Talk:Ypsilanti, Michigan

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Contents 1 Disambiguation 2 Ypsilanti was actually established in 1823 3 Fanciest Gents in Southeastern Michigan? 4 Cleary moved out long ago 5 Add photos please 6 Local media 7 pronunciation? 8 Before I revert the changes

[edit] Disambiguation

I did a search test for Ypsilanti on Wikipedia to find articles that have "Ypsilanti" in the name, and there were some on there, we should transform the Ypsilanti redirect article into a disambiguation for people name Ypsilanti in addition to the city in Michigan. --SuperDude 03:07, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ypsilanti was actually established in 1823

I grew up in Ypsilanti and I can assure you it was established in 1823, not 1825 as your article suggests.

I would also like to add that locals refer to it is "Ypsi" for short.

Tom Monaghan's Domino's Pizza did start in Ypsilanti. When he obtained 3 locations he created his logo. 2 Ann Arbor locations and 1 Ypsilanti location. Thats why the domino in the logo has 2 dots on one section and 1 dot on the other.

During a period the mid 1800's, after the Chicago Road was completed, Ypsilanti was the largest city between Detroit and Chicago. Ypsilanti was the second most populated city in Michigan for a few years in that same time period.

This indicates that there may have been settlers and trading posts in the area before 1825, but that was the date that the plat for what became the city was officially recorded. Perhaps that could be worked in somehow, but exactly what constitutes "establishing" a town is fuzzy. One very important step is platting. older≠wiser 20:58, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

An anon added that Woodruff's Grove was incorporated as a village. Is there any citation to support this? older≠wiser 15:25, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fanciest Gents in Southeastern Michigan?

The article currently says "Ypsilanti was rated by GQ magazine as having the 'Fanciest Gents in Southeastern Michigan.'" but a google search didn't turn anything up with that text aside from this article page. I added a citation request to hopefully get the month and year of the issue of GQ in question. Georgehotelling 19:39, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I went back to the history and found that the edit was the only one from that IP, so I killed it. Georgehotelling 19:45, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I suspect of us who have lived there would have no trouble with that edit. Not that I am not considered a pretty sharp dresser among my peers - it's just, well look at how they dress. Carptrash 20:30, 9 February 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Cleary moved out long ago

Cleary University used to be in Pittsfield Twp., neighboring Ypsilanti, but moved to northeast Ann Arbor several years ago. The site of the old Cleary building is now occupied by a Walgreen's. I edited the education section to remove Cleary and add Ave Maria College, which is right next door to Eastern Michigan University. (Ave Maria College is slated to close in conjunction with the establishment a few years ago of Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida.)

[edit] Add photos please

Could someone add a photograph of EMU? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by David A. Victor (talk • contribs) 09:58, December 19, 2006.

I'm all for photos, but we've got to do something about the 3 photos taking up more than half of the small intro section. It just doesn't look right. JPG-GR 07:27, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I was surprised to see my picture of the bust and the Tower door show up here because I posted it at the Ypsilanti Water Tower article to show one of the crosses. However, I have started moving things around a bit, so see what it looks like on your computer and let's make room for some EMU shots. Carptrash 16:41, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Much better, but I don't know if a picture of Sherzer on fire really works in the article. JPG-GR 18:20, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Feek free to pluck it out. It was just an EMU picture that I'd discovered recently. Carptrash 19:04, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Local media

Putting WAAM at the top of the radio station list takes the list out of order by band/frequency, but doesn't put it in alphabetic order. Thus, I put it back at the bottom to preserve the original order. Nburden 04:46, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] pronunciation?

i see 2 different pronunciations, the latter being IPA (and stated as) but what is the first one? Ypsilanti is a Greek name, is that a transliteration of the Greek spelling? ...Patrick (talk, cntrb.) 02:00, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Before I revert the changes

I think that the commonscat box looks stupid. -- carol 01:08, 13 January 2008 (UTC)