Talk:Cheyenne Frontier Days

The page is pretty much a blatant plug for the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration, and I consider it a little on the biased side (the closing line should be a dead give-away). A few things to be noted:

Frontier Days is not a name for a fair/rodeo used exclusively by the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming. A simple Google search pulls up at least five other cities on the first page of results that have a "Frontier Days" moniker. This article, in my estimation, should be broken up into a general over-view of "Frontier Days" and this information should be edited, wikifyed and moved to Cheyenne Frontier Days or Frontier Days (Cheyenne, WY). Jaerune 09:43, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

It also appears that Cheyenne Frontier days is not the largest such event, as claimed in the article. Calgary Stampede is several times larger, based on attendence. 69.208.162.27

I agree with that. Although I am from Wyoming I now live in Arizona.Prescott claims to have the oldest rodeo.It is also called Frontiere Days.So naturally I wanted to know.

I came to this site to find out and instead found an advertisment for Cheyenne.This artical I feel is informitive but bias.It fell short of answering my questions about the oldest rodeo in the US.The argument is that Cheyenne did not hold the rodeo one year and therefore Prescott has the oldest continous rodeo.

I have been to Cheyenne Frontiere Days many times and it is definitly a great time.I found the carnival to be small ,really, compared to others.They do have excellent headliners and is always packed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lazyaz (talk • contribs) 11:18, 5 September 2006.

I too am from Cheyenne originally. I believe the "largest rodeo" claim is based on the size of the purse paid out to the competing cowboys, not the attendance. Although that may not be true either!

Wikified
Wikified as part of the Wikification wikiproject! Moved article to Cheyenne Frontier Days as requested, fixed all direct links to it. Creating a disambiguation page for Frontier Days, it is a rodeo event as well as an album by an 80s band. JubalHarshaw 17:01, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Frontier Days (rodeo) needs to be created with a general overview, more detail on the event itself, what cities host it, etc.

I know it may not seem like it, but Cheyenne Frontier Days is a national historical phenomenon, not only as the oldest continuous US rodeo, but for the sheer numbers of people who attend (see entry). The people from Cheyenne tend to be proud to the point of what the wiki might consider over zealousness. This over zealousness would come through as a sales pitch possibly to some. I have contacted the Cheyenne Frontier Days Committee just today to see if they can get someone to properly update the page and I stressed to them that they could not be careful enough to make sure that the entry does not come across as a sales pitch. Here is hoping they listen. Either way I might make this one a personal project. It is easy for me to be objective about this as I originally come from California, having moved here in 1989. I could not begin to explain about what a big deal this thing is, not just to the towns people. I thought they were just exaggerating when I was told about it, but 300,000 people a year and 1,000,000 back on the 100th makes this thing certainly bigger than Disney-world, Disneyland, and Eurodisney all rolled into one. We would not call the page about the Sturgis Motorcycle get together a commercial, it is almost exactly the same phenomenon, a huge attendance over a week by a group of people with specialized interests and a carnival atmosphere B4Ctom1 00:26, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

I have rewritten the whole thing, and removed the advertisement chock, if it seems to advertisy still or someone comes along and makes it so again, feel free to slap her right back up there. Also I stand corrected on the "contiuous" thing by user "Lazyaz" as stated above. B4Ctom1 03:08, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Wrong data
Whatever reason why some people put in there that it is the biggest rodea, its tottaly wrong. The Calgary Stampede has an attendence of 1.260.000 people, and Festival Western de St-tite (Québec) has an attendence of 400.000 So please someone change this is a total lie. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChrisDVD (talk • contribs) 00:12, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * It is actually the worlds largest outdoor rodeo. Changing. - CosmicPenguin (Talk) 01:26, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

2011
I changed the table provided to show the 2011 line up. Rocco81b (talk) 16:33, 23 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Personally, I hate those lists that have to be updated every year, so I felt it wise to just toss the whole section. I think it makes more sense to just add a paragraph to the effect of "there is a night show after every evening performance, and the event draws nationally-recognized performers such as (short list showing the variety of acts)."  Just IMHO...seems like seldom are the same people around from year to year to do these updates, so better to be more general.  Montanabw (talk) 02:47, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Article Expansion
Someone needs to do justice to this article and this celebration. Why do I feel qualified to make some updates? One reason is because I live in Cheyenne and I have attended many times. Another is because I am a professional writer and I can do a decent job and stay objective. If anyone is interested in seriously helping, that would be great. I have knowledge of the city, the event, and the area that will help me in my pursuit of being sure the article is well-rounded and accurate. And, I intend to write an article that hopefully will not become obsolete or need updates frequently. dawnleelynn (talk) 03:23, 2 June 2017 (UTC)