Talk:Kentucky

Geography

How 'bout a seperate page for the Geography section?

It seems to be the largest section on the page, with enough information to form a seperate page ("Geography of Kentucky" or the like).

It would also help the article meet Wikipedia Article Size requirements.

Thanks.

Jakob Russian (talk) 23:18, 26 October 2011 (UTC)Jakob Russian

Music

Um, the article talks about all these bluegrass legends, and in the middle of it talks about the Backstreet Boys. Presumably someone's idea of a joke. MDuchek (talk) 15:03, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

hehe. That, or some really poor editing on someone's part. Fixed. Acdixon ^{(talk · contribs)} 15:12, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Kentucky is officially a Southeastern State.

50.96.245.253 (talk) 12:14, 20 August 2012 (UTC)Geographically Kentucky is a Southeastern State. The article states that Kentucky is "Upper South" and "Midwest". The National Census geared by the US Goverment cleary states Kentucky is a Southern State and this is used for regional mapping and demographics. The Kentucky Governor is in the Southern Governor's Association, Both College and lowers education levels are credited to the Southern Education Association. The Official line of the Northern and Southern border is the Mason-Dixon line, with the Ohio River being the symbolic border. Kentucky is listed on the Southern Region of the USA on this site-Wikipedia. Before and during the Civil War Kentucky was an antebellum Southern State, but in military terms was considered a Border Sate which provided soldiers to both sides. Never actually saw an official region named "Upper South", but have heard the slang before. A region has to begin and start someplace and the Ohio River definds the sectional divide. Kentucky has no connection to the Northern States dubbed as Midwest. I think this article with the Midwest reference is based on the Southern part of Indiana being including in Louisville Metro and Northern Ky. being in Cincinnati Metro. Be that as it may, this does not defind Kentucky's geography. The Official term is Southeast. joller@infionline.net50.96.245.253 (talk) 12:14, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Kentucky as a "Sinkhole State" according to non-partisan "Truth In Accounting" org

Not sure of it's natural place on this wiki page but I've been placing them in the other 5 "sinkhole" states Economy section. Kentucky is one of the most indebted states and I felt that including this info was valuable and timely. Feel free to revise/amend as you see fit. StickerMug (talk) 20:01, 3 December 2012 (UTC). My contribution to the page has been deleted doubting it's relevance. Any thoughts on proper citation. I'd rather not revise this post only to have it deleted again. Thoughts Anyone? StickerMug (talk) 21:01, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

I think the removal was correct. Every advocacy group, think tank, and quasi news organization out there compiles lists like this from time to time. What makes this one more special than any of them? Besides, in such a high-level article as this, I think this fact looks fairly trivial. Maybe if there was an article on Economy of Kentucky or Government of Kentucky or maybe Politics of Kentucky (all presently redirects), it might be appropriate (or not), but for the main article (which has in the past been tagged as too long to begin with) I don't think it is important enough to include. Acdixon ^{(talk · contribs)} 21:19, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

I appreciate the feed back. Thanks Acdixon. To avoid the "compiling of lists" phenomenon which can come off as self-promotional, I just provided the neutral stat on "taxpayer burden" which is representative of the economic situation but not promotional. Let me know if I should revert. StickerMug (talk) 18:34, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

I'm looking at Minnesota as an example because it is a featured article. It actually has a whole section on the state's taxes, which is probably more helpful than this in the long run. However, this article is not even close to being FA, so I won't let the perfect become the enemy of the good. (Not that this is my article, but I'm the only one who has commented so far.) I do think that the statement should say – in the prose itself – who estimated the tax burden. Also, it's not clear to me what the ranking 46th means. Is that the 46th highest burden (which would be good from a taxpayer standpoint) or is it the 46th lowest burden (which would, of course, be bad for taxpayers, since only 4 states would have higher tax burdens)? That may need to be clarified. Acdixon ^{(talk · contribs)} 15:33, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

I just read the referenced source and attempted to clarify the article accordingly. However, it is not clear to me that the referenced source should be considered reliable and objective. Saying that they are non-partisan and calling themselves "the Institute for Truth in Accounting" really means absolutely nothing. In fact, I would tend to be much more suspicious of the validity of statements that come from an organization that puts "Truth" in its name than from an organization that doesn't. —BarrelProof (talk) 17:35, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Worth a trip to the reliable sources noticeboard? Acdixon ^{(talk · contribs)} 18:05, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Dry Counties

I'm very new to wikipedia so I wouldn't want to try editing, especially on a major subject such as Kentucky. I was just wondering if there's ever been a discussion if the high number of dry counties in Kentucky should get a mention? For an outsider such as myself it is one of the more striking aspects. 02.30, 12 October 2013