Talk:Des Moines, Iowa/Archives/2020

Pronunciation
Why on earth does the French pronunciation of 'Des Moines' need to be explicated at some length at the very beginning of the article (even before the entry itself is defined)? Of course the beginning is where pronunciations typically belong, and the English one makes sense there, but the French pronunciation is so far from relevance to the overall identity of this mid-western US city that, at best, it belongs as a minor entry at the end of the article, if at all. Please note I am referring to the pronunciation key only. That the name is derived from French does belong in the article (though probably under the 'History' section). I would strongly suggest this trivial level of (pronunciation) detail be relocated or removed. 69.30.112.10 18:37, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Someone keeps removing the pronunciation information from the first paragraph. I went ahead and restored the English pronunciation since that is an important part of the article but left the French pronunciation out for now. --Iowahwyman 16:17, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

History
Wasn't a famous civil war battle faught in Des Moines? How come it's not under D.M.'s history? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.216.93.178 (talk • contribs).
 * Not that I know of. --Iowahwyman 15:33, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

No, you may be thinking of a small skirmish that happened in Southern Iowa though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.216.53.91 (talk) 16:48, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

TV stations
I'm curious: when did WOI-TV (Channel 5 ABC) move from Ames to Des Moines? -- Decumanus 21:30, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * WOI moved its studios to West Des Moines a few years ago (I don't remember exactly when), but they're still licensed to Ames. Iowa State University sold the station in 1994. Iowahwyman 03:24, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I really don't know where the headquarters is for WOI-TV. As I see it, the list of TV stations are those serving the Des Moines "market" (metro).

As of July 28, 2004, most of the TV stations in the Des Moines metro, including WOI-TV, have their broadcast antennas located at "Alleman", population = 439 according to Wikipedia. But you don't really think those TV stations are there just to serve Alleman do you? :-)


 * (irrelevant discussion) Interesting that these towers in Alleman are the same towers I see everytime I drive between Des Moines and Ames. I kinda reference to it as the half-way point between the two areas. --Ted 03:52, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

If you want to get real technical, the "Des Moines" Register has their new building in West Des Moines, and isn't that where their printing presses are located? I guess it gets pretty confusing. I got to thinking about it, and decided to verify if the new Des Moines Register building was actually in West Des Moines. It isn't. It's just south of the airport on "Register" Drive inside Des Moines. My mistake. Check out this   Des Moines Register web page on their new printing press building. --Smiller933 16:12, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Metro Area
Wikipedia says that the Des Moines metro population is 522,624. The MSA and the U.S. Cencus Beareu both say that the Des Moines metro is just shy of 700,000. I changed it to make it more accurate, so please don't change it back. But is it safe for a city to be growing that paridly? In 2000 it was just shy of 500,000 and now six years later it's just shy of 700,000? That can't be good for it's economy. If the city keeps growing like this, than by 2020 it will have over 2,000,000 in the metro area. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.183.48.165 (talk • contribs).
 * The 522,624 figure is for what the Census Bureau officially defines as the Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area: Polk, Dallas, Guthrie, Madison, and Warren counties. ( and ) That 699,666 figure is actually a combination of the Des Moines-Newton-Pella and Ames-Boone CSA's, which would encompass nine counties altogether. Boone and Story counties are not officially part of the Des Moines CSA. Unless anyone can verify that Des Moines and Ames are one giant metropolitan area now, the 522,624 figure should stand. --Iowahwyman 19:18, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * In 2005 Marion and Jasper counties were officially added to the metro area. That makes the metropolitan population 593,112. (See Des Moines metropolitan area) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.183.48.165 (talk • contribs).
 * No, those two counties are part of the Des Moines Combined Statistical Area, which is a combination of the Des Moines MSA and the Newton and Pella micropolitan areas. The only change to the Des Moines MSA was to the name, which is now the "Des Moines-West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area" (source: link #1 above, page 36 of the PDF file). According to the Combined Statistical Area article, "The use of CSAs as a representation for a single metropolitan area is not always appropriate." --Iowahwyman 04:20, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Does Des Moines actually qualify as a major city? And what constitutes a major city? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Your Dad (talk • contribs).

