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A Meme Culture. - AC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.86.40.220 (talk) 23:30, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I am the primary author of this article, and on July 30th, 2006, I am going to be conducting a historical walking tour of the Weequahic section. We are going to be seeing the sights of Elizabeth and Chancellor Avenues. Consider coming.
I certainly will, if it's ever July 30th, 2006 again. Somehow, this seems typical of the whole article. Profhum (talk) 22:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
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Recently I and others have been expanding the list of Newark neighborhoods that have articles written about them. So far University Heights Downtown Newark the Ironbound, Forest Park, Weequahic, and Vailsburg have stubs. Of those articles, only the Ironbound has a single photo.
I feel that the Newark neighborhood articles could be greatly improved by a photograph or two for each. If you spend time in Newark and you have a digital camera, you could help the Brick City out a lot in this way. Personally, I think that the main Newark article is saturated with pictures already. In some places text is obscured.
I have been guilty of inconsistency in a big way, but perhaps for future Newark neighborhood articles, we could use the format, "Neighborhood Name, Newark" rather than "Neighborhood Name, Newark, New Jersey."
The official name of what was the Italian neighborhood of Newark is "Seventh Avenue," but "the First Ward" (I am setting up a redirect at First Ward Newark)and the "North Ward" seem to be more widely used. I am using "the First Ward" to refer to the neighborhood in the historic sense, and "Seventh Avenue" in the modern sense. To refer to the 1950s neighborhood as "Seventh Avenue" would be like calling "the Five Points" "Chinatown."
The racial makeup of the city is 26.52% White, 53.46% African American, 0.37% Native American, 1.19% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 14.05% from other races, and 4.36% from two or more races. 29.47% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. in which category the Portuguese and the Brazilians are into? Nice to see they live in the same street. Portuguese and Brazilians are not hispanic, they are Lusitanian. In fact, the term hispanic is offensive, cause it relates to a Spanish speaker. --Pedro 16:42, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I hope you realise all that terminology comes not from anyone here but from the U.S. Census Bureau. That's the data they have and you can't really change it around because there isn't other data. At best you might simply change a label but that is not very useful. D. G. 00:40, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
You can write more about Newark's recovery if you wish. I did mention NJPAC and the Bears' Stadium, I suppose what is missing are mentions to townhomes being built outside downtown. User:Dinopup JSB
I understand Lusitanian being referred to Portuguese and Brazilian people on the basis of language and how they are not Hispanic. I agree. However, Brazilians are Latino, geographically and culturally, whereas Portuguese people are not. (GL) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Globato (talk • contribs) 00:26, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
'Newark Airport' is now 'Liberty International Airport' but perhaps it shouldn't be changed till we see if the name becomes popular. Newark may once have been a chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing center, but it isn't now. The only part of Seton Hall University in Newark is its Law School, and it doesn't even have it's own parking lot, so calling it a campus is a bit elevated. The Newark riots of the 1960s which devastated the city and the city's gradual (and incomplete) recovery need mentioning. Someone else
Newark Liberty International Airport, actually. D. G. 20:53, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I deleted this paragraph from the article. If you think it's not POV, then please put it back, but it seems rather non-neutral to me:
Because the city changed so rapidly between the late 1960's and the early 1980's, and even residents of Newark's suburbs avoid going to the city very often anymore, Newark has gained the reputation as being something of a national joke in terms of what not to make a city become. It is widely considered throughout the United States to be the most ghetto and undesirable city in the nation. The riots, racial tension, school strikes, and poverty are the least of what has contributed to this national image. The city is also known for having over 200 active gangs, being a popular spot for suburanites from New Jersey to purchase drugs (including most famously singer Whitney Houston), and for having more car thefts each year than New York City and Las Angeles combined, despite having a fraction of either of their land area or population. Thanks mostly to crime in Newark, Essex county--in spite of the fact that it is one of the wealthiest counties in the nation--has more violent crimes per capita and per area than any other county in the nation. Newark is also one of the most polluted cities and areas in the nation, due to its large number of factories. It has also historically been a mafioso hotbed, and is the birthplace of fictional mafia don, Tony Soprano. In general, people joke that the only reason to be in Newark is its beautiful airport and other than that the city has nothing to offer and, to be safe, it is best to avoid the city at all costs. To combat all this bad publicity and the negative international stereotypes and fears of Newark, efforts have been made by several New Jersey governors recently to bring tourism and money into the poverty-stricken city. Little has succeeded, and Newark is probably considered more of a joke by the average American now than ever before.
