Talk:Bartlesville, Oklahoma

I tagged the article for cleanup. It is conversational in places, and could use polish and enhancement. The Community Center for instance is a clone of Gammage Auditorium at Arizona State University, I believe. A picture of the Community Center would be nice. A picture taken from Price Tower would be nice, too, if it's open to the public. Catbar (Brian Rock) 04:32, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Why is the no information on OKMozart when it is probably the most important program we have here. And, I might ask why is there no information on Indian Summer? Whomever did this really knows little about our community. - amal3113 (Ann Connors-Maloney)9:51 am 08/21/06 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Amal3113 (talk • contribs)

Cleanup
I took a mop, polish, and lots of sharp scissors to this article today. I can sense some howls coming from people who had pet paragraphs in the old version, so here's my defense in advance:


 * Someone above asked about the External links policy, so there it is, along with the guidelines on when to link externally. The piece read like a Chamber of Commerce tourist guide, complete with places to spend your dollars. That stuff doesn't belong in an encyclopedia, so I edited it out. There was a link to a site selling books about the city, so that was cut, along with links to retail sites for local businesses and the newspaper (other similarly-sized cities do not have their newspaper sites listed unless that newspaper has a Wikipedia entry, and this newspaper does not).
 * I don't know who got the idea to put in that section about Bartlesville being known as "The Nexus", but... not so. I asked someone who actually works at The Wherehouse about the phrase, and he's never heard that term used to describe the city or the music at the venue - and he would know. The section was badly written anyway, so it got the scissor treatment and was moved closer to the OK Mozart info I added in the 'Tourism' section.
 * Likewise, I cut some POV text about the Wall of Honor. The old paragraph was seriously NPOV - but the place is a local attraction, so I rewrote it to be more moderate. The English Wikipedia is not written just for Americans, and it's important to keep that in mind when writing articles. I replaced "Operation Iraqi Freedom" with a link to the 2003 invasion of Iraq because that's the link I felt fit best, and I also linked to Prisoner of war, Missing in action, and Military of the United States.
 * It's unnecessary to EL to every school's subpage on the school system's site, so I replaced them with one link to the school system site. I did the same with the ELs to other education providers. For future reference, lists like that need to be bulleted with '*' so they fall in a line instead of one long sentence.

I'll watch it to keep it neat and tidy. Additions and subtractions are, of course, welcome, 'cause I certainly don't own it. Baseball,Baby!  balls  •  strikes  08:53, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Residents of Bartlesville are Bartians
Just in case anyone wonders, yes, they are Bartians. I lived there five summers and that's what they call themselves. Catbar 22:53, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Minor Cleanup
Cleaned up Sunfest description - it has changed and the Bi-plane festival is no-more Jimwelch (talk) 21:38, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Wall of Honor website is no more. Jimwelch (talk) 21:44, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

I am still not sure if Sue Rea Stotlar should be in the list of famous people but at least I have a reference to the fact she is an artist. Jimwelch (talk) 22:12, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

I could only find a reference to a group "The Girls" a few place on IMDB. No reference yet as to "Alex Womack, an original member of The Girls grew up in Bartlesville." Jimwelch (talk) 20:23, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Tornado of 1982
Is the Tornado of 1982 worthy of a mention? (I was living there at the time)... it touched down near the Phillips Research Center on the west end of the city, followed Main Street, did extensive damage to the Phillips office building and the Police Department. Nobody was killed, but it did significant property damage along the main street in town... Since this was pre-internet, sources may be a bit hard to find...

While Wooleroc is important to the history of the area and its connection to Frank Phillips, it seems out of place in an article about Bartlesville. It is located out in the middle of nowhere (on purpose) and nowhere near the Bartlesville city limits. All the minutia about Wooleroc belongs in the article about Wooleroc69.37.68.72 (talk) 23:30, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

History?
Might someone add an historical section to this article? This website offers a start but does little to connect to the Native American role in the region's history. Neither does the current Wikipedia article on Washington County. Gamonetus (talk) 14:39, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Unnotable names removed
I have removed the following names, which have no article in Wikipedia. Joe Sears, Jacob Casto, Kevin Rolfs, Drew Harry, Kirby Schoenthaler, Rebecca Donald. If these names are in fact notable, please create a link for them. Bruin2 (talk) 15:30, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

I also deleted the following, which clearly does not belong here: Bruin2 (talk) 15:30, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
 * John the Baptist, Spiritual Leader

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