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Demographics

I deleted a lot of the demographic section as it said in the to-do. The full section is now in "Demographics of North Carolina. Stefano98 (talk) 22:04, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

• Good job. I think someone added back a citation and a small bit, but that is fine. All and all, it is much better now. PHARMBOY ^{(moo) (plop)} 22:32, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

I mostly agree with the cuts, that section was way too long. However, I went ahead and added some of the religious data back for now. (I've seen editors on other state articles say that that data is useful when comparing the religious makeup of different states.) Again, though, I agree with most of the cuts you made. AlexiusHoratius 22:35, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Took another look at the ARIS data for NC religion. There was a small error, as "non-denominational" was classified as "Other" in Wikipedia, whereas ARIS states that this is counted under Christianity. Furthermore, a typo of 16% is written for unaffiliated/non-religious, whereas this should be 10%. Lastly, this is not "current," but merely most recent available, from ARIS 2001. I have updated the article, as well as Demographics of North Carolina.

Copying from the ARIS Table 15:

Baptist 38, Methodist 9, Presby 3, Prot 2, Episcop 1, Lutheran 2, Cong/UCC 1, SDA 1

Catholic 10

Mormon 1, NonDen 2, Christian 6, Pentec 2, AoG 1

Jewish 1

No relig 10

Other 3, Refused 7

Kakistocrat (talk) 23:41, 9 January 2009 (UTC)Kakistocrat

history

james k. polk was born in north carolina —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.114.44.159 (talk) 22:15, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Banking Collapse?

IMO, the section on North Carolina's economy needs to be updated to reflect the recent takeover of Wachovia and the troubles of Bank of America. The section on North Carolina's "Finance, Technology, and Research" reads like a chamber-of-commerce advertisement for the city of Charlotte, and doesn't reflect the recent economic downturn in the city due to the buyout of Wachovia and Bank of America's severe problems. Just a thought.

Question

Does anyone know why the text of the "State constitution", "Federal apportionment", "Politics", and "Sports and recreation" sections appear to be in italics? Rreagan007 (talk) 20:28, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

It appears to have been fixed. Thanks to whoever did it. Rreagan007 (talk) 19:23, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessment

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:North Carolina/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

GA Sweeps: Delisted

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. I believe the article currently has multiple issues that need to be addressed, and as a result, I have delisted the article. There are multiple sections throughout the article lacking citations, as well as statements/sections that have been tagged since 2008. Add additional citations from a variety of sources to provide a balanced representation of the information present. Perhaps sources can be pulled from the main articles linked to within the article. Look to books, magazines, newspaper articles, other websites, etc. The lead should also be reduced to four paragraphs, see WP:LEAD guidelines. The gallery of cities should be removed per WP:IG. The long list of films in the "Film and the arts" section should be trimmed, perhaps mentioning the most notable ones. Although the article has been delisted, the article can be returned to GA status by addressing the above points and giving the article a good copyedit. Once sources are added and cleanup is done, I recommend renominating the article at WP:GAN. If you disagree with this assessment, a community consensus can be reached at WP:GAR. If you need clarification or assistance with any of these issues, please contact me on my talk page and I'll do my best to help you out. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 22:48, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Control State

Article list Graham and Yancey Counties as the only counties that do not allow the sale of alcohol. According to the ABC board's website, 37 of the 100 counties do not allow the sale of any form of alcohol. Like Yancey county, these counties may have municipalities with in there borders that do allow alcohol to be sold. Another topic that could be mentioned in article is the tradition of moonshining and bootlegging.75.191.154.67 (talk) 21:01, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

There already exists a separate wikipedia article on Moonshine, which obviously was produced in in several Southern states. MarmadukePercy (talk) 21:38, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Francene Street dies at age 113! Shouldn't she be a part of history?

In 2009 (March 15th issue of The Citizen Time) a story was done on Francene Street regarding her age which was 112 then. She, I am sadden to say passed away Tuesday morning at her nursing home at the Grace Health care facility in Asheville, NC. My family and I were wondering if my aunt should be registered on Wikimedia as a part of North Carolina history for being one of a very limited group of people that made it to age 113. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.250.225.39 (talk) 15:32, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

How about starting an article on the subject itself rather than adding to the state article? --CutOffTies (talk) 15:37, 29 August 2010 (UTC) Not sure how to do that--I'm hoping this post will reach someone that may be in a position to add her to wikipedia- North Carolina's Centenarian history.

I would suggest first having an article about the subject before adding to existing articles. If you want to try to create the article yourself, read Your first article. Otherwise, you can request an article. Please note, the subject must meet basic notability guidelines. --CutOffTies (talk) 18:03, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Too long

At more than 162, 000 bytes this article appears too long to download and navigate comfortably. I notice that most or some of the sections are already linked to main articles. In these cases it could be best to transfer more text from this article to their respective main articles.

Sections without a main article could have a new article with most of the text transfered to that article. In both cases of "existing" and "new" main articles there is ample opportunity to expand (add text). ---- Steve Quinn (talk) 00:05, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

When a section links to a main article, the remaining text should usually just be a summary of that main article as it relates the current article. It should look like a second lede section. Most of the sections seem a bit long but are in the right ballpark. The demographics and sports sections should be almost entirely gutted and merged into their main articles. That would cut a huge chunk out of the article. ButOnMethItIs (talk) 00:33, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Good ideas, and I agree. Also, I was looking at the history section. There is already a main article on the History of North Carolina. It might be best to merge all the content that is not a duplicate of the main article, into the main article. Perhaps leave behind a lede section as suggested. ---- Steve Quinn (talk) 01:46, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Official language

The official language should be English, not American English. It is too specific and it is not recognized as such by the government, just simply English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.51.79.126 (talk) 04:56, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

I went ahead and changed it to just "English" - the statute doesn't say anything about "American English", which isn't a distinct language anyway. AlexiusHoratius 05:04, 21 November 2011 (UTC)