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List of tallest buildings in Burlington, Vermont was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 21 September 2010 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Burlington, Vermont. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here. |
I'm not certain that the part about Burlington being Vermonts first incorporated city is correct. I'm finding other sources that give that to Vergennes. -Loudergood — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loudergood (talk • contribs) 05:41, 3 March 2005 (UTC)
I don't know who originally put the distances to other cities in the area, but they were pretty off. -jd4508 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.233.201.68 (talk) 18:14, 12 March 2005 (UTC)
I can't believe the pedestrian mall wasn't mentioned! It's what keeps drawing me back, as a Montrealer (especially for the coffee at Uncommon Grounds). It's called the Church Street Mall, right? Anyway, that's how I entered it. Shawn Feb 2006 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.68.239.169 (talk • contribs)
I am involved in a new project, WikiBurlington, which is a collection of interconnected articles about the people, places, history, events, culture, and folklore of Burlington, Vermont. Does anybody object to this being added to the "External links" section? Also, we're looking to recruit some more contributors. Any Wikipedians interested? --Bradley Holt 17:43, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Wired 11.12 (Dec '03) says that the city is rolling out its own fibre cable network. How is that going? How many houses are connected and who is funding it? 218.101.96.169 05:54, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
New change suggests census data of 2000 took into account couples living in civil union. The law was passed in 2000, are we sure that data is included? I'm looking for it on the Census website, and it's not readily apparent. Just want to be sure data is accurately represented. Thoughts?--Jonashart 23:56, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I'm not getting a response on this. I'm going to research and change it if that's what is needed. If, in fact, the 2000 census actually took into account civil union, I'll leave it.--Jonashart 14:07, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Removed the civil union reference. As far as I can tell, there is no data suggesting civil union was included in the 2000 census data. If there is, let me know.--Jonashart 14:46, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Today, 75.69.65.217 has three times added a link to [1] and I have twice removed the link as violations of WP:EL.
For the record, I'll note that this user just contacted me by phone at my home, objecting to my actions and stating that:
I once again pointed the user to WP:EL, reminded the user of the statement on my user page where I remind folks that "Just because I didn't remove their linkspam doesn't mean that your linkspam gets to stay", and encouraged them to contact other administrators if they felt they had been treated unfairly. The user also once again claimed my actions were "vandalism" and I once again reminded them that content disputes are not vandalism and that we both should be cautious of violating WP:3RR. The user replied that WP:3RR did not apply to my "vandalism".
At this point, I suggested that the appropriate place to discuss Wikipedia issues was here, in public, on Wikipedia and not on my home telephone. I've add these same notes to the user's talk page.
Atlant 23:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I like the new section. However, I think it can be argued that the UVM hockey team is a bit more 'notable' than the baseball team.--Jonashart 15:05, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Added a note about the new disc golf course going in at Leddy, along w/ a link to btown disc, wondering why it was removed already, seems that sports is a good place for it to go 71.169.190.194 (talk) 16:44, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
sorry, involuntary restart logged me off, I added disc golf info Mcfinn76 (talk) 16:46, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Can't find "Milkmans's Union" is popular outside of Burlington. It really needs to be known in a larger venue to be listed here. While someone is apparently trying to create a stub, the contents of that stub, if it is ever created, needs to recognize importance of their music in the greater world. Student7 04:09, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Legal services are not unique to Burlington or Vermont any more than garbage collection or traffic police. Very useful and very nice to have but nearly all the people who need to know about them already know about them already. These are not the same people that use Wikipedia. Entries are supposed to be encyclopedic. Giving people "information" in the sense of legal services is appropriate for a web page but not and encyclopedia. Student7 21:30, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
I've never edited an entry on wikipedia, so I'm not sure of the correct procedure to do so. But I noticed that the racial makeup of the city is missing in the demographics. Here's the URL of a site containing the information if someone wants to add it. Thanks. http://www.citytowninfo.com/places/vermont/burlington —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.94.250.11 (talk) 23:07, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
I copied the example in the link you gave me. Thanks for the link btw. I hope I did it right because I'm not sure what to do about the footnote and I don't understand what "left caret ref right caret" means. Sorry if I appear confused, lol. Just new to all of it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.94.250.88 (talk) 07:05, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
One of the problems about listing IBM is that it is in Essex Jct, not Burlington proper. Once you start expanding to cover the official "micro/metro" area, the sky is the limit - clear to St. Albans and all of Chittenden County! I agree that IBM has a profound impact on Burlington economy. It just isn't located there. Fletcher Allen should definitely be mentioned (as was done). Yeah, I kind of wonder about mentioning retail stores per se. Big thing in a small place (like Littleton or Berlin maybe), but seems somewhat out of place in Burlington somehow.
