Talk:Decatur, Illinois

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Correction: Paul Osborne is currently mayor of Decatur Illinois

Contents 1 Ghost Story 2 People from Decatur 3 Decatur Municipal Band 4 Decatur unchanged

[edit] Ghost Story

Interesting, but I'm not sure it is encyclopedic or cited. (Reverted) --Dual Freq 23:39, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Citing Ruhe1986 04:14, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Revert, Again. Non-encyclopedic Ghost stories for an article about the city of Decatur. AND it was a direct copy and paste from a copyrighted website. Please do not copy and paste copyrighted materials. See Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, Wikipedia:Copyrights. Stick to the topic, Decatur, IL. See the Chicago, Illinois article for a sample city article. --Dual Freq 10:58, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Well then I suggest you remove the "Strange Animal Sightings" section cause that sure as hell has NOTHING to do with the topic at hand. Just to let you know. Ruhe1986 03:52, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Probably right, but at least it wasn't copied directly form a copyrighted website. --Dual Freq 11:11, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

At least I cited where it came from, but at any rate you are right and Thank you for informing me. Ruhe1986 08:20, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] People from Decatur

The section on individuals from Decatur is beginning to get a bit ridiculous, especially since the rest of the article is rather underdeveloped. Furthermore, many of the names being added are not notable, the list is too long. I'm removing all the names without wikipedia biographical articles about them. This is beginning to look like a 'city vanity' section; I'm from Decatur and still don't find this relevant or encylclopedic. --The Way 03:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

I have added a link to the category People from Decatur in order to allow for additions without cluttering the basic article.BuffaloBob 04:51, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Decatur Municipal Band

it's kind of an interesting fact that the decatur municipal band is the oldest non-military band in the country. it would be nice if someone could put that in in an appropriate place with an appropriate citation —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soyseñorsnibbles (talk • contribs) 01:43, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Decatur unchanged

Decatur keeps its current form of government.[1] I suggest we remove the unreferenced, 3 paragraph section about a proposition that is not notable in the history of Decatur. It appears to be a pre-election campaign spam section anyway. Less than half of the voters even bothered to vote for or against the measure, which was defeated 58% / 42%. Are we planning to have a section for each ballot proposition that has been voted on in the past or future? How do we establish notability for the other measures? How does this section establish its notability? --Dual Freq (talk) 04:09, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Since there are no objections, I assume it is safe to remove the section in question. --Dual Freq (talk) 01:48, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes - sorry about the silent delete earlier, I assumed everyone in decatur realized this section was spam. --[[User:matthew62522] (User talk:matthew62522) 016:48, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

• I agree, that blurb REALLY smacked of quasi-partisan ramblings from both sides, it was not appropriate for the Wiki for sure with the way it was semi-persuasively worded. --Frenkmelk talk 22:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC)