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• Sbmeirow  •  Talk  •  18:41, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

POV
Can we remove the citation from What's the Matter with Kansas? It has a clear negative POV. Caleiva 23:33, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Regardless of its POV, quoting that large a section of the book in the intro is probably more extensive than is allowed under fair use. I'll at least trim it down for starters. (ESkog)(Talk) 23:35, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree with the idea the comments included from "What's the matter with Kansas," contain a negative point of view. I don't think anyone would doubt that the area has its shortcomings, but a discussion on those shortcomings needs to be a bit more detailed than a quote from a book. I've changed this comment a bit, to incorporate Frank's comments, but I've also included some figures from other sources. OPIchabod 14:28, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Topography
Kansas Territory overland wagon trains followed watershed ridges westward from Westport, Kansas City along the John C. Fremont California Road stagecoach route.

Roadside Kansas: A Traveler's Guide to Its Geology an Landmarks by Rex C. Buchanan and James R. McCauley (2010 2nd Ed.) cites the role of John C. Fremont in mapping historic transportation routes (p. 88 &140) ISBN: 978-0-7006-1700-5 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.124.121.113 (talk) 19:19, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Relevance
>> Frémont first met frontiersman Kit Carson on a Missouri River steamboat in St. Louis during the summer of 1842. Frémont was preparing to lead his first expedition and was looking for a guide to take him to South Pass. Carson offered his services, as he had spent much time in the area. The five-month journey, made with 25 men, was a success.<< Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Fremont#Third_expedition — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.124.121.113 (talk) 19:23, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Presidential election fact
I see the fact about Johnson County not supporting a democrat since Woodrow Wilson has been removed due to insufficient sources. I've verified this fact with a couple sources so I'm going to add it back. But as far as references go, I think I'm going to link the specific pages here on the talk page, because it seems a little obnoxious to list them all in the article since there are so many. I'll just list the main pages as references on the article. If anyone disagrees with that, let me know and i'll add all the refs to the article. Here we go:

Ryan2845 (talk) 04:32, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * This sounds like the best idea; the reason that I removed it was that I searched as much of the site as I could find and I still couldn't see anything broken up by county except for the past few elections. Nyttend (talk) 16:29, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks for fixing the links. You were certainly right to remove it as the original reference only goes back to 1960. Ryan2845 (talk) 19:48, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Other major roads
Certainly one would think College Boulevard (actually 111th Street) should be included in the "Other major roads" section — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.70.156.3 (talk) 06:29, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

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Glitch in the info box
A bit sick here but to me it looks like the Infobox is showing the area in both miles and kilometers. It is showing the total, land, and water in both, but the metric land is more than the metric total. Infobox appears to automatically calculate this, so this is a strange discrepancy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0w0 catt0s (talk • contribs) 17:41, 5 February 2020 (UTC)


 * I see what you’re taking about and can’t figure out for the life of me the reason. Perhaps a note should be left on the template page. Grey Wanderer (talk) 23:15, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Kansas City, Missouri?
"Largely suburban, the county contains a number of suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri including Overland Park, the second most populous city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.[1] Its county seat is Olathe.[2]" This is what the article states, however Kansas City, MISSOURI is not part of Johnson County, KANSAS. They aren't even the same state. I'm sure this must've been an accidental typo. Can someone please fix this? The article is locked to other Wikipedians. Sarah Stach (talk) 22:57, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * As you can read in the history section or in any number of good history books on the Kansas City region, Overland Park developed as bedroom community (suburb) of Kansas City, Missouri along the Stange Line-a train designed to take commuters into downtown Kansas City. Today it is one of the largest cities in Kansas, as the populations of suburbs boomed nationwide after WWII. Today it largely retains the suburban trails single family housing, corporate campuses and car-centric transportation. Most likely, and forgive me if you’re not, I think User:Sarah Stach is a female incarnation of User:Kansacitt1225. Grey Wanderer (talk) 23:08, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

No. I am brand new to Wikipedia and only made my account because I noticed this and live here. But I forgive you for your incorrect judgment of whoever you think I am. I just know that I don't live in Missouri and that's what it sounds like in this article. Historically you may be correct, however currently we aren't part of Missouri. So I guess I'm not sure why that's there. It seems incorrect. Sarah Stach (talk) 23:27, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

I guess, to me, it seems like the historical boundaries should be in the history tab. However the current geographical boundaries should be updated for the main. Sorry if you were offended by that point of view. Sarah Stach (talk) 23:41, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Updated Board of County Commissioners
With semi-protection on until 3/23/2021, I think it's prudent to have the "County government and unincorporated areas" elected officials and their terms updated. Specifically,

District	Area Served	Commissioner	Term Expires Two	North	Jeff Meyer	January 2025 Three	Southeast	Catherine O'Hara 	January 2025 Six	Western	Shirley Allenbrand	January 2025

Reference link is the same, just a new date (updated 1/11/2021) Getdennis (talk) 05:22, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
 * , please make your request in the format "replace x with y", or specify exactly what content you want added (and where), providing reliable secondary sources for all your proposed changes. 174.212.239.34 (talk) 05:45, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Unclear
I suspect the county court house is not the 4th building to be built in the county, is it the 4th largest? 4th most recent? 4th courthouse?Slipandslide (talk) 14:18, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Likely it is the 4th courthouse. Grey Wanderer (talk) 22:46, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Joco
(Abbreviated as JOCO) Hey I was the one who put the kck and kcmo abbreviations on their respective pages. I’m curious as to why Johnson county’s abbreviation is a problem but kck and kcmo isn’t a problem. You can clearly see in reference #6 or here that it’s abbreviated as JOCO https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/community/johnson-county/joco-opinion 63.86.0.94 (talk) 01:14, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

There’s actually even a JOCO magazine https://www.jocogov.org/joco-magazine — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.86.0.94 (talk) 01:22, 10 July 2023 (UTC)


 * The intro of Kansas county articles have a similar format: Miami County, Kansas / Wyandotte County, Kansas / Leavenworth County, Kansas / Shawnee County, Kansas / ... •  Sbmeirow  •  Talk  • 01:27, 10 July 2023 (UTC)