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Talk:Kokomo, Indiana

Ponderosa
Shouldn't it be listed about the first ever Ponderosa opened in Kokomo in 1968, if you go to the "Ponderosa/Bonanza Steakhouse" page on wikipedia it says that on there, also on the Ponderosa page it has the sources that would be nessesary for it to be added here —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dustin4528354 (talk • contribs) 01:13, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Brutal cull
I chopped out a lot of material that was not appropriate for an encylopedia/almanac. Road construction projects, shopping center store lists, and "minor parks" do not belong here. This is stuff that belongs on a chamber of commerce Web site or personal Web site. --Tysto 07:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC) HELL0? First mcdonalds diner in Kokomo Indiana in 2000? O RLY?

Or first pneumatic rubber tire? Not hardly, by about fifty years and 3000+ miles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.215.2.193 (talk) 07:44, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Fred Rogers
Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, was on the list of people who had lived in Kokomo. I've found no reference to him living in Kokomo, Indiana. Sorry.

Stainless Steel
Reason for invention contradicts reason given in the entry for Elwood Haynes

Also, Elwood Haynes not mentioned in article "Stainless Steel" as an inventor of that substance. Most information points to Mr. Haynes being the first to use stainless steel to craft dinnerware. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.215.2.193 (talk) 07:36, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

In external links one of the links is not right
Kokomo IN Real Estate - Howard Co Real Estate points to http://www.athomeinkokomo.com/ which is just some REALTOR'S® website. It should point to http://raci.org which is the website of the Howard County Board of REALTORS® which has the entire MLS database online. I'm not able to edit this page so someone more important than me will have to do it.

Gregmess37 04:57, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Please add this or refer to the movie
Kokomo is listed as origin of the Cat in the cartoon Cats Don't Dance. Sean Cleary 71.189.135.118 14:30, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

 * I think so that (the cat's name is Danny). WAVY 10 01:31, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

 * I added it under a new subsection. WAVY 10 13:49, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Not Sure if reference is for Kokomo, IN - But I recall an old (1939) Movie called The Kid from Kokomo. Seems it would have more relevance than a cartoon. --Caveman.otr (talk) 15:23, 25 March 2008 (UTC) One other movie reference I can think of is in the (1989) movie Assassination, if someone can verify. Charles Bronson & the First Lady get off a passenger train, in a small town with mountains in the background.. I believe that town was referrd to as Kokomo..--Caveman.otr (talk) 15:34, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Ryan White
Shouldn't there be a reference to the Ryan White business here? Maybe under KKK?SidiLemine 14:13, 17 September 2007 (UTC)---

Check under "Famous Kokomo residents...I mean "Notable residents"...Baldwin91006 02:28, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Not good enough. There should be something in the history section of this article that talks about how intolerant Kokomo was toward Ryan White and how the majority of the town's citizens effectively forced White and his family out.  Likewise, for the Wikipedia entry for the town of Cicero, Indiana, they can put down that they welcomed White and his family in with open arms.  In Kokomo, only the staff of the local paper defended Ryan White.  In Cicero, there was overwhelming acceptance of Ryan.  This is a part of both towns' histories -- whether the current citizens of Kokomo like it or not -- and it should be detailed very specifically in their article writeups.  68.91.90.30 (talk) 06:27, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I'm sorry, but the whole town was not out to get him. It may have seemed that way to the White family (the minority can seem like a majority if they are loud enough).  The employees of Delco Electronics, where his mom worked, took up a collection for the family for their medical expenses.  Most people in the town didn't pay very much attention either way.  Maybe a majority of the town was indifferent, but a 40,000 mob with pitchforks and torches?  No way.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.112.135.3 (talk) 10:33, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

 * Nice going, guy. Not only did you proceed with writing a section that generalizes Kokomokians, characterizing them as all being ignorant redneck assholes, but you copied and pasted the whole thing from the Ryan White article, itself. Oh, and let's not forget about how you didn't even sign your name; only your IP section appears. Why don't you put your name on there? It seems to me that you have an agenda. Well, Wikipedia is generally a pretty dubious reference source, and it's (appropriately) considered to be the laughing-stock of the internet, but I will also say that it's not a place for people who have agendas or chips on their shoulders in which to vent. If you have an agenda, then I suggest that you write a book. It IS truly sad that some Kokomokians acted in an inappropriate, immature, goonish, moronic and barbaric way. But as the person who replied to you in the paragraph above told you, it wasn't the whole town. Generalizations such as the ones that you put in the article have no place in the article about Kokomo. The whole story is detailed in the Ryan White article (which, as I said, is an exact duplicate of what is seen in THIS article). Why not just have a link to the Ryan White article in the section that lists famous people from Kokomo? I don't feel that a detailed section about the Ryan White story belongs in this article, largely because it's already covered in the Ryan White article. I also feel that it takes up an inproportionate amount of space in the Kokomo article. Runt (talk) 03:34, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

 * I have no intention of writing anything to this article, but I would point out that while he might have an agenda in adding Ryan White, I'm not convinced you don't have an agenda in keeping him out. Like it or not, that is something that Kokomo is known for.  For it not even mentioned is a whitewash.  Not saying I consider it important or should head the article, but it is a legitimate association with Kokomo.  It is a shame, yes, and I'm sure many of the town's residents regret it ever happening, but nonetheless, it did.  Compounding the infraction is the fact that you include Ryan White as a famous person from Kokomo, as if he were some favored son that Kokomo could point to, almost like an accomplishment.  Ryan White, I'm afraid, is actually a serious black mark on the town's history. 24.160.82.185 (talk) 01:48, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Notable People
The Notable People from Kokomo is just getting out of hand with people who very few would ever consider famous. Unknown sports teams and musicians. Come on people. Just stick with a core list, it's getting out of hand. --74.132.94.122 (talk) 05:12, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

I think that the list has gotten way out of hand (either again, in reference to the earlier statement, or never changed). I think it either needs to be cut down or removed and made its own page with a link on Kokomo's main page. I'm betting we can get rid of about 90% of these "notable" people. Any suggestions? (Rapierce (talk) 21:28, 23 January 2012 (UTC))

Culture
I was reading over the article for Kokomo, and I was getting very bored with all the information about the "famous" people and all the information about having the firsts in different restaurant chains do not really say very much about the city. I was maybe suggesting some more information about the culture such as the Seiberlings, Elwood Haynes, Big Ben and the Sycamore Stump would be more suitable for an encyclopedia than having the first starbucks in a non municipal area. The section with all the external links would be a great place to start writing sections on the local culture and history, reference them. --Rapierce (talk) 20:23, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Beach Boys
Theres a reference to some obscure line from Band Of Brothers listed on the page, but NOTHING about the Beach Boys song? What gives? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.183.51.43 (talk) 21:18, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

The Beach Boys song was about a bar in Florida, not about the town in Indiana.