RickK 05:28, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I don't see how this is anything but neutral. It states accurate facts. I've lived my entire life in suburban Newark. I'd love nothing better than to see Newark become a prosperous city, like how NYC is. But, I know that the things I've written about Newark are things that honestly do happen, unfortunately. The drug dealers from my high school all came from Newark. When people's drug supply runs out, they often trek into Newark to pick more up. It's true that Whitney Houston gets her drugs from Newark. It's true that it's home to mafia dons. It's true that people throughout the nation stereotype it and consider it a shithole. Whenever anyone needs a general example of some place not to want to live/travel to, they mention Newark. Not just people in my area, but people from all over the country, if not the world. It's also true that Newark is the car theft capital of the nation and has more gangs and violent crimes, per capita and per area, than any other city in the country (I learned all this while in Newark, at our county's courthouse, of all places; so don't try to tell me this information is not accurate). It's true that my county is one of the wealthiest counties in the nation, and my state is the wealthiest state in the nation, but it's also true that Newark is one of the poorest and most urban cities in the country. You should be given an idea about Essex County from this article--it's a very diverse place. We have extreme wealth and many celebrity mansions, and we also have extreme, extreme ghettos and poverty. Unless you live here, you can't understand. The fact that you've removed my entire paragraph shows that you're not well-informed about my city. --Anon (66.9.199.120)
It's true that these perceptions are accurate. I'll move the paragraph back into the article, although I do think it could use some work. Surveys, polls, comments made by relevant figure do much more than relying on common knowledge. It'd be very good if we could properly attribute these thoughts about Newark. --cprompt 05:06, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)
This is an detailed description of Newark. I grew up in one of the neighboring towns, Belleville. What I found odd about the description of Newark was that it totally ignored the Portuguese-American community in the Ironbound, what some old timers also call "Down Neck". If the author is going to discuss the positive attributes of the city, then Ferry Street can't be ignored, as it is the only section of town that is open after dark. I think too often, these discussions of diversity (AKA race) get too focused on Black versus white, and ignore ethnicities like the Portuguese. Notice how the demographics of this page don't even mention the Portuguese or Brazilians. -- anonymous
I'm attending a university in Newark, so if anyone would like me to take a photos of anything in my area (around Rutgers, NJIT, etc.), leave me a note on my talk page and I'll see what I can do. --cprompt 22:57, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)
The other photo I think we need is something of an abandoned factory, even though it's depressing. This could illustrate deindustrialization better than anything verbal. I think there is an abandoned Westinghouse factory somewhere on the south side of 280 that we could use. Maybe a photo with the Westinghouse sign itself? User:Dinopup JSB
You should get on the top floor of the Rutgers or the NJIT or the UMDNJ parking decks and take some pics. if you go to NJIT tell Sargent Daily, George The Greek says hi :) -- Project2501a 11:10, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Yeah, could you get a better skyline picture? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.197.186.207 (talk) 01:10, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Newark may be the third oldest British city (maybe) but what about Saint Augustine and Santa Fe, etc. ? Rmhermen 23:19, Feb 28, 2004 (UTC)
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Why the citations? This isn't an essay, it's an encyclopedia article. Darkcore 22:30, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I have a few comments about the recent addition of citations. First, the article is citing books/articles that are not listed in the references section (e.g., Crabgrass Frontier), so this needs to be addressed. Second, the bracketing style of referencing makes the article look choppy and is somewhat confusing, since it is inconsistent (sometimes the bracket notes the name of the book or the author of the book or both, and it also uses "Ibid" which is never used with the bracketing style). I think it would be better to use an endnote style, which would not detract from the flow of the text and would allow for references to still be included. Darkcore 22:02, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The map, Location of Newark in New Jersey, Media:Njmapnewark.jpg doesn't have enough detail. It just shows the shape of the state and the county boundaries. Thus, it won't help readers who aren't familiar with the geography of the area.
I would prefer to see two maps, one showing the location of New Jersey in relation to the other eastern states, the other on a larger scale showing where Newark lies in relation to the area's main waterways, New York City, and adjacent parts of NJ and NY.
