Talk:Louisville, Kentucky

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Compact this article somewhat by moving content into existing sub-articles and creating new sub-articles. Culture Cover nightlife. Cover the plethora of art galleries (include mention of the Gallery Hop, a monthly event with growing popularity). Cover "Local myths and legends". Cover things like Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Pope Lick Monster and the supposed invention of the cheeseburger in 1934, even though it was actually invented in Pasadena, California in the 1920s. Cover local bands and musicians, discuss diversity of music. Also discuss undeground music scene. I can be contacted for information, as I am not a good editor, but would be happy to supply knowledge about the underground scene. Contact me at drunkrabbit22@yahoo.com List Louisville's firsts and special achievements in one spot, perhaps in a sub-article. One resource for this: [1] Cover Louisville's public libraries and other educational aspects beyond schools in the Education section. I think talking about some of Louisville's suburbs would be nice. Louisville has many interesting, populous suburbs: Shively, Pleasure Ridge Park, Valley Station, Fairdale, Fern Creek, Jeffersontown, St. Matthews, Prospect, Anchorage, etc. Perhaps already well covered by Louisville neighborhoods? The proposal of a light rail line and where it would be planned to go. Perhaps cover in Transportation in Louisville, Kentucky. I'm always interested in reading about areas of rapid growth in or around cities. I would like to read about the rapid growth in East Louisville/Oldham County. The jobs that are pouring into Bullitt County because of the expansion of the airport and Worldport. I think the rapidly growing health care industry would be important to talk about. I know we found vaccines for cervical cancer here at the Cancer Center and made the first successful hand transplant. Already some coverage in Economy of Louisville, Kentucky Maybe mention the proposal of a new airport in Oldham County to try and make the county more attractive for businesses as more affluent people locate in that region. The expanding Kentucky Expo Center and it being the '6th largest venue of its kind in the US'. (I know I read this somewhere). See Kentucky Exposition Center I thought I read where a women's football team played at Oldham County High School?! Perhaps cover in Sports in Louisville, Kentucky. With the arena, there are talks in acquiring a minor league ice hockey team once again. Perhaps cover in Louisville waterfront arena and/or Sports in Louisville, Kentucky. Largest Pedestrian Only Bridge. The Big 4 Bridge!!! See Big Four Bridge. Expand "Crime and public safety" section.

[edit] French version of this article just became Featured!

Check it out: fr:Louisville (Kentucky). Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 22:22, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Yep and now you can copy it if you need ! LOL . Sylfred1977 ^Parler 13:47, 2 July 2008 (CET)

[edit] Naming convention for large cities strawpoll

I wanted to let everyone know that I have posted a strawpoll that deals with the naming conventions of large cities throughout the world on the English Wikipedia. Please vote. Wikipedia:Large cities naming convention strawpoll. Some cities already follow the naming convention that I am proposing while others do not, but because it affects this municipalities future name, I am posting the link here. Cheers. Rorry1 (talk) 23:36, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Murder stats for specific years

I disagree that this is a history article and that murder stats for specific years constitute "recentism". Recent information isn't bad in and of itself. In discussing public safety in the current city of Louisville, discussion of recent years' murder rates makes sense. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 23:15, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

It is recentism though, to give undue weight to recent history. This article is about the overall story of Louisville, not just what Louisville is like lately. Discussion of recent events is okay, but why should a prominent table just give the past few years of data? Why is this more notable than say, 1978-1983, except as a recentism? --Rividian (talk) 23:26, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Disagreed. In talking about the current public safety, recent years' data is appropriate. It's not recentism. 1978-1983 has a lot less to do with current public safety than the last several years. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 23:28, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

But that's the whole problem... it shouldn't just be talking about current public safety. The article is Louisville, Kentucky not Recent situations in Louisville, Kentucky. Encyclopedia articles are supposed to give a full overview... if they just dwell on what's going on in the last several years, that's a recentism. This is also one of the key things that fails these kinds of articles at the modern WP:FAC by the way. --Rividian (talk) 23:31, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

An encyclopedia article is indeed about the current state of the subject, along with its history. If you continue to disagree with me, we can get a third opinion according to Wikipedia procedure. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 22:06, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

But it's not about the last 5 years only when there's 230 years of history. The last 5 years isn't any more important than any other period (actually the last 5 years are considerably less important than say the 1904-1909 period where the police were thick in a rigged mayoral election, or 1967-1972 period with the race riots). The last 5 years is just more recent... hence, recentism. Feel free to file for another opinion, I'm not going to edit war over the issue. But honestly, introducing uncited and challenged material into a supposed FA isn't that good a thing to be doing if you want to keep it a FA, we shouldn't need a second opinion to confirm that. --Rividian (talk) 23:14, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] skyline image

People often seem to be changing the skyline image. I'm not a photography guru but the current image looks hazy, blurry and/or faded. There doesn't seem to be any guidance on the cities Wikiproject or the city infobox page, so I'm guessing we could use a day or night one. Maybe we could gather candidates here and try to pick a better one, rather than just people swooping in and making undiscussed replacements? --Rividian (talk) 19:55, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

That's fine with me. I've always been in favor of a kind of deliberative process on making the image better. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 20:35, 9 September 2008 (UTC)