Maybe article could be changed to two sections, one of which stops at the city limits, the other goes the whole way to the mctro area. A lot of places must have had this problem BTW. San Diego, a monster city, stops at the city limits. El Cajon has it's own article as do the surrounding towns. Greater area is neglected. Nothing lost IMO.Student7 (talk) 21:58, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Normally this might not be mentioned, but it seemed so much at variance with the impression one gets from the media. The media's problem is, of course, how to get people to buy/watch with the Cold War over. So they hype everything much to the pleasure of those participating, which is apparently less than half the population. The other half couldn't care less. The comment probably applies to the metro area but the article not that clear. Student7 (talk) 01:36, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
Knowing that nothing is wrong with having wording in the demographics other than the boilerplate, I've reverted to the boilerplate for one simple reason: previous editions of the boilerplate had confused a previous editor, causing him or her to misunderstand the significance of the original numbers. Consequently, the demographics section as we had it was simply wrong. Combine this with the fact that referencing was poor — much was sourced to the really poor bestplaces.net and citydata.com: there's no reason to prefer them over the actual Census Bureau data. I'm not going to try to make a case against properly sourced and worded demographic data (no complaints about the Burlington Free Press bit), but poor or no sourcing and misunderstandings of the original are reason to go back to a boilerplate format that isn't required. Nyttend (talk) 05:07, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Opposed currently. It seems a little soon to fork. The beauty of havin them here is that few people get in without at leaat mediocre screening if few footnotes. We always assume that the WP:BURDEN is on the reviewing editor to look at the bio to ensure that the person is correctly matched with the city even thought the bio itself is not very well WP:FOOTnoted either. The burden is really on the contributing editor to footnote that the person really lived in Burlington for a time. Assumption of notability from article. After this is done here and we get another dozen or so people, maybe they can be forked.
Did not understand why "disambiguation" was mentioned. What does that have to do with forking? Student7 (talk) 00:46, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
In the Government section, I think we should include the fact that Burlington uses Instant-Runoff Voting for the office of Mayor. I was going to include this fact on the Instant-Runoff Voting page, but it seems important to get it here first. Is there a reason it is not here already? City of Burlington - BurlingtonVotes FAQ Rdryfoos (talk) 03:05, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Eventually we need to mention water supply tersely. Apparently Well 21A is getting polluted from coal tar dumping in the Pine Street Barge Canal. Not looking for a lot of soapboxing here. Just very bare facts will be fine. External references (footnotes) tolerable but not in excess there either. Lot of cleanup talk going on, which will continue for another $1 million I suppose. Student7 (talk) 18:32, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
The Vermont Teddy Bear Company is no publicly traded as stated in the article. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Teddy_Bear_Company and http://www.crmz.com/Report/ReportPreview.asp?BusinessId=2753 24.5.80.230 (talk) 02:27, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
What is missing from the city timeline? Please add relevant content. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 11:10, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
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I noticed that where it shows Burlington on the map it's showing the wrong town. Can someone fix this?2601:19B:C700:3E3C:7872:D3EA:6A13:3FE1 (talk) 05:32, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
Not sure about this, sometimes the weather.com (Weather Channel) record differs from other official sources. If so, the weather box should be updated, possibly with a unique citation since it might not fall under the general sources there. B137 (talk) 05:40, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
95 May 27 https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/from-snowflakes-to-scorching-heat-may-has-been-a-weather-roller-coaster-across-the-northeast/747763 B137 (talk) 14:36, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
The Burlington Square buildings mentioned in the list of tallest buildings seem to have been cancelled, according to https://www.emporis.com/complex/104871/burlington-square-burlington-vt-usa - additionally, the reference given for them is actually for another one on the list, Decker Towers. Does someone know something about this I don't or am I good to remove Burlington Square from the list? Goshawksonlyfly (talk) 20:51, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
Most of the sentences used in the article does not emphasise that 100% renewable is true for ELECTRIC energy, but not others, like heating the houses with gas etc. which is absolutely misleading. Anon10001 (talk) 16:26, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
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