Kudos to you for creating a featured article! --BlairRMartin 17:59, 2004 Dec 19 (UTC)
Have you heard anything about this guys?
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~natalieb/newark.htm (scroll down to "Kea Tawana")
and http://www.publicartreview.org/article.php?id=1265 but they don't have the article on-line...
has anybody heard anything about that.
While we're on the subject of Newark-born artists, shouldn't there be an article titled as such? or a whole section in the main article, devoted to intelectuallity in Newark? Shouldn't there be a cultural section that mentions Amiri Baraka, for example? Ok, i'll add some.
Project2501a 09:33, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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The article is getting way too cluttered. I removed this box because the information was repeated elsewhere.
I feel that the subtraction of Newark's history has severely hurt the quality of the article. Even though this is still an FA, now this article is scarcely better than most other wikipedia city articles. The article was ratified as an FA with the full history section intact, so I see no need to take it out.Dinopup 2 July 2005 19:53 (UTC)
The solution appears to be to continue improving and expanding this excellent article (both current and historical data) until the nonhistory part stands on its own enough that no one feels moving it makes the article as a whole look bare. Just keep improving and eventually budding off more pieces will be acceptable to everyone. 4.250.138.52 07:27, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
I added a bit to the "today" paragraph to indicate (as had once been said before but deleted) that Newark is still under the stigma of being a national joke (surely I don't need to provide citations for this.) This comment was summarily removed and replaced by a bunch of links to glowingly positive websites that detail newark's "comeback." I compromised and kept those links but still tacked on a sentance that indicates most people still think of newark as a really, really bad place (a judgment I do NOT share.) I think it's dishonest to pretend that Newark is not still the butt of a huge national joke but I am willing to be less harsh in stating that fact. -unsigned
President Bush and 100 other things are joked about more. EVERY worthwhile thing on earth is the butt of jokes. That doesn't make it encyclopedic. Are you going to add jokes to Poland? or Negro? or New Jersey? WAS 4.250 05:22, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
Our Bill Sienkiewicz article says he attended the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, but that's not mentioned here (and I can't find very much about it in google). Is it known under another name? -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:15, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
The Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts is an arts school seperate from the Board of Education serving all ages. It is completely different from Arts High school which is a magnet school(drawing students from throughout the district based on auditions) in the newark public school system concentrating on arts education for high school students.
I've been trying, over the past few days, to address some of the concerns regarding this article in hopes of bringing it back to FA status. I haven't made any alterations to the history section (yet) but I've added new sections (which still need to be expanded) to balance out the article a little more. Comments/suggestions are welcome. Darkcore 11:08, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
There seem to be no citations for the poverty statistics on the page.Jersey Devil 13:44, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
What is the poverty level between the ages of 18 and 65? 63.3.2.130 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:37, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
I changed the sports section to a table, so it looked nicer and figured since there wasn't much to write so far, it was better that way. If there's things you want to change with the table or if you'd rather have text let me know. Or if you just want to make the table prettier or something, go for it cause I'm not too good with that. - 71.1.169.102
There have been a few television shows and films that have filmed in Newark. Most notable in recent years are The Sopranos and War of the Worlds. In the Sopranos, many elements of the opening scene include parts of Newark scenery. When Janice, Tony's sister, is leaving from a train station and he is saying goodbye, they are in front of Newark Penn Station. St. Stephen's Church, a prominent building in The Ironbound, was destroyed in the beginning of War of the Worlds (as was many shops on Ferry St.) This is all I can recall at the moment, but I do know from anecdotal evidence that there has been a long history of films and television shows related to Newark. Wouldn't this warrant adding a section about it? It was mentioned in the section about The Ironbound, but it is an important part of Newark's history and culture nonetheless. --Ihmhi 10:41, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
"named by Ron Muhammad who has been a street vendor for 35 years and has a clothing line of the same name" Could you post a source for this.
isn't Corey Booker the mayor now? THIS ARTICLE IS OUTDATED!!!
I don't understand why Newark, NJ isn't moved to the Newark page. Although Newark in England is pretty well known and obviously much older, it is nearly ten times smaller. The next largest Newark in population (Ohio) is almost 1/6 the size in population (227,267 less). Newark, NJ is also pretty well known nationally because of its location and its history and internationally largely due to its airport. And since people probably don't search "Newark" for the airport, I thought this suggestion merrited some thought. I don't know if there are specific criteria, but if nothing else perhaps it should be listed higher up on the disambiguation since it is the largest city in New Jersey and the largest city called Newark.
