Talk:Mankato, Minnesota/Archive 1

Inkato.com
An anonymous user has some issues with the link to Inkato.com. It's very ad-heavy and, while there are some articles about Mankato-specific events, they are very minor and are probably paid ads anyways. If there aren't any objections I'll remove it in a little while.Wyatt Riot 08:27, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Template for a U.S. City
For those who plan on editing and expanding this article, please follow the Template for a U.S. City. Thanks!--Daveswagon 09:41, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Linkspam vandalism
Several times in the recent past an anonymous user or users has added linkspam to a Mankato- based web design firm. Most recently such a user actually deleted the official website for the City of Mankato and substituted this same commercial website. This is not merely linkspam; it is vandalism. Editors to this article should watch for repeated attempts to misuse Wikipedia in this fashion. Kablammo 01:35, 3 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I have a feeling that it's User:Peschomd, who was blocked for WP:SPAM violations. Look through his contributions and you'll notice the similarities.  Wyatt Riot 14:33, 3 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Their heavy-handed attempts to use Wikipedia for commercial purposes likely are doing them more harm than good. The deletion of a link to city webpage in that city's article, and substitution of a business webpage link in its place, does not seem likely to be effective marketing.  Kablammo 16:30, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

BAMkato
BAMkato, MinEXPLODa, the local bomb fest, should be noted in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.114.210.66 (talk) 14:04, 9 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Provide some reliable sources and it may be. Wyatt Riot (talk) 21:54, 9 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I looked for some. They're all Greek to me.  (My sincere apologies for the foregoing.)  Kablammo (talk) 18:31, 10 May 2008 (UTC)


 * You're Kablamo, You should know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.114.210.66 (talk) 14:04, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

That's a lie i live mankato there is no bombfest — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.114.210.66 (talk) 18:03, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Name
"According to legend, Mankato was not named as 'Mahkato' due to a typographical error by a clerk. Humorously, 'mankato' in the Dakota language means 'blue skunk'."

This oft-repeated legend is highly suspect.

http://www.mnheritage.com/review2.htm

http://www.intech.mnsu.edu/cherrington/Tour/TourPages/mankatoName.htm
 * well, according to the historical sources the name Mankato means Blue Earth in Dakota Sioux language, and the Mdewakanton Santee Dakota chief who signed the treaty in Washington in June 1858 and later died fighting the army during the battle of Wood Lake in September 1862 was named Mankato or Blue Earth. The town was named after an earlier Mdewakanton chief known as Old Mankato DarioTW 04:12, 14 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by DarioTW (talk • contribs)

Tropical???
I have read in a few places, here's one for example [], that Mankato has some kind of climate anomaly caused by hot springs and that some neighborhoods in Mankato have never experienced temps below 70 degrees F in the winter; if this is true then it should definitely be in the article. With temps like that there should be palm trees, coconut palms no less, growing there and likely a very unique fauna and flora. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.133.42.16 (talk) 20:03, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but that's a joke. Wyatt Riot (talk) 20:18, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Sinclair Lewis came from here?
I couldn't find any reference to Mankato in the Wikipedia article for Sinclair Lewis. Did he actually ever spend any significant amount of time here?74.176.159.75 (talk) 21:48, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * No, certainly not. I've removed this bogus assertion from the article. Brain Rodeo (talk) 22:10, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
 * He lived in Mankato long enough to write two novels, Main Street and Free Air. Or so says a google search. Wyatt Riot (talk) 03:47, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Academic Institutions
The section on Mankato's academic institutions is not written in a prose style, as is recommended by Wikipedia's manual of style. I'd recommend re-writing the section as prose, with brief descriptions of each institution to illustrate how they differ from one another (public 4-year vs. private religious school vs. vocational). Thoughts? Balloccoli (talk) 16:33, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Employment numbers
I've been researching for my page Immanuel St. Joseph's and employment numbers listed on the Mayo Health site cite employment numbers of 3,302 employees versus the 2,223 listed in the Economy - Top Employers section. Could someone verify which of these numbers is more correct? Shaded0 16:14, 21 March 2012
 * Updated to reflect the 2010 CAFR report, from 2009 report. Couldn't find any better data. Shaded0 (talk) 23:42, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

History
Was there a specialty or regional hospital there in 1930? What about in the late 1940s or early 1950s?

Kiwanis Holiday Lights
I have removed mention of Kiwanis Holiday Lights again as WP:OR. There are plenty of results in Google, but they're all social media or advertising. What we need are reliable, third-party published sources stating that this is a major yearly event. (I added a national news story about the Vikings training camp, so that entry looks good.) Woodroar (talk) 17:21, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Notable people
Per WP:CITY (article guidelines at WP:CITSTRUCT) and WP:NLIST, every entry should meet WP:PEOPLE or one of our related notability guidelines. Usually, this means a pre-existing article on Wikipedia, obviously including the association or relationship with Mankato. Alternately, a reliable, third-party published source about the subject—meaning, not about something else and merely mentioning the subject—and association or relationship with Mankato is typically acceptable. Woodroar (talk) 17:49, 12 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Your idiotic removal of these people is flabbergasting. Notability doesn't REQUIRE individual articles, and the wiki pages which were referenced were more than substantial.  I'm going to add them again later when I have time.  I'm sorry that you're jealous of these folk's accomplishments, and that you'll never amount to anything, but stop being petty.  Your edits amount to vandalism. Zarcusian (talk) 18:13, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Please take a moment to read the policies and guidelines above. We need a standalone article making that connection, or we need a reliable, third-party published source about the subject making that connection, preferably both. There is precedence for inclusion without an article as long as we have a watertight source, but that is the bare minimum. I checked both articles about the bands when first added here and they simply don't meet those requirements. (The closest we have is a dead link about the band, not separate articles about each individual that we would need. Please note that notability is not inherited.) If these claims are as trivially easy to source as you claim, then kindly find a source, because I've looked and haven't found anything. Woodroar (talk) 13:52, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Major events
If there is going to be a section on Major Events, it should be about the Mankato Executions, not the mundane and trivial "Minnesota Vikings summer training camp".Royalcourtier (talk) 19:24, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It's not exactly clear in the article, but the "Major Events" section is meant for current, recurring events. I'm also indifferent to events like training camps, but the media is not, and we need to follow their lead. You'll find that nearly a quarter of the "History" section is devoted to the executions, which is probably about right. Woodroar (talk) 02:34, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

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