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Perhaps the sentence referring to north minneapolis as the "drug capital" of the upper midwest should be removed. It is extremely POV and inaccurate. ReverendG 22:00, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm thinking there could be a climate section for Minneapolis. After all when people think of Minneapolis they think cold snowy winters. Just like when one thinks of Seatle they think of cloudy rainy days.
Do not put people who were not born in Minnesota in this part. When people look at the names they think they were born there when they were not.. don't place famous people there unless they were born in Minnesota.
Well, what about people who were born in the metro area? They could be referred to as famous Minneapolitans even if they weren't born there. I noticed the Coen Brothers aren't mentioned, even though they did start out making movies as teenagers in Minneapolis. Although they were born outside of Minneapolis (in a suburb), they did spend a lot of their time in that city. Moebius42 21:52, 19 February 2007 (UTC)Moebius42
It would be nice to have some hard statistics on crime, or even a mention about the sharp increase of foreign-born immigrants to the Twin Cities as a reason for increasing crime (a fact - look it up).
--- Umm... we have to have some consensus as to how strict we are about where people live and where they were born. Neil Gaiman does not live in Minneapolis, he lives near it. Bob Dylan only lived in Minneapolis briefly. Al Franken was born and raised in Saint Louis Park, which is five minutes from downtown Minneapolis. He lived and got his comedic start in Minneapolis. If we are going to exclude some and not others, let's at least get out standards straight. For now, I am putting Franken back in.
---
Amanda Wildefyre.
---
A little girl from Minneapolis came home from Sunday School with a frown on her face.
"I'm not going back there anymore," she announced with finality. "I don't like the Bible they keep teaching us."
"Why not?" asked her astonished mother.
"Because," said the little girl, "the Bible is always talking about St. Paul, and it never once mentions Minneapolis."
Minneapolis is a suburb, according to the Gospel of St. Paul.
Isn't Honeywell also headquartered in Minneapolis? -- Zoe
Yes. So is Pillsbury. And
Dairy Queen. And
Cargill,
a grain-industry giant that does not deal directly with the-proverbial-person-on-the-street.
Michael Hardy 02:18 Jan 20, 2003 (UTC)
Also see Honeywell's Minnesota-based Merger Mishaps
South Minneapolis
Neighborhood Community
Stewardship was funded by civic-minded Honeywell corporate leadership
to help off-set chaos of periodic campus visits by local protest groups organized by
Norm Davidoff ...
Note: Grand Metropolitan plc./
Diageo dba
Pillsbury Brands
successfully re-merged with
General Mills at
Golden Valley
in western
Hennepin County near
Lake Minnetonka
65.30.117.192
11:58, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Bob-RJ Burkhart, LCDR-USNR, Ret.
Actually, no. In the 90s, Honeywell merged (was acquired?) and most of its Minneapolis and suburban facilities closed. Its main campus was bought by Wells Fargo Mortgage (a division of a West Coast bank that merged with a prominent local bank, Northwestern) and expanded that site. Wells Fargo, along with the hospitals in the nearby area, have significantly invested in upgrading housing and supporting social services in the nearby Phillips, Whittier and other blighted South neighborhoods.
Pillsbury was also purchased by several (most significantly British) companies in the last decade, and was finally brought back into the fold with its merger with long-time competitor, General Mills. Pillsbury occupies a modern office building in downtown, while General Mills sprawls on a lovely corporate campus about 10 miles west of downtown.
Shouldn't the rap group Atmosphere be in the section. Also, normaly, suburbs are considered part of the city as far as this article is concerned. False Prophet 01:44, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Although labeled as a Swing State in the 2004 election, Minneapolis voted consistently and dominantly Democrat.
Do the skyways stay open all night? If so, do homeless people sleep in there?
