here.  As quickly as I can, this appears to be yet another matter of confusing a legally constituted entity which has a legally defined boundary with its ZIP Code Tabulation Area.  Whenever I bring up the matter of confusing the two in various discussions, I'm met with responses to the effect that it's a awful idea to try and define a community by its ZCTA rather than its actual corporate limits, even though many do anyway.  We afford a gross amount of undue weight to the Unorganized Borough in relation to its functions simply because it's a legally constituted entity, even though it's a horrible means of geographically dividing Alaska, considering that it hopscotches across the entire state save for the northern two or three degrees of latitude.  Anyway, in the course of my regular research about past figures in Alaskan political history, I came across this, which may provide background on why the two haven't been combined already.  To makes matters even muddier, there's also Jakolof Bay, Alaska, a former CDP containing portions of the current Seldovia Village CDP.  There's a clearer case for merging those two articles, especially if you're one who believes that Census Bureau geography is purely arbitrary.  Also, my watchlist shows that  has been doing lots of work regarding past census etymologies, division and population counts, so I've pinged that editor in case they have any relevant knowledge to bring to this discussion. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  23:39, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger
Talk:Seward, Alaska

message: I removed the following text as it is more appropriated for the state of Alaska as a whole, not for the community of Seward:
: for $7,200,000 on March 30, 1867.  This translated into approximately 2.5 cents per acre ($6.18/km²) for 586,400 square miles (1,519,000 km²) of territory, three times the size of Texas.  The purchase of this frontier land ("Seward's Icebox") was mocked as "Seward's Folly" and Andrew Johnson's "polar bear garden"
Epolk 19:40, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of text 

message: Sorry I'm no expert on Wikipedia, but I noticed that the german wikipedia page [] uses a much nicer location map than the english version. Is there a good reason for this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.232.64.175 (talk) 10:30, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location Map Quality 

message: While I'm looking at this page, does anyone know what is meant by the sentence "Seward is the seventh most lucrative fisheries port in the United States per value."? Pfly (talk) 04:40, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Per value? 

message: Hazel lived in Seward in the last several days of her life. Percyjacksonfan1239 (talk) 16:29, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hazel Levesque from Heroes of Olympus
Talk:Saxman, Alaska

message: Found this on the tribal entities in Alaska list, wondering if it's the same thing as the City of Saxman or if there's a distinction between the native part/govermment of the community and any non-native one; if not it should be in the lede and in the infobox.Skookum1 (talk) 16:04, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Organized Village of Saxman]] redirects here
Talk:Larsen Bay, Alaska

message: The town (Not quite a city !) is named after a Russian furrier name Peter Larsen.
Will update this article soon.
Woodsstock 15:06, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peter Larsen 
Talk:Chignik Lake, Alaska

message: (See recent news accounts) Does this info need to be on the page?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.207.2.2 (talk) 14:46, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of the 1st confirmed wolf killing of a human in over 100 years 