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NEDM
What the hell is "NEDM" on the city nickname? Mercer5089 21:54, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Yeah whoever put in "NEDM" as the nickname, I'm in FB off and on, know lots of Fairbankians, we never heard of it. Where'd it come from?
- I think it was a reference to a YTMND meme: http://wiki.ytmnd.com/NEDM . It's probably an inside joke, nothing more. White 720 20:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
- Indeed. In my social circles, the nicknames for Fairbanks actually include 'Squarebanks', and more simply 'the 'Banks'.Bahb the Illuminated (talk) 04:00, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
Moose law
Ummm... I beleive the city has banned moose from having sex in the streets. -- Scott Burley 05:41, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)
- No, but there was a law, long since repealed, against giving moose alcohol. The story behind it is kind of funny -- a bar owner had a pet moose that would come to the bar, and patrons would give the moose beer. The city mayor took a dim view of having a drunken moose wandering the streets so got the city council to pass the law. 24.178.126.182 17:22, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Status of Article
This article is a rough draft, and was not proof-read to a great degree. I am currently working on getting the information from the State of Alaska's community information database copied over for each community in the State, at which point I will come back through and start editing/Wikifying. If this message is still here, that means I have yet to come back. Of course, please feel free to clean this up, hopefully to conform with the WikiProject_Cities standards. Thanks!! —akghetto talk 08:25, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Home Rule City
What is a Home Rule City? It would be great if someone could define the term here, or better yet, write an article about it (assuming it has a specific meaning under Alaskan law). --Angr (tɔk) 10:24, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
- In Alaska, a home-rule city simply means that it's a city with its own charter. This distinguishes it from a "general-law" city which refers to the state's laws regarding local government as sort of a substitute charter. Similar categories apply to boroughs as well. 24.178.126.182 17:22, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
IPA
The IPA pronunciation as given seems dubious to me, especially that [æ], but I can't quite figure out what to put instead. Thoughts from anyone else? —Zero Gravitas 23:55, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Maybe that is an attempt to capture how Fairbanks would be rendered in with a southern (US) accent, but it doesn't look right for that either. I'm going to go ahead and change it to the way I pronounce Fairbanks (and I live here, and I have a fairly mainstream American accent). If somebody wants to explain the original IPA pronunciation guide, I'm certainly interested to hear ... take a look at the entries for fair and bank on wiktionary, fair has a US English pronunciation of /fɛɹ/ and bank has /æŋk/, see Help:IPA_for_English about the upside down r SethDelisle (talk) 21:37, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Media
User, Katrich added 88.5 (K-love) a popular Christian station to the media section and remove references to Fairbanks Open Radio, without any discussion: . http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairbanks%2C_Alaska&diff=106786897&oldid=106721255
Katrich: thanks for adding K-Love it was an important addition. I feel that Fairbanks Open Radio is also an important development in the media landscape of Fairbanks and belongs in this section. SethDelisle 17:22, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- Someone could add 91.9, which is AIR1, Christian Rock/Pop station. It has a good reception, don't know why it wasn't added. -- Jon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.230.81.233 (talk) 09:01, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Festival Fairbanks External Link
Restored external link to the best webcam in town. It was improperly removed as spam by some dude from California.
Mayor?
A guy named "Jim Whitaker" was just on stage at the DNC, and they said he was the mayor of Fairbanks, but this article says it's the improbably named "Terry Strle". Can anyone determine the truth on this? john k (talk) 00:56, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
- Whitaker is the borough (similar to a county) mayor, while Strle is the city mayor. Don't know why they didn't come up with a different name for the executive of boroughs. --skew-t (talk) 09:14, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
- I just noticed this while adding another thread, even though it's a few years old. The original legislation establishing the legal structure of boroughs, which was passed by the 2nd Alaska State Legislature in 1961, came up with the term "chairman." Both the Alaska Constitution and Alaska Statutes were overhauled WRT municipal governments in 1972, at which time the term "mayor" was substituted. People with no historical perspective would in all likelihood appear very puzzled at the mention of "borough chairman." Really, though, this only appears to matter to Fairbanks, since most other communities in Alaska with separate boroughs and cities are all under 10,000 people in size, some quite a bit smaller than that.RadioKAOS (talk) 06:35, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Sports?
"The Carlson Center is home to University of Alaska Fairbanks athletics the Nanooks(which is a male polar bear)"
Huh? The University of Fairbanks athletics is a male polar bear? Isn't that against the NCAA rules? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.88.170.32 (talk) 20:57, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what NCAA rules it might violate, but Nanook is derived from the Inuit word nanook for polar bear (I'm not aware of it referring specifically to males). Nonetheless I removed the parenthetical as it is not particularly relevant to an article on the city, and can be found on the Alaska Nanooks article. --skew-t (talk) 17:51, 25 July 2009 (UTC)