Talk:Marshall, Texas

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Wow, I had no idea Marshall, Texas was such a major and international city... 67.66.199.192 02:30, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

There you have it. Thanks to Wikipedia, you've learned something new. Gotta run, there's an article on Sarcasm I have to check real quick. -- Kar98 21:18, May 12, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Please check caption

The community has developed in and around Whetstone Square, shown here in 1939. Guests lodged in the Capitol Hotel (left, shorter) and Hotel Marshall (right, taller), and in the 1960s the Harrison County Courthouse, center, hosted the first sit-ins in Texas.

Did I get the hotels right on the caption for this picture? I haven't been there and the caption didn't quite agree with the picture, so I tried to make it match. -- ke4roh 02:10, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)

• Almost, they are both on the right. The taller one is Hotel Marshall, and the shorther one is the Capitol Hotel. They are both on the same block, the Capitol Hotel is in the foreground and Hotel Marhsall is in the background. Did you think that they wer the same building? If you look closely you can see that the proportions do not match. -JCarriker 03:15, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Why I Love Marshall

This native West Texan always breathed a sigh of relief upon arriving in Marshall during the six years he lived in Florida and occasionally made the long car trip back. Even though he still had hundreds of miles to go, it still felt like home. It also tasted like home. Thank you, El Chico. Also, they have great pottery. I have a couple of pieces in my kitchen. --H2O 03:27, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Some change needed, though.

Needs to be turned into less of an NAACP ad, though. Information about Whetstone, Ginocchio, the numerous cultural activity groups and what is freely available at the Courthouse Museum, for instance. Just ask for Lindsay. Kar98 05:45, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)

Kar you known how wikipedia works. Just jump in! Also Lindsay is already aware of the article; I can't say if she has chosen to read it or not. I had several natives read it before it was nominated to be a featured article and none of them, including the one with the Confederate flag on his hat, had any problems with it. If the article is deficient in anything it is railroad history as a tried to concentrate more on Marshall's significance to the Confederacy and Civil Rights Movenmetn which I felt were for relevant to an international encycopedia. -JCarriker 11:15, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

I know, I know ;) Problem is, the information _is_ available at several pages, but I'm currently busy gathering all of those little stories, I then have to _re-compile_ them for the Courthouse Museum page, which I am also working on, and after that, re-do them /again/ for here. I'll get around doing it, eventually ;) Kar98 16:31, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

Or possibly not.Kar98 18:24, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Political Center

I have removed political center from the introduction paragraph; with the finalization of redistricting, regardless of personal political preferences, Marshall's political clout is severly eroded enough to the point that I do not think rfereing to it as a major politcal center in East Texas is accurate at present. Hopefully for Marshall, this will change in the future. :) -JCarriker 11:15, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

Well, Marshall _has_ been declared the official Cultural Capital of East Texas, such as it is :) Kar98 16:33, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

True, and from our cold dead hands shall they take our self-declared importance. :) -JCarriker July 7, 2005 08:43 (UTC)

[edit] My Hometown

A spendid article! I really appreciated the attention given to ALL of Marshall's residents. Mrs. Inez at the old courthouse made sure we learned the "stories of the majority"...

[edit] Issues with the article

My reasons for listing the article as a FARC are:

1. Absolutely no inline citation.

2. Next to no references.

3. Several large non-prose sections (like the trivia section). The notable citizens can probably be a split-off listed as a main article of some section.

I hope they can be resolved, but this article simply isn't FA quality IMO at this point. Staxringold 21:16, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

1, Next to no what nows?Kar98 02:48, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

For anyone interested Alabamaboy and I are working to meet some of Staxringolds conditions, within reason. Hence the new inline references. -JCarriker 04:13, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the heavy work, JCarriker and everyone. The article looks great now (though more inline citation is always better. :D). Staxringold 13:44, 15 April 2006 (UTC)