Talk:Duluth, Minnesota

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Contents 1 Furthest seaport from the ocean 2 In Duluth 3 External links 4 Template for a U.S. City 5 Abigail Cartwright 6 Pronouncing Duluth 7 Famous people 8 Images of lift bridge 9 Economy Section

[edit] Furthest seaport from the ocean

This title is awarded to Iquitos, Peru, which is some 3,000 km from the Atlantic, in the book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann. Since Duluth is ~3,700 km from the ocean, it seems Mann is incorrect and Duluth is indeed the furthest deep water port in the world from the ocean.

[edit] In Duluth

I live in Duluth and I have been told from many people here that it is the largest freshwater port in the world. I don’t see this in the article, though I don’t know how accurate that is. Zath42 20:09, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

I would disagree because the city of Chicago, hosting at least 20 times more inhabitants, is a freshwater port.

[edit] External links

This article has way too many external links. They should be reduced or at least organized.--Daveswagon 01:12, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

They should be reduced even if organized. And where there is already a link in the text or elsewhere in the article it should not be repeated here.Kablammo 22:26, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template for a U.S. City

For those who plan on editing and expanding this article, please follow the Template for a U.S. City. Thanks!--Daveswagon 09:50, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

It has been reorganized. Despite the apparent extent of the changes indicated by this comparison[1] there should be no substantive changes. Some judgment calls: Transportation and Power have been moved to a new Economy section (which still needs a general summary of the economy, including industry and retail). One of the religion links have been moved to the new Religion section (which in turn has been put further down on the page, per the template); the link to the Catholic diocese has been deleted as it is linked by the separate article on the diocese (in turn linked to from the Religion section of this article). In my second edit[2] I rewrote some of the tourism stuff in the history section and moved it to a new Tourism subsection of Economy. Kablammo 18:14, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Abigail Cartwright

Abigail (Abby) Cartwright was born in texas i don't know when she was born but she goes to william barrett travis vanguard and academy and she is in ms. williams 5th grade class.

Oh, is that so? Chickenflicker 23:07, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pronouncing Duluth

Could someone write a clarification in the article on the pronunciation of this city? I was recently playing TransAmerica (board game) in Germany and many people asked me how it's pronounced and I'm not sure... Thanks! --Chuck SMITH 10:43, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

"Duh-LUTH". Chickenflicker---♣ 13:08, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I am not familiar with grammatical pronunciations, but the pronunciation is 'deh-luth', 'duh-luth' or 'dew-luth'.

[edit] Famous people

Is it standard practice to have a "famous people" who hail from the mentioned city in Wiki articles? The list seems too subjective for Wikipedia. Chickenflicker---♣ 01:28, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

See the template at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cities#Article_structure_example_for_a_U.S._City and discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Cities#Proposal_to_delete_.22Notable_natives.22. If the criterion is notability it should be no more subjective than the determination of which persons are notable enough to have articles in Wikipedia. Kablammo 04:07, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay. I was wondering because New York City, Houston, Chicago, Beijing, Tokyo, and London don't have lists of notable natives on their main pages. Thanks. Chickenflicker---♣ 13:03, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

It's interesting that two of New York's boroughs have links to lists of famous people, while Staten Island has a list in its article. The inclusion of such lists seems to be more prelavent for smaller cities and towns-- it would not make much sense to have a list for Manhattan, for example. Less than a year ago the Minnesota article has such a list in its main body. Kablammo 13:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

The is an article about Duluth on uncyclopedia, and if that is worth mentioning then it should be added.

[edit] Images of lift bridge

There are several great free use pics available of the bridge here: http://flickr.com/photos/dcagne/page6/ Royalbroil ^T : C 15:42, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Economy Section

The economy section should be expanded to include more than tourism. The iron industry isn't dead yet after all. Also, should "power supply" really be under economy? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 137.22.11.104 (talk) 20:07, 1 April 2007 (UTC).