Talk:History of Cleveland

History of Cleveland was a 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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Date	Process	Result
March 30, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 21, 2005.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Cleveland may today still have been spelled "Cleaveland," were it not for a newspaper dropping the first 'a' to fit the name onto their masthead?

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Article has no lead, see WP:LEAD and remove all these lists as that is clogging the page and unnessarry, see History of Miami, Florida, a featured article for an example. Thanks Jaranda 03:43, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment, I could help if you want as I was the one who created the History of Miami article and made it a FA but I'm going to be mostly inactive, leave a comment in my talk. Thanks --172.140.242.178 03:45, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Repeal of Prohibition[edit]

The article states that Cleveland repealed Prohibition on December 23, 1933, and I removed this statement, which used to follow the first: " – nearly eight months longer than the Eighteenth Amendment." I assume that phrase referred to the Twenty-first Amendment, which was ratified on Dec. 5, 1933, which is eighteen days before Cleveland's repeal. If it actually means something else, please re-word it and put it back in the article. Confiteordeo 22:50, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:Voinovich-chart.jpg[edit]

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old spelling now used in early portions of timeline[edit]

Resolved

– The timeline contains the old spelling only in contemporaneously appropriate places. 67.86.74.107 (talk) 16:48, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In a recent edit I changed to use the old spelling "Cleaveland" for entries in the "Timeline of events" section of this article, specifically entries from 1800 to 1818, then note and start using the later spelling of "Cleveland" as of 1831 and thereafter. Note that I left the first entry with the modern spelling due to the wording "at the location that would later become Cleveland". Does anyone object to such a change? One user reverted it then reconsidered and kept it. That user recommended the use of this talk page for a discussion of the matter. Can a consenus be reached? Thanks. 24.44.14.186 (talk) 02:02, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My initial reversion was based on the erroneous impression that 24 (sorry, I never know how to address IPs) had introduced spelling errors. When they calmly brought the full situation to my attention I realized what I reverted wasn't vandalism and undid my edit. We had a brief discussion on my user talk in which I expressed my opinion that the "Cleveland" spelling shouldn't be replaced. My reason for this position is based on this policy. The spelling differences are covered in the article, which seems sufficient. Regards Tiderolls 02:49, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the clarification. The cited policy of WP:COMMONNAME seems to apply to a choice for an article title. The title of this article is History of Cleveland which seems quite appropriate. My edit was not intended to lend support to renaming this article. 24.44.14.186 (talk) 12:22, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Native population: Genocide of the Erie tribe[edit]

I see no discussion of the Erie tribe's eradication in a raid by mercenaries from New York Five Nations to open it for White settlement; all I see is the statement "Cleaveland quickly saw the land, which had previously belonged to Native Americans" an claims the area was uninhabited between 1640 and 1740.

The city of Parma Heights has in the past published an account of this raid.