There seems to be a growing level of stuff on this page that might be better placed on the article for the Twin Cities region, Minneapolis-St. Paul. My opinion is that there should probably be a somewhat better delineation of what is in Minneapolis, what is in St. Paul, and what is elsewhere. But I guess it's hard to have an appropriate level of strictness... Anyway, I'm mostly just looking for opinions. — User:Mulad (talk) 17:58, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
as for the delineation......it's kind of hard because locals do very little delineating between St. Paul and Minneapolis. They are different, but they tend to blend together
Minneapolis/Saint Paul is not the right name for the region. There is a TON of activity in the suburbs and ex-urbs: Eden Prairie and along 494 has tons of software companies and "medical alley"; 3M is in Maplewood (east of Saint Paul); Medtronic is north (Fridley), Prince's Paisley_Park is in Chanhassen. I have friends who grew up in Anoka (North) or Prior Lake (South). I say this sadly as a Minneapolitan who wants more activity in Minneapolis! :) Anyway, I think we call this urban region the Twin Cities Metro Area. That should be the regional page if there is one. Anyone care to confirm or deny? dfrankow 16:28, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I saw that Guthrie Theater links to Tyrone Guthrie in this article, I was going to write an article on the theater itself. I'd change the link here to the theater article, put a link to Tyrone in it and add a link in the Mpls article to the Tyrone article as well. How does that sound?
I added an article on "Nordeast" There's some things I'd still like to add\change that I talked about on its talk page. I'm going to be working on some of the red links on this page as well Rx StrangeLove 02:19, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
My apologies in advance for stepping on Midwestern toes, but is Minneapolis really a "world-class" city? I don't see any evidence for putting it in the same group as New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, Singapore, et al.. The linking article mentions "tiers" of such a status; perhaps some qualification might be in order?? 66.82.9.39(Mashford - cookies disabled)
Minneapolis may be a very clean and quite a liveable city but here goes, it is not a world class city. This whole "world-class" moniker is really becoming a little bit ridiculous, as every city seems to be using it. A World class city is a city has a global presence and influence, a city that everybody knows something about....London, Paris, Tokyo, New York, yes, Singapore, Minneapolis, no. -- 142.161.179.115 04:46, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
There is no question the Metro Area's crime level is insufficient to qualify it as a "world class" city. But we're trying. Wahkeenah 08:09, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
See global city for more information: there you can find the Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network (GaWC)'s classification of world-class cities. They list Minneapolis as a 4-point city (out of 12), putting it in the same group as Berlin, Istanbul, and Shanghai. Colin M. 08:49, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
As a decidedly unfamous person who was born & grew up in Minneapolis – and as an old-time Bob Dylan fan – I think it's a bit cheesy to claim Dr. Bob as a famous "Minneapolitan." He only lived in Mpls. a couple years. OK, so he once sang at the old Scholar coffeehouse in Dinkytown. He's spent most of his life elsewhere, and he wasn't born in Mpls. either.
This article is desperately in need of photos! See New York City to see how photos can really enhance a page. It's also fun to see your photos up on Wikipedia. Anyone want to go around and take some relevant photos? I'd do it but I'm not in Mpls. now. Moncrief 19:57, May 10, 2005 (UTC)
I have tons of good quality digital photos that I've taken around the city saved on my computer. Most city landmarks and a lot of skyline shots that are pretty good. But I dunno how to load them on here, let alone edit the article...if someone wants to use them, email me elfangor801@yahoo.com
Ummmm, a lot of the photos on this page are subpar but not only that some I think are actually copyright infringing because I have seen them in official publications before (notably IM Pei's tower). If someone would please clean those out. I'll try to bring in new photos on my own. Certainly my photo of downtown from East Bank campus isn't amazing at all, just a spur of the moment. ~~ Eric http://www.davumaya.com
What kind of an article is this about Mpls :) Its gotta have a pic of the Spoon sculpture :) Jawed 04:31, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
I'll fork over what I've got, and we'll see if that encourages someone to post a superior example. :) Wahkeenah 09:55, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
I did it, but I've been scooped. That Minnesota University lad's photo in the separate Spoonbridge and Cherry link is way much better. The purpose of my two is to show some contrast between summer and winter, as the photos were taken from the exact same point. If someone thinks they are too poor to be in the article, it won't hurt (much) if someone reverts them. ); Wahkeenah 10:16, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
