Talk:Longmont, Colorado

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Hi. Under Notable Residents, what about Dan Simmons the noted author and winner of Hugo, Nebula and numerous fantasy awards?

I removed a couple of "notable" residents (a minor league baseball pitcher and a composer). Minor league baseball pitchers aren't notable and the composer's entry looks like a vanity page.

[edit] Merging Longmont and Mayors of Longmont

Why merge the mayor list with the base article? Can you point to other city articles that do that? I'd like the Longmont article to look more like the Denver article in that respect with a template at the bottom. There are tons of city articles that have associated lists of mayors.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Shdamberger (talk) 17:02, October 12, 2007 (UTC)

I concur that you should not merge the list into the article, unless you can make or find a very nice looking template for the task. Otherwise, it would just clutter up the page. — Ken g6 19:31, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I just found a template that might work: Template:Collapsible list. See my sandbox for how it looks. The only question I have with this is, would anyone would be willing to wade through the nested templates to fix the list of mayors? (Later, when it needs fixing, that is.) -- Ken g6 23:59, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I disagree, this page should not be merged. I would like to know how copying information from the official city of longmont website and posting it to this site without giving any copyright information is allowed. I don't think that page should exist without that acknowledgment. One should provide a link directly back to the original source - http://www.ci.longmont.co.us/about/longmont_mayors.htm. --Swolak (talk) 17:52, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

You can't copyright a list of data like a phone book or in this case a list of mayors and dates of office. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.162.99.178 (talk) 16:20, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Photos

Needs a few town photos to upgrade it to B-class.LanceBarber (talk) 18:46, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

I would love to take some photos of Longmont to be included in this article. Are there any guidelines that would help me out? Icebourg (talk) 23:13, 2 March 2008 (UTC)