Talk:Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Question about TV station listing
Do most city pages have links to the TV stations in them?Micah 09:18, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Seymour is not a suburb
I can't figure out how to delete Seymour from the list of "suburbs". Seymour is a township, not a city or village, and thus should not be included. Furthermore, the link that is presented there goes to a community named Seymour on the other side of the state.

Altoona and Chippewa Falls are enough of a stretch to call "suburbs". Seymour most definitely is not.


 * The Town of Seymour fits into Wikipedia's rather loose definition of a suburb. The link should not have pointed to the Seymour in Outagamie County, tho.  It should instead have pointed to either Seymour, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin or to Seymour (CDP), Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.  I have changed the template to reflect this.  I've also added to the template, based on the model at Template:Appleton, Wisconsin. Tomer TALK  16:50, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

Images
This article needs more pictures! :-P This time of year is clearly not the best for showing the pretty side of EC, but I suppose in keeping with WP:NPOV we may as well have winter pix too...since it's winter here 9 months out of the year... :-p  So, today I took a few random pix. I'm pretty clearly not a photographer, but here they are...more later perhaps. For now, if anyone can think of a good way to include them, go for it. Click on the images themselves to read my rather detailed (in some cases) image summaries. I already put some in the Eau Claire River, Schlegelmilch-McDaniel House, Christ Church Cathedral (Eau Claire), Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire and Immanuel Lutheran College (Eau Claire) articles.

Tom e rtalk 04:42, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Hank Aaron
I removed the bit about Hank Aaron coming back to EC in the fall of '06 to inspect and see how things had changed since "then". I think if such a thing had happened, there'd have been a little more news coverage of it, at least enough that a citation could be found to support the assertion. Please do not reinsert that text until a citation for it is found. Tom e rtalk 06:41, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Alright, I did it myself. Tom e rtalk  03:03, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

"Only game show contestant from Eau Claire"
There have been at least two others; I don't know their names, but one was on Jepardy in the mid-90's, and another was a college student, also on Jepardy during college week within the last few years.Trapt11 22:08, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It doesn't say he is the only game show contestant from Eau Claire, it says he is the only Who Wants to be a Millionaire contestant from Eau Claire.--ChesterMarcol 01:19, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Mike (Mayer) Brissman was on Wheel of Fortune someodd number of years ago (and won a cadillac). Tom e rtalk  04:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Crime
I'm not certain that the crime section is entirely accurate. Siasmj 01:13, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Proposed Rewrite
I'm proposing a general rewrite of the article (step-wise, not a clean slate). Thoughts or objections? Xavexgoem (talk) 02:28, 7 December 2007 (UTC)


 * My theory is that everything can be improved. On the other hand, a change is not necessarily an improvement. So, depending upon what you have in mind, a general rewrite is either a good or a bad idea. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 16:02, 7 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I should be more specific :) There are a lot of things (transportation and media in particular) that could be summarized more briefly to give better flow. Also was thinking of consolidating some of the historical data into one heading, but I haven't gone through the article enough to figure out if/how I should do that. I just want a smaller article without removing content. Xavexgoem (talk) 16:32, 7 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, I don't think you need anyone's permission to do that. Have at it. You'll know soon enough if the community doesn't like it (or thinks it can be improved upon). Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 18:57, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Always good to ask :) Xavexgoem (talk) 19:52, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Ecwilogo.jpg
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Removed people
Why were so many people removed? Tomertalk 18:37, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm thinking at least L.E. Phillips should stay, myself; readding (even if it's redlinked(?)) Xavexgoem (talk) 19:20, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah... just because an article doesn't exist yet doesn't mean any mention of its future subject should be expunged from Wikipedia... Tomertalk 21:28, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Price of milk in relation to the distance from Eau Claire
I've always heard that the price of milk subsidies or some other form of milk regulation by the USDA is set by the distance from Eau Claire. Anybody know if this is true and if so, should it be included in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.48.239.154 (talk) 12:22, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

I guess I was wrong, congress changed that in 2002 http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-120287774.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.48.239.154 (talk) 12:24, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I don't really know anything about the articles or the subject here, but I got caught up in it somehow (I was the one who reported the copyright violation). Xavexgoem prod'd the article stating that it could be merged with Eau Claire, Wisconsin, so in the apparent absence of any other discussion (aside from pointing out misuse of prods/redirects), I am now "formally" requesting this merge. Brian Jason Drake 05:42, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I prod'd Eau Claire City Council - the problem is it's kind of a filler article, and it's kind of off the wiki-grid, if you know what I mean, so it doesn't get much updates. Xavexgoem (talk) 09:10, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know a prod'd from a redirect but my thought (not a strong one) is that the articles should remain separate. First, shorter articles are generally better and adding things to the Eau Claire article will make it longer. Second, while the City Council page may be orphaned now, the Council is a governing body that should have its own page. Perhaps someone will adopt it some day. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 17:56, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * According to Wisconsin State Statutes=5.02(6), the "governing body" of a city is known as the common council. Yet, the Common Council of the City of Eau Claire is refered to as the city council inthe Eau Claire city website. Some sort of clarification of this is needed.Thank you-RFD (talk) 16:43, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

People relocation?
What do you'all think about splitting the list of Notables into a separate "List of people from Eau Claire, Wisconsin" article? Compare List of people from Fort Wayne, Indiana (although I'd do away with the meaningless level 2 heading on that page). Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 01:08, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Barland a reliable source?
Sawdust City and The Rivers Flow On are probably the two best books on EC history. Problem is they were written ~1960, do not have ISBN numbers, and are totally out-of-print (LE Phillips has a few copies, of course). I'd like to use them in the article, but it conflicts majorly with what we've already got (although those remain unsourced). For instance: aside from the local legend (Voici l'eau claire!), we have two conflicting stories on-wiki on how the river got its name: "Eaux Claires" here, translation of Wayaa-gonaatigweyaa-ziibi (Ojibwe for Clear potable-water River) at Eau_Claire_River_(Chippewa_River), and "La Riviera del Eau Claire" in Sawdust City (pg. 1).

I'm having some difficulty corroborating some of the facts in Sawdust City with any other sources (namely because there really aren't any). In lieu of better sources, I'm asking the community here for permission to use the best we've got, which are the Lois Barland books. Xavexgoem (talk) 23:29, 23 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm no expert but I'd say that you should use it if that is the best you can find. If someone finds something better later then that person can modify the article to reflect that information. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 18:27, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Include Olympian Mike Peplinski
Michael Peplinski participated in the 1998 Nagano Olympics on the U.S.A. Men's Curling Team, and their team took 4th place. He currently resides in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and there are Leader-Telegram newspaper articles that highlight him and the sport of curling. If you are interested in adding him to your list of famous athletes, feel free to contact me.

Pep1020 (talk) 19:33, 10 October 2010 (UTC)


 * You are the "you" at Wikipedia. If you believe that Mr. Peplinski is worthy of being added to the list then feel free to do it yourself. See wp:BOLD. If others disagree they will let you know. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 12:39, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Broken link
Eau Claire Historic Preservation Foundation is broken (points to nonexistent page) but I will leave it in case someone knows a better page to point it to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antonwig (talk • contribs) 22:56, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Eau Claire City Council is not notable independent of the city of Eau Claire. Its article should be merged into this one. -- Mesconsing (talk) 17:17, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

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