Talk:List of people from Minneapolis

Minneapolitans
I see absolutely no citations that these people were ever actually called Minneapolitans. Where did this moniker come from? Some cheap magazine? Some politician once? I have lived in the Minnesota Twin Cities area for 47 years and have NEVER heard a person call themselves a Minneapolitan. Like that would be something extra special instead of being from the Twin Cities, or Minnesota. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.55.210.44 (talk) 06:58, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

This list is horrible and should be erased. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.119.79.224 (talk) 13:51, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Criteria
Proposed criteria for changes from Minneapolis talk page developed when this list was part of Minneapolis, Minnesota
 * Maximum of 50 people
 * Residence however brief in the city of Minneapolis (for example, not Saint Paul or Bloomington)
 * Influence outside Minneapolis (for example, an award or obituary might establish this)
 * Notability compared to others in the list
 * Balance of field of interests (for example, if the list has three musicians and you add one then remove one)
 * Exceptions as agreed on this talk page (for example, careers of women and minorities may not be as well documented as white males)
 * Birthplace of Minneapolis is not a requirement as Wikipedia already generates Category:People from_Minneapolis, Minnesota — Preceding unsigned comment added by UnitedStatesian (talk • contribs) 15:37, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Maybe this made sense at the time, but it's badly outdated. There's no good reason to restrict this list to fifty people, and I've removed the HTML comment discouraging additions. Look over the rest of and you'll see most other lists try to be comprehensive; this article should be too. Also, this "list" is not presented in a list format. I admire the attempt to make good prose, but this is one of those cases where a list format is more appropriate. I've tagged it accordingly. --BDD (talk) 17:22, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Request move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was moved to List of people from Minneapolis. --BDD (talk) 17:11, 19 October 2012 (UTC) (non-admin closure)

List of Minneapolitans → List of people from Minneapolis, Minnesota – align list name with all the other lists of people-by-city lists. see Category:Lists of people by city in the United States.--96.232.126.27 (talk) 18:49, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * This is non-controversial. But the correct title is List of people from Minneapolis. Even if it was list of from a small town adding the state would not be needed unless there was an other article with a list of using the same name, such as Peoria, Colorado (although a preemptive inclusion in that case would not hurt). Only the town itself needs to follow the convention of adding the state in the United States, even when there is only one place on the entire planet by that name. In this case Minneapolis is in the AP style guide and does not need the state. On the other hand, the sentence that recommends Minneapolis, Minnesota is under discussion. Apteva (talk) 22:22, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I imagine whoever suggested this is under 30 years of age or has never heard of a Minneapolitan. Also sorry, Minneapolis, Kansas might have something to say about the move. -SusanLesch (talk) 21:52, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
 * it's not that i've never heard of a minneapolitan. the request is merely to align the list title with titles of similar lists. the other lists are styled "list of people from foo" (see the category referenced in original request).   (btw, i just had dinner with a minneapolitan and i'm way over 30 by decades.)   regards.--96.232.126.27 (talk) 01:07, 15 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Support. Changing my vote to support. I prefer no state in the name, like Chicago. -SusanLesch (talk) 13:43, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Request for list format
Hello. I went to considerable trouble to put this into prose form. Why on earth would you want a plain list? -SusanLesch (talk) 21:52, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
 * It seems to me that a list is tantamount to opening this article to drive-by additions by anybody, their grandchildren and their grandparents. For that reason, I for one do not have time to maintain a plain list. I will leave a note on the talk page of the person who tagged the article. -SusanLesch (talk) 14:10, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Look over and you'll see this is how these lists are normally formatted. You say "drive-by additions," I say "building the encyclopedia." Perhaps you misunderstand the scope of the article based on the name. Don't read the name literally—absolutely no one is suggesting we tilt at a comprehensive list of all people from Minneapolis. They have to be notable. See Manual of Style/Lists for more. Therefore any notable person—simply judged by whether he or she has an article—can and should be added to this list, probably sorted by fields of work or study. It makes no sense to derive further arbitrary inclusion criteria or to cap the number of people who can be mentioned here. Now, if there were ever a notable TV program like 100 Greatest Britons, about the 50 most famous people from Minneapolis, we could make a list there. But there's no reason Minneapolis should be treated so wildly differently than all these other American cities. --BDD (talk) 14:50, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I am sorry but I have no interest in supporting your project. Good luck to you, BDD. -SusanLesch (talk) 15:06, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

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