Don't have it. Maybe you should ask User:Mulad, who seems to have a lot of TC photos. Wahkeenah 20:02, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
Please check the image description page (just click on the image) of your favorite image to check that it has proper licensing information. Tags in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags are preferred. I created Category:Images of Minneapolis, Minnesota but because those should have one of more free-use licenses I was unable to add a number of unlicensed images. For example, one Spoon and Cherry image had proper information while two others did not. ( SEWilco 05:59, 17 August 2005 (UTC))
Are you referring to my summer-and-winter images of the spoons? Those are scans of photos I took. I don't understand the licensing stuff, it's all mumbo-jumbo to me, so I just uploaded them with a bare explanation and let it go at that. Feel free to attach an appropriate label to them, and given that example, I shall try to do better in the future. Wahkeenah 11:56, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
Where could I see an example of such? Wahkeenah 22:47, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
I added a couple of aerial and satellite images to Minneapolis-St. Paul which may be useful. ( SEWilco 06:59, 20 August 2005 (UTC))
I took this from a plane a few years ago and have used it now and again as a desktop background. If anyone thinks it might be a worthwhile addition to the page, please use it. -- Msr657 20:32, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone remember the "I love the Mini-Apple" Minneapolis' image-boosting campaign? Because of that campaign, many Ojibwe language speakers don't call Minneapolis by its traditional name Gakaabikaang (at the falls), but rather as Mishiiminens-oodena (mini-apple town). Was this at the same time as or shortly after the New York City's "I ♥ New York"/"The Big Apple" campaign? CJLippert 06:56, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
The skyline photo in the top info-bar was an good night photo of the Stone Arch Bridge, but had nothing from the downtown skyline in it. So I added a photo I had of the downtown skyline + Metrodome; however, I liked the Stone Arch Bridge photo and moved it to the top of History, and then simply moved the other skyline photo from there down a few paragraphs. Bobak 22:24, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Ahh, is this correct, and can a citing please be provided. I have lived in Minneapolis most of my life and asked others who have lived here for 60+ years and havent heard of this. Just wondering were its from, and without pending evidence, im going to go ahead and remove the statement "People living in Minneapolis are called Minneapolitans." THanks.-- Geppy 05:40, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
I've long thought the term is standard. Michael Hardy 01:09, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Although Winnipeg lists Minneapolis as a sister city, Minneapolis does not. I've checked their city website. Anyone have the facts on that one? jdobbin 19:24, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Some conservative commentators have pejoratively called it Moscow on the Mississippi in reference to the city's highly liberal politics[citation needed]. I deleted this once, but it was reverted quickly reverted. It has no citation, but even if it did it is an irrelevant smear.-- RLent 17:18, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
According to the List of United States cities by population, Minneapolis is now 48th. The core cities would rank, by 2004 estimates, at 18th, between Memphis and Baltimore with a population of 650906. Louisville is way down on the list. If there are no objections in the next couple of days, I will make this paragraph, you know, correct. ColinKennedy 19:22, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
I am from Richmond Virginia reading up on your city. Afting having edited the RVA article extensively, I figured I would share some feedback about some possible edits to make the Minneapolis article more reader friendly.
I would be bold and do all this myself but I wanted to get some comment on it first. MPS 18:45, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm planning on taking a day and doing some photography around the Twin Cities. Is there anything in particular editors interested in Mpls would like, other then the ones at the top of the page? I'm hoping to do it this week, probably Thursday. Let me know on my talk page if you have suggestions. Thanks! Rx StrangeLove 01:34, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
There is a survey in progress at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (settlements) to determine if there is consensus on a proposed change to the U.S. city naming conventions to be consistent with other countries, in particular Canada.
I have been unable to verify the current claim for ranking 65th in world metropolitan areas. There doesn't seem to be a consistent answer to this question but the Twin Cities seems to rank 105th [4], 114th [5] or 135th [6] depending on the source.
