Talk:Appalachia, Virginia

message: "MOVIE STAR: PEGGIE CASTLE was born in Appalachia."
Is there any available data that backs up the above assertion?  If not, I believe it should go away until supporting data can be cited. --Takeel 21:58, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Found it in IMDB.  That's good enough for me, so I'll just clean it up in the article at least. --Takeel 01:23, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Also noted in the Peggie Castle article!  Doh! --Takeel 01:26, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "MOVIE STAR: PEGGIE CASTLE was born in Appalachia." 

message: Please see User talk:Davins111 for a bit of discussion on the link to http://www.appalachiava.net/ in this article.  I propose removing it and linking to the sites that are linked from http://www.appalachiava.net/ instead.  http://www.appalachiava.net/ appears to have little to no actual content of its own aside from links to other sites.  --Takeel 01:59, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It also appears that the website may belong to Davins111.  See discussion about this at User talk:Davins111.  --Takeel 18:32, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  link to http://www.appalachiava.net 

message: The website: http://www.appalachiava.net, is the Town of Appalachia, Virginia's official website. That link needs to be on the Appalachia, Virginia article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.171.5.72 (talk • contribs) .
: Hi, there.  It doesn't look like that domain is registered to the town's municipal government.  Would you happen to have any evidence to back up your claim? --Takeel 03:51, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  http://www.appalachiava.net 

message: To: Takeel,
The website domain is not registered through the town government, but the Town manager, gave the site owner approval of that website to be the town's official, if you think this is still false I can get the town manager to write a document on that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.171.5.72 (talk • contribs) .
: On Wikipedia, it's important that claims are verifiable.  In this case, it would probably be challenging to provide the necessary verifiability if a letter from the town manager is necessary because that would be difficult to cite.  Why don't you ask the community for ideas over at the village pump?  Click here to check it out. --Takeel 04:26, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  For information this has already been a mediation case on this subject, which ended with removing the link. I am a bit suspicious because User:71.171.5.72 is not signed in but sees to be as keen on including the site as the previous user in the mediation case User:Davins111. It is possible that this is the same user trying again. --MarkS (talk) 15:18, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  My second thought on this is that the website doesn't seem to contain much of value. If the website had a wide range of information about the town then I wouldn't object to its inclusion whether it was official or not. --MarkS (talk) 15:18, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: http://www.appalachiava.net 

message: Regarding the link to Yahoo News, the story originated from Associated Press.  This is probably a reliable source, so I reverted the edit that removed this reference.  I hope that nobody minds.  Thanks. --Takeel 05:04, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The link to the Yahoo news story doesn't work me. Yahoo tells me the page cannot be found. If the news item originated from Associated Press then shouldn't the reference refer directly to Associated Press rather than a (broken) derivative of the story. --MarkS (talk) 08:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for the notice; I fixed the URL. --Takeel 15:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference 2 (Yahoo News/AP link) 

message: We need to block the Appalachia, VA article, so that people that aren't users can't edit.
Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.19.254.226 (talk) 15:14, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  We need to block the Appalachia, VA article, so that people that aren't users can't edit. 

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message: Which photo is better suited for the infobox: :File:Downtown Appalachia, Virginia.jpg, the established one, or :File:Appalachia downtown.jpg, which I've just uploaded?
Note to WP:3O visitor — there's no dispute here, but I requested outside input because I don't want to use my photo to replace what could reasonably be seen as a decent image.  Like most articles about small towns, this has essentially no talk page activity (the last human edit was in 2013, and the last human edit that modified content, not article ratings, was just almost ten years ago.  So basically I'm asking you to pick which image you like better and put it into the article.  Sorry for using 3O, but  didn't seem right (putting in the photo wouldn't be a WP:COI violation), and I couldn't think of anything better.  Nyttend (talk) 02:18, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: They're both good, and they sort of complement each other. They look like they're taken from opposite ends of the same street. I like the "Appalachia" sign in the old photo, but the newer one gives a better sense of the mountains.  The article is long enough that I'd put them both in with captions "Main Street looking southwest" and "Main Street looking northeast". Which one goes in the infobox doesn't make much difference. Station1 (talk) 03:24, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Station1, thanks for your input!  It didn't occur to me to use both photos; that's clearly a better idea than using just one, so I've followed it.  Nyttend (talk) 04:15, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
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