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Frequently asked questions 1. Was Manhattan Island really bought for a very small amount of currency (be it $24, one string of
wampum, etc.)?
No. Charles Gehring, Director of the
New Netherland Project, explains this myth in a
video (skip ahead to 3:03) by the
New York State Museum. In it, he says, "This is one of the biggest myths...pure fabrication. It says in the records that it was 60
guilders worth of goods. 60 guilders worth of goods would have been a lot of hard goods that the Indians couldn't produce themselves. You couldn't place a price on the...things that they were unable to make, the things they didn't have the technology for. The $24 figure was attached to the document when it was translated in the 1880s. The translators looked up the rate of exchange at the time and 60 guilders was $24. Nobody has ever even adjusted that for inflation over the years, so you not only have an incorrect rate of exchange, but the whole idea of what 60 guilders would have been worth to the Indians at the time is totally wrong."
Keepin' it real: The greatest deal in history never actually was. 2. Why is New York City classified as having a
humid subtropical climate?
According to
NOAA's 1981–2010 normals, Central Park in Manhattan has a January daily average temperature of 32.6 °F (0.3 °C) and in July, this figure is 76.5 °F (24.7 °C). This, in combination with its generous annual precipitation of 49.9 inches (1,270 mm) means the city itself falls under the humid subtropical regime of the
Köppen climate classification (see
this map). Locations in this regime in general do not have winter snow cover that is reliable enough to augment cold air masses; the "subtropical" designator is only part of the climate type's name and does not mean that the city (or the surrounding region) is in the
subtropics, nor that winters here are mild. |
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Which lead image is clearer?
Castncoot ( talk) 19:38, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Should unsubstantiated superlatives in the lead, such as:
be removed from the article? CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 09:38, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
multiple very high-quality sourcesis a salient point. It seems much more common now that journalists are referencing Wikipedia, and then Wikipedia references these journalists' articles. That said, "the world's most important city and the capital of the world" is utter subjectivity and should be nuked. Seasider53 ( talk) 11:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
I think that there should be a balance of "good" and "bad" superlatives- oppose this and any edits premised on this logic in the strongest possible terms; it is textbook WP:FALSEBALANCE. It is possible that there are negative aspects that are equally significant which we need to cover; but it is completely inappropriate to insist that negative and positive aspects be balanced equally without regard to coverage. When coverage is largely positive, our article ought to be so as well (and vice-versa when it is negative.) Also, all three of the possible examples you gave are wrong. NYC's crime rate is low compared to other big cities and it doesn't even make the list of cities by drug use. Corruption is more vaguely-defined, so I'm not totally sure what that means, but Chicago is apparently king here. -- Aquillion ( talk) 04:23, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
all three of the possible examples you gave are wrong- did you read my reply of 18:55, 28 April 2024 (UTC)? I never said that they were correct: indeed, in my post of 13:10, 28 April 2024 (UTC), I asked the question
Does NYC have, for example, the .... -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 16:44, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
an important site in the history of filmand can certainly back that up with reliable sources. 2 is more superlative puffery, and I'd probably get rid of that stuff. There is no single capital of the world, so the fact that it's "sometimes" described as those things ( by whom?) is probably trivially correct, in that it has "sometimes" been called those things, but that's the exact reason we shouldn't use weasel wording like that. For "most economically powerful city", that's a bit of a fuzzy and subjective term (and one could make a reasonable case that in terms of power to impact the world's economies, that's actually Washington, DC); I would prefer replacing it with a statement that it has the highest GDP of any city in the world, which is clearly verifiable. Seraphimblade Talk to me 23:03, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
Probably not, no. It's accurate and there are enough RS to back them up, so I don't think we should remove them. A Socialist Trans Girl 07:27, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Can we close this? The mentioned statements have been heavily edited since this RfC's opening, and all this is doing now is generating confusion when we kinda have a consensus already. Aaron Liu ( talk) 12:57, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
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"a very good Harbour for all windes" to "a very good harbor for all winds" Jihanysta ( talk) 02:01, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
Castncoot performed a " reconfig geo loc" on the infobox map in April without discussion and now would like to discuss our attempts to remove the overkill (my opinion) map of the world, so here we are. Happy to keep it if reasons are given outside of "the London article has it". Seasider53 ( talk) 10:53, 14 June 2024 (UTC)