Talk:Port Chester, New York

message: I recently looked at the edits made by 209.49.43.89 and thought the information was relevant to the article. I don't know why DiegoTehMexican called it vandalism. I re-added it and also put in a sentence about The Waterfront and Costco. -- (EM1227819) 23:10, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Why was Port Chester page semi-locked????  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.206.79.227 (talk) 21:19, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I locked it because bunch of kids insisted on inserting a non-notable resident. We have some standards here, and failure to adhere to them will result in either protection or sanctions. The guy's name is Edward Eways; feel free to establish his notability if you wish, by creating an article for him, but these people just got boring. --Rodhullandemu 21:25, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

text: Then feel free to provide reliable sources establishing his notability; the relevant policy is here. --Rodhullandemu 17:35, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

text: Then find somewhere to edit which has non-"silly", but obviously lower, standards. There are plenty of blogs out there where any old rubbish is welcome. --Rodhullandemu 21:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Locking

message: I am too new to edit this semi-protected article. However, the following Web site offers credible information and photos about the Lifesavers Building.
http://www.westchesterarchives.com/ht/muni/portCh/lifesavers.html
If I were allowed to edit I would say that it's now been converted to condominiums.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sandymg61 (talk • contribs) 17:33, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That link is interesting. Now that you are registered, you have made the first step toward being able to edit this article, which requires that a user be autoconfirmed. Please get acquainted with Wikipedia policies, register your e-mail address, edit some other articles, etc., and you will be on your way to being able to add that link here! --Orlady (talk) 19:15, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lifesavers Building citation 

message: A user has been removing links to local media sources, including Port Chester Patch, The Journal News and the Westmore News.
All three are legitimate local news sources – Port Chester Patch and Westmore News are staffed by editors and reporters and exclusively report on the Village of Port Chester. They print in excess of 30 and 15 local stories each week, respectively. The Journal News is the regional print daily newspaper.
They are NOT content mills and the links are NOT spam. Repeatedly removing them is tantamount to vandalism. Wikipedia's rules are very clear on attribution to legitimate news sources, and the user who has been removing the links is depriving readers of information about Port Chester. 
Please do not remove the links to these local media sources. 
Stormstrike (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 22:00, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Attribution is not the same as adding external links. To rate an external link the target newspaper should be sufficiently notable to support a wikipedia article about it. Of course that means someone else has to publish a reliable source about those papers. It can be frustrating, but the rules do make sense. Are there books, journalism reviews, awards, or other secondary sources that establish these papers as notable? If so, by all means start articles about them. Short of that, they can still be cited as references to support statements in this article. They just can't be added as External Links. Cheers, LeadSongDog come howl! 16:26, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of links to legitimate media sources

message: Thanks to WP:ANI and a fast-working admin, this IP (the one that's been putting lots of uncited, POV material in the section on the high school) has been blocked for the next week. If he/she switches IPs, the next step is WP:RFP (semi-protecting the page to prevent IP edits). Allens (talk | contribs) 17:45, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  68.198.254.73: Blocked for one week 

message: I've removed this as I think it's way too detailed for an article about a town. --NeilN talk to me 22:37, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fire stations and equipment