See Kokomo_(song) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edknol (talk • contribs) 23:57, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

And yet we have zero proof of the claim about the song being about “a bar in Florida,” and “not about the town in Indiana.” You need to show proof via a reputable source instead of going around making unsubstantiated claims.AdG2K22 (talk) 02:16, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

 * The Wikipedia article about the song, Kokomo (song), says it's about a imaginary island in the Caribbean, and says nothing about the city. Indyguy (talk) 14:56, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Kokomo city links
All the links to the town website in this article are dead. Perhaps a Kokomo editor can fix them? --BHC (talk) 02:01, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Klan in Kokomo
The Klan was a powerful force in Indiana and Kokomo, so I’ve added more material. I also left the estimate of the Melfalfa Park rally at 200,000 since all the sources I can find accept that number. Nicmart (talk) 16:09, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Palm Sunday Tornado
Someone made a change today to the bit in the history section about the Palm Sunday tornado. I called up the reference to verify it and much to my surprise there was nothing on Kokomo in the cited article. I will try to search, but web search for a reliable source for something that happened in the 60's is usually not too efficient. If I don't succeed, perhaps a local could trek to the library and cite the local paper? I tagged the info as dubious, but left it intact, as my personal recollection was that Kokomo did sustain some pretty heavy damage in that storm. It still should be properly cited. Thanks! Gtwfan52 (talk) 22:40, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I have referenced a different narrative from NOAA that did mention Kokomo, but a further reference to a local source would go a long way to justify the details, or possibly facilitate adding a few more. The only reference in the article I found was "Another formed near Middlefork, destroyed much of Russiaville and Alto and passed across the southern part of Kokomo, through Greentown, and  into southern parts of Marion before dissipating near Arcana."  Coverage from the local paper would be much more appropriate and detailed.  Thanks again. Gtwfan52 (talk) 00:31, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

"City of Firsts"
Would someone please purge this section of its complete & utter bullshit, or at least qualify it in terms of USAnian parochialist beliefs.

These inventions are associated with Kokomo:[9]

1894 – Elwood Haynes makes the first successful trial run of his "horseless carriage" on Pumpkinvine Pike, which is now Boulevard east of U.S.31. 1894 – The first pneumatic rubber tire was invented by D.C. Spraker at the Kokomo Rubber Tire Company. 1895 – The first aluminum casting was developed by William "Billy" Johnson from the Ford and Donnelly Foundry. 1902 – Kingston carburetor developed by George Kingston. 1906 – The first Stellite cobalt-base alloy was discovered by Elwood Haynes. 1912 – Stainless steel tableware was invented by Elwood Haynes as a response to his wife's desire for tableware that wouldn't tarnish. 1918 – The Howitzer shell, used in World War I, was created by the Superior Machine Tool Company. 1918 – The first aerial bomb with fins was first produced by the Liberty Pressed Metal Company. 1920 – The mechanical corn picker was created by John Powell. 1926 – Carl Molin developed Dirilyte golden-hued tableware. 1928 – The first canned tomato juice was created by Walter Kemp from Kemp Brothers Canning Company in response to a physician's need for baby food. 1938 – The first push-button car radio was created at Delco Radio Division of General Motors Corporation. 1941 – Globe American Stove Company manufactured the first all-metal life boats and rafts. 1947 – The first signal-seeking car radio was created by the Delco Radio Division of General Motors. 1956 - Delco Radio Division of General Motors produced a transistorized signal-seeking car (hybrid) radio, which used both vacuum tubes and transistors in its radio's circuitry. This transistorized car radio was available as an option on the 1956 Chevrolet Corvette car models.[30][31] 1957 – Delco Radio Division of General Motors produced an all-transistor car radio, as standard equipment for the Cadillac Eldorado Brougham car model.[32]

Additions to this page
People monitoring this page doesn't do a very good job and i refuse to waste my time editing things on here. So i think the following things need added: 1. A climate chart like most cities do showing the typical weather conditions you may find in Kokomo. 2. Corrections about the City-Line buses and how there is now 5 bueses, not 2. 3. A list of more stores under Entertainment. Old Navy, Best Buy, McDonalds, Arbys, Hot Topic, Chipotle, among other top stores should be listed, either that or no stores should be. 4. In the Transportation section when it mentions the US 31 bipass it should be add the current US 31 is going to be called Indiana State Road 931. sweepout (talk) 09:22, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
 * When the change to the highway name occurs, it will be changed in the article. Listing of stores in a mall is not appropriate per WP:NOTDIR. With malls, generally only the anchor stores are listed.  Perhaps someone will add a climate chart.  You are welcome to if you wish, but it must be referenced. Gtwfan52 (talk) 09:35, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I did put anchor store, the current three stores listed doesnt have a special refrence so dont try to tell me Best Buy does. I dont know how to make a climate chart, but even if i did i wouldn't because you would probably try to delete it. I have enough stuff going on with my boyfriend fighting for his life in the hospital i really dont have time to dispute whether something is accurate or not when i clearly refrenced everything that needed and and all the information i put is accurate! You are welcome!!!! sweepout (talk) 01:45, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

 * Excuse me, but how does a reference to a news paper that reads " " reference anything? The Kokomo Tribune has only published one edition ever and it only had one article in it?  I left you instructions on your talk page as to how to properly cite a newspaper article.  If you are unwilling to do that, that is not my problem.  Further, your edit stated that the section was to become US 931, when this discussion, and everything I have read indicate that it is to become IN 931.  I am sorry about your boyfriend, but that has no bearing on the problem here.  You are not required to edit Wikipedia, but if you choose to, you need to do it accurately and reference things in a manor that they can be verified.  If that is too much for you, then please just leave Wikipedia alone til your personal situation is better.  Thanks. Gtwfan52 (talk) 04:25, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

 * I found an official statement that the road will be named Indiana 931, so I added that to the article. I also found an article in the Kokomo Tribune in which a member of the group promoting the upgrading of all of US 31 between Indianapolis and South Bend to interstate standards referred (erroneously) to US 931 rather than Indiana 931.Indyguy (talk) 16:36, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Notable persons
I noticed that someone culled Tod Sloan from the "Notable Persons" section on the ground of lack of notability. My question is how a person who merits his own Wikipedia article and who has a biography published about him (by Yale University Press no less, a book which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) is not notable enough for Kokomo? And if having a Wikipedia article is not enough to warrant notability, then how is an obscure, former Christian punk group (with an unsourced Wikipedia article) or a circus performer who quit the Barnum Circus when she was 12 or a beauty pagent/reality TV contestant notable enough? AnthroMimus (talk) 22:07, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The circus performers were removed. If you do not think the Christian rock group's article shows sufficient notability, you are welcome to nominate it for deletion.  As for Mr. Sloan, it would be helpful if we knew which of the three Tod Sloan's that have articles on Wikipedia you were talking about.  I looked back a year and did not see him on this article at all, but I may have missed it.  Attitude is not really helpful in a collaborative project such as Wikipedia.  If you have concerns, please voice them in a way that doesn't sound like you feel whatever you perceive to be the problem to be other's "fault". You can fix it.  That's why Wikipedia is called "The encyclopedia anyone can edit".  It is also why the circus performers have been removed.  I'll be glad to help, if you would kindly tell me what it is (specifically) that needs to be "fixed".  Thanks. Gtwfan52 (talk) 01:30, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you Gtwfan52, I appreciate the lecture. As for Mr. Sloan, his listing was deleted in the edit just before your last edit on 3 September 2013, and with the comment: "revert well-intentioned series of insertions of apparent non-notables." His Wikipedia article is under Tod Sloan (jockey). The circus performer (perhaps circus attraction would be better) I referred to, Nellie Keeler, remains a Kokomo "notable person." I don't care one way or the other who is included. My question is how culls are made under the guise of being "apparent non-notables" in light of the other individuals I mentioned. I hope that I have voiced this issue in a way that doesn't sound like I feel this issue to be someone else's "fault." AnthroMimus (talk) 04:59, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Climate?!
The climate part that I added back in around September seems to be missing now? I have went back to mid November, but i can't find who made the destructive edit to where i can undo it. If anyone happens to see where the edit happened please let me know. Jacobjimmy2000 (talk) 01:35, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Nevermind, I think that the information in the climate chart isn't showing because i have the beta Wikipedia for the visual editor running? Jacobjimmy2000 (talk) 01:40, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of education
Why does it list county schools under Education in the Kokomo article? North Western, and Eastern need to be on Howard County, Indiana's page not here. Western covers Pine Valley and other parts of Kokomo, and Taylor covers an extinsive south eastern portion including Indian Heights so those can stay, but shouldn' the others go? Just checking other peoples opinion before i make changes, maybe possible all the systems touch the little bits of Kokomo's boundary? Jacobjimmy2000 (talk) 13:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
 * the listcruft in the article is really bad. starting with the education seems as good as any.-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  14:19, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

