Talk:List of people from Wisconsin

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Please help by moving people into the appropriate section or create a new section if necessary. These titles are (clearly) based on List of people from Texas. -Acjelen 21:10, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Unless there is an objection, I removed the "Founders and pioneers" section because it only had one name (Laura Ingalls Wilder) and she is already listed in another section as a writer further down. If anyone can think of any actual founders/pioneers, please put the section back in and list. HollyAm 20:29, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

I removed the section called "Famous Wisconsin Bands" because bands aren't people, and this is a list of people. -Freekee 04:56, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inclusion criterion

I think the inclusion criterion should not be only whether someone was born in Wisconsin, but anyone who lived in Wisconsin for a significant amount of time. Under the current rule of this article, a person was born in Wisconsin but moved away as an infant, is qualified for inclusion. But a non-native who lived 70 years in Wisconsin would not be included in this article. That's not right. — Walloon 05:54, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Seems reasonable, but the heading should be altered to indicate this. John Muir is listed even though he was born in Dunbar, Scotland. Finavon 13:51, 30 September 2006 (UTC)