Talk:Nanaimo, British Columbia
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August 25, 2005. Moved the last statement to the end of the second paragraph for coherence and unity.
[edit] History
The history section is filled with mistakes...Robert Dunsmuir's first Mine, and Dunsmuir & Diggle, were both in Wellington, Not Nanaimo. Dunsmuir and Diggle Ltd. Was also formed AFTER the HBC rights to coal expired on the Island. (Dunsmuir was primarily an employee of the HBC until he found coal in Wellington)
Can we delete the history until a more factual version can be provided.
[edit] Frank Ney
I think that there should be at least an entire paragraph about Frank, not just a sentence. Masterhatch 13:37, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
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- What would you like to hear? That he used to go to numerous parties during a single night and wear a different costume at each? Gossip? He had a propensity as a real-estate developer to turn old logging roads into paved streets and name them after story book characters (Pirates Lane/Twiggly Wiggly Cres. etc etc). The term 'colourful' may be a little light in describing this mayor. (but hey, I never met the man).
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- The whole article is a little slim of info. Considering its history is longer than Vancouver and on par with Victoria. But that is plight of a resource town in BC.
I'll see what I can dig up. Wikipedia_V.I. 09:54, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Seven Potatoes
It's the best nickname ever for the city, and should be mentioned in the article, not deleted.
- 404 hits came up on google for this nick name and virtually all of them were blogs of some sort. I would hardly call that a notable nickname. Let's stick with actually "common" and notable nicknames. Masterhatch 04:23, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
- Oh, come on. You don't even live here -- you don't hear what kids say on the schoolgrounds.
- I've lived here for a decade, and I've never heard that one. You'd think anyone in Scarewood would have heard that by now :)
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- I haven't lived there in 12 years, but I know Seven Potatoes.--Westendgirl 08:37, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
I've been in Nanaimo for a few years and did hear it. I'm not sure if this is true(can someone confirm?) but "nanaimo" sounds like "seven potatoes" for japanese. Nevertheless, the name is probably(can someone also confirm this one?) native. --Enigma 04:58, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
That's right, phonetically, "nana imo" translates directly as "seven potatoes", but I had to go on campus to confirm that. Very few people outside of MUC life, so far as I've been able to find, have ever heard of it. And, yes, the name itself is an English rendering of the local tribe name, shown in the article. I must confess, I got caught out on this one :) Lord Dust 06:24, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
I've lived there for seven years and I have only heard this name from Japanese-speaking people. The nickname came about since the Romanji of 七薯 happens to be precisely na-na-i-mo. Also, the "phrase" 七薯 is rather forced since it's lacking a counter (I believe it should be 薯七個---can anyone confirm?) If anything, this nickname is not homogeneously known throughout Nanaimo and its fame is largely limited to people who know the Japanese language. --weixifan 18:46, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
- One of the local Japanese cultural societies is called Seven Potatoes Society.
- I've lived here most of my life without ever hearing that one thrown about. Google identifies about 1300 articles related to the term but a sizable portion seem to be cooking blogs. I agree that it doesn't really belong. On the other hand, cool fact. Alexis 18:35, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
- In Japanese, a more colloquial translation for the phrase "seven potatoes" would be 七つの芋 (nanatsu no imo) or 七個の芋 (nanako no imo). (The two characters in the middle of each of these are a counter and a particle.) But Nanaimo without the extra characters (七芋 or 七薯) still sounds like a valid place name, similar to the Japanese prefecture Shikoku (四国) which means "four provinces". —Traal 06:40, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The current council is also working hard to solve the drug and biker issues often associated with Nanaimo.