new section env problems tagged as "undue"
I added a new section env problems and it was promptly tagged as "undue". a reliably sourced article expansion to cover a 20 year existing groundwater plume is hardly undue. Not mentioning it is undue and suppressing the info is whitewashing--Wuerzele (talk) 04:49, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

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Cats Don't Dance reference
We are only supposed to include pop culture appearances if those appearances portray the town in any notable way or have significantly influenced how the town is perceived. From what I am reading in the entry you added, it does not seem like the film Cats Don't Dance has done either of those things, since it sounds like the town is only mentioned a few times in passing. If you have a reliable source that indicates the references in the movie have significantly influenced how people perceive the town, then, by all means, your addition is welcome. Otherwise, I am not convinced that it adds anything constructive to the article. --Katolophyromai (talk) 22:36, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
 * pretty much summed up my point. My only addition would be the mere use of a community's name in a song, film, book, etc, informs the reader of nothing about the community. All authors have artistic license and can pick any name they choose. There are many reasons for an author to choose a place name, one of which is the way it sounds. Kokomo, like Kalamazoo and Winnemucca, get chosen frequently due to their lyrical sound. IPC sections should consist of media that was actually produced in the community, media that can add to one's knowledge of the community more than it does the knowledge of the media at hand, and namechecks where there are reliable sources for the author's artistic choice. Any other additions violate the pillar policy WP:NOTTRIVIA. John from Idegon (talk) 00:07, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

The History section starts off with ...a list?
Does anyone else think this is unusual? I've never seen that in any other city article, and think it does not do the city's history any justice. I would propose that this list, which IS still valuable, might be a better fit as a subheading of Culture, since they are architecturally significant places that one might visit, in addition to being a part of the city's history. Unless there are objections, I can make this change. If there are objections, does anyone have a better idea? The status quo, in any event, does not work. 1980fast (talk) 05:57, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Notable tornadoes
If we can't change the info heading for the 2016 tornado, I see no reason why we can't add wikilinks, to the "Notable tornadoes" section. While I understand that a wikilink should generally only appear once in any given article, it also says hat it can be helpful to readers if wikilinks are added to another section. Some thoughts?--2601:153:900:43F0:4030:5257:78E8:CB2E (talk) 22:15, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

I've revered my own edit until a consensus is reached.--2601:153:900:43F0:4030:5257:78E8:CB2E (talk) 22:29, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

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Brown hawker

The brown hawker (Aeshna grandis) is a large dragonfly about 73 mm long. It is a distinctive species and is easily recognised, even in flight, by its brown body and bronze wings. At rest, blue spots on the second and third segments of the male's abdomen can be noticed; these are absent in female.

The flight time is mainly July to September. The nymph has stripes on the side of the thorax and distinct banding on the legs.

Distribution
Aeshna grandis is common in central and eastern Europe. In Europe, it can be found everywhere from Ireland to the Urals, with some exceptions like Scotland, northernmost Scandinavia and the Iberian and Apennine peninsulas. There is a population in the Balkans.

It is widespread in England but commonest in the south-east; local in Ireland and rare in Scotland. It is found on well-vegetated ponds, lakes and canals. It patrols a regular hunting territory around margins which is vigorously defended against intruders.

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Knittelfeld Putsch

Knittelfeld Putsch refers to a conference of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) which took place on 7 September 2002 in the small Austrian town of Knittelfeld, Styria, called due to political differences within the party leadership. The events resulted in early federal elections in the same year.

Background
Following the 1999 elections, the FPÖ became part of a coalition government led by ÖVP leader Wolfgang Schüssel, despite the FPÖ having garnered the larger number of votes.

During the summer of 2002, tension rose within the FPÖ, following losses in several local elections. Jörg Haider, former FPÖ leader and still Landeshauptmann of Carinthia, called for changes in government policy to reinvigorate the party's popularity, especially a tax reform. However, such a reform was out of reach in view of the catastrophic flood of August 2002.

Events at Knittelfeld
On September 7, a party meeting was held at Knittelfeld, but the party chair and Vice Chancellor of Austria at that time, Susanne Riess-Passer, was not present. Most of the functionaries attending represented the opposition within the FPÖ of its traditional nationalist right wing.

The key symbolic moment of the meeting was a public tearing of a compromise paper between Riess-Passer and Haider by the Carinthian delegate Scheuch (some witnesses report that Haider instructed Scheuch to publicly tear the paper, so even though it was Scheuch who actually tore the paper up, it was Haider in reality who was engaging in the destruction of the accord). The following day, Riess-Passer, Minister of Finance Karl-Heinz Grasser (who was later reappointed in this position by the ÖVP) and the chairman of the FPÖ parliamentary club, Peter Westenthaler, announced their resignation, as did some other relatively pragmatic functionaries. Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel then renounced the coalition pact, which led to early elections being called, where the FPÖ lost approximately two thirds of its voters of 1999 and fell from 26.9% of the public vote to 10.0%.

Symbolic meaning
Since that time in the Austrian media the term "Knittelfelder" has been used to refer to party rebels in the FPÖ. You can also refer simply to "Knittelfeld" to refer to the events of the congress.

Aftermath
The coalition between ÖVP and FPÖ was renewed after the elections in spite of the FPÖ's weak showing at the polls. As the FPÖ continued to lose even more dramatically in subsequent local and also the 2004 European elections, tensions did not subside. In April 2005, Jörg Haider founded the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ), a new party, this time with the more pragmatic wing of the party, including all current FPÖ members of the federal government and most of the FPÖ's parliamentary representatives. Since then the BZÖ obtained 4.1% of the vote in the 2006 general election and got 7 seats in the National Council. The FPÖ rose from 10% to 11% in that election. Since then the FPÖ grew again, receiving 10.5% in the 2008 Lower Austria "Landtag" (provincial) election, more than doubling its 2003 result (4.5%). The BZÖ also participated in the Lower Austria election, but received only 0.72%, failing to pass the 4% threshold.