Des Moines County
On the off chance that someone would come to this article looking for information on Des Moines County, I put a couple lines in about Des Moines County and provided a link to the article on the county, which is located on Iowa's eastern border. JesseG 17:17, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

If the towers for WHI in Alleman were just for Alleman, then about 15 people would be watching WOI. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 152.163.100.74 (talk • contribs).
 * If the towers had a short broadcasting range --Ted 04:08, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Insurance Capital?
I've seen mention that Iowa as a state is the insurance capital of the world, but is there any proof that Des Moines has overtaken Hartford, CT as the insurance capital city? AbsolutDan 01:53, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * In all fairness, Des Moines is a major insurance center. I think I read in Forbes Magazine that it surpassed Hartford. Iowa isn't as much of an insurance capital. The state itself gets most of it's income from agriculture then anything else. Iowa's two other major cities, Cedar Rapids and Davenport are more of manufacturing centers. I think it's justifiable to call Des Moines, "The Insurance Capitol of America". Maybe they should start calling Hartford, "The Des Moines of the East". IowaGuy 02:52, 6 July 2006
 * For what it's worth, I checked Forbes.com and didn't see anything about Des Moines passing Hartford. Besides, what claim is this based on -- the number of insurance companies based in the city, or the number of people employed in the insurance industry? --Iowahwyman 15:31, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * And even the city of Des Moines' website claims that it's only the third-largest insurance center in the world. If anyone can find a legitimate source from the insurance industry claiming that Des Moines has indeed passed Hartford, please cite it. --Iowahwyman 01:43, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Once again, I had to remove an uncited note about Des Moines being the world's second-largest insurance center today. Unless a reliable source is provided, please DO NOT add this claim to the article. --Iowahwyman 19:29, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I just noticed an outraged anon YELLING and removing the "Hartford of the west" bit, si I used Google and after 10 seconds found this: "Long known as the "Hartford of the West," Des Moines is the world's 3rd largest insurance center behind London and Hartford, Connecticut." Market Wire, August, 2006  --Dual Freq 18:28, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Just because something has been said doesn't mean it's worthy of encyclopedia mention. How many people from Des Moines have heard it called that?  Not many, I'd bet.  It would make more sense to include "Dez Moynez" as a nickname.  Adm58 21:04, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Edits
I changed text in the second paragraph of this article. There were statements made that Des Moines would grow by 50,000 people in the city proper by the 2010 Census. However, Census estimates are showing a population decline for the past several years in the city proper. Also, a statement was made that Des Moines was known as DSM locally and nationally, and I was unable to find proof of that statement. If you feel that any of my edits are incorrect, feel free to change them. Ajwebb 16:23, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Not my usual area of WP so I won't bother signing in. However; I did stumble onto the Boise article (as I stumbled onto this one) and found the census citation needed here on that article page. Whether or not it is still found to be relevent will be up to the people here. Just trying to help. 69.244.37.79 12:37, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * "DSM" isn't really a nickname for Des Moines, but it is often abbreviated that way. --Iowahwyman 15:31, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Isn't DSM the three-letter designation used for Des Moines' airport? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.152.199.3 (talk • contribs).
 * Yes. --Iowahwyman 04:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Other unverifiable items in this article
After some research, I couldn't find anything to verify these items in the article so I removed them:
 * "Des Moines was in the running to host the 2006 Special Olympics along with Omaha, Nebraska and St. Louis, Missouri, but was trumped by the neighboring city of Ames, Iowa." I found absolutely nothing on the Special Olympics' website or Newsbank mentioning that Des Moines was even in the running for the 2006 Summer Games.
 * "Forbes Magazine ranked Des Moines as the 4th best city to start a business, behind, Oklahoma City, Boston, and Seattle." Again, I checked Forbes.com and found nothing. I did note that Forbes ranked Des Moines 11th on its annual "Best Places for Business" survey this year.
 * The Wells Fargo project in West Des Moines "holds the title for second largest construction project in the country, passed only by Donald Trump's Chicago project". I couldn't find anything to back that up.

If someone can find verifiable reliable sources to back these claims up, they can be added back into the article. --Iowahwyman 15:31, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * It seems that more unverifiable information has been added in, and I am unable to find sources. As such, I have added the Citation needed tag. Ajwebb 00:17, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I do not think anyone can prove that des moines is at the same level as omaha, or hartford. It seems to me that with those two places being over one million and des moines being less than 500,000, or less in total urbanized area, it does not have the same standing as those cities. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.252.68.197 (talk • contribs).

