Talk:Titletown

Boston

Boston does not belong on this list. Despite the town's recent success, Boston is not referred to as "titletown" nationally. This webpage is designed to inform about the use, not boast Boston's success. It has roots in every other use on this list. Why stop there? NYC has 40-something titles. How about Dallas in the 90s? Pittsburgh in the 70s? San Fan in the 80s? Point is, Boston is not referred to as titletown by anybody other than Boston sports fans. 71.240.189.5 (talk) 03:22, 13 March 2012 (UTC) I added reference.

4 rings in 6 years makes Boston the real Titletown Is San Francisco far enough from Boston for you to consider it national? 208.78.140.246 (talk) 02:49, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Green Bay, not Valdosta or ESPN

I'm going to redirect this page to Green Bay. "Titletown USA" (and it's variants) are trademarked by the city of Green Bay. [1] As a factual source, Wikipedia should respect that trademark. Besides, ESPN has no right to strip Green Bay of "Titletown" as does the Weather Channel to rename "the Windy City." I'll move this page to a new one called "Titletown (disambiguation)" Ghettoshark (talk) 21:18, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

ESPN

TitleTown USA (note the uppercase T in town) should redirect to the ESPN article, not Titletown USA. Titletown USA is a trademark of the city of Green Bay. Ghettoshark (talk) 03:17, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Ownership of 'Titletown'

Green Bay does not own the trademark to Titletown USA. Green Bay Packers, Inc. owns Titletown, USA.[2] Green Bay Packers, Inc., while owned by a few members of the Green Bay community, is a private corporation and therefore cannot stake claim to the term Titletown for the city the corporation is located in any more than another private company that owns a like trademark. In fact, the present wikipedia article is for Titletown, whose trademark is owned by a clothing company in Boca Raton, Florida.[3] Obviously this does not make Boca Raton into Titletown and neither should the other trademark. In other words, do not delete other people's references to their cities of choice just because you do not agree with their opinion. There is no fact here as you wrongfully say. Read the article you sourced to and you will see that it does not state what you think it states. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.250.245.30 (talk) 23:45, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

I have reverted your addition of Gainesville because neither the WP article on Gainesville nor the source you cited say anything about 'Titletown.' Please do not add this again, as it is original research, which is forbidden by Wikipedia policy. (I also moved your comment to the bottom of the page, as is cutomary for new comments on talk pages.) -- Donald Albury 01:14, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Boston direct

If we have Boston on there, shouldn't we have some other mention of which cities have won the most championships in the 90s, 80s, etc. (and then changing the usage of "this century" to "this decade"). Just my opinion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.42.217.66 (talk) 06:34, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Order of listings

Can we come up with a neutral order for the place names in the list? Place names in DABs are usually listed alphabetically by country (if applicable), then by state (if applicable), then by locality. That would give:

• Gainesville, Florida.
• Valdosta, Georgia.
• Boston, Massachusetts.
• Green Bay, Wisconsin.

-- Donald Albury 16:45, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Winningest in sports articles under discussion

Please participate in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#"winningest" in sports articles. Until consensus is reached, articles should be reverted to the previous stable version, per the policy WP:NOCONSENSUS: "In discussions of proposals to add, modify or remove material in articles, a lack of consensus commonly results in retaining the version of the article as it was prior to the proposal or bold edit." —Dennis Bratland (talk) 19:02, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Disambiguation page style

I came upon this page because it is tagged as a disambiguation page needing cleanup. With this edit I brought the page into compliance with Wikipedia's style for disambiguation pages. All of the same towns and cities were included on the page, but all except for Boston nicknames were moved to "See also". This is because "Boston nicknames" specifically includes the phrase Titletown, while the articles for Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Tuscaloosa, and Valdosa do not. The guidelines at Wikipedia:Disambiguation and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages specify that disambiguation pages should include only links to articles that are ambiguous, meaning that they are (or could be) named by the title of the disambiguation page. Since there is currently no mention of Titletown at those pages (at least none that I saw), there is no clear suggestion of ambiguity.

User:Gonzo fan2007 suggested that large-scale changes to the page need to be discussed on the talk page, and I agree that any controversial changes should be discussed. I leave it to editors interested in this page to work out its content. I hope editors will recall that disambiguation pages are not articles; the notion that a particular town is called Titletown should be addressed at the article about the town. I will also request that editors pay attention to these norms for disambiguation pages.

• One blue link per bullet. Each list item should have only one blue link. For example, [[Titletown District]], shopping and entertainment district next to Lambeau Field contains only one blue link, while [[Titletown District]], shopping and entertainment district next to [[Lambeau Field]] contains two.
• No piped links. In general, titles should display on the disambiguation page just as they do at the target page. For example, a link to "Boston nicknames" should be [[Boston nicknames]] and not [[Boston nicknames|Boston, Massachusetts]].
• References are not included on disambiguation pages. References should be added at the target pages (along with, for example, mention of the town or city's nickname).
• 'Red links' to non-existent articles should only be included on a disambiguation page when some other article – not a disambiguation page, and not a page in other name spaces – also links to that title.

Also, interested editors may wish to review my edits at City of Champions on December 4th in case there is similar controversy there. Happy editing, Cnilep (talk) 00:47, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

I am fine with the minor MOS issues that were addressed, which I made an effort to bring back in after my revert (references, red links, and only one blue link (just now)). However, my main issue was changing the text so much. I.e. you changed "home to the Green Bay Packers. 13 NFL Championships; the most for one city" to "home to an NFL Championship team", etc. I will make an effort to incorporate a reference in the Green Bay, Wisconsin article in the next day or so. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 02:31, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 September 2022

change Palmyra, MO back to Monroe City, MO. Monroe City, MO is titletown. Palmyra, MO is NOT. 2600:6C40:1900:CD4:6180:C597:F40F:4F47 (talk) 01:23, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

 Partly done: I have removed links to cities in which this nickname does not appear with a reliable source in the body. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:38, 6 October 2022 (UTC)