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Hey, I put the Kim Stanley Robinson link on the page, and I was wondering if anyone knows where i should put it if it doesn't belong in the top? Phil179 08:28, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
Well I'm eager to put it in here because I think he's famous enough to be listed with the Davis article, and I can't think of anyone else who is famous enough to go on there as a famous Davis resident. If you can think of anyone else to add, then by all means I think they should be added to it. Phil179 15:44, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
Maybe a link to Published Authors on the Davis Wiki?
What about John Lescroart? He is an author too. And Robinson should be mentioned, he is probably one of the leading authors of modern sci-fi so he deserves to be mentioned.
I think I will start a "notable natives" section of the article sometime soon. This will include Kim Stanley Robinson (cf discussion above), some other writers, and people like Paul Moller of Moller Skycar fame/infamy. One problem is determining who is "notable"; after all, Sean Stewart, despite having made it into Wikipedia, is probably not as well-known as many UC Davis professors. Others are welcome to beat me to this edit :-) -- C S 22:37, July 9, 2005 (UTC)
I can't verify (although I didn't really check that hard) that all the people currently listed as a notable native actually live in Davis. For example, the astronaut Stephen Robinson's bio doesn't list anything about him living in Davis. And if my recollection is correct, astronauts all live in certain neighborhoods near the launch site in Cape Canaveral anyway! -- C S 06:24, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
Miss E Kelly 07:22, 20 June 2020 (UTC)We need to add DHS Class of 2001 - Elliot Cohen, he is the co-founder of "Pill Pack" - the company that delivers medication through Amazon to your doorstep - He should be added to "Notable Natives". However, the current link from "Pill Pack" is linked to this "Eliot A. Cohen" /info/en/?search=Eliot_A._Cohen . He is NOT the correct co-founder of Pill Pack both pages need to be edited. I'll add an alert to the "Pill Pack" wiki page also. [1]
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I added some sights and events to the page. -- Phoenix Hacker 10:54, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
There are sooooo many other Davis things that should be put on this page:
Dr. Moller and his flying car: Skycar. He lives near Davis and once was a UC Professor.
According to another website about Davis, the movie Phenomenon was filmed in Davis. Can anyone confirm this? I haven't found that anywhere else. -- Phoenix Hacker 05:03, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
One of several locations according to IMDB -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117333/locations PxT 18:50, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
From my understanding it was not filmed in Davis, but in Auburn. As far as I know Davis has not been used as a filming location in any major movie.
You may want to reconsider your recent repeated reverts, changing "Notable Davisites" to "Notable Natives" in the Davis, California article. Please refer to the Merriam-Webster dictionary for the definition of "native" in this context [1]. This article is about an American town, so American usage and spelling pertain in this instance, in accordance with Wikipedia policy. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has no standing here. -- Quicksilver T @ 06:19, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Main Entry: 2native Function: noun 1 : one born or reared in a particular place 2 a : an original or indigenous inhabitant b : something indigenous to a particular locality 3 : a local resident; especially : a person who has always lived in a place as distinguished from a visitor or a temporary resident
Wikipedia's own definition of native is instructive. Quoting: Native is an adjective meaning "from birth", as in native language, native speaker. It is also a noun indicating a person who was born in a place or lived there for most of the person's childhood. When used as a noun to refer to a member of an indigenous ethnic group, it sometimes carries pejorative connotations. When linked to a place or nationality the term has ambiguity in English. Native literally denotes "having been born in" the place referred to. It usually implies residence in the area, at least in childhood, and familiarity or identification with the culture. However, native is also often used to mean "belonging to an ethnic group historically inhabiting that region at the time Western writers became acquainted with the region." In this sense it is synonymous with "indigenous", as in "Native American" or "First Nations.
So Native is someone resident from birth or (arguably) lived there for most of the person's childhood -- do any of the 'Natives' qualify? I note that our own definition of Native states that when linked to a place (say, Davis), born in is the choice with the additional implication that some childhood residence in the area... So let's examine our list of eminent Davisites: None were born there -- see the linked biographies --, which is the touchstone of nativeness; and no one has cited ANY SOURCES that indicate that any of them have lived there for most of their childhood -- reading the biographies show that most of them have spent their childhoods elsewhere, in fact. Best to keep to Davisites -- truth is better than a fiction based on semantics that are inconsistent with our own definition of 'Native' or remove all the people who were neither born there or (arguably) lived there for most of their childhoods.
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/native also says native is born there. -- [unsigned comment by anon 64.166.72.195]
I am a "native of", born in, Davis. Actually Woodland, since Davis didn't have a hospital in the 60's. I was looking over this Wiki section and noticing how unorganized it is (the whole thing). What if there was a section on "Notable UCD Professors" and "Notable Davis Authors" and "Famous People From Davis"...etc... It just seems so disorganized. I do think that whomever cleans it up deserves a big round of applause from all Davisites, as the town is important to many Davisites and therefore how it is presented to the outside public may also be important to some Davisites. I hope that someone is willing to devote some time to reorganizing this section of Wiki California. However, if vandalism is an issue, I can see why someone wouldn't want to take the time. I wonder...Is there any way to stop the vandals here in Wiki?
Why isn't there more in the page about bicycling? I am disappointed, because I think that bicycles are one of the things that really makes Davis different from any other University town. TrogdorPolitiks 19:58, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
"Others note that the facilities have arguably hindered the popularity of cycling, since Davis was already known as the bicycle capital in the 1960s prior to the creation of any bike paths or bike lanes, and the per capita ratio of Davis bicyclists has not increased, but declined if anything, since the facilities movement started in the late 1960s"
This needs referenced. It's also serious spurious reasoning: cycling has declined virtually throughout the western world since the 1960's as a result of the rise of the automobile, suburbanisation, rising incomes, safety-fears, car-centric planning etc. etc. If Davis has managed to maintain anything like 1960's levels of cycling, it's a major success story. 86.0.203.120 23:45, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
There are a set of Salamander tunnels under Junipero Serra near Campus Drive (east) at Stanford. Openwire 21:50, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations.
