Talk:Lamar, Colorado

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• Sbmeirow  •  Talk  •  08:06, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

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Poorest town in Colorado
I added the following, which was reverted by [User:Sbmeirow]:

In 2017, Lamar was identified as being the poorest town in Colorado using the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey data. 

With the following reason given:

non-notable website, not important detail, not static information because continually changes, removed for similar reason why we don't single out other stats, like most blacks or least blacks in a city

Even though none of these objections cite WP:MOS, I will address these one by one:


 * "non-notable website". Presumably this is a reference to WP:RS. However, no specific condition within WP:RS was cited. Moreover, 247wallst.com is frequently used as a source throughout Wikipedia:


 * "not important detail". If we assume that having a section on "Economy" is relevant to a geographic article -- and having such is pervasive throughout Wikipedia -- then noting a statistical extreme is indeed notable.


 * "not static information". That is why the year 2017 was cited.


 * "removed for similar reason why we don't single out other stats, like most blacks or least blacks in a city". Per-capita income is not a racial statistic. I cannot even begin to address this objection because I don't know why it was made.

Michaelmalak (talk) 15:03, 4 October 2017 (UTC)


 * 1) 247wallst website isn't notable, it's a click-bait website that doesn't have a wikipedia article for the website. If it's frequently used, then it only means the domain has slid under the radar.


 * 2) 247wallst article doesn't provide any government reference to validate that each city is actually the lowest of each state.


 * 3) Non-decade years means that all census related information is estimated. By non-static, I mean that income is continuously moving up and down.


 * 4) I didn't say it was racist, you did. I said that singling out specific demographics as being either the best or worst, which are typically frowned upon.


 * 5) One more issue, your link doesn't point at the exact colorado sub-webpage, which is unrelated issue.


 * 6) • Sbmeirow  •  Talk  • 23:45, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

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