Talk:Minneapolis

Links in #Demographics

Magnolia677, you recently reverted my addition of a link to Indian people, citing MOS:OL. I'm okay with leaving the link out as long as that section is consistent. Can you please review it and remove any other links to articles about people that you think are unhelpful to the reader? For example, Germans and Irish and Jews are linked. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 11:41, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

SusanLesch, sorry to bring the FAR here, but there are quite a few inconsistencies in linking in this section. Some peoples are never linked, and some are linked twice. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 11:45, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

This wasn't an overlink. Indians are the only unlinked people remaining in the first four paragraphs. I don't expect that Magnolia will ever clean up this can of worms.

I removed two links that seemed tangential to this section (manifest destiny and migrant workers). -SusanLesch (talk) 15:47, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Edit request

Please add a hatnote to handle the incoming redirects mpls. and mlps.

Please add:

"Mpls." and "Mlps." redirect here. For other topics, see MLPS and mpls (disambiguation).

{{redirect-multi|2|Mpls.|Mlps.|other topics|MLPS|and|mpls (disambiguation)}}

-- 65.92.246.77 (talk) 22:07, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi. For the most part, this is done. I omitted the misspelling of an archaic abbreviation. And I corrected the disambiguation page that appeared over-eager to introduce it. -SusanLesch (talk) 15:23, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Minneapolis Audio Request

trying to add my audio. Flame, not lame 💔 (Don't talk to me.) 03:08, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the file, but this article already has audio for the city's name. :MplsAmEng.ogg is in the footnote. -SusanLesch (talk) 14:12, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

WHITE SPACE

There is too much white space above the wide photo. Do what ever is necessary to fix this problem. Move photos, delete photos, ... • Sbmeirow • Talk • 21:40, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Sbmeirow. What's the difference between the black and white photos in History and those in Minneapolis#Transportation? I'm trying to understand the problem you're seeing. (I'm curious what OS, browser, and Preference settings for Appearance you're using, too.) -SusanLesch (talk) 23:29, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Open a new browser screen, don't login, click "WIDE" button on right side". The white space problem appears in Chrome / Edge / Firefox. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 07:51, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, Steve. I can see it in Firefox and Chrome with Small and Wide set, don't have Edge. This will take some fiddling. As you know, this article just went through a years-long featured article review, including image review. Despite all that scrutiny, nobody mentioned this. This article goes to TFA on New Year's Eve, so we have three weeks to correct the problem.

Some alternatives:

1. gang the images in a div and try to eliminate the border spaces with CSS (might work but not ideal just before TFA)
2. reposition the images in the text (let's test this)
3. crop the supercomputer image (if 1 and 2 fail)
4. start deleting images (least desirable)
5. {{multiple image}} (least accessible, used in the infobox and §Sports)

I see a different problem, though. In your configuration, the infobox gets longer, so the concentration camp moves down a whole section, where it makes zero sense. (Similar to the nonsensical positioning I reverted. Sorry about the revert, Sbmeirow.) So the infobox appears to be causing trouble with any images in the first two sections of §History.

How do I get the Appearance pane back when I'm logged out? (I clicked "Hide".) I'm tempted to ask for a graphics expert in the Village Pump. -SusanLesch (talk) 15:40, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Another idea. Looks like every field is optional in {{Infobox settlement}}. Maybe a settlement expert (like yourself?) would help me shorten the infobox? -SusanLesch (talk) 16:04, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

About 10 lines to go. Or is there a way to hide the maps? -SusanLesch (talk) 17:19, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Wut? please stop trying to muck up the infobox to solve this problem, because that's the wrong approach. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 17:27, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

It would be helpful to see the Appearance pane again. How do I restore it? Also, what's wrong with alternatives 1 through 5? -SusanLesch (talk) 17:30, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

I took a first stab at moving some photos around to try to fix the layout problem. We don't have much control over the infobox, yeah it gets in the way, but we just have to deal with it, sometime can remove photos or maps to but that should only be done in the worst cases where there are far too many photos or far too many maps in the infobox. You are welcome to try moving photos around or deleting photos or moving photos to other sections. I'm done here for this afternoon. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 18:10, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

"As you know, this article just went through a years-long featured article review, including image review. Despite all that scrutiny, nobody mentioned this."

Stop it, quit saying this types of thing in comments, serious stop it. It doesn't matter, and it should never be brought up as an excuse to not fix things. It's possible for isseus to exist for long periods of time, because some people either don't know how to fix issues or don't want to spend time to fix them. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 18:10, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

I've applied the appropriate fix to the December 4 version after WP:VPT#Image and maybe infobox help for an upcoming TFA. Some of the changes in the interim look to have been attempting to workaround the issue and some look like legitimate updates, the latter of which I have no opinion on. Izno (talk) 22:32, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

For the archive, Izno found a stray {{clear}} just before the wide image (you can find it in a search for "clear" here). -SusanLesch (talk) 18:03, 10 December 2024 (UTC)