Talk:Jacques-André Istel

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A fact from Jacques-André Istel appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 December 2007, and was viewed approximately 807 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that recreational parachutist Jacques-André Istel wrote a children's book claiming that the center of the world is located in Felicity, California, a town he founded?

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Is any image from Flickr acceptable? If so, this image would do. --Qmwne₂₃₅ 18:06, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The image must carry an appropriate license; in this case the Flickr image is tagged as copyrighted - all rights reserved, so it is not acceptable for use on Wikipedia. --Jezebel'sPonyo ^{bons mots} 16:03, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New York Times Magazine article about Istel and the town of Felicity[edit]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/magazine/a-journey-to-the-center-of-the-world.html

-- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:45, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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"...a city..."?[edit]

The final sentence in the lede begins "He founded a city in southeastern California..." In the US, the population threshold for becoming a "city" is it having at least 50,000 residents. A group of ten buildings housing a population of about 15 persons, situated on a few acres does not qualify as a "city" by any definition of the word with which I am familiar. A more accurate term for a settlement this size is "hamlet". I recognize that saying Istel "...founded a hamlet in southeastern California..." may be an unsatisfactory substitution, so I am open to suggestions for how to reword this passage. Bricology (talk) 18:19, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]