Talk:Batavia, Illinois

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Demographics
I was looking at the demographics section. What is the meaning of "apophis?" it's not in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary and as near as I can tell from wikipedia it means that ~70 people in Batavia are an ancient Egyptian god. If it's a misspelling, I can't imagine the corresponding word. If it's a census term a link to a definition might be nice. Wesino 15:19, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

deleted it, until someone figures out what it is.

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============ Someone seriously messed up the population and salary numbers in this article, which appear to be off by factors of either 10 or 100. Example: Batavia's population is approximately 23,000, not 2.3 million. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DaveZiffer (talk • contribs) 01:49, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

History
This article needs a history section that explains the name Batavia and if possible links it to Dutch pioneers. See for example Batavia (city), New York. johanthon 11:24, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, the town in Illinois is named after the town in New York, and had little to do with ethnicity of its pioneers. Updated that section with a citation to say as much. --MisterB777 (talk) 18:14, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

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Image of mayor removed
An image of Mayor Schielke was removed as "not illustrative" today, but actually because one of the two people with him is not notable enough for his own article. I do not believe that is an appropriate reason to remove a free good faith image of a mayor on duty in his city, and I will reinstate it unless a more conceivable reason is given. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 20:49, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
 * That is a plenty good enough reason. Please explain what portion of the copy in the Library section of the article this photo illustrates. And keep your accusations of bad faith to yourself. John from Idegon (talk) 21:29, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm sincerely sorry that you interpreted my comment about good faith as a bad faith accusation, which is not at all what I meant. It seemed clear to me that the image was removed, the first time, while that editor was busy 86-ing Mr Eikner's name all over in a campaign begun today that even (without success) has included 25 deletion nominations at Commons. I contributed the image in good faith, thinking that the somewhat historic event (the mayor receiving the city's march written by a notable Batavia resident in 1953), which according to the caption took place at the library, was relevant to the article. If consensus would be that it is not, I always accept such outcomes and try to be graceful about it. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 22:49, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Why are we still using 2000 demogrpahic figures in this article?
Why do we not have the 2010 census figures for this city? I am not sure detailed breakdowns for the 2020 census are out yet, but they should be pretty soon (2000 was out by summer 2002). We need to stop using such outdated figures. Keeping the 2000 figures for historical perspective might be justifiable, but lacking more recent figures is not.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:15, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
 * If you have reliable sources showing more up-to-date figures, please go ahead and update.&#32;-- Fyrael (talk) 15:05, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Removed images
Two relevant images were recently removed from this article The reason given for these removals in the edit summaries is "decorative". I do not agree with these removals and will reinstate the photos unless someone can come up with good reasons here for the removal och each one. The article certainly isn't over-illustrated. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 11:44, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) Fox River with a caption about the river's central importance to the city (has been in the article for a long time)
 * 2) Mayor Schielke, mentioned by name in the article, receiving a song about the city by a noted Batavia singer-songwriter (recently added).