Talk:Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Notable people

I noticed that the section of notable people from Oak Ridge contains persons contains individuals who were "born, educated, resided, or worked in Oak Ridge". The list includes scientists as well as porn actresses. I do think that the most notable people from any town or city should be mentioned in the article about the town or city they spent a considerable time of their lives in, or were born in. But the list should be of reasonable length in the article. Maybe the complete list of individuals from Oak Ridge would be in a good place in a separate list, leaving the most important sons and daughters of the city in the article and referring to the list. doxTxob \ ^talk 06:27, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

@DoxTxob: I noticed on Orlady's talkpage that someone named William has recently combed thru the "notable OR people" list based on criterion, born, etc., excluding those who "only worked there"! I think all rules can be broken in special cases, and Oak Ridge is such a case, an ad hoc created city, swollen during the war to the 2nd or 3rd largest in the state, but notable primarily for the reasons that all those people worked there. Oak Ridge, per se, didn't exist before the war. Afterwards, it became an entirely different animal. Special case. rags (talk) 16:58, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

I agree. It might be even better if those who notably worked there are all included in the body, but it will probably take some time to improve the article to that extent. Jack N. Stock (talk) 17:05, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Metric units

I suggest to add the metric units (degrees Celsius °C) to the temperature table in the Geography and climate section to make sure that readers who are not accustomed to the non-metric system have a chance to compare the values to a system that is used in any non-English speaking country. Wikipedia is international and should be easy to use by everyone. doxTxob \ ^talk 06:56, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Revelation of purpose

It is stated that "news of the use of the first atomic bomb against Japan on August 6, 1945, revealed to the people at Oak Ridge what they had been working on." But that cannot be the case. The explosion of a nuclear bomb does not "reveal" to the workers of the Clinton Engineering Works that they had been working on an element of that project. Only an official announcement or leak would do that.203.184.41.226 (talk) 03:57, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

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—188.33.253.242 (talk) 05:31, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

I've adjusted the coordinates a bit to match those in the GNIS entry. Deor (talk) 12:40, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Scarboro historical marker image.

Magnolia677 - can you please explain this edit? The edit summary only explains "decorative image of a sign". Bneu2013 (talk) 15:23, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

@Bneu2013: I removed this image of a sign. "Images must be significant and relevant in the topic's context, not primarily decorative", per MOS:IMAGERELEVANCE. If the article was about historic plaques then the image would be relevant, but it's about a city in Tennessee. It would be a good picture of Scarboro if the plaque could somehow be cropped out. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:50, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Magnolia677 - I disagree. The content of the sign is what is important here, not the sign itself. A shot of the surrounding landscape would be essentially useless, since it wouldn't show anything significant, such as a historic structure. Photos of historical markers are commonly used on articles such as this in history sections. I don't know of any discussion anywhere that reached a consensus that images such as this are not allowed. Bneu2013 (talk) 23:25, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

@Bneu2013: You write, "The content of the sign is what is important here". Absolutely, and that content should be included in the article as text, per MOS:TEXTASIMAGES. I too see photos of historic plaques added to articles and it is unfortunate because the only way a photo can be significant and relevant to the topic is by depicting the topic, not by depicting a historical market that has been placed at the topic. The opposite may be true at Mississippi Blues Trail. Magnolia677 (talk) 08:19, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Historical Research Methods

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Bombing

The article laconically states, "The nearby high school in Clinton was desegregated in the fall of 1956. It was later bombed and closed." In an article relating to the place where the A- bomb was developed, this needs some explanation. Was it a controlled destruction, or was it bombed by anti-integrationists? Or . . . ? 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:6D6F:CBC2:C346:5D7F (talk) 18:06, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Segregation

Please note that all edits must be supported by WP:RELIABLE sources, WP:ORIGINAL research cannot be used and sourced content should NOT be removed. Adding additional information to this page is welcome and encouraged, but removing sourced information because it does not reflect positive history is not acceptable. glman (talk) 13:41, 11 August 2023 (UTC)