Talk:Juneau, Alaska

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Largest City???

Are you sure that Juneau is the largest city in the US as far as land area? I think Sitka, Alaska is, and its article certainly thinks so as well. Nationalparks 21:29, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Sitka City and Borough encompasses all of Baranoff Island, and is the largest incorporated area; however, the actual City of Sitka covers only a very small portion of that area. Juneau's city boundaries extend much further, to the point that I think it can be considered the largest city without being the largest incorporated area.--Lordkinbote 23:06, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

actually not only does sitka include all of baranof islan it also includes southern chichagof island. acording to this wikipedia sitka is slightly larger in land area. you might be right in that the incorperated part of the borough of sitka is smaller. on my year 2000 delorme state atlas map theres a small boundary surounding just the central city it marks the national forest boundary. its very possible that the incorporated part of sitka is not the whole county even though youd think that. this is tru for juneau its land area also includes some of this tongras national forest region too so both of you are right you both have dirrent difinitions of the incorporated areas. 76.244.155.36 (talk) 22:07, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The opening paragraph states that Juneau is the second largest city in the US by area. The Geography section says it is the third largest. Which is it? --Mfwills (talk) 21:18, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Capital of Alaska?

Is Juneau the capital of Alaska? or isn't it? Why isn't there anything about the state government that's located here? Some mention of the capitol building, the state legislature, the governor's mansion... something would be notable. On the surface, this article has the flavor of a "typical" Alaskan town than anything else. —MicahBrwn (talk) 06:29, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's is, but maybe not for long... L'Aquatique[parlez] 15:19, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So you're saying there's a movement afoot to move the capital of Alaska to some other city? Source? Google came up with zippo. The closest thing I found was something from three years ago; in response to efforts to revamp or build a new Capitol Building. (http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=15936) —MicahBrwn (talk) 07:06, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There's already some information in the article about capitol creep, the FRANK initiative, etc. L'Aquatique[parlez] 01:04, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There have been at least seven or eight statewide votes related to the capital move issue, the first being in 1960. That you're in disbelief about that based solely upon a Google search is not at all surprising. In general, the development of this article has shown little regard for WP:NOTTRAVELGUIDE and is still badly in need of input from actual locals. RadioKAOS – Talk to me, Billy 02:10, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

History of this page

During the alasken gold rush,a lot of prospostors came home with small foturns.

What's a foturn and where I can get one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.155.175.171 (talk) 18:54, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Missing

B-Class criteria says no obvious omissions. I would call no mention of the A-J Mine (or even the Treadwell Mine) an obvious omission. I'll see what I can do.RadioKAOS (talk) 12:10, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Language Demographics

I've deleted this content:

15.1% reported speaking Tlingit at home, 5.1% Inupiaq...

This is not supported by the reference cited. Tlingit is an endangered language spoken by fewer than 1000 people in Alaska; the MLA shows 300+ speakers in Juneau. Inupiaq does not register any speakers in Juneau.

http://www.mla.org/map_data_results&state_id=2&place_id=36400&cty_id= — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.175.212.40 (talk) 15:12, 19 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fliptown

Fliptown and Fliptown, Alaska currently redirect to Juneau and are being discussed at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 August 1#Fliptown. Your comments there would be most welcome. Thryduulf (talk) 15:10, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Did Someone Vandalize The Climate Section?

I’m not sure but somebody changed a lot of information on the Climate Section 1) They changed Juneau To Subarctic Subarctic 2) Maximum Temp says 88 instead of 90 3) 1,400 Hours of Annual Sunshine instead of 1500 4)The Average Monthly Temperatures for many months are wrong. 5) Winters and Summers seem to list colder temperatures.

I'm not sure what else is wrong. Please do let me know.

Are these changes correct or did somebody screw it up.

Please comment

Well nobody commented for a few days so I just reverted it back since I assumed it was Vandalism

99.104.175.147 (talk) 23:17, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It took me a while, after I reverted your edits, to see what you meant. I was coming back to fix it when I saw you had already done so. NameIsRon (talk) 23:38, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Transportation

I think the blurb about Juneau not being serviced by a freeway along with those other state capitols is irrelevant. The US has a history of making small towns into capitols so that's not that noteworthy. I think "it's the only state capitol not serviced by a road leading out" is much more interesting and noteworthy, not being serviced by a freeway would also be implied in that statement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.241.80.110 (talk) 17:01, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Update needed (sooner or later)

Was looking for something on the Empire website just now. Someone created an article on the mayoral election about six months too early and it was deleted. For whatever reason, no one else stepped up to recreate the article at the appropriate time. Bottom line, from the Empire article I'm reading, Bruce Botelho is not running for reelection (or may be term-limited?). Just in case anyone can update/correct things before I ever get around to it (which in my case, won't be until after the election's over, or who knows when, whichever comes first).RadioKAOS (talk) 22:35, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

US State Capital

≠Every other US State Capital in the United States is included under the cat "Category:States Capitals in the United States". Juneau should be no different. While the cat was deleted previously using Hotcat, please be careful. If we are going to have that cat, and I believe we should, then we need to list Juneau along with Austin, TX., Charleston, WV., Sacramento, CA., etc. Thanks! AlaskaMike (talk) 20:33, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

NM, my bad. Please disregard. AlaskaMike (talk) 20:55, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]