I gather that it was demolished - anyone know when? Sylvain1972 17:25, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
The article states that Newark is older than all major American cities except New York and Boston. This is not true, as Philadelphia was settled no later than in 1623.
The above writer is mistaken in that William Penn did not arrive in America(aboard the ship Welcome) until November 1682, founding Philadelphia in that same year. Newark, having been founded in in 1666, was already a bustling township with a hotel and many prominent families.
Newark Airport opened in 1928. Why is it mentioned as a postwar development? The Port Authority took it over in 1948--after the war, of course--but they didn't "turn swampland south of the city into Newark Liberty International Airport" at that time. The PA grew the existing airport over the years (mainly post-1972) and saddled it with that mouthful of a name in 2002, and that could be made clearer. Mjj237 14:18, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
With Hispanic and Asian migration since the last census the city is now barely half black so the demographic part of this article is very outdated.John celona 14:44, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
The article Newark, New Jersey has a big transportation section already, but something was missing. What was missing was the part about the bus transportation. So therefore, I added bus transportation to the Transportation section. NHRHS2010 talk 01:13, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
This input is from my life in Newark from 1952 until 1965 as a resident and through 1983 as a regular visitor. My parents moved to Newark in 1952 from Colorado, and I attended Saint Columbus Catholic Elementary School and then Bergen Street School, then Clinto Place Junior High, Weequahic High, and then the Rutgers University Newark Campus. I worked at Mutual Benefit Life while going to college, and I also delivered the Newark Evening News, with two routes, one near the Irvington line by Valley Fair, and one downtown along Clinton Avenue up to where it intersects Broad Street, as well as sold it on a corner stand on Lyons and Fabyan. I also worked at Brach's Candy downtown, and at Amato's Pizzeria on Lyons Avenue, went to Saint Peter's Church on Lyons Avenue. I was inducted into the military at the recruiting station on Broad Street, across from Military Park. I had friends in Vailsburg, Irvington, Down Neck, and all those places. I wanted to add to the part of the article that said residents in recent years started refering to their neighborhoods by name more than they did by ward. I can tell you that my wide circle of friends and co-workers and students rarely refered to wards except Central Ward. We always used the names of the neighborhoods. I can also add that I personally experienced the migration of white families away from city center as the neighborhoods' demographics shifted to black residents. We moved four times in those thirteen years, and each time, it was to escape the crime. We would hold out until something happened to our family that made my father say "that's the last straw, we're moving". It was not easy. I spent 21 years in the military and I can truthfully say I saw more action in Newark than my time in the military, having been robbed at knife and gunpoint, and being shot at (and hit) and seeing stabbings, rapes, vandalism against my family, friends and my home. I have wonderful memories too, of the Newark Museum and the Public Library downtown and even the one on Bergen Street, and Down Neck (my favorite neighborhood) and classes at the old Balentine Brewery building where the old spirits rose whenever it rained. Newark is a city of uncountable facades and aspects, rich in history and so many interesting lives. I will never go back, but it is heartening to read that Newark is rising from the ashes. Yuzyk55 (talk) 13:27, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Once again, a user proposes a merge without actually setting up the discussion which the tag will link to, so another user has to do it. There is nothing in the above article so I assume a redirect is due. SGGH speak! 10:52, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
The population of New Jersey is around 8.5 million. But it says the population of Newark is 18 million. Is that a typo? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.89.228.21 (talk) 20:17, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. I believe the article currently has multiple issues that need to be addressed, and as a result, I have delisted the article. Multiple sections within the article needs additional references, and there are "citation needed" tags throughout the article that have been there for months. Add additional citations from a variety of sources to provide a balanced representation of the information present. Perhaps sources can be pulled from the main articles linked to within the article. Look to books, magazines, newspaper articles, other websites, etc. The lead would benefit from expansion, make sure to touch on all of the topics in the article. The external links should be trimmed, see if some can be used for sourcing material in the article. In addition, the article has multiple dead links; the Internet Archive can help in fixing them. Although the article has been delisted, the article can be return to GA status by addressing the above points. Once sources are added and cleanup is done, I recommend renominating the article at WP:GAN. If you disagree with this assessment, a community consensus can be reached at WP:GAR. If you need clarification or assistance with any of these issues, please contact me on my talk page and I'll do my best to help you out. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 17:59, 7 July 2009 (UTC) Thank you for making this please do not remove ty —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.99.112.246 (talk) 23:04, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Newark, New Jersey's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
