Talk:Tombstone, Arizona
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[edit] Ghost town?
How, exactly, can a town with a population of over 1,500 be classified as a ghost town? Just curious. --Hn 01:15, May 4, 2005 (UTC)
- Must be because it's a ghost of its former self? Joekoz451 03:18, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
It's a "look and feel" thing :). History may recur first as tragedy, then as farce, as Hegel and Marx said. But even THEY didn't add that the second or even third time tends to be theme-park type tourist trap. A lot of the "ghost town" of Tombstone today is about as real as a Disney ride. Every time I visit, it seems there are new 120 year-old historic features. Golly. Sbharris 02:11, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Lady Banksia
Can anyone add a section about the "Lady Banksia"? It's the world's largest rosebush, planted 4 years after the "shoot-out". I'd do it but I'm not so good at formatting, etc. Thanks, TRCunning
- Done Sbharris 20:55, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hollywood Depiction
I'd be interested in comments regarding the depiction of Tombstone in the movies, Wyatt Earp and Tombstone.
[edit] Units of measure
According to WP:MOSNUM#Units_of_measurement, it seems pretty clear that for U.S. articles, metric measurements should be secondary (not primary). Omnedon 03:01, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
- If you believe this, please take it up somewhere like the cities or United States wikiproject, for all US place articles with US Census data are formatted like this. Nyttend 03:08, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
- Well, it's pretty clearly-stated: "For US-related articles, the main units are US units; for example, 10 miles (16 km)." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Omnedon (talk • contribs) 03:12, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
- They were incorrectly formatted like that by a bot. Perhaps it is time to have bot fix this. —MJCdetroit 15:04, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
- Then ask for that — we've had bots go through all demographics sections several times, and I'd not mind such a change if it were universal. Meanwhile, please don't disrupt Wikipedia to make your point. Nyttend 15:08, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
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- Just because some bot instituted things incorrectly doesn't mean it should stand flatly in the face of WP:UNITS. There is no good reason to list metric units first in a U.S. related article. IvoShandor 15:29, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
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- Then ask for that — we've had bots go through all demographics sections several times, and I'd not mind such a change if it were universal. Meanwhile, please don't disrupt Wikipedia to make your point. Nyttend 15:08, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
- They were incorrectly formatted like that by a bot. Perhaps it is time to have bot fix this. —MJCdetroit 15:04, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
- Well, it's pretty clearly-stated: "For US-related articles, the main units are US units; for example, 10 miles (16 km)." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Omnedon (talk • contribs) 03:12, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
(unindent)If you're still unsure see Springfield, Illinois a GA and Detroit, Michigan an FA. WikiProjects cannot overrule community consensus at MOS. IvoShandor 15:32, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
- If you program a bot to find something that is incorrect, it will do just that. If you manually correct an article to the correct format before a bot does, the bot will simply skip the article and move on. So correcting the demographics section now will not mess up a bot do something later on. —MJCdetroit 16:43, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
- My point is that you don't know what the standard wording will be, so you don't know what the exact correct format is. Look at a range of place articles: most have "in ____ County, [Statename], United States", but some have "USA" or "US" or "United States of America". Not that it's totally incorrect, but that it would result in nonstandard wording. Nyttend 17:16, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
- The standard wording is according to community consensus at WP:UNITS, if you have issue with the MOS, take it up there. The reason this clause is in the MOS is to avoid edit wars like this. What the issue you are raising has to do with the units I am unsure. IvoShandor 17:34, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
- My point is that you don't know what the standard wording will be, so you don't know what the exact correct format is. Look at a range of place articles: most have "in ____ County, [Statename], United States", but some have "USA" or "US" or "United States of America". Not that it's totally incorrect, but that it would result in nonstandard wording. Nyttend 17:16, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