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User talk:Syntax82

Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Alf 16:05, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
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Plagiarism
Hi,

You recently copied content from this webpage into the essay article. Please understand that this is plagiarism and a violation of the author's copyright. In the future, please make sure that all of your contributions are your own words. Thanks. Rhobite 19:51, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi,

Syntax82 is the author of the moonstar page. I consulted Wikipedia to see what it had to say about essays and thought that the page I had written on the difference between an essay and a story would fit in. So I simply copied and pasted it into the Wiki essay article. Is this a proscribed practice? I don't want to delete the article from my page but would like to participate in developing Wiki pages by incorporating relevant work that I have done. What is your advice? (````)

 * Please update the moonstar page indicating that you are releasing the content under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). This needs to be done in order to show that you're the author of the original text, and you understand that you're licensing it to be reused freely. You could also send an e-mail to permissions at wikimedia dot org from your Southside Virginia Community College address, so Wikipedia can verify that you are indeed the author of the text.

 * Thanks for contributing content to Wikipedia! I apologize for the accusation, but we need to check these things out. Many people try to copy content from webpages into Wikipedia articles. Also, I'm just curious, but why are you referring to yourself in the third person? Rhobite 20:17, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I will take the proper steps and resubmit my work. (Syntax82 20:20, 11 February 2006 (UTC))

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Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!

Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! is a 1964 American animated musical comedy film produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and released by Columbia Pictures. The film stars the voices of Daws Butler, Don Messick, Julie Bennett, Mel Blanc, and J. Pat O'Malley.

Based upon Hanna-Barbera's syndicated animated television show The Yogi Bear Show, Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! was the first theatrical feature produced by Hanna-Barbera, and the first feature-length theatrical animated film based on a television program. In keeping with the limited animation of the television series, the film was not fully animated, but did contain more detailed animation work than the show. The long-awaited epilogue series, The New Yogi Bear Show, was released on 1988, with 45 episodes.

Plot
Boo-Boo Bear wakes up from winter hibernation, excited about the new Spring. Then Yogi Bear wakes up, only interested in finding some food to eat. Cindy Bear unsuccessfully tries to woo Yogi. After Ranger Smith thwarts Yogi's latest attempts to grab some food, Yogi gets angry and convinces the Ranger to transfer him out of Jellystone National Park. Smith prepares Yogi to be sent over to the San Diego Zoo along with an identification tag. Yogi first says goodbye to everything, but tricks another bear named Corn Pone into going to California instead of him and Boo-Boo and Cindy remain unaware of this, thinking Yogi has departed for good.

Soon, Yogi is stealing food from all over the park under the alter ego "The Brown Phantom". Smith believes "The Brown Phantom" is a mysterious bear-like vigilante whom the Park Commissioner hired to replace Yogi, and scares away all of the Jellystone goers and gobbles their food up shortly after stealing it. He threatens whoever it is to be sent to the zoo and comes up with a clever plan to stop "The Brown Phantom" and save the park, not knowing it is actually Yogi. Cindy, wishing to be with Yogi at the zoo, angers Smith into mistakenly sending her away. However, she gets sent to the St. Louis Zoo by train instead, as the San Diego Zoo does not need any more bears. When she realizes her true destination, she gets very sad, crying since she knows she would be far from Yogi now. Late that night, Cindy falls out of the train and becomes lost. A traveling circus, run by the Chizzling Brothers, is looking for a great act to raise their ratings, when suddenly, their dog Mugger runs off and scares Cindy into walking on the telephone wires, the perfect act to save their circus.

Yogi has recently missed Boo-Boo and, above all, Cindy. Ranger Smith tricks "The Brown Phantom" in going to the St. Louis Zoo as part of his plan to save Jellystone. Soon, Yogi and Boo-Boo escape from Jellystone to find Cindy. After an extensive travel, Yogi and Boo-Boo locate Cindy, who is being kept a prisoner, forced to perform her high-wire act for the Chizzling Brother's circus. As Yogi confronts the manager, Grifter Chizzing, he is tricked into joining Cindy in her cage, where Grifter tells him he's now in "show biz." Boo-Boo releases Yogi and Cindy and they make their exit. Meanwhile, Ranger Smith decides to let them find their way home to avoid trouble with the Park Commissioner, who thinks Yogi, Boo-Boo, and Cindy are "The Brown Phantom" and Smith's two henchmen, who bring the picnic baskets to it after its scares, and they send the police to hunt down "The Brown Phantom", which is the second part of his plan. As Yogi, Cindy, and Boo-Boo make their way home, they crash a barnyard party, somehow escaping afloat a river with the barn's door. Then, while Cindy & Yogi dream about a honeymoon in Venice, they find themselves suddenly being chased and hunted by the police, as they somehow became fugitives, but make their escape.

They hitch a ride in a moving van, but find themselves in the middle of a busy city (later revealed to be New York City) and make a run from the police to the top of a hotel and across to a high rise under construction. The next morning, Ranger Smith sees the three bears on television and decides to rescue them from "The Brown Phantom" in a helicopter as the final part of his plan to save Jellystone. With the name of "The Brown Phantom" cleared up (who is revealed to be Yogi, who simply wanted an excuse to return to the park), all the commotions have made great publicity for Jellystone and Ranger Smith gets promoted to Chief Ranger by the Park Commissioner in gratitude for saving the park from "The Brown Phantom", bringing all three bears back to Jellystone, where they promise to be "good bears" from now on.

Cast

 * Daws Butler as Yogi Bear (and "The Brown Phantom"), Airplane Pilot, Ranger Tom
 * James Darren as Yogi Bear (singing "Ven-e, Ven-o, Ven-a")
 * Bill Lee as Yogi Bear (singing "Ash Can Parade", "Whistle Your Way Back Home" and "Yogi Loves Cindy")
 * Don Messick as Boo-Boo Bear, Ranger Smith, Ranger Jones, Mugger, Yogi's conscience, the blonde-haired policemen, TV Reporter, Airport Manager
 * Ernest Newton as Boo-Boo Bear (singing)
 * Julie Bennett as Cindy Bear
 * Jackie Ward as Cindy Bear (singing)
 * Mel Blanc as Grifter Chizzling, Southern Accented Bear in Train, Mugger The Dog (grumbling sounds)
 * Jean Vander Pyl as the Barn Dance Woman
 * Hal Smith as Corn Pone, Moose
 * J. Pat O'Malley as Snively Chizzling

Uncredited

 * Allan Melvin as the Police Sergeant
 * Jonah and the Wailers as the singing voices of the zoo-bound bears performing "St. Louis"
 * Thurl Ravenscroft as the black-haired policemen

Production
The animated musical film was produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with a story by Hanna, Barbera, and former Warner Bros. Cartoons storyman Warren Foster. Another Warner Cartoons alumnus, Friz Freleng, served as story supervisor. When the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio closed in 1963, several of its animators, including Gerry Chiniquy and Ken Harris, also joined Hanna-Barbera to work on this film.

Release and reception
A review from the May 27, 1964, issue of Variety pointed out that the scarcity of theatrically released feature animated films made Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! highly marketable. The review called the film "artistically accomplished in all departments". The review commented that the script was a bit redundant, but that the songs were "pleasant, if not especially distinguished".

After its 1964 release, the film was reissued on January 17, 1986, as part of Atlantic Releasing Corporation's short-lived Clubhouse Pictures label.

Home media
The film was released on VHS a two times in the United States by Paramount Home Video and KVC Home Video respectively in the 1980s. These releases use the 1986 Clubhouse Pictures reissue version which lacks the original Columbia Pictures logo and credit references.

