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Notable residents

It is unlikely any of the "Notable residents" would pass muster with Wikipedia policies. I will not remove them because of the likely firestorm that would result and because it might appear a personal bias since I live in Talkeetna and know all of those people. But none of the people listed are notable outside the local community and a great many more people are notable by the same criteria within the community. In addition, the list invites vandalism as evidenced at least once in the page history. Jimkloss (talk) 17:11, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with this dude, with perhaps the exception of Cartwright. Talkeetnans are pretty full of themselves, no offense. 216.67.49.12 (talk) 01:55, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request for admin help

I am not a Wikipedia policy expert. I would like someone who is to consider deleting the Notable residents portion of this page. Reasons to delete include:

It is attracting juvenile vandalism and I believe will continue to do so.
It is heavily based in POV.
I live in Talkeetna, know most of the people listed, and don't believe any of them are notable in terms of how Wikipedia defines notability (little or no 3rd source verification).
It does not provide any useful encyclopedic content about the town of Talkeetna itself.
Other articles about similar towns/cities (Hope,_Alaska) do not contain a Notable Residents section.

If no admin responds and/or there is no discussion/concurrence on this page, I will remove the section myself but I'd prefer discussion before I take that step. Thanks. Jimkloss (talk) 18:56, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am going to remove the Notable Residents section per Wikipedia:Notability_(people) Jimkloss (talk) 05:05, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Co-ordinates

Daft question but does the article need the location co-ordinates mentioned four times! MilborneOne (talk) 09:34, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not but it looks like they are templates that may be categorized and since I'm no "small towns" layout editor, I'm leaving them alone. Thanks for removing the external RSS link I put in and any other cleanup to meet standards. I'm not sure when to cite with a ref, when to link to an external site in the text and when to put a link in "External links" but my general goal is to cut down on the promotional stuff and create more encyclopedic links/references. jimkloss (talk) 17:56, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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 ==Co-ordinates==
 Daft question but does the article need the location co-ordinates mentioned four times! [[User:MilborneOne|MilborneOne]] ([[User talk:MilborneOne|talk]]) 09:34, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
+:Probably not but it looks like they are templates that may be categorized and since I'm no "small towns" layout editor, I'm leaving them alone.  Thanks for removing the external RSS link I put in and any other cleanup to meet standards.  I'm not sure when to cite with a ref, when to link to an external site in the text and when to put a link in "External links" but my general goal is to cut down on the promotional stuff and create more encyclopedic links/references.  [[User:Jimkloss|jimkloss]] ([[User talk:Jimkloss|talk]]) 17:56, 14 June 2009 (UTC)