Jtw Member Username: Jtw
Post Number: 99 Registered: 06-2005
| Posted on Sunday, October 01, 2006 - 9:46 pm: | |
today's featured article on wikipedia is detroit! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M ain_Page a nice interesting read at least. |
7even Member Username: 7even
Post Number: 115 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Sunday, October 01, 2006 - 10:04 pm: | |
That's good publicity because alot of people visit that site. I am always intrested to see what the featured article is. I am glad to see that it is Detroit today. |
Magic_mushroom Member Username: Magic_mushroom
Post Number: 20 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Sunday, October 01, 2006 - 11:58 pm: | |
I found this in the article on Detroit in Wikipedia. "The stylish lofts of the refurbished Metropolitan Building downtown are a short walk from the city's Greektown entertainment district." I certainly wish so. Maybe one day. |
Wolverine Member Username: Wolverine
Post Number: 218 Registered: 04-2004
| Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 1:17 am: | |
I think they meant Kales, but yeah I hope so too on the Met. |
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker
Post Number: 1655 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 12:10 pm: | |
The Cadillac factory pictured, was located at Amsterdam and Cass (1903-21), not on Clifford as the Detroit wiki says. Anybody registered there, so it can be corrected? |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 2867 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 1:15 pm: | |
I was looking at the Metro area statistics... the ones for Philadelphia include areas include populations in New Jersey, Delaware AND Maryland. Geeze, we can't even get Windsor into our count... how fair is that?? And good lord, is Maryland any farther from Philadelphia than Flint, Ann Arbor or Toledo are from Detroit?? (Which are not part of Detroit's count) |
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar
Post Number: 190 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 1:17 pm: | |
I understand Windsor not being counted, as it is a completely different country, but I think Ann Arbor and Flint should be included. |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 2869 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 1:38 pm: | |
Yeah, usually when you see World Metro Area statistics Windsor is included in the Detroit total... But on the world scene Detroit is even farther behind, due to the exploding population of high birthrate world cities... Djakarta, Cairo, Mexico City, Sao Paolo, Rio, Buenos Aires, Santiago, and a plethora of cities in China and India. |
Danindc Member Username: Danindc
Post Number: 1801 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 2:11 pm: | |
Yeah, I don't see it as very practical for the U.S. Census Bureau to include a foreign city in the Detroit MSA. |
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg
Post Number: 327 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 3:16 pm: | |
The Cadilllac plant photo caption has been corrected to read:
A photograph of the Cadillac Motor Car Co. Main Plant on Cass Ave. at Amsterdam St. in Detroit, circa 1910 |
Hornwrecker Member Username: Hornwrecker
Post Number: 1656 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 3:31 pm: | |
Thanks for the quick service. I spent a bit of time going over the details in that photo to pinpoint it. |
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg
Post Number: 328 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 3:49 pm: | |
I think the error possibly came about when the original author of this Wikipedia image misconstrued the note "129 Clif." on negative. on the American Memory website where he found this image, to mean that it was the street address. |
Illmatic774 Member Username: Illmatic774
Post Number: 80 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 6:15 pm: | |
Two pictures of DDOT and SMART buses? Someone needs to step their picture game up. Theres a LOT to see here. |
Kilgore_south Member Username: Kilgore_south
Post Number: 183 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 10:19 pm: | |
Thanks Mikeg, you beat me to the correction game. Nice to see Detroit featured on Wiki. The article has grown in size and quality lately. Good stuff. Should I go ahead and change that sentence about the Metropolitan Building to the Kales instead? You could basically substitute one for the other and it would still be true. Also, at the top of the page on the right-hand facts sidebar, Kwame is listed with a "D" after his name even though the Detroit council and mayor are all technically non-partisan. Is that worth changing? (Message edited by Kilgore_South on October 02, 2006) |
Docmo Member Username: Docmo
Post Number: 114 Registered: 10-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 11:05 pm: | |
"In 2006, a state-of-the-art cruise ship dock was added to Hart Plaza." I went looking for the state of the art cruise ship dock but just couldn't seem to find it. Anybody know where this cruise ship dock is? |
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg
Post Number: 329 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 11:42 pm: | |
Kilgore_south, I didn't touch the sentence about the Metropolitan Building/Greektown entertainment district because I am not knowledgeable enough to craft a more factually correct statement. I agree with you on removing the (D), since the text clearly states, "The city government is run by a mayor and nine-member city council and clerk elected on an at-large nonpartisan ballot." |
Kilgore_south Member Username: Kilgore_south
Post Number: 185 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 12:27 am: | |
Yeah, I'll probably get on that in the morning if nobody else beats me to it. |
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider
Post Number: 6 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - 3:34 pm: | |
Im not sure if I read it on the wikipedia data a few months ago but as far as including flint, windsor, and toledo into our SSMA if those areas are included that makes the area the 4th most populated in the US only after chicagoland. Pretty impresive I think. THe wikipedia article paints a nice picture of the city. IF you search for metro areas or SSMA's you can find more about our ranking in population |
Grey Member Username: Grey
Post Number: 255 Registered: 05-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - 4:03 pm: | |
The mention of a cruise ship docking area would be the planned Port Authority Terminal. It seems to me that it is to be somewhere between Hart Plaza and the Ren Cen. It's interesting that it got mentioned on the Wiki article before being actually built. Anyone else have more information on this? All I could come up with by searching the archives is the following: https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/62684/65947.html Only one sentence mentions the planned terminal. |
Grey Member Username: Grey
Post Number: 256 Registered: 05-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - 4:08 pm: | |
Changing the subject from from the article on the city itself, Wikipedia has no article on the Grande Ballroom. That is an omission needs to be corrected. It is mentioned in a very simple article on Russ Gibb, but even that article needs some work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Gibb (Message edited by grey on October 10, 2006) |