Talk:Edinburg, Texas

'Rio Grande Valley' is the name of a place
Just as two people can have the name name, two places can have the same name. More than one town has the name 'Edinburg'. Of course there is sometimes a problem of ambiguity. In the cases where two people or two places have the same name, reference is often determined by context. Sometimes context is inadequate for distinguishing which person or place is being referenced. There is no problem with ambiguity in this article.

Only university in Rio Grande Valley?
The article says: "The University of Texas–Pan American, the only fully accredited four-year university in the Rio Grande Valley, is located in Edinburg." I suspect that "Rio Grande Valley" here is intended to refer just to valley along the far lower end of the Rio Grande in southern Texas, but the usage isn't particularly clear. If taken literally--referring to the entire valley of the Rio Grande--this statement is clearly false. The University of Texas at El Paso, New Mexico State University, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, University of New Mexico, and Adams State University are all fully accredited four-year universities further upstream in the valley of the Rio Grande, and there may be another that isn't coming to mind.Paalexan (talk)


 * Thanks for using the talkpage, Paalexan.


 * Technically, the El Paso area is part of the "Valley of the Rio Grande;" nonetheless, the term Rio Grande Valley (officially but not commonly known as the Lower Rio Grande Valley) is for the southern tip of Texas. If anything, El Paso is part of the Mesilla Valley, still bordering the Rio Grande.


 * Now, as far as I know, the claim that UTPA is the only fully accredited four-year university in the RGV is false. The University of Texas at Brownsville is in the RGV too. Please feel free to remove the information. Thanks. ComputerJA (talk) 20:16, 28 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Restricting "Rio Grande Valley" to just this very small portion of the land along the Rio Grande strikes me as a rather unencyclopedic provincialism. I'll certainly believe that, in south Texas, "Rio Grande Valley" is taken to refer to that specific area and nothing else. However, as a resident of New Mexico living along the Rio Grande, I'm quite certain that this usage is not universal! It's as if residents of Charleston, South Carolina decided that the phrase "East Coast" referred to the coast around Charleston and only the coast around Charleston. Fine for them, I suppose, but not a usage that should be advocated by unbiased observers and certainly not a usage that would find favor among other residents of the east coast. But... in any case... if that particular statement is wrong regardless of the definition of "Rio Grande Valley", I suppose the point is moot. Paalexan (talk) 02:48, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
 * According to the Texas State Historical Association, the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) is composed of the area that I mentioned above. Notice, however, that they use the "Rio Grande Valley" and the "lower Rio Grande Valley" interchangeably. I've heard the term RGV for the southern most portion of Texas only, and not from the area in El Paso or New Mexico. I see your point, and it totally makes sense; I'm guess the term RGV sticked for South Texas when it should actually refer to the areas you mention if one wants to be technical. Do you have any reliable sources that indicate that the RGV is somewhere else besides South Texas? We could work things out if you wish. ComputerJA (talk) 03:16, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

my peace of the pie
68.7.225.208 (talk) 20:22, 1 July 2013 (UTC)dapbeing from texas we tend to superseed our participation in all aspects when it comes to texas especialy edingburg texas being from this grand small city id learned to apreciate it,s hardships and outstanding achevements [three time winner ]wow and to start in 1949 the year of my birth many off us wish to part of our birth city,s while others shunt the thought of naming our birthright not me since id last went to the city of my birth some 30plus years ago id have possitive memmories of this town especialy their yearly fammily barbeque ,s congratulations on all your achevements and being the host of panamerica unevirsety, signed diego a padilla a proud texas cittizen of edingburg  [my source of relations to this posting is /birthright  honnor and a veteran of the vietnam war proud citicen of our great nation [ you may quote any verse or point in this posting  diego a padilla sr a proud texas cityson
 * Huh? Gtwfan52 (talk) 22:13, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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Ecotourism
As far as I can tell, the ecotourism attraction is part of the city park system. To discuss it alone is a WEIGHT issue. To have its own section, especially headed with a marketing term like "Ecotourism", seems quite promotional. John from Idegon (talk) 16:00, 28 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Reading the reference, I saw that this is one site of 9 forming the World Birding Center, so I thought the best solution might be to create that article - but I found it already existed. This article contained nothing else on tourism to Edinburg, so I renamed the section "Sights" while rewriting the sentence to link to the Center article. Any other tourist attractions can now be added there without being limited to ecotourism. How's that? Yngvadottir (talk) 12:23, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm good with it now. Thanks Y. John from Idegon (talk) 15:34, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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