Population Changes made by 208.0.111.237
Regarding the population changes made on "06:55, 6 March 2007" by 208.0.111.237, these uncited population numbers replace numbers that appear to be properly cited. Also, the US Census does mid-decade revisions for some areas so population numbers for 2005 seems plausible, but without citing a source, I find 2006 numbers to be highly suspect. My opinion would be that this edit should be reverted. --Smiller933 17:23, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I reverted it. The Census Bureau hasn't released its 2006 population estimates for cities yet. --Iowahwyman 23:39, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

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Des Moines subdivisions
The article Southside des moines iowa has been nominated for deletion via WP:PROD and will be deleted shortly. I am including here the content (no citations were included) as there might be a bit or piece that can be included in this article, perhaps in the "Demographics" section. The content was originally created by. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:47, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Southside of Des Moines (content from deleted article)
The southside of Des Moines Iowa is known historically for its high population of Italian and Irish Americans. It is a largly a Conservative Democratic blue collar neighborhood with the exception of West of Fleur Drive and the urban sprawl of Easter Lake. It is a growing area for Hispanics. The Southside consists of several neighborhoods Including Rosebud, Indianola Hills, Little Italy, The South East Bottoms, Magnolia Park, Sayer Area, Ewing Park. The Des Moines southside with the "brain drain' of the 1970's when many of Iowa's professionals were lured away to California and Texas combined with the losses of Meredith publishing, Des Moines steel, and Massey Tractors, Armstrong Tire and the entire meat packing industry. This middle class neighborhood has undergone several school closures as a result of this including Percy Hoak Elementary, Kurtz Jr High, and,

The Southeast Bottoms (content from deleted article)
The Southeast Bottoms is an area severely damaged by the "Flood of 93" home to many Hispanics and Italians is just south of the Capital Building. The southeast bottoms behind the packing houses is a historical area that has mostly disapeared under auto salvage yards. In the 1950's this neighborhood was home to all the tough guys in Des Moines. Courtneys, Ellis' Paytons' Pratts' and Weatherlys' had occupied the southeast bottoms for generations.

I would like to propose a piece be added to this article concerning east side / west side relations and the political, social, economic relations experianced by residents. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.43.65.245 (talk) 08:03, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

'Des Moines' name origine and evolution
Mwangwena >> Moingwena >> ... >> Des Moines ---

In french, in 'Riviere des Moingwena'(2)(3), 'Moingwena' is nearly unpronouceable without intense concentration. I tested it on my collegues, everyone failed to pronouce it and everybody laughed. In english try 'River of the Mwangwena' to better understand, 'River of the Mwan' is much easier.

So, the Moingwena indian tribe was living along a river. Some french came on a canoe : "Me French", "Me Mwangwena", "hein ?"(1), "Mwan_gwe_na", "ah ! 'Moin_gwe_na'"(2) ; French can't spell simple.

It's probably after a lot of fun that everyone agreed to short it to 'Riviere des Moines' meaning 'River of the Monks' where there have never be a single monk but only Mwangwenas whose big mistake was to choose an unpronouceable name for themselves.

I want to be the first, in the name of the Mwangwenas, to reclaim the right name for 'Des Moines' that should be 'Mwangwena'.

Erdemaal (1) tough canoe guy french word for 'Could you repeat, please' (2) 'w' was not a french letter before ??1800, so it was probably 'Moinguena' first ?? (3) it should be spelled 'Riviere des Moingwenas' but it will be confusing

Caucus
Hi all, I am new to editing wikipedia but I believe it is relevant and important to include some information about Des Moines' importance in presidential politics as the capital of Iowa during the Iowa Caucus. I added a brief snippet of information on this subject. The source i used for the NY Times article qoute was: http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/travel/02journeys.html?ex=1354251600&en=07f7515293abc6cb&ei=5124&partner=facebook&exprod=facebook although I am not sure how to attribute on wikipedia. Feedback would be appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.192.143.238 (talk) 21:05, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

