Talk:Milledgeville, Georgia

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Temporary Lockdown?
It hasn't even been a day since the Ben Roethlisberger sexual assault story broke, and we've already seen several people vandalize this article. Right now, all the vandalism has been removed, but it will keep coming back until the story has died down, I think. To save us all the trouble of having to remove all the vandalism, perhaps we should lock this article for a month or so. Mellophonius (talk) 02:27, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Pronunciation
I'd like to know how to say the name of this town. Is it "mill edge ville" or "millage ville." IPA would also help. Thanks. 146.115.24.118 (talk) 13:50, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

In IPA the name is pronounced / ˈmɪ lədʒ ˌvɪl/ BillDeeUS (talk) 00:06, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

no sources
no sources Ocobrinyc (talk) 15:41, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Terminology
I imagine someone is quite invested in it so I'm leaving it but, for the record, the reference to "European Americans" in this passage, for a place founded in Georgia after 1800 and long, long after it became first a British colony and then an American state, and which was given a WASPy name like Milledgeville named after a man named Milledge, would seem both overdone and redundant. By whom else was a place called Milledgeville going to be founded in post-1800 Georgia?

"Milledgeville, named after Georgia governor John Milledge (in office 1802–1806), was founded by European Americans at the start of the 19th century as the new centrally located capital of the state of Georgia. It served as the state capital from 1804 to 1868."

If this were a settlement founded when Georgia was first colonized nearly a century earlier, then the word choice would have been much more on point, if even then a little odd compared to "colonists" or "settlers" or a more specific reference to their nationality like "British", "German", or whatever. [Indeed, at the time 'European [or British] colonists/settlers' would have actually made more sense than the unduly forward looking term European Americans, which presumes the existence of the US in advance.] I wouldn't have even noticed it if it were about a place founded then. Random noter (talk) 17:28, 7 February 2024 (UTC)