"This archive includes threads from Talk:Fairfield County, Connecticut from the page's creation until December 31st, 2007.  

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 ==Klan in Fairfield County== 
 A paragraph added to that section seemed to suggest that simple numbers of Jews and Catholics in the county meant the Klan had lost power. I'm not sure the Klan actually ever had power  the point of the paragraphs was simply that it existed in number in certain parts of the county. (It probably had some influence.) Since the Klan existed in white-minority counties in the South, simple numbers of Catholics and Jews in the county don't explain its withering away. (In fact, it seems to have been stronger where there were concentrations of Catholics  Bridgeport and Stamford, for instance.) I rewrote the paragraph to reflect the lack of a strong connection between demographics and the Klan, but kept the information in because there's probably a weak one. That paragraph could probably use more rewriting, perhaps clarifying the connection.  

 ==Should the Klan section be deleted?== 
 The History section is not neutrally reported.  There is a lot of great history to report and you chose to only talk about the Klu Klux Klan, shedding a very bad image on Fairfield County. 

 :So start reporting it, O Anonymous one. I happened to have information on the Klan around here that I got while reading a book and I put it in. Do your own contributing to that section. I did.  

 I think a good compromise would be to expand the history section to discuss European immigration to the County generally, and include in that some of the Klan references. As it is, it's completely out of context and seems to be added simply to grind an axe. I'm not sure about Wikipedia policy on this, but it would seem to me that it is not appropriate to add a singular event or theme of events as a history section until a broader history section is drafted. In the meantime I suggest moving this section into its own article or eliminating it completely. 

 :No.  

 :Now that's a great reason to contribute to an articlebecause you have a book lying around! The KKK's membership in Fairfield County is no more relevant to this article than membership in any organization. This article is about Fairfield County, not the KKK in Fairfield County, not the NRA in Fairfield County, etc. Because people belonged to an organization and had meetings 80 years ago doesn't amount to historical significance. As I said on the article's history page, it's triviaboring trivia at thatmoreover, it betrays laziness and a likely bias, conscious or unconscious, on the part of the person who inserted it.   

 ::If it belongs anywhere, besides in an article about the Klan itself, it would be History of Connecticut or Stamford, Connecticut. A county-level article from Connecticut is the wrong place for history.   
 It belongs where it is because it is not just Stamford based, as the section makes clear. Don't delete without consensus, which requires something more than your own opinion and that of an anonymous user. Wikipedia practice is to be inclusive when other guidelines are not violated.   

 ::: You've been reverted by five editors over the last year, and only you have defended the section. And Wikipedia is useful on inclusion/deletion. It is quite clear, however, that the section is unusual. There are no comparable sections in the other Connecticut county level articles, and in fact, no serious history in any of them at all. The edit you have been pushing is simply out of place.   

 ::::How many of those editors were anonymous? Anonymous editors don't count in establishing consensus. Feel free to go to Third Opinion. What does ""And Wikipedia is useful on inclusion/deletion"" mean? Uniformity is explicitly *not* a Wikipedia standard, so whether or not there are history sections for the other counties is completely irrelevant. I'd welcome anyone filling out more of the history of Fairfield County, but it's a big project and might take a while. It seems to me that interesting, important, even arresting information is a good thing to have in the article. I've added similar information about the Klan in Stamford, Darien and elsewhere and found that many users, almost always anonymous  I repeat: almost always anonymous  try to delete it, either wit