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Much as I dislike siding with an anonymous repetitious reverter, seems to me Newark falls upon, at best, the fuzzy edge of this climatological classification as defined. Jim.henderson (talk) 06:24, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
No pun intended, but on my browser (mozilla firefox 3.6.10 for windows vista), the Newark Museum image is corrupted, and has horizontal black stripes running through it. this is only for the thumbnail image in the article itself. the larger versions are all fine.(mercurywoodrose)76.234.123.137 (talk) 01:28, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
There is NO WAY that Newark's metropolitan population is over 18 million, while the city itself only has over 200,000. The metro population number is unsourced on this page also. Can someone look into this. I mean, New York City's metro population is over 19 million, while the city itself has 8 million.--88.103.234.199 (talk) 17:01, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
The synoptic reports, which contain a maximum temperature group, are in fact derived from the METARS. Although they report an apparent resolution of 0.1°C, they are just converted from the nearest whole Fahrenheit. Weatherman22 (talk) 15:41, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Please provide more detailed historical background for the City of Newark, which includes the Lenape population residing there prior to the Puritans settling in the area. This can be retrieved from any books published on Newark -- particularly the popular book authored by Cunningham. Thanks so much. SanDonna (talk) 22:56, 8 January 2012 (UTC) SanDonna Jones, 1/9/12
This sentence sounds fishy to me:
1967 riots resulted in a significant population loss of both White and Latino middle classes which continued from the 1970s through to the 1990s
Whites, sure. But there was a significant population loss of middle class Latinos after the riots and through the 90s? I don't believe that. The Hispanic population in 1967 was much much lower than it is today, and surely more of them are middle class. Can anybody explain this or should the word "Latino" be stricken from that sentence? Passdoubt | Talk 20:34, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
I try hard not to get into edit wars, but I was wondering what is the rationale for putting back in the 2000 Census Data in this article when we now have 2010 Census Data. I removed it a few days ago, and someone decided to put it back in. One of the things that makes a good article, I think, is editing it down to make it more readable, and relevant. I know there are certain editors on Wikipedia who have the "more is better" theory, and think that taking anything out shouldn't be done.
Personally, I think this section should be removed. But I don't know what others think Asc85 (talk) 21:29, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
I actually did engage in at least a "trivial" amount of effort to find a new citation to replace the dead link regarding the claim of 90+% of Newarkers electing Obama, to no avail. Also, to exist as a subsection it will certainly need more expansion than one claim and one (unreferenced) sentence.--Chimino (talk) 09:52, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
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Hi There, I've removed two paragraphs from the municipal council section as they were direct copies from http://www.ci.newark.nj.us/government/the_municipal_council/. Admittedly they were correctly referenced to this source but it went beyond Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing and it neither marking it as a quote nor tagging for close paraphrasing looked appropriate. - Peripitus (Talk) 12:44, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
There's a point where political correctness interferes with what is actually the truth. I made a change tonight to one section in the introduction that made cringe, and that was the part where it was stated that Newark is a "culturally diverse" city. As a Jersey native, and a college student who has to travel to Newark twice a week for my teacher education fieldwork, I can assure you that Newark is anything but diverse. As the change I made states, 86.2% of the city's population is either African-American or Hispanic/Latino.[1] That being said, it doesn't make much sense to call the city "diverse" when (if you were to pick somebody from the city at random) eight and a half times out of ten someone would fall into one of two groups of people. I'm sure a lot of New Jersey people such as myself have contributed to this article's architecture to make it more factually accurate. If, by the time the next census is conducted and the results are accessible, these numbers even out a bit more, then by all means, please re-edit my adjustment. For the time being, please leave it as it is- accurate and factual as opposed to sugarcoated and PC.
