Talk:Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Name of the city
According to the John Wilkes article, "The city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania was named for John Wilkes and Isaac Barré." There is no source in that article, so I hesitate to include it here, but some editor may be able to create an inline citation and add the fact here, probably in the lede. --DThomsen8 (talk) 16:10, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

I've come on here at least 10 times to ad the nicknames Coal City, The W-B, The Dirty W-B, & The 570, but people continue to change it. I highly doubt the people changing it have ever lived here. This is not the type of thing that can be cited. You would have to come here & talk to locals like me for this information, the same goes for the persistent "Diamond City" nickname. All of these nicknames are just as commonly used as the former. STOP DELETING IT!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.97.158.129 (talk) 16:54, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
 * would better explain it. You actually have to cite something and not just tell it because you know it. ~ AC5230  talk  00:23, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Pronunciation
I've resided in Wilkes-Barre for the better of 50 years. The name is pronounced as "wilks-barry". This is how it is pronounced on all area television and radio stations; this is the language being used in the Luzerne County courthouse, the county seat. All these attempts at change are nothing more than local colloquialisms. If you don't know what that means, look it up. trezjr (talk) 22:04, 13 March 2011 (UTC)


 * My father's mother grew up there and she, and everyone she knew, said it like "Wilks-Bar," the latter as in a place you go for a drink. As is discussed further up this very talk page, the fact that people who live there pronounce it multiple ways means that it's fair for this article to include something about there being multiple pronunciations (although at the moment it doesn't and I don't care enough to change it). "Barry" is just plain wrong, but since it's often pronounced that way, it would be fair to include it in this article. The purpose of a source like Wikipedia is not to try to dictate what is or is not correct. It's to report reality, and in this case the reality is that people can't agree on how to pronounce the name. 1995hoo (talk) 17:00, 15 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Why's it "just plain wrong" then? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:4170:2B30:A8D1:6FBC:7A00:DBC5 (talk) 02:52, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
 * possibly because with the accent would be closer in French to "bar-eh" with "bar" like a place you go to get a drink while doing ballet, rather than "bare". But of course the French have no control over how people actually say it.142.163.195.48 (talk) 00:56, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

It may also be important to note that local residents and those who reside in the suburbs that make up the Northeast Metropolis also probounce the City of Wilkes Barre as 'Wilkes Bear." To mention my credibility to this, I was born in Wilkes Barre General Hospital in 1983 and grew up in Hunlock Creek (That's just outside of "Nannycoke"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:387:3:805:0:0:0:BB (talk) 17:02, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

under religion - no Orthodox Christians?
all those eastern Europeans - probably more Orthodox than Mormons. --142.163.195.48 (talk) 01:16, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

link should point to Metro not to Urban
Population (2020) • City 44,328 • Density 6,473.13/sq mi (2,499.19/km2) • Urban 401,884 (US: 100th) • Metro 562,037

The hyperlink next to Urban (US:takes the user to Metro, not Urban.

Thus link US: 100th points to Metro.

I think the link should be moved to Metro not to Urban where the link is now. Jdalejcik (talk) 01:20, 28 March 2023 (UTC)