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The "notable people" section needs improving. All three persons listed are dead. Are there no living notable people in Grosse Pointe Shores?John Paul Parks (talk) 03:35, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are at least a dozen. It took me three minutes using a link that is on the article page to find that out. WP:SOFIXIT, John Paul Parks! You've been here nearly 10 years and you don't know where to put a comment on a talk page? I removed your ludicrous tag from the notables section. It was an article, not a section tag and there is absolutely nothing outdated about the section. If you want edit Wikipedia, please do. If you view your roll here as some sort of supervisor that shows up periodically to tell everyone else how inferior their work is, take up knitting. John from Idegon (talk) 05:05, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@John Paul Parks: if you want to know how to add more: You can look up Google Books to see if anybody who already has an article is mentioned in a book or so as coming from this city (check the publisher: you don't want to cite a self-published book!). Also if you have a subscription to area newspapers (Detroit Free Press or The Detroit News) you can use those as a source too. You may access archives through a public library or a university library. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:26, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Misleading Map

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The map shows GP Shores as being much larger than it is. The land area of the Shores is tiny (I don't see much point in depicting the water area that "belongs" to the city in red, since it isn't inhabited). Funnyhat 19:11, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I think you're right. The Census Bureau map clearly shows most of this as water. I left a note for the map creator at User talk:Arkyan. older ≠ wiser 01:04, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The maps are designed to depict the city boundaries, and unfortunately some of the cities bordering the lake have boundaries that technically reach out in to the lake. I had considered the issue of the boundaries being somewhat confusing, but by picking the shoreline as the city boundary then we are being equally misleading by not representing the true boundaries of the city.
The question it brings up is - do we want the maps to be technically accurate according to the legal boundaries (technical definition) or cut it off at the shoreline (practical definition)? Let me know (and if you can get some more opinions that'd be great) so I can fix them if necessary. Arkyan • (talk) 05:32, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
IMO, the "technical" definition is meaningless for most people. For all practical purposes, a city ends at the shoreline. Whether the city claims jurisdiction over the water area is mostly irrelevant for people who are unable to walk on water or build homes on the water. There was a somewhat related discussion on Talk:Michigan about whether including Michigan's water area to determine it's ranking among states was misleading. I don't know how hard it would be with the maps, but if you could show where the shoreline is and shade the water area a little differently, that might make things clearer all the way around. older ≠ wiser 10:29, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I've uploaded a newer version for this map. Tell me what you think. Arkyan • (talk) 15:56, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It's better, though it is unclear what the gray shading vs. white in the other parts of Wayne County signify. older ≠ wiser 00:33, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It is to differentiate between incorporated cities (and villages in the case of Michigan) from unincorporated communities. This distinction is somewhat confounded by the fact that Michigan has multiple levels of local government - cities, villages, charter townships, townships, and so on. If it is unclear then it can be mentioned on the summary information for the map, but I am hesitant to modify the scheme used to draw the map as the gray = incorporated is the standard that has been used thus far in other city/county boundary maps of this nature elsewhere, and I believe consistency is important. Arkyan • (talk) 16:08, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

City Versus Village The village hasn't officially become a city yet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.213.87.105 (talk) 22:18, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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