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Where exactly was David Spade born in Birmingham? At home, in the back of a car, under a bench in Shain Park? Same question for actress Christine Lahti, whose IMDB bio also claims Birmingham as her place of birth? There are not, nor have there been in my 50-year memory, any hospitals or maternity wards in Birmingham. The nearest hospital is William Beaumont in Royal Oak, which opened in 1955, five years after Lahti's birth. Saint Joseph Mercy in Pontiac has been around since 1927. Or maybe they were born in Detroit? T Garth 21:43, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
It doesn't say those people were Italic textbornItalic text in Birmingham, rather that they are Italic textfromItalic text there.
Is Birmingham, Michigan pronounced like:
66.245.112.204 00:53, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I lived there for 18 years and everybody pronounced the "g". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.171.30.161 ( talk) 17:40, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Lived here for 22 years and I, as well as many others, don't pronounce the "g"...Michigan accent at its finest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.250.12.237 ( talk) 03:21, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
I've lived in Birmingham, Michigan since 1971. Most of the people I know pronounce it bur'-ming-ham'. /s/Ralph Deeds — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.41.196.122 ( talk) 00:40, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Should a religion section be included?--JEF 14:17, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm curious who and why my links to photos of the Birmingham Farmers' Market and the Birmingham Tigers are being deleted. I took some trouble to take the pictures and there is nothing controversial about them. It seems to me that they are of general interest. (I have been a Birmingham resident for 36 years and my hobby is photography.) What's up? Ralph Deeds 15:18, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Well, I've added links, without objection, to quite a few wikipedia entries. I believe the pictures of the Farmers' Market and the Birmingham Tigers do "constitute a unique resource behond what the article would contain." That sounds like doublespeak to me. I seem to recall that there is supposed to be some flexibility/exceptions in the Wikipedia guidelines. How about a little flexibility wrt Birmingham? Your position strikes me as a bit bureaucratic and picayune. Ralph Deeds 17:13, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
The pictures aren't "a collection of PERSONAL photographs"--of my children or my wife's birthday party-- and the pictures of the tigers aren't really about sports. They were used to promote the downtown business district. And the Farmers' Market has become a fairly prominent summer feature of downtown Birmingham. It strikes me as relevant to the wikipedia entry as would be pictures of the Birmingham Art fair or other Birmingham activities.
BTW, what is your connection with Birmingham? Do you live here? As I mentioned, I've lived here for 36 years. My only motive is to help tell people who link to the Wikipedia site something positive about our city. Some of my links to other Wikipedia have remained for nearly a year. Others have been deleted, mainly those on personal biographies that apparently were disliked by the subject of the biography, e.g., I linked a somethat nasty page to Mel Gibson's biograpy after his drunken anti-semitic rant. It was deleted quickly, I assume by Gibson's PR people. Another one referred to Barry Diller as the "number one blue ribbon corporate ceo hog" after he paid himself some un-Godly sum in 1965, the highest in the country. But the person who deleted the link to my page, substituted an entry containing the amount he was paid in 2005. There is nothing that I can see that is even remotely controversial about my pictures of the Birmingham Farmers' Market or the ones of the Birmingham Tigers downtown business promotion (with which I have absolutely no personal connection). They both are pretty innocuous, in my opinion. And, contrary to your opinion, they do add something to the wiki entry on our fair city which might be of interest to people who may be considering visiting or moving here.
In my opinion, you are a narrow minded dictatorial little weenie. Ralph Deeds 01:09, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Apologies. I believe in avoiding ad hominem comments, except in discussions of Bush, Iraq, etc. But I remain frustrated by your position. And I'm mystified by your comment that the pictures "are nothing more than a collection of pretty pictures with no discription, no context, etc." The pictures speak for themselves and supplement and illustrate the wiki text on Birmingham. However, when I have time I'll add a paragraph of text to the page on the farmers' market and the tiger promotion. For someone looking for information on Birmingham the fact that we have a farmer's market would seem to me to be of interest. Ditto for the Tiger promotion by the downtown merchants. (By the way, as a technical writer you should know that criterion, not criteria, (as in "a sufficient criterion") is the correct singular form of the word.)
We need a citation for the "second best high school other than Renaissance" comment in the education section. I have yet to see any polls that ranked Renaissance High as the best Michigan public high school. I have seen many that spoke to the contrary, including the Newsweek poll which ranked the International Academy higher than any other Michigan public school, and from what I understand the state has always recognized this ranking. I also understand that the U.S. News and World Report poll (which doesn't include the Academy since it doesn't recognize IB schools) ranked other Michigan high schools higher than these two schools. Since the education portion doesn't have any citations, I will be tagging it for such and remove the reference to the best schools until someone can find proof for it. Beggarsbanquet ( talk) 01:22, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
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Michael Kinsley was indeed born in Detroit and went to Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills. But his home was un Birmingham. I was s classmate at Cranbrook and visited his home several times. 2601:601:A581:A090:4093:6C8F:4F92:FF04 ( talk) 05:21, 4 December 2023 (UTC)