Talk:Springdale, Arkansas

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Education
The football team information was relocated from the top of the article. Though I don't live in the area — or perhaps because of it — the writing of this particular section seems highly subjective. Someone needs to expand it to a proper education section, and eventually take out details that are sure to become dated in the coming weeks. — ArkansasTraveler 23:08, 2 December 2005 (UTC)


 * The football information is now dated and needs to be revised. The high school football championships are significant for the community, but the current presentation is more a sports excerpt than a proper part of an article. RebelAt 18:09, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Then maybe a new article all together? AngryStudent 20:03, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I updated the bit about Springdale being the 3rd largest city and Fayetteville's census being incomplete. According to http://www.nwarktimes.com/nwat/News/41735/ Fayetteville pop. is now 67,020, surpassing Springdale. Also if someone could make the Fayetteville name a hotlink (like Little Rock and Ft. Smith already are) I'd appreciate it.

Could someone add...
The Jone's center is a unique Point of Intrest in Springdale and should be included on the Springdale page (IMO). I don't know beans about how to do anything on wiki so if someone could add a blerb about the Jones Center and perhaps a link? The Jones center is a very cool free place to go swim or ice skate. They have a free computers to use and hold free classes. The cool thing is that most everything is FREE!

http://www.jonesnet.org/index.html

Population Gain
Hey, the population of the city as of 2000 was approximately 46,000. The most recent Census Bureau estimates place the population upwards of about 70,000. That is a HUGE gain over the decade. I'm wondering if this is due most to migration to the city, or if a lot of this can be chalked up to annexation of surrounding unincorporated lands? --Criticalthinker (talk) 03:12, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

This is mostly due to the growth of NWA in the past decade. Springdale is home of Tyson and neighbor city Bentonville is home to Walmart. So it is not due to annexation, but rather large migration to the region.Squanie92 (talk) 04:24, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Immigration, esp. Latinos from Mexico, contributed to the population gain. Although the Black population is low and below average for a southern city, Springdale has the largest Marshallese population in the mainland USA (see Marshall Islands), about 4.5% of the city population. The Springdale-Fayetteville area has a sizable Native American (Cherokee) population, they are 40 miles east of Oklahoma, where the Cherokee Nation is located. 2605:E000:FDCA:4200:24F3:157C:31F4:1568 (talk) 14:12, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Photo
That photo looks nice but the problem is that it is a picture of someone's cow pasture near Springdale and not a photo of the city itself. I live in Rogers and I will see if I can take a pic to improve on this in the near future, unless someone already has a good one available.--Traveler7 (talk) 20:39, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Added one I took of Emma Avenue today.  Brandonrush   Woo pig soooooooie!  00:51, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

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Black or black (redundancy)
I'm getting afraid to even think of editing this Wikipedia, 'cause almost half the time, my edits get reverted and I get scolded due to it. I've been editing Simple English and English Wikipedia since August 2010; and that's almost eight years! The reason I changed the lower case black to African American is due to the repeated word and the redundant nature of the wording in Springdale, Arkansas. I cannot afford being blocked, 'cause if that were to happen, I wouldn't know how to request unblocks without my talk page access getting yanked away. Angela Maureen (talk) 01:03, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * And as I have explained to you at multiple articles over multiple years, we use the terminology the source (in this case the Census Bureau) uses. If you have no better reason to change it other than you don't like it, don't change it.  For just about every racial grouping, there are multiple terms used to describe them.  For some individuals, the use of one or another causes offense.  So to avoid that rattrap,  we stick to the terms the source uses.  It isn't at all complicated.  Just find different things to edit. John from Idegon (talk) 01:35, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Notable persons section
I deleted Kiehl Frazier, but it was reverted. I lived in Springdale +20 years, and don't consider him 'notable'. Good comparison is Mitch Mustain, who isn't on this list. I would consider him more 'notable' than Frazier, hence the deletion.

I am not concerned with anyone else on this list, just Frazier, and that I don't think he belongs on this list.

Plus he was hardly relevant in college, take a look at his stats. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.58.115.11 (talk) 12:44, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Adding school information
User:John from Idegon seems to think my edit (here) warranted unexplained removal, simply saying "off topic". A later explanation seems to have more taken issue with 'my attitude' than the valuable and sourced content and appropriate photos of the subject. Wikipedia policy: it is preferable for good faith (and, in fact, positive contributions) to the article remain in the article pending consensus. This policy was not followed by the User, instead an unexplained removal of sourced content and a combative message was provided.

I suppose User has decreed unilaterally the fact that the Don Tyson School of Innovation is a public charter in contrast to the other two traditional public high schools and one Christian high school is not important to the subject of secondary education in Springdale. Or that the school is newer that the other schools. Maybe this information could be noted on the school's page, but no page exists and I did not want to make a two sentence stub which would've likely been smitten out of existence by User. One of the four high schools in a city being a public charter warrants mention on the secondary education section of the page, and certainly isn't controversial enough to warrant unexplained removal.

User noted the page is "an already extremely cluttered low quality article" but apparently does not find even the most basic information about a high school as relevant to the subtopic of secondary education in the city. With User's strict unilateral gauge of what is "on topic", it is hard to see a future for this page, if this content is so extraneous as to warrant unexplained deletion.  Brandonrush Woo pig sooie!  01:10, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

climate data
We were using an incomplete version of the weatherbox at Fayetteville,_Arkansas for this town, ... the climate is similar but not identical to this town, so I removed it for the sake of accuracy. Springdale has no official weather station currently or recently in operation. — Soap — 17:20, 20 April 2021 (UTC)