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New Edits - 2/18/2008 I made 2 changes: 1.) I added a qoute from a '94 Business Wire article which stated that Des Moines is the "number one spot for US insurance companies." The source for that is - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1994_Nov_4/ai_15892065      2.) The second change I made was citing a Men's Journal magazine ranking - that was taken from January 2008|Volume 16|Number 12 on Page 32  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.192.143.238 (talk) 07:20, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Skyline Photo?
Does anyone have a good photo to post next to the skyline description? If anyone owns the right to a photo which has a good-looking shot of Des Moines skyline, that would be great! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.192.143.238 (talk) 21:21, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Culture
Des Moines has so many attractions and cultural amenities. It would be visually pleasing to the reader if some pictures could be added to this section to beef it up even more. Doesn't anyone have pics of West Capitol Terrace, Pappajohn Sculpture Park, Civic Center, Science Center, Central Library, Court Avenue District, East Village, etc. to add? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.200.132.69 (talk) 21:02, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Foliage
What is the foliage around Des Moine Iowa like? is it green and lush? Forrested? Desert semi dessert? Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.191.136.3 (talk) 12:50, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Citation does not support content
I remove these since the article in used to support it does not make reference to the phrase "de moyen" as having any relationship to the name Des Moines: "or connected to the phrase de moyen in French, meaning middle, because of its location between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers"

---chemica (talk) 05:55, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

March 27th clean up
Just going through and doing a little routine clean up/formatting. I removed the "sites of interests" section and all the links that were adverts/external links or already linked in the article. Here is a list of the ones that are probably appropriate to incorporate into the body of the article if anyone knowledgeable about the city wants to give it a go:


 * Iowa State Fair and Grounds
 * Des Moines Botanical Center
 * The Blank Park Zoo
 * Arie den Boer Arboretum
 * Lilac Arboretum and Children's Forest
 * Merle Hay Mall, one of Iowa's oldest and largest shopping malls
 * Terrace Hill, home of the governor of Iowa
 * Valley West Mall
 * Southridge Mall

-Grey Wanderer | Talk 20:56, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

More External links
Hi all, I just want to discuss about few links that I want to add to this page and think that they can be helpful. Please let me know your thoughts. I really donot want to be aggressive and insert it and get it removed by somebody.Rather I would like to discuss and insert them so that they are added as enhancements to the page. Here are the links:-

http://www.dsmairport.com/- International airport.

http://www.pldminfo.org/ -Public Library

http://www.desmoinesartcenter.org/ - Art Center

http://www.drake.edu/- Drake university

http://www.dexknows.com - Official Phone book

Please do let me know what you all think. --PhoneBookHistorianGeek (talk) 21:58, 31 July 2008 (UTC)


 * The airport, Art Center, and Drake are already linked articles, so adding them as external links doesn't add anything to the encyclopedia. The dexknows.com link is spam ("official" according to whom?). As for the library, I'll leave that up to others here.
 * Overall, I think that Jdlh was right (over here) when he said to you that:
 * "external links have their place, but in general are pretty low-grade ways to improve a Wikipedia article. The effort is usually better spent in other ways. Have you read the External links guidelines?"Dori (Talk • Contribs) 22:22, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Fort Des Moines
As recently as World War Two, Fort Des Moines had an area of 896 Acres, had billeting space for 170 Officers and 7,845 Enlisted Personnel, and was the site of the Woman's Army Corps Replacement Training Center. In World War One, the site was the training center for African American Officers created for the duration of the war. And yet, there is hardly any mention of the post, and either facility.

SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) (talk) 17:54, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Web Section Viability
Am proposing a few changes. First the deletion in toto of the 'Web' media subheading. This is motivated by a few things. First, the section as is seems somewhat trivial and insubstantial. It basically contains 3 external links snuck in under a token content heading. The myspace link is, as it would be, an unofficial event calendar page (one of many on myspace just for des moines events). The section unintentionally gives this link the appearance of a city sanction, and could easily be deleted without losing valid content. The second link is specifically to forum posts. I don't want to assume, but it appears this link is there stemming from an earlier discussion above on it's validity as an external link. The site itself is an unofficial page created by the DSM city planner, who has a Public Relations degree, with another partner on his own time and not via his official post, though it clearly benefits that position. It is also hyperspecific to large-scale construction and the information is useful, but not in the scope of this general page and centers on specific commercial interests. I don't think listing specific residential construction activity would be important under the scope of this page either though general growth data would be. The last link for livingdowntowndesmoines seems again like a real estate advocation, and does not seem particularly vital as a definitive web identity of a particular city proximity. This could easily fit under another subheading centering on downtown, the metro region or tourism, I would be open to that, though it also seems to benefit specific commercial real estate and business interests depending on how it is phrased, cited, and structured. It could work though.