On December 2, 2008, Warner Home Video released the film on DVD in North America. Unlike a concurrent DVD release of another Hanna-Barbera feature, The Man Called Flintstone, it is presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen (both films were animated in 1.33:1 and matted to 1.85:1 for theaters). A R2 DVD was released in the UK on January 31, 2011, and is also presented in 1.78:1.

The film was released on Blu-ray under the Warner Archive Collection on May 30, 2023. Unlike the previous releases however, the original Columbia Pictures opening logo is left intact.

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Talk:Best of the Beast

Fair use rationale for Image:Iron Maiden - Best of the Beast.jpg
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Longest Record Release ?
How can this be accurate "The vinyl edition is, to date, the band's longest record release, running for over three hours." Eddie's Archive is over 6 hours? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%27s_Archive

Unless the author is using "record" and "vinyl" synonymously? If so, it is poorly worded.

Or, it was the longest release UNTIL Eddie's Archive came out?

Can someone please set me straight and/or fix the main article if need be? Thanks! FiggazWithAttitude (talk) 21:58, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

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Talk:La Porte, Indiana

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La Porte redirects here. Is the correct spelling La Porte or LaPorte?--129.79.245.73 20:39, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The usual spelling I've seen is "LaPorte" (for this particular town's name). Anthony Dean 01:30, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

It is spelled LaPorte

I spent the first 20 years of my life in La Porte and I can tell you for certain that it is spelled "La Porte" with a space, as evidenced by the city's own website at http://www.ci.la-porte.in.us/

The LaPorte Herald-Argus refers to the city as "LaPorte," as does the city's chamber of commerce, historical society, the Associated Press and the county of LaPorte (http://www.laportecounty.net/information.html).

The State of Indiana web page (www.in.gov) also shows LaPorte spelled without the space. Fact is, this is a debate being won by those who want to spell it "LaPorte." The spelling "La Porte" with a space has turned into an anachronism.

I've lived in LaPorte my entire 17 years and... we've always spelled it "LaPorte". Ryan Magley 03:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * They called it "La Porte" back when I lived there during my childhood, for about the same duration. (It had a space officially during my tenure of the La Porte Hi-Times student newspaper, at any rate.)  I say let's settle this by swordfight. --ItsWalky! 02:30, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Also, it's totally awesome that I'm considered a famous resident. --ItsWalky! 02:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Huh? Why is the author of some mediocre webcomic listed as a "noteworthy resident"? I'e never even HEARD of this webcomic!
 * Yes you have. (Your editing history kinda gives it away.)  --ItsWalky! 06:04, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, it was fun while it lasted. --ItsWalky! 01:35, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

 * The daily newspaper in La Porte (The Herald-Argus) recently made the decision to uniformly spell the name of the city as 'La Porte' with a space. Spelling it as 'LaPorte' leads to much confusion and a natural progression to 'Laporte' which is universally agreed as not an acceptable way to spell the name.  Let me explain the progression: 'LaPorte' becomes 'LAPORTE' when written in upper case, which in turn becomes the unacceptable 'Laporte' when translated back into lower case.  Providing a space between 'La' and 'Porte' generally prevents the confusion.--Bennycat 21:19, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

The official website for the city of La Porte http://www.cityoflaporte.com/ recognizes the spelling as La Porte as does the local news paper. Also any map I have ever seen has had La Porte and not Laporte. The meaning comes from a french word which also has the space between it La and porte meaning "the door." Most if not all public official places recognize the name with the space and it should be left alone. Jascar (talk) 22:01, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Wiki needs some love
I have been updating the wiki to the best of my ability. La Porte's wiki is in a sad state when compared to wikis of other towns. So much more information could be added. Please help expand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bmk812 (talk • contribs) 09:33, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

 * It's great that you're adding information and have an interest in the La Porte wikipedia page, but some of the material reads like a tourism brochure, which is not appropriate for an encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.182.5.180 (talk) 12:44, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

I used the Valpo wiki as a template. Feel free to reword it. - Bmk812 (talk) 08:42, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

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Orphaned references in La Porte, Indiana
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Reference named "USCensusEst2018": From Columbus, Indiana: < From Brown County, Indiana:  From Vermillion County, Indiana:  From Plainfield, Indiana:  From Vanderburgh County, Indiana:  From Marion County, Indiana:

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Demographic data is totally off
The demographic data, from the 2010 Census, is wildly inaccurate. It lists a Hispanic majority (60-something percent), but the real percentage of Hispanic persons is much smaller. The city is, in fact, over 80% White. Can someone grab the data from Census.gov and make the needed corrections? 2603:6010:7B05:790C:1CAC:56C5:A07A:79DD (talk) 03:50, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

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Talk:Vedic chant

Hare Krishna "Maha Mantra"
from the article: "The Hare Krishna mantra, also often refered to as the 'Maha' Mantra: (pronounced ha-ray, krish-nah, and rar-mah respectively)"

There are many Maha Mantras in many Hindu and non-Hindu sects. it is rediculous to term that one mantra "the Maha Mantra". Please discuss.

Sfacets 01:30, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Dear Sfacets - With all due respect the current article does not say that the Hare Krishna mantra is the only mantra in the world ever called the Maha-Mantra. But it's true that it is often referred to as the Maha-Mantra, both by Gaudiya Vaishnavas and general Hindus. If you really want to go into this in depth maybe you could create a Maha-Mantra disambiguation page discussing the major mantras refered to by this title? GourangaUK 21:05, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Merge with Patha?
Hello dab, it seems to make sense to merge the two to me. As long as the Vedic Chant article doesn't become purely historical in it's content as it's still a lively tradition. The 'Vedic' is referring to the contemporary Vedic tradition at the moment, not the historical Vedic. If you agree? GourangaUK 08:22, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, as long as you mean the surviving shrauta schools who practice the pathas. Of course chanting of this or that mantra in popular Hinduism, without preserving accent, or even of post-Vedic mantras, should not be considered "Vedic chant", even if sometimes popularly so referred to. I doubt that the Unesco would consider sociable chanting of "Hare Krishna" a "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage". We can of course say that the term is extended in popular usage, but the main scope of this article should be the strict chanting of the Samhitapatha (and others) according to some specific shakha, including the hand gestures for accent etc. This is a 'contemporary tradition' (meaning a surviving tradition), but it is practiced only by a tiny minority of Hindus as far as I am aware. dab (ᛏ) 09:47, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

 * The word Vedic means different things to an historian than to the majority of Hindu practitioners. I feel it essential that this page should either include both sets of information, or if that's not preffered we should make another page on Vedic mantra from the historical perspective. Hare Krishna is a mantra of Vedic culture, as is Om and the Gayatri. GourangaUK 10:01, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

 * The word Vedic may mean different things to different people, but such convenient flexibility strips the word of any effective meaning if "Hare Krishna" is considered "Vedic". Yes, pious Vaishnavites would like it to be so, but that doesn't make it fact.  rudra 22:49, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I do not think that the term "vedic" can properly be applied to the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantras. The term "vedic" is so over-used to apply to anything Hindu that it is almost meaningless.  Vedic chant to me refers to the traditional metrical chanting and chanting of specific texts which can properly be classified as Vedic, such as Samaveda. Buddhipriya 03:48, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

