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"The cessation of hostilities opened the inter-mountain valley of the Pacific Northwest to safe settlement". Safe for who? Not very safe for those slaughtered by the European intruders! -- Sigmundg ( talk) 07:20, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Spokane's population may not be diverse, but that cannot be a reason for criticism, much less "derision". It is a fact, that is all. I suggest that the unreferenced claim that "Spokane has been criticized and sometimes derided for its lack of diversity and multicultural offerings" be deleted. There is also a bizarre confusion between diversity of population, and "multicultural offerings", whatever that means. Royalcourtier ( talk) 10:29, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
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Hi. I don't have a lot of time today to discuss this, but Special:Contribs/2001:5b0:4fd1:a378:18fb:f54d:609e:a090 has made numerous (large) changes to the article. I've left a warning on their talk page as it seems to involve edit warring. While the edits seem with positive intentions, some are ill-advised (removing citations without providing another) and others are plain wrong. IP user, could you please refrain from make huge edits to the article while we sort out what you've done so far? Thanks. Killiondude ( talk) 01:36, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
A nickname being unofficial by definition and therefore an 'official nickname' being oxymoronic aside:
The claim that Spokane's 'official nickname is the "Lilac City"' is also uncited, and in accordance with WP:VERIFY (a Wikipedia policy), and WP:CITENEED, I have altered this claim to not be apparently false.
You will not likely find a source for this claim because there doesn't appear to be one. I'm confident of this because I abhor drive-by tagging, and instead of tagging this assertion as {{citation needed}}, I have already looked for evidence supporting it and found none whatsoever. While I believe in possibilities very much, and I invite you, if you truly desire, to seek out and find evidence, I do not believe it exists. It does not seem to be claimed officially at the City's website, in the City's municipal code, or in any City newspaper of record. It is a nickname, but like virtually all nicknames used with an understanding of the meaning of the word, it is not apparently official.
As with the claim you made simultaneously that lilacs are native to Spokane, the claim of this nickname being in some way official is also false.
Thanks for your time. Excelsiorsbanjo ( talk) 05:52, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
City of Spokane, Washington2016 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (pdf) | Spokane’s nickname is the “Lilac City”, named after the flowers that have flourished in the area since the early 20th century. |
Wikipedia entry (2007-06-16T16:36:35) | Spokane's official nickname is the 'Lilac City', named after the flowers that have flourished ever since their introduction to the area in the early 20th century. |
the "Lilac City". Of course it would be nice if there was some proclamation or Spokane Municipal Code passed to state this, but given the high level this document comes from it's as "official" as it needs to be for us. — Locke Cole • t • c 00:53, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
We're not a "the" city like the "The Emerald City" of Seattle, or "The Lilac City" of Spokane. We're not "the city so nice they named it twice" like Walla Walla.
"The Lilac City" has worked well for us for a very long time. It still does. It's who we are. But our city now has something else in addition to some very pleasant-smelling purple flowers that we should celebrate.
Nancy Goodspeed, spokeswoman for the city parks department, said the nickname "Lilac City" is attributed to Dr. S. E. Lambert, W.T. Triplett and John W. Duncan, who in the early 1930s encouraged a local garden club to plant lilac bushes throughout Spokane.
The hardware collection is a testament to Gonzaga basketball, the program that Few took over in 1999. At this small Catholic university in the Lilac City, Few did something many deemed impossible at the outset: he constructed a major program in a midmajor place, one that should, with its win Saturday against Portland, ascend to the No. 1 overall ranking this week for the first time.
It was a testament to the patience and foresight of Few and the Gonzaga program that saw such potential blooming in the Lilac City — Spokane, Wash. — that they had reached this stage. The matchup Monday was hardly as one-sided as one might have expected based solely on the pedigrees of the programs.
Below the sidewalks and historic buildings of Spokane sits a deserted series of tunnels. The five-foot tall tunnel under the Davenport is just one of many secret passages beneath the '''Lilac City'''. The tunnel, which is closed the public, eventually expands as you walk along the path. And as it becomes taller, the tunnel under the Davenport also fills with water from underground springs according to Jensen.
In many cases, they were fleeing from the Golden State's sour economy, shaky school system and gang warfare. Even now, the Spokane Chamber of Commerce reports that almost half its requests for relocation information come from Californians. Chamber volunteer Janice Parr knows what's driving them; she just arrived in the '''Lilac City''' from Fresno two months ago. "There was just too much gang activity," says Parr, mother of an 8-year-old son.
