Talk:La Porte, Indiana

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Untitled[edit]

La Porte redirects here. Is the correct spelling La Porte or LaPorte?--129.79.245.73 20:39, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The usual spelling I've seen is "LaPorte" (for this particular town's name). Anthony Dean 01:30, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It is spelled LaPorte

I spent the first 20 years of my life in La Porte and I can tell you for certain that it is spelled "La Porte" with a space, as evidenced by the city's own website at http://www.ci.la-porte.in.us/

The LaPorte Herald-Argus refers to the city as "LaPorte," as does the city's chamber of commerce, historical society, the Associated Press and the county of LaPorte (http://www.laportecounty.net/information.html).

The State of Indiana web page (www.in.gov) also shows LaPorte spelled without the space. Fact is, this is a debate being won by those who want to spell it "LaPorte." The spelling "La Porte" with a space has turned into an anachronism.

I've lived in LaPorte my entire 17 years and... we've always spelled it "LaPorte". Ryan Magley 03:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They called it "La Porte" back when I lived there during my childhood, for about the same duration. (It had a space officially during my tenure of the La Porte Hi-Times student newspaper, at any rate.) I say let's settle this by swordfight. --ItsWalky! 02:30, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Also, it's totally awesome that I'm considered a famous resident. --ItsWalky! 02:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Huh? Why is the author of some mediocre webcomic listed as a "noteworthy resident"? I'e never even HEARD of this webcomic!

Yes you have. (Your editing history kinda gives it away.) --ItsWalky! 06:04, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, it was fun while it lasted. --ItsWalky! 01:35, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The daily newspaper in La Porte (The Herald-Argus) recently made the decision to uniformly spell the name of the city as 'La Porte' with a space. Spelling it as 'LaPorte' leads to much confusion and a natural progression to 'Laporte' which is universally agreed as not an acceptable way to spell the name. Let me explain the progression: 'LaPorte' becomes 'LAPORTE' when written in upper case, which in turn becomes the unacceptable 'Laporte' when translated back into lower case. Providing a space between 'La' and 'Porte' generally prevents the confusion.--Bennycat 21:19, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The official website for the city of La Porte http://www.cityoflaporte.com/ recognizes the spelling as La Porte as does the local news paper. Also any map I have ever seen has had La Porte and not Laporte. The meaning comes from a french word which also has the space between it La and porte meaning "the door." Most if not all public official places recognize the name with the space and it should be left alone. Jascar (talk) 22:01, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki needs some love[edit]

I have been updating the wiki to the best of my ability. La Porte's wiki is in a sad state when compared to wikis of other towns. So much more information could be added. Please help expand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bmk812 (talk • contribs) 09:33, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's great that you're adding information and have an interest in the La Porte wikipedia page, but some of the material reads like a tourism brochure, which is not appropriate for an encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.182.5.180 (talk) 12:44, 12 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I used the Valpo wiki as a template. Feel free to reword it. - Bmk812 (talk) 08:42, 17 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on La Porte, Indiana. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 03:11, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on La Porte, Indiana. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 23:03, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in La Porte, Indiana[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of La Porte, Indiana's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "USCensusEst2018":

  • From Columbus, Indiana: "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". Retrieved July 20, 2019.<
  • From Brown County, Indiana: "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". Archived from the original on May 29, 2017. Retrieved July 26, 2019. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  • From Vermillion County, Indiana: "County Population Totals and Components of Change: 2010-2018". Retrieved April 24, 2019.
  • From Plainfield, Indiana: "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". Retrieved July 24, 2019.
  • From Vanderburgh County, Indiana: "American FactFinder". Retrieved April 22, 2019.
  • From Marion County, Indiana: https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=PEP_2018_PEPANNRES&prodType=table. Retrieved April 22, 2019. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 16:31, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Demographic data is totally off[edit]

The demographic data, from the 2010 Census, is wildly inaccurate. It lists a Hispanic majority (60-something percent), but the real percentage of Hispanic persons is much smaller. The city is, in fact, over 80% White. Can someone grab the data from Census.gov and make the needed corrections? 2603:6010:7B05:790C:1CAC:56C5:A07A:79DD (talk) 03:50, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:La_Porte,_Indiana&oldid=1208036319"