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The article currently reads "Homicides hit a spike in 1998 when the city reached 162 murders. Murders drastically decreased in the following years but spiked again in 2006 with 153 murders. Until 2019, annual criminal homicide numbers had grown each year since 2011, reaching record highs from 2015 to 2018. With 144 criminal homicides, 2015 surpassed 1998 as the year with the most murder investigations in the city. With 159 criminal homicides, 2018 stands as the most violent year on record in the city" (emphasis added). Assuming that the undefined phrase "most violent" is referring to people being maliciously killed, it would appear that the article contradicts itself. Or is there a difference between "murders" and "criminal homicides"? To me, as a lay person, these are synonyms. Can some-one in the know clear this up? 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:F93C:2133:1B30:546E (talk) 22:38, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If a List of fiction set in Indianapolis is ever created, Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library by Eth Clifford [novel], An American Crime (movie), maybe Close Encounters of the Third Kind (movie), and The Fault in Our Stars should be included. 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:F93C:2133:1B30:546E (talk) 23:15, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The infobox has been showing a supposed "Interactive map of Indianapolis" that actually highlights the entirety of Marion County, not Indianapolis, due to some confusion in OpenStreetMap that dates back to 2020. Under Unigov, the Indianapolis city limits excludes "excluded" cities and towns such as Lawrence, but the map did not reflect this fact. Moreover, the OSM community has recently come to the conclusion that the included towns might need to be excluded too for technical reasons. In other words, OSM has been departing from the Census Bureau's "Indianapolis city" boundary but will be a little closer to it. The city's geometry has just been corrected in OSM, and d:Q6346#P402 has been updated. Therefore, the next time Wikimedia Maps refreshes its copy of OSM data, the infobox will show a map of Indianapolis that matches the area described in Indianapolis (balance). Minh Nguyễn ^💬 00:11, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]