Talk:Billings, Montana

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I just deleted this motto from the infobox, where it's been since it was added in 2015. Although a Google search for the phrase now returns plenty of online t-shirt stores that use it for SEO, as well as various low-quality pages that presumably grabbed it from Wikipedia, it appears nowhere on billingsmt.gov, nor does a date-restricted Google search return any results from sources that predate the slogan's addition to the Wikipedia page. In addition, the only other context in which I've encountered the formulation "A Pride B Wide" is from White supremacist slogans, which I understand to have been popularized by Stormfront, so I thought it would be better to remove it pending verification, rather than leave it up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.64.225.3 (talk) 21:49, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, since I lived around Billings, I have never heard of any Cheyenne or Crow name for Billings. It was made up by somebody on here as is almost invariably the case often with Wikipedia articles about place names. It may be PC correct, it’s factually wrong. Who is the person that puts these names together anyway? . I cannot stand it when someone does something anonymously with no back up for what they’re doing. Where is the footnoting to justify the Cheyenne and Crow names for Billings?

By the way, I don’t know the Cheyenne name for themselves, except possibly, but I do know the name Crow is wrong. “Absaroka “ comes much closer to the name they call themselves than Crow , which was a fake name in the first place. The name for this tribe is closer to “people of the raven,” not a crow.

Furthermore, this mention of Lockwood is 20 years out of date. Look at the article: it talks about its growth as of 2010. Again, somebody needs to update this, but I don’t feel like doing it. I hope somebody tackles this task to bring the article up-to-date.

Furthermore, I don’t understand why allnost every Wiki of articles about cities and counties discuss what their census data wise as far back as 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago. Who cares about what Billings’ demographic profile was in 2000?

I’m trying to be constructive and what I’m saying. I admire the attempt by people to write objective articles, but it’s obvious this one needs a lot of work, if only to bring the demographic data up-to-date. How about somebody checking out the 2020 census data and using it? Someone who’s crazy about Montana. Thanks a lot. 63.155.60.223 (talk) 12:14, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You complain about being out of date and then say, "somebody needs to update this, but I don’t feel like doing it". Nice. Thank for your input, we'll take it under advisement. Cheers. --Malerooster (talk) 16:59, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As for the Crow and Cheyenne names, you probably haven't heard the names because you're presumably not a member of a community that speaks Crow or Cheyenne. There are sources for these names posted, and their history dates back to the early days of Billings' settlement. Perhaps you're unaware, but plenty of people in this region learn local Indigenous languages first and speak English as a second language. They will quite possibly learn these names before they learn Billings. Your section here reads more as whinging than "trying to be constructive", to be quite frank. Saven.ganders (talk) 01:38, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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