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Old talk

PICTURES! WE NEED SOME PICTURES HERE! ALL WHO ARE CAPABLE, PLEASE PUT IN SOME PICTURES! Look, an article like this should have some pictures! Can't we do better than this? Scorpionman 16:24, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Try asking at Wikipedia:Requested images too. Kappa 16:30, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Google Maps / Google Earth & Georgetown

Google recently updated the satellite imagery for Georgetown, Guyana. Georgetown is no longer hiding behind a massive cloud!! To see the images, use the coordinate link on the Georgetown, Guyana article. Nick Taylor 13:14, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting cleanup

"Economy

Georgetown is Guyana's largest city and it contains a good portion of the major businesses. It is an important city for Guyana and the Caribbean. Within the metro area there is the CARICOM headquarters which is the centre of the Caribbean government. Georgetown also is home to a seaport that is rapidly expanding. The city is seeing a major boom in construction and very strong economic growth. Georgetown's airport, Cheddi Jagan International Airport is a hub for BWIA or locally known as ""bwee""."

- this is a typical example of what I have a problem with. 1. Georgetown is Guyana's only city. 2. "a good portion" is too colloquial 3. "very strong economic growth" - explain please 4. CJI Airport is in Timehri not Georgetown 5. CJI is not a BWIA hub, Piarco is. 6. BWIA's nickname should not be on the Georgetown page. --Blakdogg 13:28, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Demerara River high span bridge

The following was recently added to the "Construction Boom" subsection - "A new high span bridge across the Demerara River". This statement is news to me and needs a reference if accurate. Nick Taylor 21:24, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Updating this article

During my studies at Delft University of Technology I have been working on an all encompassing document on Georgetown. Since all text is my own work, I am willing to publish some if most of it on the Georgetown article. This means that I will change this article profoundly by changing, replacing, adding text, photos and maps. Before I start changing prevous contributors' work, I'd like to get in contact with those most active on this subject.--Bjornvanraaij 09:26, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem removed

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King George III or IV?

The following suggested that it was named after King George IV not III:[1] Shawnc (talk) 07:45, 11 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

It has been proposed in this section that Georgetown, Guyana be renamed and moved to Georgetown.

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Georgetown, Guyana → Georgetown –

This is the capital city of an independent country; none of the other entries at Georgetown can match. Some of the entries would not be at "Georgetown" even if they were the only entities with those names (e.g. Georgetown University), some are US communities that include their state names per WP:USPLACE, and none of the remainders have any more distinction than being capitals of subnational entities or dependencies. If the only national capital with this name were a town of 450 people, it would be different, but a city with a quarter of a million people that's a national capital should be the primary topic for its name. Nyttend (talk) 19:04, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose (but open-minded) primarily because of Georgetown, Penang (a major city with over 1 million people), two other (albeit miniscule) capitals, and the overwhelming number of other places named "Georgetown" (including the US university which is likely a common target of "Georgetown" searches. Note WP:PRIMARYTOPIC: "A topic is primary ... if it is highly likely—much more likely than any other topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term."— Preceding unsigned comment added by AjaxSmack (talk • contribs)
Oppose being the capital is irrelevant when it comes to how we name our articles. For the record, Georgetown University has been viewed 106,000 times in 90 days. Georgetown, Guyana has been viewed only 42,000 and the neighborhood in DC has been viewed 36,000. Hot Stop (Edits) 21:59, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose it should be a disambiguation page. Our US readers would not think of this location as primary, so this also has some regionality primarity to it. -- 70.50.149.56 (talk) 23:38, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]