 * It comes down to opinion really - for traditions who view The Vedas, the Upanishads and Puranas etc... as one complete set of literature then the term Vedic is applicable for a wide range of practices. For those who would rather strictly differentiate between The Vedas and other texts of Hinduism then no, Vedic would be innapropriate. I say opinion, because factual information regarding the dating of these texts is practically non-existant, even if the current scholarly concensus is that certain texts are much older than others. Gouranga(UK) 15:01, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

 * As Dab explained, this is not just a matter of opinion. There is a specific discipline related to the methods for doing the chanting of texts which has nothing to do with the chanting of short mantras such as the Hare Krishna mantra.  If you attend traditional temple worship (not ISKCON events), there is usually a lot of chanting, but only some of it is "vedic" chanting.  For example, the sahasranamas, while beautiful and very long, are not considered "vedic" chant as they are all chanted in  meter and none of them involve the specific meterical rules which define "vedic" meter.  If you read the Rig Veda in Sanskrit, and particularly if you read those verses in their Samaveda versions, in addition to the text there are very detailed chanting metrics given along with the text.  Also, vedic chant includes an addition type of vowel duration in addition to the usual short and long vowels of classical Sanskrit, and an additional nasal sound found only rarely in classical Sanskrit.  This is not just a matter of dating, it has to do with the form of the chanting.  Buddhipriya 05:52, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Dubious claim
"Such a Vedic chant is often considered the oldest unbroken oral tradition in existence" needs a source to back it up... it has been present on this page for a while without any sources. 20:52, 8 January 2007 Sfacets(UTC) 17:20, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Needless to say, the grunt, moan, etc would be the oldest oral traditions.Trnscndr Bryan E. Hall, MPW
 * oral tradition of coherent text of course; otherwise, language itself would be the oldest articulate oral tradition (and yes, 'grunt, moan' would be even older). The tradition goes back some 3,000 years, and there is not really a candidate to challenge it. Homer would be roughly comparable, but there is no living oral tradition of rhapsody. I don't think there is any other candidate, most other "living ancient traditions" are of the order of 2,000 years, and thus even considering margins of error younger by a couple of centuries. I propose the statement is vindicated even without a direct reference, since we have solid references dating the RV to 1500-1000 BC over at Rigveda; the Gayatri mantra is Rigvedic, and the Vedic chant traditions include the Gayatri mantra; thus it stands to reason that at least part of the tradition is aged more than 3,000 years, plus we have no candidate that can hope to tie with this. dab (𒁳) 18:21, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Agree with dab . Except, of course, if any knowledge of another candidate tradition was lost to modern history - because some other civilisation never bothered to codify that tradition in some form of text. How would you then infer that there was such a tradition you ask? Well, you'd have to extrapolate, but a starting point would be to note the consistency in social administration, economic activity etc. - all of which would carry the fingerprints of the historical zeitgeist. If we do observe large similarities and a growing civilisation, then it's highly unlikely that each successive generation pondered and arrived at the same conclusions of their own accord, without some sort of forward transfer of the contemporary summum bonum of their knowledge. So yeah, looking at archaeological, and perhaps even fossilised ruins may be a start. i.e. The same way we've established the age of the Vedas as being much older than the radio-carbon date of the earliest manuscript (although, the Vedas themselves mention "shruti", and "smriti" so - they are evidence of older-than-earliest-manuscript in of themselves.

 * Anyway, the Cradle of Civilsation article mentions that if the advent of writing/ proto-writing is to be considered, then the Harappan civilisation is one of the earliest. I'd conjecture that if a civilisation decided to document something, it's because they ran out of cerebral memory to remember oral lessons. That would probably have happened once the oral corpus reached critical size. The older a civilisation, the bigger its oral corpus (until they make the jump to writing) - and the earlier they jump to writing. So, this hand-waving argument and rampant extrapolation (albeit based on another Wikipedia article's citation) probably ought to fit well. 220.224.246.97 (talk) 09:48, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

BBC article in external links
From the linked BBC article: "Although the Vedas were recorded in writing some 15 centuries ago[...]" This seems off by quite a few centuries -- weren't the Vedas first written down a couple of centuries bce? Might be worth adding a note next to the link. Jlandahl 05:31, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Bibliographic data missing
The current text of this article contains note references in Author-date format:

 * 1) ^ (Staal 1986)
 * 2) ^ a b c (Filliozat 2004, p. 139)

However, the bibliographic information, normally appearing in a separate section below the notes, is missing: First name, Title of work, Place of publication, Publisher, etc. Could someone please restore or add this data? EricP (talk) 00:48, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Hmm, these same references appear to be missing from several Wikipedia articles. The actual references are in Indian mathematics; someone with patience ought to fix all these articles. Shreevatsa (talk) 01:21, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Addition of audio sample?
Is there a reason the article doesn't have an audible example, and if not can someone more familiar with the subject please add this to the article?

The article emphasizes the importance of the audible sound of the vedic chant: "They are robbed of their essence when transferred to paper, for without the human element the innumerable nuances and fine intonations – inseparable and necessary components of all four compilations – are lost completely"

If that's the case shouldn't there be a recording? Xenador77 (talk) 06:35, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

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Herman Joseph Justin
I added the name: Herman Joseph Justin,(aka: H.J. Justin; H. 'Joe' Justin), the founder of the Justin Boot Company; 1879, in Burlington, TX (now, Spanish Fort, TX);, was born in Lafayette, IN. His father, was a cigar maker in Lafayette. 'Joe' Justin did not want to follow in his father's business, so at age 18 he left Lafayette, IN and went first to Gainville, TX to work in the boot repair business. The story continues.... This story is corroborated on the Justin Boot Company web site Justin Boot Company net500cg (talk) 06:51, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Untitled
For the most part, I have no problems with the article. Some of the phrases in the article irk me though -- "the innovative genius" of Purdue University, for example? Not NPOV, or very accurate honestly. I'll go back and fix them myself, probably today. EagleFalconn 14:48, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I rewrote the economy section, got rid of the superlatives. I think I've managed to stike a good balance here. I hope you think so. acaides 02:03, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Lafayette Life
The Lafayette Life Company has recently merged with the Western & Southern Financial Group, and may need to be removed. Indiana 02:17, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Karen Black
The link for Karen Black refers to a Wikipedia Page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Black). On this page it lists Karen Black as being BORN IN Park Ridge, IL. No mention of Lafayette, IN comes up for any query on Karen Black, the actress. Verification should be made for the POB for Karen Black (Karen Blanche Ziegler) and if it is not Lafayette, IN, the name should be removed. net500cg (talk) 06:41, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Please check the notability of Karen Black being a resident of lafayette

 * According to this: she went to Jefferson High school in Lafayette. And I think the school recognizes her as an accomplished alumnus in some of it's promotional materials. Not sure how long she lived here though. Nowimnthing 18:37, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

we have a teacher named karen black, she went to(and maybe taught) at jeff, prolly the only reason she notable

public schools
This section was getting a little long and possibly a little too gushing about the schools. Seeing as there is now a page for the corporation, I think that info will work better over there in the history section. We don't really need a list of every school in the city limits here and since there is already apage for the corporation that does a better job of listing the schools, there is no reason to duplicate it here. Nowimnthing 00:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Winter/Spring 2007 vandalism to demographic data
I've noticed that User:74.38.50.249 has changed the US Census demographic data (such as the city's racial makeup and median income) several times since late February (see here, here, here, and here), apparently without anybody else noticing -- nobody seems to have undone the damage, in any case. I reverted the "demographics" section to the 2/24/07 version, which I checked against the original automated upload from back when this article was started in 2002. The article might benefit from having some responsible editors place it on their watchlist, so that they can revert such vandalism when it occurs. --Malepheasant 23:54, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

pronunciation
I attempted to correct the pronunciation, but may have gotten it wrong. Please check. kwami (talk) 09:35, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

