Editing Columbus, Ohio (section)

==Name==
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The city of Columbus was named after 15th-century Italian explorer [[Christopher Columbus]].<ref name="WaPo"/> It is the largest city in the world named for the explorer, who sailed to and settled parts of the Americas on behalf of [[Isabella I of Castile]] and Spain.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Thomas |first1=G. Scott |title=54 U.S. communities carry Columbus's legacy in their names |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/on-numbers/scott-thomas/2011/10/54-us-communities-carry-columbuss.html |website=The Business Journals |access-date=July 29, 2020 |date=October 10, 2011 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308142635/https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/on-numbers/scott-thomas/2011/10/54-us-communities-carry-columbuss.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Although no reliable history exists as to why Columbus, who had no connection to the city or state of Ohio before the city's founding, was chosen as the name for the city, the book ''Columbus: The Story of a City'' indicates a state lawmaker and local resident admired the explorer enough to persuade other lawmakers to name the settlement Columbus.<ref name="WaPo"/><ref name="ICT"/>

Since the late 20th century, historians have criticized Columbus for initiating [[European colonization of the Americas|the European conquest of America]] and for abuse, enslavement, and subjugation of natives.<ref name="Howard Zinn">{{cite web|url=http://www.newhumanist.com/md2.html|title=A People's History of the United States|author=Howard Zinn|publisher=Newhumanist.com|access-date=September 5, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080729234240/http://www.newhumanist.com/md2.html|archive-date=July 29, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Bigelow, B. 1992">Bigelow, B. (1992). ''Once upon a Genocide: Christopher Columbus in Children's Literature''.</ref> Efforts to remove symbols related to the explorer in the city date to the 1990s.<ref name="ICT">{{cite web |last1=Pember |first1=Mary Annette |title=Those statues didn't topple overnight |url=https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/those-statues-didn-t-topple-overnight-zABD-2ZRvkCMStnd60DASg |website=Indian Country Today |access-date=July 29, 2020 |date=June 25, 2020 |archive-date=July 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728191619/https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/those-statues-didn-t-topple-overnight-zABD-2ZRvkCMStnd60DASg |url-status=dead }}</ref> Amid the [[George Floyd protests in Columbus, Ohio|George Floyd protests]] in 2020, several petitions pushed for the city to be renamed.<ref name="Columbus Underground">{{cite news|title=Christopher Columbus Statues Fall in Other Cities, Remain Intact in Ohio|work=Columbus Underground|url=https://www.columbusunderground.com/christopher-columbus-statues-columbus-ohio-we1|date=June 11, 2020|access-date=June 13, 2020|archive-date=June 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613191219/https://www.columbusunderground.com/christopher-columbus-statues-columbus-ohio-we1|url-status=live}}</ref>

Nicknames for the city have included "the Discovery City",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.osln.org/regional/h-b-119-schools-programs/columbus.php |title=Ohio STEM Learning Network / Columbus |access-date=June 21, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129044357/http://www.osln.org/regional/h-b-119-schools-programs/columbus.php |archive-date=November 29, 2014 }}</ref> "[[Columbus streetcar arches|Arch City]]",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/bexley/stories/2009/06/17/0618belentz_ln.html|title=A century ago, Columbus was the nation's 'Arch City'|access-date=June 21, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718164914/http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/bexley/stories/2009/06/17/0618belentz_ln.html|archive-date=July 18, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbusunderground.com/columbus-was-once-known-as-arch-city/comment-page-1|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102062726/http://www.columbusunderground.com/columbus-was-once-known-as-arch-city/comment-page-1|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 2, 2013|title=Columbus was once known as 'Arch City'|access-date=June 21, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Prize For Double Light Arch Design Won By W. A. Paine|newspaper=The Columbus Dispatch|url=https://infoweb-newsbank-com.webproxy3.columbuslibrary.org/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&t=pubname%3A1467499E363272B3%21Columbus%2BDispatch&sort=YMD_date%3AD&page=1&fld-nav-0=YMD_date&val-nav-0=1909&fld-base-0=alltext&maxresults=20&val-base-0=%22Toledo%20and%20Ohio%20Central%22&docref=image/v2%3A1467499E363272B3%40EANX-NB-16342F18B53A08E8%402418387-163428ECCCA0751A%4012-163428ECCCA0751A%40|date=March 21, 1909|access-date=December 26, 2022|archive-date=September 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230920165825/https://login.webproxy3.columbuslibrary.org/login?qurl=https://infoweb.newsbank.com%2fapps%2fnews%2fdocument-view%3fp%3dWORLDNEWS%26t%3dpubname%253A1467499E363272B3%21Columbus%252BDispatch%26sort%3dYMD_date%253AD%26page%3d1%26fld-nav-0%3dYMD_date%26val-nav-0%3d1909%26fld-base-0%3dalltext%26maxresults%3d20%26val-base-0%3d%2522Toledo%2520and%2520Ohio%2520Central%2522%26docref%3dimage%2fv2%253A1467499E363272B3%2540EANX-NB-16342F18B53A08E8%25402418387-163428ECCCA0751A%254012-163428ECCCA0751A%2540|url-status=live}}</ref> "Cap City",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.columbusmonthly.com/news/20181126/as-it-were-arches-first-job-deter-ruffians|title=As It Were: Arches' first job: Deter ruffians|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=April 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417002556/https://www.columbusmonthly.com/news/20181126/as-it-were-arches-first-job-deter-ruffians|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=csEBvE4uUlAC&pg=PP15|isbn = 9781439600870|title = Columbus and the State of Ohio: Cool Stuff Every Kid Should Know|year = 2011|publisher = Arcadia|access-date = March 19, 2023|archive-date = June 30, 2023|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230630235454/https://books.google.com/books?id=csEBvE4uUlAC&pg=PP15|url-status = live}}</ref> "[[wikt:cowtown|Cowtown]]",<!--See [[Special:Permalink/922394778]]--> "The Biggest Small Town in America"<ref>{{cite news |last=Gapp |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Gapp |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=March 29, 1980 |title=The American City – Challenge of The '80s |pages=1, 10–11}}</ref><ref>[[The Columbus Dispatch]], May 11, 1986: "Progress, growth are not in 'Hicksville' dictionary" pp.B2 (By Bob Young)</ref><ref>[[The Columbus Dispatch]], April 26, 1986: "Bigger is not always better, growth not always progress" pp. 10A (By Brenda Petruzzella)</ref> and "Cbus."<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/02/28/like-it-or-not-cbus-now-citys-nickname.html | title = Like it or not, Cbus now city's nicknames | work = The Columbus Dispatch | access-date = February 28, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140305131132/http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/02/28/like-it-or-not-cbus-now-citys-nickname.html | archive-date = March 5, 2014 | url-status = live }}</ref>