Can we simply remove this claim as there doesn't seem to be any way to readily verify it? Caladil 17:28, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
I reverted a change in the article to MSA being the 15th largest whose sources were an EPA webpage and the MN state site both of which were using 2000 census figures. My change was reverted. Here are my reasons for using 16th largest:
Thanks.-- Loodog 03:12, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I changed a few images -- a lighter skyline, still not perfect maybe, the whole City Hall, added the Pillsbury mill and Wells Fargo and Hennepin County Government Center; and removed two of three of the Stone Arch Bridge. It's AOK with me if anyone wishes to revert. I miss a nice winter photo and some lakes someday. Best wishes. - Susanlesch 06:03, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Can someone go in and edit the layout of the page? With all these images the text is awkward to read and the general appearance is bad in general. Images good, too many images bad. Han0100 16:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Sounds good, I just went through and deleted a couple images from the left side that aren't emphasized in the article. I also added a short blurb about Wells Fargo having a large presence in town to go along with the photo of the WF tower that was added. Han0100 16:53, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello. The text of this article is really good, just too long I am told. Here are a few concrete ideas on how to shorten the article.
Sound good? If you have ideas about other ways to tighten this up it would be great. - Susanlesch 20:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
I recommend moving everything that doesn't pertain to within the Minneapolis city limits to the appropriate city or to the Twin Cities article. There are references to MOA, Southdale, metro-area population, Minnesota demographics, many films made in the metro area rather than within Minneapolis. -- Appraiser 21:17, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
I propse this cut section get merged into Minneapolis-St.Paul as relevant:
Famous people from the Twin Cities area (near Minneapolis), or in Minneapolis for a brief time
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Cricket02 04:19, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
To be useful given Category:People_from_Minneapolis%2C_Minnesota, the list in Minneapolis, Minnesota with photos needs to be short. Does anyone have proposals for leaders or famous Minneapolitans who are African-American, Hispanic, Latino, Latina, Hmong or Asian? I tried to add women and Native Americans but am not sure those given now are the right choices. The people could have lived there only a brief time (but in the city not nearby). Once a group is known maybe the list can be shortened a little. - Susanlesch 07:02, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Minneapolis, Minnesota/Drafts for more cuts. - Susanlesch 14:59, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Does anyone know how to be fair with this number of musicians? - Susanlesch 18:13, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Temporarily restoring a user's image deletions until the above discussions reach conclusion. - Susanlesch 20:35, 17 January 2007 (UTC).
Except the neighborhoods missing in the template, all of the red links have been replaced with either a new article, a link to an external site, or no link. I am not sure about WikiProject Minnesota, but no red links is a requirement for a B class biography and looks useful here too. - Susanlesch 15:34, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
I added a dubious tag to the following phrase:
"Minneapolis is one of the most-biked large cities in the United States."
There are many larger, more compact, warmer, and less automotive-friendly cities in the United States that must have higher bike ridership.-- Loodog 03:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Just throwing this out there, but the 2005 American Fact Finder survey doesn't include college students living in dorms for their population estimates. And the University of Minnesota (More than 50,000 students) sits comfortably within Minneapolis' border. Which short changes it's population by something probably in the neighborhood of 30 or 40 thousand people, seeing as not all college students live in a dorm obviously. So we may want to take off the 2005 number seeing as it's, well, wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elfangor801 ( talk • contribs) 03:35, February 22, 2007
Hi. Does anyone have comments pro or con on the use of templates? For now several were added to Category:Minnesota_navigational_boxes. Also, in the case of MinneapolisPeople and MinneapolisProSports, is it useful to store paragraphs outside the Minneapolis article? I thought of those because sports had a few reverts for the Wild. Or do you think that extra step makes it too hard for future editors? Google didn't find a precedent but I may have missed discussion somewhere. - Susanlesch 04:17, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello. The merges are all started and then some more. Is this structure what you had in mind? Is it working? Or is it too much work? Is the City of Minneapolis template misleading because it links to stubs? In the edit history you can see it had neighborhoods, communities and business areas, and Minnesota county seats and largest cities. But it looked pretty long to me. - Susanlesch 04:17, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
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Perhaps the sentence referring to north minneapolis as the "drug capital" of the upper midwest should be removed. It is extremely POV and inaccurate. ReverendG 22:00, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm thinking there could be a climate section for Minneapolis. After all when people think of Minneapolis they think cold snowy winters. Just like when one thinks of Seatle they think of cloudy rainy days.
