Talk:Manassas, Virginia

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Since I've been placing a few civil war notes on this site, I've been pondering how to link "Union". It's been going to a disamb page which says the Northern States in the American Civil War or some such. I don't think linking to United States of America is satisfactory, either. Confederate redirects to Confederate States of America, if I recall. This is not the only place that I've linked to "Union". I need to think of something....

how about [[Union(Civil War)]], which specifies the time and circumstances, instead of the whole USA and every subtopic it presents.

Sounds workable to me. -- Zoe

I've done this - except I made it Union (American Civil War), which is yet more precise. I'm correcting all the union links as well (I also corrected yours above.) Derrick Coetzee 23:56, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 City Manager? 2 Rail Transportation 3 Liberty wall ? 4 Rabid White Supremacists Shooting Mexicans? 5 References?

[edit] City Manager?

In updating the infobox, I put down the city manager (right now, from everything I've seen, acting city manager at the moment) instead of a mayor under "leader_title" and "leader_name". Everything I remember from seventh-grade civics class at Metz (albeit eight years ago) is that the CM holds all the real power, and the mayor just runs the city council and is a bit of a figurehead, not unlike the "constitutional monarch" system of govt. Do y'all think we should leave it as CM or change it to mayor? MessengerAtLWU (talk | contribs) 01:05, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't know who told you that Larry Hughes resigned; he hasn't. Stop changing it back when I correct it, please.

[edit] Rail Transportation

I replaced the overly detailed info about two Amtrak trains with a more generalized description (that can be greatly expanded) on all of the rail services for Manassas, plus a bit of history. I do not believe that the detailed schedule information belongs in a Wikipedia article at all, btw. Mmoyer 17:21, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Liberty wall ?

I'm quite surprised that this page doesn't contain any word about the "Liberty wall", even if it is well known worldwide, maybe a little line could be interesting. (sorry for my poor english, I'm European,. Klem 193.49.48.244 (talk) 15:56, 28 February 2008 (UTC))

Are you talking about that large board with a long message about Mexican immigration? I agree, this should be included in the article. (You actually have good english.) 69.255.170.118 (talk) 01:30, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rabid White Supremacists Shooting Mexicans?

There is a statement in the article that "Rabid white supremacist groups are expressing concern about the number of undocumented workers and have recently started to shoot Mexicans." I live in Manassas, and I'm pretty sure that this would have made the local, if not national news. Not only is the statement about "shooting Mexicans" not accurate, but I could not find any news articles to support this statement. 69.243.5.247 (talk) 13:18, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] References?

Also, someone has removed the References section from this page. 69.243.5.247 (talk) 13:23, 16 March 2008 (UTC)