Talk:Tifton, Georgia

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state), a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of Georgia on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Georgia (U.S. state)Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)Template:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)Georgia (U.S. state) articles

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state) To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Crooked Creek (Georgia), Ed Defore Sports Complex, Audery Mill Creek, More (Georgia)... More (U.S.)...
Assess : Rate articles from Unassessed Georgia (U.S. state) articles and Unknown-importance Georgia (U.S. state) articles.
Citing sources : Unreferenced Georgia (U.S. state) articles
Cleanup : Cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category.
Geographical coordinates : more Georgia (U.S. state) articles missing geocoordinate data
Infobox : Georgia (U.S. state) articles without infoboxes
Map : Wikipedia requested maps in Georgia (U.S. state)
Photo : Wikipedia requested photographs in Georgia (U.S. state)
Stubs : Work on stubs in articles in Georgia (U.S. state) stubs, Georgia (U.S. state) radio station stubs, Georgia (U.S. state) road stubs and Georgia (U.S. state) geography stubs.
Other : *Deletion sorting: Please see the collection of discussions on the deletion of articles related to Georgia (U.S. state) - compiled by WikiProject Deletion sorting
- Help out with articles placed in Category:Georgia (U.S. state) articles needing attention
- Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability
- Tag the talk pages of Georgia (U.S. state)-related articles with the {{WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)}} banner.
- Get Georgia (U.S. state) to a featured article quality standard

Cities

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Cities, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of cities, towns and various other settlements on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CitiesWikipedia:WikiProject CitiesTemplate:WikiProject CitiesWikiProject Cities articles

Magnola Tree Discussion[edit]

This article has listed for over a year that the Magnolia Tree in Tifton was struck by lightning and burned down in October of 2006. Though it was burned down, it was still (partially) standing and no longer growing.

I personally visited the tree in early 2007 and found it was burned down and the fences remained locked at all times.

There was an additional note on the article that said it was "discovered" to have been burned down by two people in '06. However, I searched through the Tifton Gazette to find an article in March of 2006 claiming that the tree had somehow caught fire in August of 2004 (referenced in the article) and by March of 2006, caretakers were still trying to restore the tree to life. I called the Tifton Gazette and was informed that the they knew of no incident in 2006 involving the tree catching fire another time nor of any story of lightning being the original cause. I have thus updated the article with the information in the newspaper article accordingly. -JasonSpradlin82 (talk) 01:21, 14 February 2008 (UTC

I have just come across this article concerning the famous Magnolia Tree. I have lived in Tifton all my life and know some history about the tree. It use to be easily accessible for anyone to go and enjoy. Sometime in the late 80's or early 90's people were known to go and hang out there and park. While parking they were partaking in extra curricular activities that they shouldn't have been partaking in. These people that were going there were also trashing the area around the tree.Especially out in public. There was a picnic table for people to have a picnic or to eat their lunch at. The tree is located in our industrial park, so it was convenient for workers to go have their lunch and enjoy the shade of the tree.Especially out in public. I do remember there being talk about lightning striking the tree, never about anyone setting fire to it, and killing part of it. After this damage was done,the city or county went out and cleaned up the area and put a fence around it. I believe they did this becuase they wanted to eliminate the people from trashing the area and to help preserve the tree. If I remember correctly, it is suppose to be the oldest tree in Tift County: Wendy Barnes

Tone of page and plagiarism[edit]

Much of the page is directly lifted from http://www.tifton.net/tiftonhistory.html. Because of this, it has a strong tone of boosterism that is inappropriate for a Wikipedia entry. Rjhatl (talk) 16:02, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism[edit]

Someone has vandalized the page by indicating that Tifton's sister city is Pyongyang, North Korea. 67.180.57.13 (talk) 04:05, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In popular culture/literature[edit]

The town is the locale of the climax of the thriller Masked Prey by John Sandford (novelist) (2020). I don't know if this is worthy of mention. Kdammers (talk) 23:32, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]