Do not put people who were not born in Minnesota in this part. When people look at the names they think they were born there when they were not.. don't place famous people there unless they were born in Minnesota.
Well, what about people who were born in the metro area? They could be referred to as famous Minneapolitans even if they weren't born there. I noticed the Coen Brothers aren't mentioned, even though they did start out making movies as teenagers in Minneapolis. Although they were born outside of Minneapolis (in a suburb), they did spend a lot of their time in that city. Moebius42 21:52, 19 February 2007 (UTC)Moebius42
It would be nice to have some hard statistics on crime, or even a mention about the sharp increase of foreign-born immigrants to the Twin Cities as a reason for increasing crime (a fact - look it up).
--- Umm... we have to have some consensus as to how strict we are about where people live and where they were born. Neil Gaiman does not live in Minneapolis, he lives near it. Bob Dylan only lived in Minneapolis briefly. Al Franken was born and raised in Saint Louis Park, which is five minutes from downtown Minneapolis. He lived and got his comedic start in Minneapolis. If we are going to exclude some and not others, let's at least get out standards straight. For now, I am putting Franken back in.
---
Amanda Wildefyre.
---
A little girl from Minneapolis came home from Sunday School with a frown on her face.
"I'm not going back there anymore," she announced with finality. "I don't like the Bible they keep teaching us."
"Why not?" asked her astonished mother.
"Because," said the little girl, "the Bible is always talking about St. Paul, and it never once mentions Minneapolis."
Minneapolis is a suburb, according to the Gospel of St. Paul.
Isn't Honeywell also headquartered in Minneapolis? -- Zoe
Yes. So is Pillsbury. And
Dairy Queen. And
Cargill,
a grain-industry giant that does not deal directly with the-proverbial-person-on-the-street.
Michael Hardy 02:18 Jan 20, 2003 (UTC)
Also see Honeywell's Minnesota-based Merger Mishaps
South Minneapolis
Neighborhood Community
Stewardship was funded by civic-minded Honeywell corporate leadership
to help off-set chaos of periodic campus visits by local protest groups organized by
Norm Davidoff ...
Note: Grand Metropolitan plc./
Diageo dba
Pillsbury Brands
successfully re-merged with
General Mills at
Golden Valley
in western
Hennepin County near
Lake Minnetonka
65.30.117.192
11:58, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Bob-RJ Burkhart, LCDR-USNR, Ret.
Actually, no. In the 90s, Honeywell merged (was acquired?) and most of its Minneapolis and suburban facilities closed. Its main campus was bought by Wells Fargo Mortgage (a division of a West Coast bank that merged with a prominent local bank, Northwestern) and expanded that site. Wells Fargo, along with the hospitals in the nearby area, have significantly invested in upgrading housing and supporting social services in the nearby Phillips, Whittier and other blighted South neighborhoods.
Pillsbury was also purchased by several (most significantly British) companies in the last decade, and was finally brought back into the fold with its merger with long-time competitor, General Mills. Pillsbury occupies a modern office building in downtown, while General Mills sprawls on a lovely corporate campus about 10 miles west of downtown.
Shouldn't the rap group Atmosphere be in the section. Also, normaly, suburbs are considered part of the city as far as this article is concerned. False Prophet 01:44, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Although labeled as a Swing State in the 2004 election, Minneapolis voted consistently and dominantly Democrat.
Do the skyways stay open all night? If so, do homeless people sleep in there?
