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Just out of curiosity

I figure that many of those who edit this page live in Bradenton. Whoever does live in Bradenton, and has been editing this page, you're doing quite a good job. I've only made a couple contributions myself. RoryS89 03:33, 9 August 2006 (UTC)RoryS89 reply

"Cities in U.S."

It claims taht its one of something like 1 octillion cities in the U.S.... which is obviously untrue since there are only 300 million people. Not sure what the correct statistic is. 4.247.134.109 01:24, 13 December 2006 (UTC) reply

That was vandalism. It's been fixed. -- Ebyabe 02:08, 13 December 2006 (UTC) reply

Expansion

I added the infobox (which should have been added ages ago), and reorganized this article to something that vaguely resembles the suggested format by Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities. The history section (which was totally absent before) really needs to be expanded by someone familiar with the city (I've passed by Bradenton, but have never been there), and the messy list of famous people is totally unsourced, which needs to be fixed as well. Adding a climate box in the geography section might be a good idea too. There were no references at all for this article when I began; now there are five, which is at least a start. There are also a LOT of redlinks in the main body, which suggests that the entire area is rather neglected, but I have no familiarity with any of them (except for Champs Sports, which I added in.) Hopefully someone has this page on their watchlist and can do something with it, because in its current form it's not much of an article. Horologium t- c 23:26, 15 August 2007 (UTC) reply

Info box missing info

Vice Mayor and Ward 5 Councilman Harold Byrd, Jr. is not showing up in the side box yet the info is in the template. Can someone figure out why? 76.7.95.112 ( talk) 15:31, 3 April 2010 (UTC) reply

comment on Sunshine Skyway

I have moved the following from the Transportation section to here:

{Correction} Bradenton is not actually connected to the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, The Skyway is connected to the north side of Manatee County near Palmetto, Florida. Bradenton and Palmetto are divided by the Manatee River and are connected by two bridges: The Green Bridge, on Business US 19 and the Desoto Bridge on US 41. Interstate 75 is east, crosses Manatee River and connects to Tampa in the North and Sarasota/Ft.Myers/Naples to the south.

The style (particularly the parenthetical "correction") is not appropriate. It also seems to be arguing from a narrow interpretation of "connects". Perhaps some clarification of the existing paragraph in the article would be appropriate. -- Donald Albury 20:56, 22 March 2011 (UTC) reply

Bradenton vs. Manatee County

Bradenton is a city, a general area, and a set of Zip codes. It resides within Manatee County. But there is some blurring of boundaries, including in this article. There is mention of extension to the East, referring to Lakewood Ranch. But that area is part of unincorporated Manatee County. In fact, some would like to make Lakewood Ranch an incorporated city in its own right. I refer to myself as living "in Bradenton," although I am actually outside the city boundaries. My ZIP code is a Bradenton code. (Are there ANY ZIP codes that don't tie to a city/town/township/village name?)

In addition, a number of communities in south-central Manatee county (NOT in the city) have the ZIP code 34243, which is a Sarasota code! ExpatSalopian ( talk) 02:40, 12 June 2013 (UTC) reply

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Bradenton, Florida Bradenton – Bradenton is the only thing on this wiki called Bradenton. "Florida" and its comma are absolutely unnecessary. In addition, places like Seattle, San Diego, Los Angeles, and New Orleans are not the only things on this wiki with those names, yet they still don't have the state names. In addition, the AP Stylebook is outdated, and it is a book, not a Wikipedia article. — ÐW( TC) 22:46, 17 September 2020 (UTC) reply

  • Oppose I have pointed out the guideline for the article naming conventions for geographical names in the United States per WP:USPLACE. Directly quoting the second paragraph: Cities listed in the AP Stylebook [1] as not requiring the state modifier in newspaper articles have their articles named City unless they are not the primary topic for that name.
I included the reference below because it notes the cities that are the exceptions. The cities you list are the exceptions noted. Also, AP Stylebook isn't a book - it's a style and usage guide by the Associated Press and used in all forms of journalism where it's updated yearly. The stylebook is referenced here because that's what the guideline follows. There might be no existing article for Bradenton but would any user know where the city is located within the US? That's the assumed intent with the first sentence of the guideline: Articles on populated places in the United States are typically titled Placename, State (the "comma convention").The Grid ( talk) 23:34, 17 September 2020 (UTC) reply

References

  1. ^ Goldstein, Norm (2013). "Stylebook, section D: datelines". The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law. New York: Basic Books/Associated Press. p. 75. ISBN  978-0465082995. The cities listed by the AP are Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Houston, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.—although Washington, D.C., does have a territorial qualifier and New York is naturally disambiguated.
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History section style

The history section uses "would" a lot. While not wrong, it seems unnecessarily verbose, so we have "streetcar line would begin operations" instead of "began operations", "hotel would be opened" instead of just "hotel opened", etc. I didn't find any style recommendations on this, so I don't know if this is just an idiosyncrasy or what. Would anybody object if I pruned down to just plain past tense? Stan ( talk) 16:15, 11 October 2021 (UTC) reply