Does anyone have anything to back this up? I've seen no evidence that there is actually anything being done. If anything the amount of homeless addicts camping and using downtown has increased in 2005. 70.67.126.31
- Well, I'll say two things. As a night shift taxi driver, I don't have so much faith in my esteemed Council that I'm gonna tell a biker showing me the butt end of a pistol and demanding I wait outside with my lights off where to shove it. On the other hand, I recall from when my father was on the school board that things that are dealt with well are usually also dealt with quietly. Have you noticed the number of condemned houses and Fire Marshall orders in the Hub and Haliburton areas? Have you noticed that there's been a fair bit of residential demolition work over the last two years? New houses mean higher rent, higher rest means fewer flophouses... I think I see a strategy here. I'm just not sure if I like it. But wouldn't say that nothing is being done, exactly, just not what you'd expect. If you can wade through a few Council meetings on TV, maybe you'll find out more.Lord Dust 11:02, 13 December 2005 (UTC
From what I could see, there is no real effort to control the drug problem. The only thing I noticed was less prostitute on the street(quite probably working from hotels or houses) and more police work shifts. --Enigma 05:01, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Well that Hell's Angels Clubhouse was recently busted. It's not huge but it counts for something. I think my friend mentioned there being a video of it on youtube... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.116.130.49 (talk) 16:12, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Other "Nickname" for Nanaimo
I've heard "Surrey by the Sea" used for Nanaimo by Nanaimoites as well as from other people on the island,for the exact reasons stated above.
[edit] Sections
I've added some sections to the article, but it definitly still needs work. Some of the sections are a bit short but I think they can be fleshed out. Some sections that I didn't put in but that I think should be created when we have enough content to fill them are "Media", "Sports teams" and "Notable people". Dv82matt 08:17, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
1255 03:36, 22 May 2006 (UTC) I have added a link for Diana Krall the most famous person ever to come out of Nanaimo. I can't believe it wasn't there previously
- She was listed in the miscellaneous section. I've moved the other people listed there into the Notable natives section as well. Thanks for the heads up. --Dv82matt 00:42, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Demographics section
Under the racial diversity heading, I see these numbers:
- Caucasian: 70.3%
- Aboriginal: 4.0%
- South Asian: 1.8%
- Chinese: 20.5%
- Southeast Asian: 1.5%
Now, looking at Nanaimo's census data, I see that of 71,805 responses, 1,270 indicated Chinese origin. That's less than 2%. Does anyone know where the numbers in the article come from, and how there could be such a massive discrepancy? →smably 18:43, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
- vandalism. simple as that. it is fixed now. Masterhatch 02:16, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
- OK, thanks. Should have checked the edit history. :) →smably 18:09, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Deletion of stats
Putting aside the omission of a ref to StatsCan by the original editor, was not the deletion of the stats a bit of a hasty move? I'm also unsure of what TheMightyQuill is refering to in declaring the stats 'racially twisted'. LordCo Centre 08:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Description
Both in the Economic and Education sections, there is language that seems to be more of an advertisement for the city than a concise description of the subject matter. Thoughts? Dwcarroll 13:20, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Nanaimo Information
Please support me in removing the spam commercial external link nanaimoinformation.com (almost every side page is full of google adwords (while home page is given a clean look) added in by different IPs (four times now with different ips) clearly trying to spam our town's wikipage. I am assuming the site is owned by real estate webmasters (check website footer) a local seo company to make money on the internet. Commercial links made to make money have no business in wiki as an external link. Thank youSpammyLinkMonster 23:37, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] External Links
I want to delete the link to friendsofplannanaimo.org since the website appears to have been down for some time though WHOIS search on 17-Mar-2007 shows Expiration Date:08-Oct-2007.
Also, nanaimo-info.com, though devoid of google adwords that spammylinkmonster mentioned as reson for labeling as spam in Nanaimo Information, and although it appears that some research has been done to compile local numbers and information, it is my opinion that this link be removed as well since its encyclopedic merit is minimal.SteinAlive 08:48, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi, yes I agree with you. Commercial external links are against the policies of Wikipedia as they try to serve their own commercial interests. SpammyLinkMonster 17:55, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Media Outlets
Following msessage placed on User talk:Denelson83:
- Thanks for expanding on my edit by including the call signs for the two tv stations currently broadcasting in Nanaimo. The links you placed are intuituve. However, the text you added is not quite accurate. Yes, both channels are carried locally on cable on the channels you mentioned. BUT, these signals are also BROADCAST on these frequencies. It is my opinion that it is an important distinction a new resident may want to watch local news and not have a cable service subscription. I intend to edit to clarify this fact.
SteinAlive 14:26, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, now I see the error of my logic... ThanksSteinAlive 20:17, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] demographics
why is there no demographics section? there used to be. Masterhatch 04:36, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