There seems to be a growing level of stuff on this page that might be better placed on the article for the Twin Cities region, Minneapolis-St. Paul. My opinion is that there should probably be a somewhat better delineation of what is in Minneapolis, what is in St. Paul, and what is elsewhere. But I guess it's hard to have an appropriate level of strictness... Anyway, I'm mostly just looking for opinions. — User:Mulad (talk) 17:58, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
as for the delineation......it's kind of hard because locals do very little delineating between St. Paul and Minneapolis. They are different, but they tend to blend together
Minneapolis/Saint Paul is not the right name for the region. There is a TON of activity in the suburbs and ex-urbs: Eden Prairie and along 494 has tons of software companies and "medical alley"; 3M is in Maplewood (east of Saint Paul); Medtronic is north (Fridley), Prince's Paisley_Park is in Chanhassen. I have friends who grew up in Anoka (North) or Prior Lake (South). I say this sadly as a Minneapolitan who wants more activity in Minneapolis! :) Anyway, I think we call this urban region the Twin Cities Metro Area. That should be the regional page if there is one. Anyone care to confirm or deny? dfrankow 16:28, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I saw that Guthrie Theater links to Tyrone Guthrie in this article, I was going to write an article on the theater itself. I'd change the link here to the theater article, put a link to Tyrone in it and add a link in the Mpls article to the Tyrone article as well. How does that sound?
I added an article on "Nordeast" There's some things I'd still like to add\change that I talked about on its talk page. I'm going to be working on some of the red links on this page as well Rx StrangeLove 02:19, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
My apologies in advance for stepping on Midwestern toes, but is Minneapolis really a "world-class" city? I don't see any evidence for putting it in the same group as New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, Singapore, et al.. The linking article mentions "tiers" of such a status; perhaps some qualification might be in order?? 66.82.9.39(Mashford - cookies disabled)
Minneapolis may be a very clean and quite a liveable city but here goes, it is not a world class city. This whole "world-class" moniker is really becoming a little bit ridiculous, as every city seems to be using it. A World class city is a city has a global presence and influence, a city that everybody knows something about....London, Paris, Tokyo, New York, yes, Singapore, Minneapolis, no. -- 142.161.179.115 04:46, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
There is no question the Metro Area's crime level is insufficient to qualify it as a "world class" city. But we're trying. Wahkeenah 08:09, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
See global city for more information: there you can find the Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network (GaWC)'s classification of world-class cities. They list Minneapolis as a 4-point city (out of 12), putting it in the same group as Berlin, Istanbul, and Shanghai. Colin M. 08:49, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
As a decidedly unfamous person who was born & grew up in Minneapolis – and as an old-time Bob Dylan fan – I think it's a bit cheesy to claim Dr. Bob as a famous "Minneapolitan." He only lived in Mpls. a couple years. OK, so he once sang at the old Scholar coffeehouse in Dinkytown. He's spent most of his life elsewhere, and he wasn't born in Mpls. either.
This article is desperately in need of photos! See New York City to see how photos can really enhance a page. It's also fun to see your photos up on Wikipedia. Anyone want to go around and take some relevant photos? I'd do it but I'm not in Mpls. now. Moncrief 19:57, May 10, 2005 (UTC)
I have tons of good quality digital photos that I've taken around the city saved on my computer. Most city landmarks and a lot of skyline shots that are pretty good. But I dunno how to load them on here, let alone edit the article...if someone wants to use them, email me elfangor801@yahoo.com
Ummmm, a lot of the photos on this page are subpar but not only that some I think are actually copyright infringing because I have seen them in official publications before (notably IM Pei's tower). If someone would please clean those out. I'll try to bring in new photos on my own. Certainly my photo of downtown from East Bank campus isn't amazing at all, just a spur of the moment. ~~ Eric http://www.davumaya.com
What kind of an article is this about Mpls :) Its gotta have a pic of the Spoon sculpture :) Jawed 04:31, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
I'll fork over what I've got, and we'll see if that encourages someone to post a superior example. :) Wahkeenah 09:55, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
I did it, but I've been scooped. That Minnesota University lad's photo in the separate Spoonbridge and Cherry link is way much better. The purpose of my two is to show some contrast between summer and winter, as the photos were taken from the exact same point. If someone thinks they are too poor to be in the article, it won't hurt (much) if someone reverts them. ); Wahkeenah 10:16, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
