Talk:Boston

Boston Marathon

I just changed the wording to indicate that the Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon. This is the BAA's wording. I believe the modern Olympic Marathon is older, but not annual.Dduggan47 (talk) 12:13, 18 February 2010 (UTC) Does it matter? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.252.68.75 (talk) 01:37, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Beantown nickname

I do a search for "Beantown" and am redirected to Boston. All very well and good, except now that I'm here, I find no mention of Beantown. Why is Boston nicknamed Beantown? Is it coffee beans, or Boston baked beans that gave it that name? In addition, has the name fallen into disfavor, and if so, why could that possibly be? —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Librarian at Terminus (talk • contribs) 19:46, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

A quick search of the article finds the nicknames section with the reference to boston.com.--Terrillja _talk 19:51, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Witty email - Boston geography.

I've gotten this witty joke a few times and I always get a chuckle out of it. It's the view point of how any non-Bostonian would view Boston's actual geography. I was thinking it might be cool to put as a box quote somewhere but I have no idea who wrote it to quote them. Has anyone else seen it? When I google the first line a lot of hits turn up going to various Boston message boards but none of these seem to know the author. It goes:

“ The geographical center of Boston is in Roxbury. Due north of the center we find the South End. This is not to be confused with South Boston which lies directly east from the South End. North of the South End is East Boston and southwest of East Boston is the North End. -Sig File ”

CaribDigita (talk) 13:47, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Crime

Boston has a quite bad rate of crime. It should be mentioned more prominently in this article. Many other cities features large sections on crime, and some even that are less dangerous than Boston. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.150.140.237 (talk) 08:01, 21 September 2010 (UTC) How so? I have lived here my enitre life, Boston that is, and the crime rate has gone down significantlly over the past 20 years.

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress at Talk:Boston (disambiguation) which may be of interest Purplebackpack89 04:15, 28 November 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Purplebackpackonthetrail (talk • contribs)

"Inner core"?

The image showing colleges has a caption using the term "inner core". This term is not defined or elsewhere used in the article. (And as someone who lives in the area depicted, I have no idea what it means.) Unless this term can be defined and references sited, it should be removed.--Ericjs (talk) 06:40, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

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'History of Boston' missing from See also references

I would correct this omission myself, but for some reason, I've been unable to invoke edit mode for this article for the past 48 hrs.

Before that, I had drafted a criticism here, accusing this article of being deficient in its coverage of Boston history. Luckily, before posting it, it dawned on me that this topic might be covered in a separate article, which I then found. Hence, this article's custodians wasted my time--not to mention narrowly escaped incurring a false criticism of your efforts--by failing to include en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Boston in your list of See also references, at bottom. I mean, huh?

Correct this glaring bug pronto. --Jim Luedke Jimlue (talk) 06:26, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

A "See also" would be inappropriate, because History of Boston is linked within the article, at the top of the History section. I'm sorry you overlooked it. Hertz1888 (talk) 07:19, 23 September 2011 (UTC)