Talk:Falls Church, Virginia

message: "Members also participate in the Virginia Municipal League and some serve on statewide committees."
This will need a citation or will trash after 30 days.  No disrespect intended.
2222ARL (talk) 02:19, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: VML

message: This should be removed. The article says it's unclear whether they're from the City or from the surrounding area. They're from the surrounding area, the Falls Church region of Fairfax County. Some may work in Falls Church City, but the city itself is very heavily white. Most Salvadoreans in the area live in Annandale, Fairfax County and Arlington County.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.16.38.71 (talk) 01:16, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Salvadoreans

message: In the television show JAG, the headquarters were shown as "Falls Church, VA."  This, however, refers to a region of VA collectively known as Falls Church, not to the city itself.  Furthermore, the show wasn't actually filmed here.  The "JAG Headquarters" building shown on the show was actually the American Red Cross building in Pasadena, California.
===Deserving of mention?===
The TV show incorrectly states JAG Headquarters to be in Falls Church, Virginia (JAG headquarters are actually at the Washington Navy Yard). Is this worth mentioning? 23:55, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  JAG 

message: The TV show incorrectly states JAG Headquarters to be in Falls Church, Virginia (JAG headquarters are actually at the Washington Navy Yard). Is this worth mentioning? 23:55, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Deserving of mention?

message: People living in northern Virginia use the term "Falls Church" to refer
to what this article calls "The Greater Falls Church Area", a term which
appears to have been invented herein to support a POV.  It's not even clear
to me that most people who say they live "in Falls Church" live in the city,
as opposed to the surrounding region in Fairfax County.   I think the accurate
thing to do would be to check with the Census beaurea to see if "Falls Church"
is a CDP, and describe that (and it's various neighborhoods), and then have
a seperate article "Falls Church (City)".   I've lived in this area for 50
years and "Falls Church" has never specifically meant the city to me,
who lives outside the city.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.199.132.43 (talk) 17:56, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greater Falls Church 

message: Removed the statement in the introduction about the number of Starbucks stores in Falls Church being the highest per capita in the nation.  First of all even if the statement is accurate it is hardly something that would be worthy of being included in the introduction.  Second it is incorrect information, despite the fact that a citation to epodunk.com was included.  The city of Falls Church (which is the focus of this article) only has two Starbucks stores, not 8 as was implied by the statement in the introduction.Wikiuser1239 (talk) 23:03, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Starbucks 

message: I am removing the popular culture section of this article.  I looked at the WikiProject Cities guideline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:USCITY) and it did not seem to me that the popular culture section was appropriate for this article.  In addition, the information in the popular culture section did not cite any references and so I was not able to verify if it was accurate.
Wikiuser1239 (talk) 04:34, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing Popular culture 

message: I was looking at the history of this article, and "Arthur Douglas, leader of Virginian Jousting Association VJA" had been listed in the notable references for as far back as I could search the history.  However, this entry is clearly vandalism as could be seen by clicking on any of the links associated with it.  I have removed all possibly suspicious unreferenced entries in the notable references section because there may have been additional vandalism.Wikiuser1239 (talk) 05:09, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing Notable Residents 

message: What is the purpose of the Memorial Day section?  Does this really rise to the level of encyclopedic information?  Perhaps a heading simply listing annual events would suffice?
Most problematic is the bit on predatory towing.  This violates wikipedia standards in a number of ways:  it is POV (point of view), it is insignificant in terms of encyclopedic knowledge, it is enormously selective (how many other newsworthy items are worth reproducing here?), and it partly represents original research (e.g., the links to the video).  It should be deleted.
Troutfang (talk) 21:19, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  delete Memorial Day section, esp. re: predatory towing 

message: I have been editing & adding to the history section rather extensively (though still in overview mode, as Wiki wants), esp. for the 20th century.  It focuses only on the most noteworthy state and national level events, or local events that were part of those state and national events, and is based on some excellent interviewing and writing done by a FCNP reporter a few years ago (see citations).
I'd like to rework the earlier sections at a later date.  If you would like to work on any of this, post some notes here about your knowledge/interest.
Other than the Victorian Falls Church book, what are other good local histories?
Troutfang (talk) 05:25, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: I started a bit of reorganization, trying to follow Wiki:Cities models.  Added an Events section w/ annual & weekly ones added (I know there are more, incl. First Night, Falls Church Farm Days?, etc.).
Other ideas about organization?
Troutfang (talk) 05:27, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organization 

message: I notice that someone created an Economy section & added only one company, ENSCO.  This seems like a bid for advertising to me.  Anybody else think it should be deleted?  or else write an actual economy section that would actually describe the economy of Falls Church? Troutfang (talk) 02:02, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I lived over 25 years in the area, and I have never heard of ENSCO.  Sounds like an advert to me... Mark Sublette (talk) 02:38, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I see that you deleted that.  No qualms from me about you doing that. Troutfang (talk) 04:51, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I see that there is an article about ENSCO, but it is actually headquartered in Annandale, Virginia, which is definitely NOT Falls Church...  Ergo, it needed to go. Mark Sublette (talk) 06:05, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economy section & merely advertising for ENSCO? 

message: The article does not mention zip code 22042 part of which is within the City of Falls Church.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.255.92.236 (talk) 02:27, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zip codes 

message: Before randomly deleting this section (you know who you are), let's kindly discuss amending the language of the following sentence to make clear the original source TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE FACT THAT Falls Church City is not a County.  It is poor etiquette to "delete first and apologize later."  2222ARL (talk) 00:36, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Kindly do not use full caps when addressing others.  It is considered shouting.  Regards, FC Observer (talk) 15:31, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Richest County 

message: The blog references are dated and don't match the encylopedic nature of this article.  In Falls Church, blogs come and go.  Some are corporate-sponsored, such as Patch.com (a division of Yahoo!).  The local affiliate went dark several months ago and is now filled with national news...nothing related to Falls Church.  
One of the two stated blogs, the Falls Church Post, is reported to be updated daily, and yet they post only sporadically, and even on their home page, they only say they post biweekly.  
Indeed, the two blogs mentioned by name are not significant enough to have their own respective Wikipedia entries in the way that other media outlets in this section are (the Washington Post, for example).  
Finally, to keep track of all these, again, doesn't seem within the bounds of the scope of Wikipedia.  I'm suggesting deleting the references to the blogs by name and merely adding language to the effect that the City is served by a variety of blogs.  That's true of most cities, so I'm uncertain of the value.  It's sort of like saying, "People in Falls Church use Twitter."  Is there a city in America where residents don't?  But, again, that's my point.  There are blogs, like everywhere.  We either detail them exhaustively, or we don't, but we can't have two that are unrepresentative and out of date appearing to be the main blogs for Falls Church.  
Kind regards, 
FC Observer (talk) 15:26, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating the Blog references in the Falls Church entry 

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message: The text in the adjacent counties section is riveting, being completely blank, and no one could ever benefit from seeing how those counties relate to each other in space, location, and size. Maps should always be deleted. Abel (talk) 15:30, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
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message: Is it 2.0, 2.05, or 2.11 sq mi? All three are given in the article.--Khajidha (talk) 15:21, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Area