Talk:Cincinnati

Neighborhoods

There is a List_of_Cincinnati_neighborhoods, with appropriate wiki links, as well as a category for Cincinnati_neighborhoods. Surely we don't need to list every neighborhoor in this article as well. Please let me know if I am mistaken. Pzavon 02:38, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Flags

Deleted flags as per this diff, this article WP:FLAGS, this debate, and this admin. One down, umpteen thousand to go. Pedro |  Talk  21:01, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Law Enforcement and Crime?

As a visitor to Cincinnati several times over the years to visit family and friends, I wonder if this topic is necessary. Having lived in a few of the country's largest cities (San Antonio, St. Louis, Oakland, and Atlanta), surely race relations cannot be that much more escalated than other comperably-sized towns. Race relations of any ethnicity can appear particularly strained with unfortunate incidents, especially by those who choose to incite the anxiety or violence (i.e.: L.A. riots). Don't get me wrong - there's plenty of blame to go around with how we relate to each other - That's the general ambience around the entire United States. It's something we all need to keep working on (inside AND outside of the U.S.). But when it comes to Cincinnati, I'm just not hearing, reading, or witnessing any of the difficuties stressed in the tone of this article. Civil disorder can erupt everywhere there is injustice...and is sometimes necessary. It's simply unfortunate to cast a shadow over an entire city and its rich history because of concerns and problems that occur in most every major city.

As a lifelong resident, I must agree... it's not great here, but there's also a lot more intermingling than people think, especially outside downtown. It's just the 2001 riots downtown that skewed everything.--kubfann 03:31, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

I also agree. This article seems unnecessary. This is a snapshot critique. Many factors lead to actions that both citizens and police take. It's terribly unfortunate, but really, a nationwide problem.

Top picture

Is there anyone else how thinks the opening picture needs to be replaced or at least cropped? Angry Aspie 18:13, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't have any problem with it. Pzavon 02:45, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

In fact, I believe it should include the few buildings in Northern Kentucky-- as it is part of the urban core. Lanskeith17 05:51, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

I personally feel that the picture is particularly ugly and doesn't represent the beauty of the River or region. Also, some of the development in Covington, Ky SHOULD be included in the photograph, as one day there will be twin cities sitting on the Ohio River. Hell, Covington and Kentucky development is partially-responsible for the breath of new life Cincinnati is experiencing and could at least been seen. TomFitzGerald 22:00, 16 August 2007

Census Data

When I go to the cited links for census data I don't find the numbers on the page. The numbers need to be fixed. pw 21:42, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

I know what you are saying, this is kind of messed up here because it says "As of 2007, Cincinnati's population was 368,868?" Where did this information come from. If you take a look on the census list for 2006 at the web link here[1], It shows that Cincinnati's population is 332,252.--OHWiki 23:36, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

I updated the census data for 2006 along with references.--OHWiki 02:12, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Nice, thanks. pw 02:20, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

infobox nicknames

Que-Can asserts that "Cincy" is a nickname while I assert that it is an abbreviation. I believe it to be an abbreviation followoing a vatiaito of the rule for abbreviating that calls for retention of beginning and ending letters, while removing the center. The beginning of the name is "Cinc" the endy of the name is "i" not "y" but the sound of "y" in "cincy" is the same as the sound of an "i" and the net result is readilly pronouncable.

In any case, I don't thing this article needs a list of nicknames in the infobox. If Cincy, why not others? The "Queen City" is probably the primary nickname for Cincinnati and is NOT derived form it. I think the fact that it is not derived from the name makes it more clearly a nickname.

I invite discussion here, but will again remove 'Cincy" as a nickname in the meantime. Pzavon 02:08, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Enquirer cites / links

The enquirer archives older articles to this website. A few of the links on here didn't work anymore, and the cites did not contain the article titles or any way of finding them. I'm going to try the Wayback Machine to see if I can find more info on them. But please, in the future, use proper citation methods for enquirer articles and include titles and other info to be able to find the article (see Template:Cite news or Template:Cite web). pw 14:10, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

One other thing on the archived enquirer articles, they are not free to view. I'm not sure how this is typically handled, but if you use a proper news cite it would be easy enough to get them at the library, so thats probably the best method. pw 14:12, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Niknames (again)

User 199.173.226.236 seems to insist that both "Queen City" and "City of Seven Hills" be included as niknames in the infobox for this article. I disagree and will be reverting that change again. The Seven Hills nikname is "controversial" because the city now has many more than seven hills (see the voluminous discussion on that point on the discussion page). I would also suggest that "Queen City" has the highest profile among the niknames. Therefore it should be the one listed in the infobox. If we list two there, why not three, four or twenty? Seven Hills and others are addressed in the Niknames section, so it is not being ignored. Pzavon 00:07, 28 July 2007 (UTC)