Don't have it. Maybe you should ask User:Mulad, who seems to have a lot of TC photos. Wahkeenah 20:02, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
Please check the image description page (just click on the image) of your favorite image to check that it has proper licensing information. Tags in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags are preferred. I created Category:Images of Minneapolis, Minnesota but because those should have one of more free-use licenses I was unable to add a number of unlicensed images. For example, one Spoon and Cherry image had proper information while two others did not. ( SEWilco 05:59, 17 August 2005 (UTC))
Are you referring to my summer-and-winter images of the spoons? Those are scans of photos I took. I don't understand the licensing stuff, it's all mumbo-jumbo to me, so I just uploaded them with a bare explanation and let it go at that. Feel free to attach an appropriate label to them, and given that example, I shall try to do better in the future. Wahkeenah 11:56, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
Where could I see an example of such? Wahkeenah 22:47, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
I added a couple of aerial and satellite images to Minneapolis-St. Paul which may be useful. ( SEWilco 06:59, 20 August 2005 (UTC))
I took this from a plane a few years ago and have used it now and again as a desktop background. If anyone thinks it might be a worthwhile addition to the page, please use it. -- Msr657 20:32, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone remember the "I love the Mini-Apple" Minneapolis' image-boosting campaign? Because of that campaign, many Ojibwe language speakers don't call Minneapolis by its traditional name Gakaabikaang (at the falls), but rather as Mishiiminens-oodena (mini-apple town). Was this at the same time as or shortly after the New York City's "I ♥ New York"/"The Big Apple" campaign? CJLippert 06:56, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
The skyline photo in the top info-bar was an good night photo of the Stone Arch Bridge, but had nothing from the downtown skyline in it. So I added a photo I had of the downtown skyline + Metrodome; however, I liked the Stone Arch Bridge photo and moved it to the top of History, and then simply moved the other skyline photo from there down a few paragraphs. Bobak 22:24, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Ahh, is this correct, and can a citing please be provided. I have lived in Minneapolis most of my life and asked others who have lived here for 60+ years and havent heard of this. Just wondering were its from, and without pending evidence, im going to go ahead and remove the statement "People living in Minneapolis are called Minneapolitans." THanks.-- Geppy 05:40, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
I've long thought the term is standard. Michael Hardy 01:09, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Although Winnipeg lists Minneapolis as a sister city, Minneapolis does not. I've checked their city website. Anyone have the facts on that one? jdobbin 19:24, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Some conservative commentators have pejoratively called it Moscow on the Mississippi in reference to the city's highly liberal politics[citation needed]. I deleted this once, but it was reverted quickly reverted. It has no citation, but even if it did it is an irrelevant smear.-- RLent 17:18, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
According to the List of United States cities by population, Minneapolis is now 48th. The core cities would rank, by 2004 estimates, at 18th, between Memphis and Baltimore with a population of 650906. Louisville is way down on the list. If there are no objections in the next couple of days, I will make this paragraph, you know, correct. ColinKennedy 19:22, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
I am from Richmond Virginia reading up on your city. Afting having edited the RVA article extensively, I figured I would share some feedback about some possible edits to make the Minneapolis article more reader friendly.
I would be bold and do all this myself but I wanted to get some comment on it first. MPS 18:45, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm planning on taking a day and doing some photography around the Twin Cities. Is there anything in particular editors interested in Mpls would like, other then the ones at the top of the page? I'm hoping to do it this week, probably Thursday. Let me know on my talk page if you have suggestions. Thanks! Rx StrangeLove 01:34, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
There is a survey in progress at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (settlements) to determine if there is consensus on a proposed change to the U.S. city naming conventions to be consistent with other countries, in particular Canada.
I have been unable to verify the current claim for ranking 65th in world metropolitan areas. There doesn't seem to be a consistent answer to this question but the Twin Cities seems to rank 105th [4], 114th [5] or 135th [6] depending on the source.
