Talk:Winnemac (fictional U.S. state)
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I rearranged this page to avoid confusion. The section on the person for whom the fictional state of Winnemac is named for came after the section on Win-E-Mac high school. This gave the impression that Win-E-Mac was named for Winnemac. The high school name is actually a pun on Winnemac, being derived from the names of the three towns which make up the school district.--RLent 21:53, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Chief Winamac?
editThe following statement has been marked as uncited since October, 2006.
- The name is derived from Winamac, an important chief of the Potawatomi Indians.
I asked "Is this just plausible speculation, or did Lewis acknowledge this? If so, where?" Since there hasn't been any reply, I'm removing it for now. It's a perfectly plausible guess, but I don't think it should go in as fact unless a source can be cited.
The disambiguation line mentions Winamac, so the reader knows that there is an Indian chief with a similar name and can speculate for himself... Dpbsmith (talk) 14:44, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
It would be interesting to know if the author was inspired by the small town of Winamac, which would have been very plausibly geographically located in the fictional state of Winnemac. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.78.75.202 (talk) 22:12, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
Zenith isn't the state capital
editThe state capital is Galop de Vache. Incidentally, according to Lewis's map, reproduced in Batchelor's article, Zenith's population is 361,000; Monarch, 307,000; Sparta, 129,000; Pioneer, 108,000; and Galop de Vache, 90,000. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:33, 4 December 2007 (UTC)