Talk:Louisville, Kentucky
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Basketball capital (?) and talk radio
"Basketball capital of the world"? Can someone other than a Kentuckian confirm this?
Also, why is there a "see also" on talk radio? Vicki Rosenzweig
- The talk radio page has a reference to WHAS radio, which is in Louisville. I assume that is the reason for the see also, though it does seem to be a little bit of a stretch to me. -- Igjeff 16:41, 4 Jul 2004
- I removed the See also's for "talk radio" and "Lytle family", as both seemed to strain to even be tangential to the article. Now, if somebody wants to write an article on the Bingham family, a link to that would make sense. -- Stevietheman 23:09, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Census data
I added data from the 2000 census, however from the information Louiville got merged with another county, so this data is probably old. If someone could explain the merge more clearly it would probably be helpful. -- Ram-Man
- The city-county merger (the county is named Jefferson County) didn't happen until the beginning of 2003, so the 2000 census numbers should be accurate for Louisville pre-merger. I'll have to do some looking to find the post-merger numbers.
- It should be noted that the city-county merger did not dissolve all of the rest of the cities in Jefferson county as many of the pages for the other cities states. I think some of the cities may have chosen to dissolve themselves, and perhaps the merger dissolved some of the smaller ones (I'm not sure on this point), but the larger ones, for sure, still exist independantly. An example is Jeffersontown Kentucky, which certainly still exists seperately from Louisville. -- Igjeff 16:41, 4 Jul 2004
- True - all the cities that existed before merger continue to exist (with the notable exception of the City of Louisville itself, which was dissolved in the creation of Louisville Metro). Citizens of cities like Jeffersontown vote for two mayors (J-Town and Metro), and two city councils. -- Bill Lumbergh 27 Aug 2004.
Photo for Louisville
Louisville needs a photo image in the article. Anyone have a good one to add? -- Stevietheman 22:40, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- To be more specific, this article needs an image of Louisville's skyline. -- Stevietheman 15:44, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Done! -- Stevietheman 21:11, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Pronunciation
I changed the part about the pronunciation; I don't see how a pronunciation used by hardly any residents of a city can be considered its 'proper pronunciation'. Users:ryangabbard:Ryan Gabbard
- Disagree. The proper phonetic pronunciation is indeed "Loo-ee-vil". Just because a majority have taken to mispronounce it doesn't evade the proper pronunciation. -- Stevietheman 17:41, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- I'm with Ryan, the "correct" pronunciation of a location, region, whatever, is the pronunciation of the residents/natives of that location.Igjeff 01:00, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- The funny thing is, however... many in the media and political leaders use "Loo-ee-vil" as a "King's English" way of saying it, while most in the populace regularly say "Loo-uh-vul". I was born/raised and lived most of my life in Louisville... I know what I'm talking about. -- Stevietheman 04:42, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- I don't think we're disagree on who uses it what way (born and raised Louisvillian as well). I think we're only talking about what should be considered "correct." Obviously there are different schools of thought on this, and the pronunciation of Louisville is certainly a grey area. I've always understood that, in the field of geography, the common native pronunciation is considered "correct." I'm not trained in that field, however (though my brother has some training along these lines...I'll ask him about it next time I talk to him). Igjeff 19:36, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone want to try to write the pronunciation(s) in IPA or SAMPA? --the Epopt 21:10, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- I've converted it to IPA. rossb 20:19, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I don't disagree with showing IPA, but I was taught the old standard in school, and I'm afraid most Americans wouldn't understand IPA. Just a thought. — Stevie is the man! Talk | Contrib 00:53, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
What's missing
I think the key content missing from the article at this time is "History." Would anyone care to take a stab at that? - Stevietheman 21:13, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Just thought of another section we could add: Transportation. We could add info about the Ohio River Bridges project, the interstates, TARC, etc. — Stevie is the man! Talk | Contrib 03:16, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
"A historic" or "an historic"
"A historic" is correct in American English[1] (http://www.jimloy.com/language/historic.htm)[2] (http://www.theslot.com/a-an.html)[3] (http://www.scribe.com.au/tip-w005.html)[4] (http://www1.umn.edu/urelate/style/language-usage.htm), and since Louisville is an American city, we should use American English. – Quadell (talk) (help) 18:54, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)
- I disagree with the opinion links, but I don't see a need to start an edit conflict over it. I'll leave it. --Stevietheman 19:17, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
The Kentucky Center
This link (http://www.kentuckycenter.org/) proves that the place is now called The Kentucky Center. "...for the Arts" was dropped off. — Stevie is the man! Talk | Contrib 18:15, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
OK, I see what happened. The article was misnamed. So I moved it to a new article The Kentucky Center and redirect Kentucky Center for the Arts there now. Sorry for the mixup. — Stevie is the man! Talk | Contrib 18:23, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)