Talk:Bowling Green, Ohio

The police station picture was nominated for deletion. — Instantnood 08:59, May 18, 2005 (UTC)

Tim Conway
Tim Conway should not be included on the list since he is not from Bowling Green, he merely went to BGSU. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.31.60.71 (talk) 03:22, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Tom Noe

This guy keeps being added and removed. I think the confusion lies in what the Tom Noe page itself says. It doesn't mention that he's from Bowling Green originally, but instead that he lives in Toledo and has lived there for quite some time. I think that this Toledo Blade article[1] should explain it all. ClarkBHM 00:29, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Concerning the issue of IGUN and Michael Vatan (The Gothfather)

http://media.www.bgnews.com/media/storage/paper883/news/2006/01/27/Pulse/Local.Bars.Bring.The.Dark.Side.To.Light-1519211.shtml

http://media.www.bgnews.com/media/storage/paper883/news/2003/01/29/LocalNews/Goth-Night.A.Weekly.Ritual-1288274.shtml

Here are two linked sources to a local newspaper in Bowling Green, OH. Both of which acknowledge that Michael Vatan, aka The Gothfather, is the founder and creator of IGUN. I only continue to contest this because I have worked nearly 10 years of my life to make this a huge success.

Any apologies I can give to the moderators of Wikipedia are sent with the utmost of sincerity. I hope all can empathize that when dedicating this much of ones life to their creation comes with much dismay when someone tries to claim it for their own when they have put no effort or have taken absolutely no part in it. If there is any more I can do to bring clarity to this matter, please address me personally as I would like to have the revisement acknowledged that I continually try to re-establish on the Bowling Green, OH page.

Thank you for your time.

-Mike —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.60.47.194 (talk) 20:32, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Goth Inclusion in Bowling Green Page

The section of the Bowling Green article that references the Gothic subculture should be edited so as not to be used as a promotion for club events. The events at bars on any particular night are not inherently descriptive of the prime or sub-population of a city.

Several cities have bars that cater to several alternative cultures, but those sub-cultures should refrain from promotion of any particular club or business -- if mentioned at all. Bowling Green has a very proud artistic community. Perhaps the Gothic subculture should be listed as one of the many subcultures that are found in Bowling Green, as well as most college towns. Any attempts to connect a subculture with a particular person should be frowned upon, as subcultures get their starts from several foundations.

Furthermore, I reference articles such as Columbus, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan, which holds no correlations between the city and any particular club(s) or business(es) being cited as creating or maintaining any particular scene even though Ann Arbor has distinct clubs for several alternative subcultures. I reference these particular articles because they closely resemble to composition of Bowling Green, Ohio (i.e. college towns, more liberal, cultural cities).

I think we should look to the Ann Arbor article as a reference in committing a "Culture" subsection that could mention Gothic, but refrain from promotion of clubs or events. Such a section should base it's information solely on events that are an output of Bowling Green as a city.

72.241.197.44 (talk) 20:24, 29 January 2008 (UTC)Jason McMasters

Wood County Fair

I question the event heading for "Wood County Fair" under Bowling Green, Ohio. The city does not host this event. The fair is entirely organized by the Wood County Agricultural Society. And further, the fairgrounds, located on Poe Road is not a part of the City of Bowling Green corporation limits. It is actually located in Plain Township. How shall we proceed? Westonjoe (talk) 21:01, 21 July 2008 (UTC)westonjoe

It is located in Bowling Green. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.30.134.185 (talk) 01:53, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

AMP-Ohio/Green Mountain Energy Wind Farm, photo request

This is a request for anyone who visits the AMP-Ohio/Green Mountain Energy Wind Farm in Wood County. Commons has a nice photograph of one of the Vestas V80-1.8MW wind turbines in the wind farm:

• File:Bowling Green Wind Power.jpg

It would be nice to obtain at least one closeup photograph of the solar-powered kiosk on the site that gives data to visitors about the project, the current wind speed, and real time power generation, mentioned in this reference:

• "Ohio gov blows hard with wind-powered energy". Environment Ohio. 2008-01-12. Retrieved 2008-12-15.

For comparison, Lamma Winds in Hong Kong has a similar display, and we have a photo of it:

• File:Lamma Winds visitor kiosk tower base.jpg

Commons has lots of photos of wind turbines, but relatively few showing details of visitor exhibits for wind turbines on public display. Thanks. --Teratornis (talk) 23:22, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Sure, I would be glad to stop by and take a photo (it is only about six miles from where I work). However, I have to say that the Lamma Winds kiosk is much more impressive! --Kralizec! (talk) 17:01, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Of the wind turbines on public display I have managed to see vicariously in this way, Lamma Winds has the best visitor display so far (although I suspect the Ecotricity wind turbine at Swaffham might have a decent display to go along with its observation deck below the nacelle). A somewhat disappointing example of what not to do (in my opinion) is at the Great Lakes Science Center, which went for art rather than science. The result is hard to understand - I couldn't make much sense of the rather mystical sign on the wind turbine base in this photo, until I Googled up the explanation on the Web which clarifies the sentence fragments:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/eggplant/2741129519/

(I can't upload that photo to Commons from Flickr because it has a too-restrictive license, and for an added insult the sign displays a copyright notice. To be fair, there might be other displays at the GLSC that better explain what's going on with the wind turbine, I just haven't seen photos of them.) There seems to have been a pretty good display on a (temporary?) wind turbine installation on the Schuman Roundabout in front of the European Union headquarters in Brussels for the European Wind Day, but I did not find any good photos of it, only this video:

• Wind Generator Brussels Centrum European Union on YouTube

I would like to collect photographic documentation for every wind turbine on public display, and make it freely available to anyone in the world, not just the people who can physically visit every installation. --Teratornis (talk) 20:44, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for the long delay. When the weather improved in late March, I made a trip to the wind farm and took several photos. You may view them at commons:Category:Bowling Green Wind Farm. — Kralizec! (talk) 05:43, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. --Teratornis (talk) 20:57, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

WFOB Radio

Although WFOB long operated a secondary studio in Bowling Green, I'm not finding where they continue to. There is no reference on their website or a phone listing in the local directory. I chose to remove the station, as they are not licensed or operating in Bowling Green. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong with a citation of some sort.Westonjoe (talk) 20:17, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Notable Natives

It has already been discussed that alumni of Bowling Green State University are not necessarily natives of Bowling Green, Ohio. Please list notable alumni, such as Tim Conway and Orel Hershiser, at List of Bowling Green State University alumni Westonjoe (talk) 17:22, 12 August 2009 (UTC)