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"The plan allowed the city to eliminate $7 billion in debt and invest $1.7 billion into improved city services." How was the debt eliminated?67.209.129.36 (talk) 04:17, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
The verifiablity tag has been sitting on top of this article for over 6 months (as of January 2020), but there are no individual tags throughout the article to address where the information needing verified is located. The article is decently written and contains an incredible amount of sources, so I'm not sure why the entire article needs the ominous tag at the top. There may be information within the article that is of suspicious authenticity or importance, but it doesn't appear to be noted or have been discussed at all. I would like to know what specific information within the article needs verification (or removal); otherwise, it might be boldly possible to invoke When to Remove #7 to remove the tag if a discussion isn't facilitated to remedy the problem. Detroit was once a featured article, and tags like this (with no active discussion) aren't very helpful for this otherwise important article, especially if problems do exist. —Notorious4life (talk) 20:19, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
> "Proving their persistent prejudice and unwillingness to integrate, many white families with the financial ability moved to the suburbs of Detroit taking their jobs and tax dollars with them."
This needs much sourcing. E.g., was the flight away from incoming blacks, or to better schools? (I don't know, but I do know that it needs proper sourcing.) Or was there the usual amount of population out-movement (some fraction every year), and the change was a shortage of in-movement? (Again, I don't know, but if this was the cause then the problem was not the prejudice of the current inhabitants, instead it could have been the prejudice of those choosing not to move to Detroit.)
And the tone is nasty: attaching the idea of prejudice (bad) to the idea that if somebody moves they take their tax dollars with them (which would be true whether moving into or out of Detroit).
I have no expertise about Detroit, but this does not read as if WP:NPOV compliant. JDAWiseman (talk) 18:11, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Referencing and citation: not checked
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