For those of you who are Davisites (or Davis Natives, if you will), do you think it's worth mentioning The Flatlander under the same section as the Davis Enterprise? Heavy Metal Cellist talk contribs
I think that it would be a good idea.-- The Great Honker 18:54, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
The Asian population is much larger than mentioned here. I added up the figures from http://www.city-data.com/city/Davis-California.html
I got 17.5 percent for all the Asian groups, 8 percent for Chinese alone. When I added the 17.5 for Asians with the other figures given I got pretty close to 100 percent.
As this is way off, it should be corrected.
Richard Bruce 17:00, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
I checked the census and the census said 17.5 percent Asian in the year 2000, the year and the source the article gave. So as I had it from the offical source that the article had given I went ahead and changed it.
Richard Bruce 05:14, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Hats off to all contributors. Bryan 01:18, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
I am considering a move to Davis. This article is fine and dandy, but it actually tells me nothing about what really matters for deciding whether I want to live here or not: The tax burden and the cost of living. I must weigh the job offers I have received versus the local and state taxes and the average costs of typical products in order for me to determine whether it is worth my while to live in Davis or not. Would a local please set up a new section entitled "Tax Burden Facts", or something of that nature? Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.236.95.21 ( talk • contribs) 4 September 2006
The article says that "West Davis" is west of 113. But the old West Davis Elementary and West Davis Intermediate are both east of 113. Davisites I know who lived around those schools---near Villanova, Anderson, and Sycamore---considered themselves to be from West Davis. Is that still true? I recognize that the article is very freeway-heavy in its definitions, but I would nominate Anderson Road as the dividing line. Anyone agree or disagree? Theleek 00:05, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
What about Wildhorse and North Davis? I removed the 'west of the RR tracks' North Davis definition because neither the current North nor the current East definitions include Wildhorse. Wildhorse is included as North Davis in the Enterprise real estate listing so the edit removing the tracks would be consistent with that definition, but there's also the option of including it as part of East Davis. 14 July 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.48.31.207 ( talk) 19:49, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Ok, so someone put him in the "Notable Davisites" section which I just removed. He isn't really notable for mention on wikipedia--Davis wiki sure, but not here. He's a great teacher and a cool guy but neither he nor his band meet notability standards as far as I can tell. I was even looking online a week or two ago for info on him because I was considering adding him myself. But there just isn't enough info out there. Ungovernable Force Got something to say? 21:46, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
I am thinking of deleting the section now called "railroads." Previously, it included such un-encyclopedic information as the actual schedules for certain trains. I removed that, but basically what's left is a statement that Davis has a train station, which strikes me as unworthy. But if anyone wants to comment, I'm all ears. Thanks. Theleek 23:05, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Comment: Theleek was referring, in November 2006 (see timestamp), to a now non-existent section which was merged into the current transportation section. All relevant information on Davis railroads and history is currently included in a suitable manner in the article, partly due to Theleek's improvements to the article. -- C S (Talk) 19:48, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Should Louis Warren be added to Notable Natives? He has a book published, Buffalo Bill's America, that just won the Beveridge Award, a Western Writers of America Spur Award, a Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, and a Caughey Western History Association Prize.-- The Great Honker 18:58, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Also, how about Alan Taylor (read about him at the hyperlink)?. -- The Great Honker 23:02, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
what happened to it? Well... I took out both links that were there. "davis people" is not a good title or topic (this isn't the daviswiki); and see also links should only be to other wikipedia pages -- so I took out the link to the daviswiki bike loop page. There's already a general link to the daviswiki; good enough. -- phoebe / ( talk to me) 07:46, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Why does Davis Enterprise redirect to the Davis, California page??? There not nearly enough info here in this article about the newspaper to warrant the redirect. And by the way, do you think its about time to archive the discussion page? Killiondude ( talk) 05:26, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
I changed the source (and consequently the population estimate) in the lead because city articles are only supposed to use US Census numbers for population figures per WP:USCITY. I also changed the current population later in the article to reflect that.
Per WP:LINKSTOAVOID I'm inclined to think that the links in the article to the Davis wiki shouldn't be included. It doesn't say anything in MOS:LINKS about linking to other wikis, but I have yet to see another article that has done so (outside of the External Links section). I have left the outside wiki links intact in this article (for now) until maybe I get clarification. Of course, everything is open to discussion here. Killiondude ( talk) 08:13, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
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As of 6/22/2021, there are multiple mentions of "Erik Fredericksen" on the Davis, CA page. The first sentence read "Davis, home of Erik Fredericksen,...". He is listed falsely as mayor. Under neighborhoods, I am seeing "South Davis (Erik's hood)". Under History, we have "From its inception as a farming community, Davis is known primarily for Erik Fredricksen...". This is obviously some jokester, so I am cleaning these things up. ALso some vandalism in the notable resident section. I am Ferdinand von Aegir ( talk) 17:55, 22 June 2021 (UTC) —
I don't want to add it myself because 1. I know the guy personally (we did Davis High theatre stuff together) and 2. I saw the old conversation above regarding natives vs. long time residents and understand he may not qualify for the list, especially since he doesn't reside there anymore. All of that said Cole Stratton is a notable person. He wasn't born there but mostly grew up there. So I figured it was worth suggesting to more active editors who are more familiar with this kind of thing. I'm good either way y'all decide. Cheers. Millahnna ( talk) 18:43, 5 February 2023 (UTC)