I would also claim that it is irrelevant for a physical city to care or express having a web presence as part of it's constitutive make-up the same way its radio or tv markets are. This is coupled with the fact that being a wikipedia article with external links, that you are in fact reading the testament to its web presence and given links to its official web presence. It's too easy to fudge 'web presence' as any web presence about Des Moines which is limitless and vague, as if it carries the same weight as something actually within Des Moines real, tangible proximity like a TV station or newspaper. It is also impossible to have circulation or reach data like TV and Radio that can be pinpointed to region relevant data. Web hits can be from anywhere, it's too broad, outside of the purpose of the typical media data that is cited in the article. All web presence directly ties to it's concrete presence, so web presence as such seems useless and irrelevant on its own, unrooted.

Bpe-dsm (talk) 23:50, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Local Neighborhood discussion
It wouldn't be an issue, but it sticks out like a sore thumb within the current layout as it is alone right now. Some areas are referenced secondhand as in the Jordan House IN West Des Moines. General townships are referenced. There are many sections that are on the cusp of getting into neighborhoods but skirt around it. Hoyt Sherman Place but no Sherman Hills description for instance. Yet the East Village is linked and referenced by name twice, generally in the exact same semi-promotional language. I don't want to delete this outright as I don't think it is intentional nor irrelevant. But isolated, overemphasized and kind of dropped in willy nilly in quasi-relevant sections, I wanted to suggest creating a subheading with a list and description of the major subareas of the city. It might even be useful to have summary information on the history and state of officially sanctioned neighborhood associations. That way the East Village could take it's place among them in a proper context, and not as the one city area seemingly being pushed as it's own attraction in the Attractions heading.

I would suggest deleting or modifying the last line of the cityscape section as one of those two instances as it seems unverifiable, overly specific toward the East Village and particularly pushing a type of real estate instead of general verifiable fact.

So delete the last line's claim and reference in the cityscape section, and move the East Village as it's own attraction to a new heading of neighborhoods and descriptions, maybe even an areas of note section with neighborhoods a subsection.

I have no ill will towards the E. Village, but the article could be better in that respect. Take the Beaverdale fall festival going on for decades, Valley Junction, etc. I know one business that left the E Village for Ingersoll and I own a store in town as well, so Des Moines is a dynamic city and appears as a one neighborhood city in the article which is bad for everyone, even the East Village.

I know someone has mentioned a similar idea before, but it was in an off talk page topic.

Bpe-dsm (talk) 23:50, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Type of Government?
The page has Des Moines as a Mayor-Council government, but its city code and its website define it as a Council-Manager. Is there a reason to have it as Mayor-Council? http://www.municode.com/resources/gateway.asp?pid=13242&sid=15 Section 2-32 and http://www.dmgov.org/departments/CMO/Index.htm  128.194.229.150 (talk) 16:53, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Walmart
Is it true that the Des Moines Walmart's no-guns policy includes toy water guns? Seems kind of silly to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.240.253 (talk) 07:19, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

A few problems
The 'Parks and Recreation' section is written like a travel guide, and several lines like: "The Great Western Trail is an 18-mile (29 km) journey from Des Moines to Martensdale and full of adventure for the nature enthusiast, the history buff, and for those who want to put on their hiking boots or hop on a bicycle," sound decidedly un-encyclopedic. The Des Moines article should be informative, not a 'come visit our town' brochure written by locals. Also, in the 'See also' section it mentions that Beaverdale, Iowa is "...a small coal mining town which was incorporated into the city of Des Moines." Yet, on the Beaverdale, Iowa stub page it links to, there is a very confusing sentence that reads "Although it has never been incorporated, it has retained a distinct and separate identity from the rest of the capital city." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.214.62.64 (talk) 01:37, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

GA Time?
What does everyone think of me putting this article up for nomination. Comments, questions, or concerns, lease put them at my talk page. Thanks! Oakley77 (talk) 14:41, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * As concerns have been raised regarding your nominations, you should not be nominating anything for GA. --Rschen7754 18:15, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Timeline of Des Moines, Iowa
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incorrect pronunciation in sound file
The sound file's word stress is on the first syllable, which is wrong. --Espoo (talk) 08:44, 28 January 2020 (UTC)