Can we simply remove this claim as there doesn't seem to be any way to readily verify it? Caladil 17:28, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
I reverted a change in the article to MSA being the 15th largest whose sources were an EPA webpage and the MN state site both of which were using 2000 census figures. My change was reverted. Here are my reasons for using 16th largest:
Thanks.-- Loodog 03:12, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I changed a few images -- a lighter skyline, still not perfect maybe, the whole City Hall, added the Pillsbury mill and Wells Fargo and Hennepin County Government Center; and removed two of three of the Stone Arch Bridge. It's AOK with me if anyone wishes to revert. I miss a nice winter photo and some lakes someday. Best wishes. - Susanlesch 06:03, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Can someone go in and edit the layout of the page? With all these images the text is awkward to read and the general appearance is bad in general. Images good, too many images bad. Han0100 16:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Sounds good, I just went through and deleted a couple images from the left side that aren't emphasized in the article. I also added a short blurb about Wells Fargo having a large presence in town to go along with the photo of the WF tower that was added. Han0100 16:53, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello. The text of this article is really good, just too long I am told. Here are a few concrete ideas on how to shorten the article.
Sound good? If you have ideas about other ways to tighten this up it would be great. - Susanlesch 20:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
I recommend moving everything that doesn't pertain to within the Minneapolis city limits to the appropriate city or to the Twin Cities article. There are references to MOA, Southdale, metro-area population, Minnesota demographics, many films made in the metro area rather than within Minneapolis. -- Appraiser 21:17, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
I propse this cut section get merged into Minneapolis-St.Paul as relevant:
Famous people from the Twin Cities area (near Minneapolis), or in Minneapolis for a brief time
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Cricket02 04:19, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
To be useful given Category:People_from_Minneapolis%2C_Minnesota, the list in Minneapolis, Minnesota with photos needs to be short. Does anyone have proposals for leaders or famous Minneapolitans who are African-American, Hispanic, Latino, Latina, Hmong or Asian? I tried to add women and Native Americans but am not sure those given now are the right choices. The people could have lived there only a brief time (but in the city not nearby). Once a group is known maybe the list can be shortened a little. - Susanlesch 07:02, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Minneapolis, Minnesota/Drafts for more cuts. - Susanlesch 14:59, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Does anyone know how to be fair with this number of musicians? - Susanlesch 18:13, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Temporarily restoring a user's image deletions until the above discussions reach conclusion. - Susanlesch 20:35, 17 January 2007 (UTC).
Except the neighborhoods missing in the template, all of the red links have been replaced with either a new article, a link to an external site, or no link. I am not sure about WikiProject Minnesota, but no red links is a requirement for a B class biography and looks useful here too. - Susanlesch 15:34, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
I added a dubious tag to the following phrase:
"Minneapolis is one of the most-biked large cities in the United States."
There are many larger, more compact, warmer, and less automotive-friendly cities in the United States that must have higher bike ridership.-- Loodog 03:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Just throwing this out there, but the 2005 American Fact Finder survey doesn't include college students living in dorms for their population estimates. And the University of Minnesota (More than 50,000 students) sits comfortably within Minneapolis' border. Which short changes it's population by something probably in the neighborhood of 30 or 40 thousand people, seeing as not all college students live in a dorm obviously. So we may want to take off the 2005 number seeing as it's, well, wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elfangor801 ( talk • contribs) 03:35, February 22, 2007
Hi. Does anyone have comments pro or con on the use of templates? For now several were added to Category:Minnesota_navigational_boxes. Also, in the case of MinneapolisPeople and MinneapolisProSports, is it useful to store paragraphs outside the Minneapolis article? I thought of those because sports had a few reverts for the Wild. Or do you think that extra step makes it too hard for future editors? Google didn't find a precedent but I may have missed discussion somewhere. - Susanlesch 04:17, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello. The merges are all started and then some more. Is this structure what you had in mind? Is it working? Or is it too much work? Is the City of Minneapolis template misleading because it links to stubs? In the edit history you can see it had neighborhoods, communities and business areas, and Minnesota county seats and largest cities. But it looked pretty long to me. - Susanlesch 04:17, 22 March 2007 (UTC)