YEAH I THINK ITS ALL MESSED UP,HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE A SQUARE? ˌlɑːfeɪˈɛt ,ANYWAY WE MAY NOT PRONOUNCE IT CORRECTLY TO BEGIN WITH,IT IS INDIANER YA KNOW,SO HERE IS HOW IT SHOULD BE 'LAH-FEE-ETTE' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.46.49.98 (talk) 21:36, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

==== ALSO,WHAT UP WITH THE FLAG? IVE NEVER SEENT IT,AND WE AINT NICKNAMED 'STAR CITY',IVE BEEN HERE FUR 25 YEARS AND I AINT NEVER HEARD OF NO STAR CITY,REALLY,ITS JUST LAH-FEE-ETTE AND 'THE WEST SIDE'.THATS IT.==

star city
Yes, the nickname is "star city" which occasionally appears in the names of businesses (such as a now defunct bank.) It isn't heard much today.

Municipal flags are rarely seen except at city-county buildings. Chicago, Washington DC are exceptions.

Kyle0462 (talk) 00:27, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

 * well, if its not heard,or used, and the only example you can come up with is a defunct bank, should it really be considored a nickname?
 * id phrase it as a previously used nickname or something along that line, as we sit its mainly referred to as lafayette, west lafayette, or the 'west side' to the locals, and increasingly north mexico

 * well, we now have a local beer brewery called star city brewery...***

 * ALL CAPS GUY, you’ve failed this city! arrow flies **** — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:1C2:5000:1472:54F1:3281:587D:A608 (talk) 15:59, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

47909
47909 is also a valid lafayette zip code, but I don't know how do put it in? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.142.60.64 (talk) 06:38, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

 * I may be wrong but I believe all 47909 addresses are outside of the official city limits. The address may be Lafayette 47909, but that does not make it in the city. But now that I look closer it appears 47909 is everything South of Teal and some of that is in the city. So the great majority of 47909 is outside of the city, but some of it is in, I guess we can add it. Nowimnthing (talk) 14:25, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

history
In the last paragraph on the history section there is a sentence that says, Old Lafaytette in two volumes is highly recommended. Is this book highly recommended by the writer of this page? If so, revisement of this sentence is needed to make this sentence/statement true by facts, not personal opinion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Greenshp (talk • contribs) 16:57, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Sister Cities
I'm fairly sure that Ota, Gunma, Japan is a sister city to Lafayette, but there is no sister cities section in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.29.245.124 (talk) 02:30, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

“first place to ‘experience’” the Internet
The paragraph: “In 1992, the Greater Lafayette area (Lafayette and West Lafayette) was the first place in Indiana to experience the internet during the initial college town connection launching.[citation needed]” will never get a reliable citation because it’s nonsense. Obviously, West Lafayette itself was on the Internet before this point (I know, I was mudding in the CS building on an xterm in 1991), and any student with a dial up connection to Purdue could be “on the Internet” from any town by dialling in to their account. But this wasn’t limited to Purdue. IU, Notre Dame, Ball State, and other universities had the same thing going.

While Lafayette and West Lafayette may have been the location of the first non-student, non-government, non-military accessible internet based services (via an email drop operated by a startup named MDN operated by John Dormer, a Purdue student), maybe, that’s a far more specific claim that even itself needs verification.

I’m going to remove that paragraph. It doesn’t follow any of Wikipedia’s standards, is ambiguous as to what it’s even claiming, and can’t even be accurate—if someone did find a source to cite it would call that source’s reliability into question. 2601:1C2:5000:1472:54F1:3281:587D:A608 (talk) 15:52, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Snowfall data
I think that the climate section should include snowfall data since it is significant for Lafayette. 72.132.51.247 (talk) 05:03, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

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Palomita Blanca

Palomita Blanca (Spanish for "Little White Dove") is a 1971 novel written by Enrique Lafourcade. More than fifty editions (including "reprintings") have been published, making the novel the most widely sold novel in the history of Chilean literature, with more than a million copies sold. It was written at a conflictive time in Chile's history (events leading into the election of Salvador Allende as President) and it was a sentimental time in world popular culture (events such as rock concerts and drug use). Most critics saw the novel as a knee-jerk response to Erich Segal's Love Story. A New York Times No. 1 bestseller, Segal's book became the top selling work of fiction for all of 1970 in the United States, and was translated into more than 20 languages worldwide. The motion picture of the same name was the number one box office attraction of 1971. Thus most media comments in Santiago called Lafourcade's novel "the Chilean love story." Lafourcade's marriage with Maria Luisa Señoret had ended three years earlier, and he reportedly wrote the novel inspired by his later pareja, about whom he remained quite secretive. A film based on the novel was made in 1973 by Raúl Ruiz, which was at one time believed lost forever, but a print was later found in the vaults of ChileFilms. Music for the film was written and performed by Los Jaivas. A translation to Portuguese was published in Brazil, but a translation to English by Joel Hancock of the University of Utah has remained unpublished.

The story is of a working class naive teenage girl (María = Palomita) who meets a posh boy (Juan Carlos) in the Piedra Roja music festival. The love story goes wrong because of the class differences between the characters, and the naiveté of the girl who believes in the Cinderella story of a poor girl rescued by a rich and handsome prince. Juan Carlos is involved in extreme right-wing terrorism, and needs to leave the country in a hurry, leaving Palomita behind. The political tension that would later culminate in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état is brilliantly observed and described by writer Lafourcade.

Film adaptation
The novel was adapted into the 1973 film Little White Dove by Chilean director Raúl Ruiz.

Music
It is also the name of a popular tango from 1929 by Anselmo Aieto.

Editions
First: June, 1971, published by Zig-Zag (Santiago de Chile): 5,000 copies. 2nd:  July, 1971: 3,000 copies. 3rd:  August, 1971: 5,000 copies. 4th:  September, 1971: 5,000 5th:  October, 1971:   5,000 6th:  October, 1971:   8,000 7th:  November, 1971: 10,000 8th:  December, 1971:  5,000 9th:  January, 1972:   5,000 10th: March, 1972:     5,000 11th: May, 1972:      10,000 12th: September 1972: 10,000 13th: April, 1973:    10,000

In 1982: The publication changed to Lafourcade's own in-house publisher: —Ediciones de Lafourcade, Santiago de Chile.

1984: —First special edition: Colección "Los Grandes de la Literatura Chilena", Editorial Zig-Zag. —17th edition, Editorial Zig-Zag.

1986: —18th edition, Editorial Zig-Zag.

1987: —19th edition, Editorial Zig-Zag.

1992: —24th edition, Editorial Zig-Zag.

1994: —27th edition, Editorial Zig-Zag. —28th edition, Colección "Top Sellers", Editorial Zig-Zag. —29th edition, Colección "Viento Joven" / Youthful breeze, Editorial Zig-Zag. —Special Edition on the occasion of the showing the film made decades earlier by Raúl Ruiz: Ediciones del Paraíso Perdido.

