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New Pope at Dolton, Illinois

Pope Leo XIVs childhood home

Several editors have added Pope Leo XIV to the lead of Dolton, Illinois, his childhood home.

My experience is that famous people aren't generally added to the lead of city articles.

Update...a photo of his house it there now too.

Your input at Talk:Dolton, Illinois#add Pope Leo XIV to the lede? would be appreciated. --Magnolia677 (talk) 16:38, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

Need help at Kilgore, Texas

I've been struggling for a while to clean up Kilgore, Texas, where an editor outright does not support the US Cities guidelines. This is one example. Help from an experienced editor would be appreciated! --Magnolia677 (talk) 10:22, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Change to infobox

I'm proposing that we change the infobox's images to have each photo captioned individually, rather than using one big caption trying to describe each photo by its relative position. This feature is built-in to template it already uses to generate the collage. See the table below for an example.

Current layout	The layout I'm proposing
City name, State name City From top, left to right: Lower Manhattan, Central Park, the Unisphere, the Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Midtown Manhattan, Manhattan Bridge	City name, State name City Lower Manhattan Central Park the Unisphere the Brooklyn Bridge Statue of Liberty Times Square Midtown Manhattan Manhattan Bridge

⇒ Aerrapc they/them, 15:37, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Better yet, have fewer images. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:32, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

Nice. My off-topic comment about collages... in general, they are overly abused in some articles, where editors try to shoehorn far too much stuff in this location. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 14:48, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

ACFR employment figures

Many US cities publish Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports which provide significant economic data, including income and employment figures; I find them interesting, especially when they include a comparison to the same stats from a decade ago.

I have transcribed several such cities' data tables into what I believe to be a reasonably-readable and useful table format, e.g.:

• Phoenix, Arizona#Employment
• Portland, Oregon#Top_Employers
• Lacey, Washington#Top_Employers
• Gardner, Kansas#Top_employers

Is this an acceptable level of detail, the correct way to display it, and can anything be done to improve how this information is presented? I would like feedback before continuing to implement it elsewhere. Thank you.

- OL25 OceanLoop (talk) 00:38, 12 July 2025 (UTC)