Talk:Wasilla, Alaska/Archive 2

Population
I know that the data on the population is from the U.S. census and is an official figure, but news media have consistently referred to Wasilla as a town of 7,000. Is this an accurate reflection of the current population/should it be included? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tiger Khan (talk • contribs) 17:14, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Found updated info. Tiger Khan (talk) 17:23, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the lead paragraph calling Wasilla either the fourth largest or sixth largest city: The Alaska article gives Eagle River as the fourth largest place in Alaska, with a population of over 20,000. So wouldn't that make Wasilla either the fifth or seventh largest? I notice Eagle River also isn't on the List of cities in Alaska by population -- is it not considered a city for some reason? If so, I think the lead para is misleading, especially to those (like me) who see the Alaska article first. Since most people are not conversant with the fine details of what Alaska considers a "city", perhaps the term "community" should be used. -- CWesling (talk) 19:49, 4 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I'll undo TigerKhan's edits later. The Wasilla, AK website information is over five years old.  I checked with their web guru a bit ago, and they hadn't noticed they hadn't updated that: they'll be working to update it to reflect the Census data.  But, the Census Bureau data and link is clearly accurate, and definitive.  Furthermore, when the July 2008 estimates become available, Wasilla will clear 10,000.  CWesling, please notice that Eagle River is not a city, it's a neighborhood inside of the city of Anchorage--which is of course a very large land area city.  By the US Census bureau, which all Wikipedians agree should be a primary source for any US population, Wasilla as of July 2007 (see the link, goodness--can't we be bothered to read a link?) is fourth after Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau with 9,780.  Sitka and others simply haven't grown in the last decade, and Wasilla has almost doubled over the past 10 years.  I think certain elements of the media keeps calling it the lesser numbers, to minimize the place and Palin. Clearly, there's a bit of POV in minimizing Wasilla: using Census data for 2007 on the other hand is NPOV. Sturmde  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.111.163.179 (talk) 20:58, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * It's hard to read a link that goes to "This page has moved." I looked into it further, however, and it does indeed say that the census estimate is 9,780. The webpage says that it was last updated 2 days ago; could they really have missed the population figure? Also, why don't we use this census figure as the town's population (in the infobox; plenty of other location pages do)? If you're really worried about "minimizing" Palin's experience, 5,469 looks a lot worse than 7,000. Tiger Khan (talk) 19:14, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I fixed the link, FYI. Tiger Khan (talk) 19:20, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I didn't see until some time after posting my previous comment that Eagle River is considered part of Anchorage (although local residents are still trying to get it separated again). As long as that is so, I agree that Wasilla is either the 4th or 6th largest. I'll remove Eagle River from the list in Alaska. -- CWesling (talk) 22:18, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Apparently, the population estimates were way off. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated Wasilla's population as 10,692 on July 1, 2009. The population was 7,831 on April 1, 2010, the official 2010 census. Phizzy  16:25, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

List of mayors
I dunno if anyone is still paying attention now that Sarah Palin isn't quite as relevant, but the list of mayors is incomplete. The City of Wasilla was originally incorporated as a second-class city, which means that voters elect a council and then the council elects a mayor from amongst its membership. Wasilla voters approved a change to first-class status in 1984, which allows for direct election of a mayor by voters. The list of mayors begins from that point. If that was the intent in compiling the list, it isn't obvious from the accompanying text on the page. 199.165.96.57 (talk) 16:56, 11 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I brought this up on Talk:Sarah Palin on February 24th, seeing as how that page states that Palin is the 5th mayor of Wasilla. Totally bogus statement BTW, whose only basis appears to be the list contained in this article.  Section 1.08.030 of Wasilla municipal code states that the city was incorporated on February 26, 1974.  In other words, that's almost a decade's worth of mayors that no one bothered to research BEFORE merely assuming that what was on the page was good enough.  Sounds like bullshit to me.RadioKAOS (talk) 02:30, 17 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Harold Newcomb, former Mat-Su Borough Assemblyman and later mayor of Wasilla in '80- '83 and '86-'87, died Monday, May 7, 2012. Activist (talk) 19:55, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The list was updated via information from an e-mail requested of the Deputy City Clerk, Amanda E. Charles. Activist (talk) 22:48, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Just a little item, perhaps more trivia than anything else. The article on Verne Rupright, the current mayor, states that he previously worked as a corrections officer in Alaska. So did Leo Nunley, the first mayor.RadioKAOS (talk) 00:22, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Now, for something more pertinent: Dorothy Page was (acting?) mayor for about three months in 1986, following the death of Charlie Bumpus on July 23 of that year. A story regarding this was published in the Anchorage Daily News on August 8, 1986.RadioKAOS (talk) 00:44, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Yee haw (more Palin fun, I guess)
Okay, I'm "decidedly on the fence" as to whether Category:Sarah Palin belongs here. Just keep in mind one thing, in case you missed the discussion as it occurred elsewhere: I came across a copy of the 1964 edition of The Milepost (this being the year that Sarah Palin was born and years before her family moved to Wasilla). The main thing they had to say about Wasilla was that it was well-known as the home of Gerrit "Heinie" Snider. Who, you're saying? From the looks of earlier discussion, you were saying the same thing about Katie Hurley. Don't even get me started on all of that. Since it appears that Sarah Palin lives along Lake Lucille, it's entirely likely that she lives on Snider's former homestead. His daughter was mayor of Wasilla when Sarah Palin was in junior high school. And yes, most important of all, I'm talking about a highly notable person here, regardless of whether or not you've done the amount of research I've done on the subject, not to mention any personal experience. I used to stop at Teeland's Store when traveling the Parks Highway. In other words, I didn't just discover Wasilla in 2008, sorry. In fact, I "discovered" it long before there was a Walmart or a Carl's Jr., for that matter. Speaking of Wasilla Walmart, if you want some fun, look up the brilliant comments Mayor Palin made about the wedding there ca. 1999.RadioKAOS (talk) 23:42, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

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