1995: —30th edition, Editorial Zig-Zag.

1996: —31st edition, Editorial Zig-Zag. —32nd edition, Editorial Zig-Zag.

1997: —Special Edition: Colección "Los mejores Libros de la Literatura Chilena", Ercilla, Santiago de Chile.

1999: —33rd edition, Editorial Zig-Zag.

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lawrenceburg indiana
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Removal of Andrew Fought
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"Critical History" = Race Card/race baiting
Removed. First, this is a Race Card. It's not "critical", it's not even a major issue. It's someone's politically correct fixation and does not reflect the views or priorities of the citizens of the community. It doesn't even reflect anything unique or unusual. It's almost an outright attack on the town, singling it out as if the demographics are ctually unusual or specific to Linton. If someone wants to add some aspect of racial issues to a thorough history that would make sense, otherwise this is a non-issue and an assault and is little better than vandalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FMChimera (talk • contribs) 05:51, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Expanded the historical content considerably and added a small part of the racial claims in the demographics section.

It might be worthwhile for anyone actually interested in a serious workup of this Wiki article to start putting together a thorough historical section here for discussion and editing prior to further editing of the page itself.

Note, I am a life long resident, business owner, Chamber member and ran(unsuccessfully) for City Council. My family has been a part of the town since the 1800's, actually owned one of the deep mines and still own several hundred acres, a couple commercial buildings and numerous residential and rental propertis in and near the town.

FMChimera (talk) 06:27, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, as the person who had recently reinserted the "Critical History" section, I hate to say that I agree with you. When I reinserted it, I think I was more upset that someone had removed a large portion of the article without making a summary of the edit, or putting it on the talk page.  After reading what you wrote, I agree that it biased more towards the "race card" and less towards history.  If/when the history section gets enlarged, a section could be put in linking to some of the references from the "Critical History" section, thus allowing anyone wanting this information the opportunity to find it.  So the table turns, and now I'm the monster! :(

 * I'm also a lifelong resident with family here since the 1800's. Unfortunately, I'm not as invested in the community as you, but perhaps one day. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emrikol (talk • contribs) 14:10, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Nah, no monster. And you don't have to be too "invested" to write about the place.  Just look at our local newspaper at times.  *LOL*  Regarding racial issues, there's no denying things were bad for blacks, but they were bad in most places, north and south, big and small.  I don't mind it being included, I just want there to be some perspective on it.

 * I'm going to research so I can expand the history and get the precise dates of events before I put up anything else. I'll put it here before I put it on the page.  I have not yet learned how embedded Wiki links work so hopefully someone else will fix what I do and make it look better.

 * I'd also like to add a "Famous Personages' section, but I don't want to add nobodies. Phil Harris of course deserves note.  Some might not realize it but so does Buzzy McCammon and his Stunt Show from the 50's and 60's.  But these are the only two I can think of offhand.  I can think of people who were sorta famous, like my grandad drove for Buzzy and raced stock cars to some success, or my grandmother who was friends with Ronald Reagan from the 50's when he was a spokesperson for GE till the time of his death, but these don't really count(like others that have been removed as "not notable").  Adding a section for just two people is probably pointless, but I'm guessing there are folks who can add at least a couple more legitimate names...

 * FMChimera (talk) 05:18, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Well, I'd love to help out any way I can. I just don't want to step on any toes, really.  If you want I can help out with any markup until you get the hang of it.  It seems like you've mastered quite a bit, so I'm sure it won't be too hard for you.

 * Whether this article aligns with the local community's point of view and values is beside the point; Wikipedia is a global encyclopedia project, not a tourism brochure. That said, the "Critical history" section as written did not meet the NPOV standard and constituted original research, as it made grandiose claims compared to the sources it cited and verged on moralizing. As it happens, there are contemporary accounts of Linton being a sundown town from reliable sources, and Loewen is also considered a reliable secondary source, so I've added a short paragraph to that effect to the main "History" section. Given the current length of the "History" section, I think this is more or less an appropriate amount of detail. The broader social implications are already discussed in sufficient detail in Sundown town. If you know of any sources providing an alternative viewpoint about Linton's race relations, we should include them in the article to achieve balance. – Minh Nguyễn 💬 00:07, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

1963 F3 tornado
I probably shouldn't be posting this because it's probably irrelevant. But according to http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/tornado/19630429.18.19 on April 29, 1963 an F3 tornado hit several communities north of Linton and you can see it on the map. I didn't mean to be irrelevant or unhelpful and my intentions are good, but at least I have some sourced material mentioning this. I'm not going to include it in the article though.--Kevjgav (talk) 12:01, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

 * , I just added this event to the "history" section, which is unsourced according to the template, but maybe you or someone else with an account could remove or change the template--71.200.105.111 (talk) 07:43, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

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2006 vs 2000 census
"The 2006 census" is mentioned as if the whole world (or all of the USA) knows what this means. "The 2000 census" or any other federal census at the beginning of each new decade needs no further introduction because it is obviously the census mandated in the federal constitution, but any other off-cycle census needs a bit of introduction, such as its title (The Blah-blah Special Census) or who conducted it (federal Census Bureau?) and the reason for the extra census or a reference/URL link to further information. —optikos (talk) 05:55, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

James Renick-Logan
The sentences about James Renick-Logan in this Logansport, Indiana article are uncited. But I researched the matter and overhauled the Captain Logan article, which mis-attributes him as "Johnny Logan" instead of the correct "James Renick/Logan". Whoever 69.245.140.195 at 8:51pm 11 February 2009 was, they contributed the perfectly-correct edit regarding James Renick-Logan, firstly: Good job! You got Captain Logan more correct in this article that mentions him in passing than his own article did! Secondly, from what source did you obtain this information, both A) about his correctly-named identity as well (addressed to you 69.245.140.195) as B) how it is that we know that the city of Logansport is named after him instead of ☺ some other Logan dude ☺ in history (addressed to you User:Cuppysfriend who put in the edit attributing Logansport's name to Captain Logan at 5:57pm on 13 March 2006). (By the way Cuppysfriend, you combined bits & pieces of Captain Logan with his father, Chief Joshua of the Miami, who was kidnapped & held captive by the Shawnee during his/Joshua's childhood, whereas Captain Logan was raised in a Miami tribe, but other than that, Good Job! Every little bit of evidence & help counts.)  I ask this 1) because we need to start citing solid references to address that annoying { { refimprove } } tag and 2) because over in the Captain Logan article the keepers of the James-Renick true facts will almost certainly face a series of challenges from the keepers of the Johnny-Logan purported "facts". Unfortunately, during 2008 Wapakoneta, Ohio chiseled "Johnny Logan" into a new tombstone, so they might not take too kindly to facts that reveal their rather-permanent mistake. —optikos (talk) 20:56, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Logansport, Indiana
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Lourdata

Lourdata is a village on the south coast of Cephalonia, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit Leivatho.

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User:Nvcleemp

I was born in 1983 and live in Belgium. I'm mostly active on the Dutch Wikipedia.

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nl:Gebruiker:Nikolai1983

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Louis III of Germany

Louis III of Germany may refer to:
 * Louis the Younger, son of Louis II of Germany
 * Louis the Child, grandnephew of the previous. He would rather have been Louis IV of Germany

title: Louis III of Germany