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Syracuse, New York is a former featured article candidate. Please view the links under Article milestones below to see why the nomination was archived. For older candidates, please check the archive.

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Date	Process	Result
July 5, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
July 10, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
December 20, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted

Current status: Former featured article candidate

Red House Arts Center was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 21 July 2009 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Syracuse, New York. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Seely, Hart (2012-03-25). "Welcome to Wikicuse: You can say the most outrageous things in the Syracuse Wikipedia entry, but not for long". The Post-Standard. Archived from the original on March 28, 2012.

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 January 2024 and 12 May 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Martin Graine402 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Thetyronezone (talk) 00:59, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Updating w/ 2010 Census data

A number of sections, tables, and figures throughout this article need updating with the more recent 2010 Census data. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 09:50, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This was long overdue, but I have attempted to edit the Demographics section in accordance with the available 2010 census data. I had to remove the pie chart that showed census data from 2000. I have made a new .png file pie chart with the 2010 data, very similar to the previous one, but am unable to upload it on this account (not confirmed). --Phillite (talk) 19:06, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Spin off History of Syracuse, New York?

Would it be useful to spin off a separate History of Syracuse, New York article? Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 09:17, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done, with some of the historical sports material also spun off to Sports in Syracuse#History. Regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 05:34, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Which unfortunately has brought to light some possibly quite extensive copyright problems here dating from several years ago, when an editor seems to have added copyright material on at least three different occasions (content containing the phrases "then a state assemblyman", "last sheet of ice", "selling their land"). Most of that was moved to the new page, but since that editor has a large number of contributions to this one, I've regretfully blanked it and listed it at WP:CP for processing. I'm sorry about that. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:42, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That giant box certainly is regrettable. Is there a less drastic solution to this problem?--Cam (talk) 18:19, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is anyone out there willing to rewrite this entire article to satisfy Justlettersandnumbers?--Cam (talk) 21:56, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for my tone there.--Cam (talk) 02:12, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Cam, there's no need to apologise to me (if that's what was meant). The large box is invasive and annoying, a disfigurement of the page, and calling it just "regrettable" shows great restraint. I'm sorry I didn't respond here sooner. On the rewrite, please see the comment I left here. I think the same approach could be taken in this article, starting from the same old version. Or, if those who watch this page would prefer, it could simply be rolled back to that version straight away; that would leave only some subsequent "clean" edits to be redone. Thoughts? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:59, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Possible copyright problem

This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:56, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

About the pronunciation

Now, according to this article, locally Syracuse is referred to as /ˈsɛrəkjuːs/. But I've lived in Syracuse all my life, and I've never said it as anything other than /ˈsirəkjuːs/, and I don't think I've heard anyone say it any other way either, although I might have not noticed it because my brain was subconsciously "correcting for" their accent. There's no source given for the pronunciation either, where does that information derive from? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.230.245.164 (talk) 02:50, 6 September 2017‎ (UTC)[reply]

Neighborhood boundaries and map

Officially defined neighborhood boundaries in the City of Syracuse appear to have shifted. See the Open Data Syracuse map (2017). If this indeed is the case, the map and boundary descriptions used in this article and elsewhere likely are out of date. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 17:36, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed transit is outdated

Currently a student at SU; noticed that the proposed transit subheading is severely out of date, not to mention that these plans have apparently gone nowhere. No such monorail or aerial ropeway exists in Syracuse, though I would be 100% in full support of both of the mentioned projects. I bring this up because the proposals occurred in or around 2005 according to the page, at a time when Destiny USA had not been built (see "Proposed Destiny USA"). Destiny USA is now of course built, standing as the 6th largest shopping mall in the United States. I don't want to remove anything because I am not an expert on this topic. Thanks, Generator.edu (talk) 22:08, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Removed monorail section today. Poor citations, no such project was ever built so it was not relevant to the article. I am mostly sure that the section about the proposed aerial tram is a practical joke, as its only citation simply links to the wikipedia page for the Post Standard, a Syracuse newspaper. Generator.edu (talk) 21:31, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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New City Website

Should we use the old city website or the new one? The new site, syr.gov is still under construction but has more updated content.

M4sugared (talk) 01:04, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]