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Former good article nomineeAustin, Texas was a Geography and places good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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DateProcessResult
November 22, 2007Peer reviewReviewed
January 10, 2010Good article nomineeNot listed
Current status: Former good article nominee

Hispanic or Latino Demographics

Why are the Hispanic or Latino demographics listed separate from the rest of the races? All the demographics are from the same source.

The following is from the Demographics section on 05:20, 15 February 2011:


According to the 2006-2008 American Community Survey, the racial composition of Austin is:

Single Race: 97.7%

Two or More Races: 2.3%

According to the same survey, the ethnic composition of Austin is:

US government practice is that Hispanic or Latino are considered ethnicities, not races. It is a pretty loose system, but race is more associated with genetic background while ethnicities are grouped by social behavior. (In this case, cultural norms of Spanish-speaking communities.) So under this system a white hispanic isn't considered multi-racial, but rather white with a hispanic ethnicity. But Americans commonly use Hispanic or Latino to identify individuals of Spanish or Latin american ancestry regardless of culture. So the government's statistical methods don't really line up with common usage. The article already explicitly calls out the government source of the statistics, so I'm not sure how this could be improved to make the dichotomy clear. Macknik (talk) 02:48, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ American FactFinder, United States Census Bureau. "Austin city, Texas - ACS Demographic and Housing Estimates: 2006-2008". Factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2010-07-01.

Timeline of Austin, Texas

What is missing from the city timeline? Please add relevant content. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 11:15, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mysterious comments such as this do not help at all and are considered disruptive. If you have a specific issue, by all means, say what it is. Or better yet, just fix it! After all, this is the encyclopedia anyone can edit. John from Idegon (talk) 23:57, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"Disruption" not intended. I compiled the timeline article in 2014 and seek additional contributors. Thanks. -- M2545 (talk) 12:46, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Public transport

car2go is far the first company installing such a service in western hemishphere. The really first and inventor still exists and is www.mobility.ch, since 23 years in service with more then 100'000 active and paying customers. The concept was introduced first in Lucerne and now running all over in central Europe. --Cosy-ch (talk) 12:05, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Pronunciation

I hate to ask, and I'd take the word of anyone who's been there and around without demanding a source (I don't even know where you'd find one), but is /ˈɑːstɨn/ actually an appropriate phonemic transcription of the name? That first phoneme, /ɑː/ is the "ah" sound like in "father", "car", and in most US English, "box", while the first phoneme in the other option, /ɒ:/, varies in US English from this "ah" sound to the "aw" in "law" and "bought" in dialects without the cot-caught merger, depending on the lot-cloth split. I've only ever heard "Austin" pronounced by speakers without "cot" and "caught" merged the second way ("aw-stin", not "ah-stin"). In other words, while [ˈɑːstɨn] surely is how some people pronounce it, it seems redundant because that's already implied by the diaphonemic notation of the second pronunciation. Can anyone knowledgeable about linguistics fill me in here? Tezero (talk) 22:11, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The pronunciation is certainly the vowel from "law" and "caught" (note the au), rather than the one from "box"; I don't know the IPA well enough to comment on the proper symbol, but that's the sound it should indicate. -Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 23:46, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nice update, thanks J. 'mach' wust! -Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 21:26, 17 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Repeated edits to population figures

In the past two days IP:69.87.112.1 has made a series of unsourced changes to population statistics here, at Travis County, Texas, and at List of Texas metropolitan areas. The changes to Austin and Travis County's figures are implausible (doubled in one year?!), and none of the changes have included citations. Now, today the numbers are again being changed without sources by User:Jackosn7775, along with similarly unsourced statistics changes at List of tallest buildings in Jacksonville, List of United States cities by population, Milwaukee, and List of municipalities in Wisconsin by population. I'm going to revert this second change. @Jackosn7775: if you have a source for these figures, that would be an excellent contribution to this topic; otherwise, please stop altering the statistics. -Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 23:46, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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