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Hi. I'm going through all the US Cities (as per List of United States cities by population) in an effort to provide some uniformity in structure. Anyone have an issue with me restructuring this article as per Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline. I won't be changing any content, merely the order. Occasionally, I will also move a picture just to clean up spacing issues. I've already gone through the top 20 or so on the above list, if you'd like to see how they turned out. Thoughts? Onel5969 (talk) 19:52, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
I noticed the article includes only a panoramic picture under cityscape. Most of the good city articles include information about a city's architecture and a characterization of the built environment. Could we include some info on the prominent Bayonne Box style house and other structural styles, in addition to pictures? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.126.255.72 (talk) 01:37, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
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"A Walk Thtough Newark". WNET. Retrieved 2015-09-11. Originally named Milford after the town in Connecticut from which many settlers had migrated, the village was renamed Newark when a formal government was first established.
Various theories as to origin of name, an issued discussed in more detail at History of Newark, New Jersey. This article should either discuss those possibilities or preferably leave out altogether since it might be better discussed in History of article.
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To those interested in the Newark, New Jersey article, it would seem like a good time to get it featured on the Wikipedia mainpage again. By again, meaning it was once before, way back in 2004. It has been marked as a "good article" since April, 2013, and from what I see has only become better since then. I read it and did a few edits last week and was impressed at the level of detail, information & citing it has. But, the main reason to try get it featured is that this month, May, 2016, is the 350th anniversary of when old Robert Treat (and a bunch of my other G-Grands) cruised down from CT and founded the city in 1666[ 1 ]. Seems like it would be a perfect time to nominate and try feature it. I'm not fully sure of the procedure, and am not even sure that a lowly-IP#-editor like myself can even do it. Any takers from those who have far more ownership of the article than I do? Regards. — 72.234.220.38 (talk) 03:48, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
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The pronunciations given are just wrong. No one says /ˈnjuːərk/ or /njʊərk/. The IPA /j/ (English 'y') sound is never used, except maybe by some pretentious hyper-correct people. And almost no one includes the schwa sound, IPA /ə/, after the 'oo' sound. I've lived in northern New Jersey or New York City for nearly 58 years. Virtually everyone says 'NOORK' ('oo' as in 'hoot'). CasparRH (talk) 03:10, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
1.Sam Jones 2. Mark Paye 41.191.104.241 (talk) 11:19, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
There is no preferred standard to include state name in infobox even when disambiguation might be necessary (Richmond, Virginia, Richmond, California, Portland, Maine, Portland, Oregon Lexington, Kentucky, Columbus, Ohio, Springfield, Massachusetts) for many cities. The state name is not part of the official name, City of Newark, not City of Newark, New Jersey. Wikipedia:Consensus#Through editing (see 1 & 2 & 3) has determined not to include state name. Any changes would require a change in that consensus. Djflem (talk) 07:25, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
Infobox name parameter matching article title: Per this edit. match article title in the infobox parameter name "Newark, New Jersey", just as in the article for New York City, where that is the title; the standard of "city name, state name" matches the article titles for 99.9% of city articles, and using the exceptions as the basis for the rule seems illogical, at best. This standard consensus, to have the infobox name match the article title, is followed by tens of thousands of articles nationwide. If you want to change that consensus, please discuss it at WP:USCITY or Template:Infobox settlement and see if others agree with you. I commit to abide by that consensus, once it's reached. Please let me know when the discussion is started, but until then we should follow the guidelines we have that say use "city name, state name" in the infobox to match the article title. Alansohn (talk) 14:31, 14 September 2023 (UTC) Djflem (talk) 14:45, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
If you look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline, the example is for New York City, an article that is one of the 0.01% of cities that does not use state as a disambiguator. Yet, despite that, the sample still uses "City name, State name" as the title of the article. I'm not sure that this could be any clearer about what to put in the name parameter of Infobox settlement. There is a global consensus at WP:USCITY that takes precedence. I fail to see why you would wage a battle in one article, when this is an issue that impacts tens of thousands of articles. Alansohn (talk) 23:23, 14 September 2023 (UTC) 01:47, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
I made this edit for the purpose of removing excess detail from the lead. Alansohn reverted that edit. I maintain that details about the fluctuating population of the city do not belong in the lead; this information is covered in the demographics section. MonMothma (talk) 03:49, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
MonMothma - This is one of my pet peeves on Wikipedia: excess detail in the lead. I 100% agree with you on this, and I try to cut down article leads whenever I am able to. If people want to read more about Newark, they can read the passage. Putting too much detail in the lead defeats the purpose of a lead. Asc85 (talk) 00:57, 15 December 2023 (UTC)