Talk:Winnemac (fictional U.S. state)

This article was nominated for deletion on 2 December 2007. The result of the discussion was keep.

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I rearranged this page to avoid confusion. The section on the person for whom the fictional state of Winnemac is named for came after the section on Win-E-Mac high school. This gave the impression that Win-E-Mac was named for Winnemac. The high school name is actually a pun on Winnemac, being derived from the names of the three towns which make up the school district.--RLent 21:53, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Chief Winamac?

The following statement has been marked as uncited since October, 2006.

The name is derived from Winamac, an important chief of the Potawatomi Indians.

I asked "Is this just plausible speculation, or did Lewis acknowledge this? If so, where?" Since there hasn't been any reply, I'm removing it for now. It's a perfectly plausible guess, but I don't think it should go in as fact unless a source can be cited.

The disambiguation line mentions Winamac, so the reader knows that there is an Indian chief with a similar name and can speculate for himself... Dpbsmith (talk) 14:44, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It would be interesting to know if the author was inspired by the small town of Winamac, which would have been very plausibly geographically located in the fictional state of Winnemac. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.78.75.202 (talk) 22:12, 9 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Zenith isn't the state capital

The state capital is Galop de Vache. Incidentally, according to Lewis's map, reproduced in Batchelor's article, Zenith's population is 361,000; Monarch, 307,000; Sparta, 129,000; Pioneer, 108,000; and Galop de Vache, 90,000. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:33, 4 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]