The name Spokane is derived from the Spokane Tribe and means "Children of the Sun" in Salishan. Spokane's nickname is the "Lilac City", named after the flowers that have flourished in the area since the early 20th century.
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"The cessation of hostilities opened the inter-mountain valley of the Pacific Northwest to safe settlement". Safe for who? Not very safe for those slaughtered by the European intruders! -- Sigmundg ( talk) 07:20, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Spokane's population may not be diverse, but that cannot be a reason for criticism, much less "derision". It is a fact, that is all. I suggest that the unreferenced claim that "Spokane has been criticized and sometimes derided for its lack of diversity and multicultural offerings" be deleted. There is also a bizarre confusion between diversity of population, and "multicultural offerings", whatever that means. Royalcourtier ( talk) 10:29, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
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Pinging interested parties: Doug Weller and SounderBruce
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A nickname being unofficial by definition and therefore an 'official nickname' being oxymoronic aside:
The claim that Spokane's 'official nickname is the "Lilac City"' is also uncited, and in accordance with WP:VERIFY (a Wikipedia policy), and WP:CITENEED, I have altered this claim to not be apparently false.
You will not likely find a source for this claim because there doesn't appear to be one. I'm confident of this because I abhor drive-by tagging, and instead of tagging this assertion as {{citation needed}}, I have already looked for evidence supporting it and found none whatsoever. While I believe in possibilities very much, and I invite you, if you truly desire, to seek out and find evidence, I do not believe it exists. It does not seem to be claimed officially at the City's website, in the City's municipal code, or in any City newspaper of record. It is a nickname, but like virtually all nicknames used with an understanding of the meaning of the word, it is not apparently official.
As with the claim you made simultaneously that lilacs are native to Spokane, the claim of this nickname being in some way official is also false.
Thanks for your time. Excelsiorsbanjo ( talk) 05:52, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
City of Spokane, Washington2016 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (pdf) | Spokane’s nickname is the “Lilac City”, named after the flowers that have flourished in the area since the early 20th century. |
Wikipedia entry (2007-06-16T16:36:35) | Spokane's official nickname is the 'Lilac City', named after the flowers that have flourished ever since their introduction to the area in the early 20th century. |
the "Lilac City". Of course it would be nice if there was some proclamation or Spokane Municipal Code passed to state this, but given the high level this document comes from it's as "official" as it needs to be for us. — Locke Cole • t • c 00:53, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
We're not a "the" city like the "The Emerald City" of Seattle, or "The Lilac City" of Spokane. We're not "the city so nice they named it twice" like Walla Walla.
"The Lilac City" has worked well for us for a very long time. It still does. It's who we are. But our city now has something else in addition to some very pleasant-smelling purple flowers that we should celebrate.
Nancy Goodspeed, spokeswoman for the city parks department, said the nickname "Lilac City" is attributed to Dr. S. E. Lambert, W.T. Triplett and John W. Duncan, who in the early 1930s encouraged a local garden club to plant lilac bushes throughout Spokane.
The hardware collection is a testament to Gonzaga basketball, the program that Few took over in 1999. At this small Catholic university in the Lilac City, Few did something many deemed impossible at the outset: he constructed a major program in a midmajor place, one that should, with its win Saturday against Portland, ascend to the No. 1 overall ranking this week for the first time.
It was a testament to the patience and foresight of Few and the Gonzaga program that saw such potential blooming in the Lilac City — Spokane, Wash. — that they had reached this stage. The matchup Monday was hardly as one-sided as one might have expected based solely on the pedigrees of the programs.
Below the sidewalks and historic buildings of Spokane sits a deserted series of tunnels. The five-foot tall tunnel under the Davenport is just one of many secret passages beneath the '''Lilac City'''. The tunnel, which is closed the public, eventually expands as you walk along the path. And as it becomes taller, the tunnel under the Davenport also fills with water from underground springs according to Jensen.
In many cases, they were fleeing from the Golden State's sour economy, shaky school system and gang warfare. Even now, the Spokane Chamber of Commerce reports that almost half its requests for relocation information come from Californians. Chamber volunteer Janice Parr knows what's driving them; she just arrived in the '''Lilac City''' from Fresno two months ago. "There was just too much gang activity," says Parr, mother of an 8-year-old son.
The name Spokane is derived from the Spokane Tribe and means "Children of the Sun" in Salishan. Spokane's nickname is the "Lilac City", named after the flowers that have flourished in the area since the early 20th century.