Talk:Kansas City

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If Kansas City is indeed (as stated on this page) just one city divided over two states, then why not make this page the page about Kansas City, and have the other two pages redirect to it? Or am I wrong? jheijmans

The statement is incorrect. The two cities are now very separate; each with thir own police departments, city councils, mayors etc. I also read-up on the history of Kansas City, Missouri and didn't see any indication that they were ever one city. --maveric149

While the city in general is divided between states (ie., separate) .... it does have interrelated facets [an example is the NA football team, located in Mo, but claimed by Kansans as much as those from Mo]. Being a bi-state area, there are several things that KC'ian share between the 2. The pioneers settled, IIRC, on the missouri side 1st [being the 1st stop on the movement west] ... but they also settled in around KCKS during the same time. It was basically concurrent. I'll in the future edit the page to do a bi-state phenonomena [and dab the other meanings in that article]. JDR 18:37, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

It's also politically impossible in the US for one city to be incorporated by two states. -- R'son-W (speak to me/breathe) 21:22, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Make Kansas City an real article (i.e. not a disambiguation page)

There sure are a lot of links to this page. How about moving this page to Kansas City (disambiguation) and making Kansas City a real article? Or redirecting Kansas City to one of the other "Kansas City" articles? What do you think? Ewlyahoocom 03:01, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

I think Kansas City should be a redirect to Kansas City, Missouri, which is the larger and more prominent of the two. Most links have the MO city in mind. --- Dralwik|^{Have a Chat} My Great Project 21:19, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Ehh....this page is kinda messed up, it either needs to be a redirect to KCMO the metropolitan area or a disambig page. Grey Wanderer | Talk 00:16, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Sometime soon I will either redirect this page to Kansas City, Missouri and create a disambig page or create the disambig page and redirect to it. Any thoughts?Grey Wanderer | Talk 22:56, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

If it has to redirect anywhere, I think Kansas City Metropolitan Area would be a much better choice than the KCMO article. Plus this article already has some useful summary content written that could easily be merged with the metro article. Erp Erpington (talk) 20:41, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

A bit late, but I think that redirecting to the Metropolitan Area is the best thing to do. Someone searching for "Kansas City" may want either KCK or KCMo, and outsiders especially may not know at first that there are two cities by that name just across the river from one another. (Believe it or not, some people are not aware of the presence of both Kansas City KS and MO.) Redirecting to the metro article easily solves this problem. It also avoids misinforming people who are really looking for KCK and end up at the KCMO page. And it also avoids upsetting KCK residents who can get quite vocal about being excluded in favor of KCMO. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 08:23, 28 May 2008 (UTC)