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Bounty

For those unaware, a user has placed a "bounty" on this page to request it to be improved until it gets Featured Article status. Just a note. Hooper (talk) 16:55, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Statistics

I was looking around the web for what the total area for Kentucky should be, and it's not matching up with the number here. Strangely enough, though, the number is not even the same across sources. Does anyone know a definitive source for total area as well as other state statistics? Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 15:51, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to Kentucky's website, "Kentucky ranks 37th in land size, with 39,732 square miles (102,907 square kilometers)." I would use this figure for the total area as it comes from Kentucky's official website (http://travel.ky.gov/about/facts/facts.htm), accessed 19 December 2008, which I would believe to be the authority on Kentucky's statistics. Hope this helps. BEARCATVISION (talk) 02:38, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Upon further review, I noticed that List of U.S. states and territories by area uses 2000 Census information as its standard. So, for consistency, I updated the article with those numbers. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 19:35, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comair Flight 191 - unduly weighted?

I simply wanted to sugggest that giving this incident a full paragraph, representing approximately 2/3 of the air transportation section (in other words, twice as much is written about this one incident than about all other air transportation combined), might be undue weight? Cmadler (talk) 16:51, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. If anything just the first sentence of that paragraph should stay in this article. --Rividian (talk) 17:45, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have gone ahead and changed it. It could probably be cut down some more, but I made what seemed like a pretty easy cut. I also corrected the name of the flight. Cmadler (talk) 18:54, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

melungeons

To my knowledge, the description/definition of "melungeons" as something to the effect of "Native Americans of mixed race" is not accurate. My scant knowledge of this ethnic group recalls that its origins are quite mysterious and that it us widely supposed that they are of European, specifically Iberian, lineage. It would be great if someone conversant on their history could clarify this. Rafi123 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rafi123 (talk • contribs) 04:13, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SAR 21

Hi y'all! Just wondering, does anyone have reference or news pertaining to the SAR 21 being use by SWAT team(s) in Kentucky? Please let me know if you do, thanks! ...Dave1185 (talk) 06:58, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Brachiopod inconsistency

Hi there,

Just noticed that in the article about Brachiopods^[1] - the official state fossil of Kentucky - it mentions that the fossil was adopted in 1986. The article about Kentucky mentions it was in 1985.

Does anyone know which date is correct?

122.57.34.41 (talk) 09:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC)June[reply]

The correct date is July 15, 1986. See Kentucky Revised Statutes, 2.082. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 14:00, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kentucky Bend / Fulton County exclave

Under the "Geography" section is this sentence: "Kentucky is the only U.S. state to have a non-contiguous part exist as an exclave surrounded by other states." This is not true. New York has two exclaves: Liberty and Ellis islands, which are completely surrounded by New Jersey. So the sentence could be rephrased to read: "Kentucky is one of only two U.S. states (the other is New York) to have a non-contiguous part existing as an exclave completely surrounded by other states." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.184.176.43 (talk) 14:37, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The "US state Commonwealth"?

The other uses tag says "This article is about the U.S. state Commonwealth of Kentucky". This wording could be somewhat confusing. Using "Commonwealth" here also leads to confusion that Kentucky is somehow "not a state" or different from the other states. Would it not be better to simply say "the US state of Kentucky"? Archons (talk) 00:32, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiopod

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 Under the "Geography" section is this sentence: "Kentucky is the only U.S. state to have a non-contiguous part exist as an exclave surrounded by other states."  This is not true.  New York has two exclaves: Liberty and Ellis islands, which are completely surrounded by New Jersey.  So the sentence could be rephrased to read: "Kentucky is one of only two U.S. states (the other is New York) to have a non-contiguous part existing as an exclave completely surrounded by other states."  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/199.184.176.43|199.184.176.43]] ([[User talk:199.184.176.43|talk]]) 14:37, 20 March 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
+==The "US state Commonwealth"?==
+The other uses tag says "This article is about the U.S. state Commonwealth of Kentucky".  This wording could be somewhat confusing.  Using "Commonwealth" here also leads to confusion that Kentucky is somehow "not a state" or different from the other states.  Would it not be better to simply say "the US state of Kentucky"? [[User:Archons|Archons]] ([[User talk:Archons|talk]]) 00:32, 27 May 2009 (UTC)