Talk:West Palm Beach, Florida

message: I'm thinking of redoing the this page in the same layout of the Boca Raton, Florida one. Before I do, I need to know, how do I put in pictures?
:You'll need to upload them.  But be careful of copyright issues. - Chris 14:54, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I did the Boca pics and layout, for the most part.  I'd be glad to help you here.  It really was just a matter of 1: Shooting the photos, and 2: editing, editing, editing, the layout.  If you check the history, you'll see that I spent about 10-15 edits on layout tweaks!  It took the most work doing the transit section. ReignMan 21:14, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  West Palm Beach Page Project 

message: I removed the "Residents" section:
* It was only a mention of the Rice brothers
* ... and of John's death. 
articl* There are quite a few of us WPB residents out there and, sadly, we all can't be mentioned.  I'd also argue that they are not the only famous residents of the city.
- Chris 20:07, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed "Residents" 

message: We need some images for this article of the skyline and Cityplace!
:Can't guarantee when, but I can get out and take some.  Only thing: are there copyright issues just by taking those images? - Chris 22:35, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That makes no sense. "Palm Beach looking east" is the Atlantic Ocean. The article has several adequate pictures that include the downtown area. Dementia13 (talk) 03:45, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skyline and Cityplace images needed! 

message: The Styx was the name of the community on Palm Beach Island housing the black workers for Flagler's hotels. Exactly what happended to it, and when, is not entirely clear. See , ,  and . -- Donald Albury 22:35, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of Styx 

message: You already have a section on local sports facilities so could the National Croquet Centre http://www.croquetnational.com/ be added.  It is due to hold the world championships next May http://www.wcfcroquet.org/Tournaments/acwc2009.html when players representing 26 countries will be competing. MidlandLinda (talk) 22:07, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sport 

message: I removed the statement, "(Source: Florida Department of Law Enforcement)", from the article. When a citation is requested, we are looking for information that will let other readers find the source and verify what it says for themselves, as detailed in Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Citing sources. -- Donald Albury 22:34, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: The whole section appears to be original research. To start with, I do not know of any definition for a "West Palm Beach urbanized area"; most of the City of West Palm Beach is part of the Miami Urbanized Area, as defined by the Census Bureau. Cities from all over the county have been added to this list, as though all of the county counted as suburbs of West Palm Beach. I think that people in Boynton, Delray and Boca would argue that they are not suburbs of West Palm Beach. But what counts here is citing reliable sources, hard as they might be to find. -- Donald Albury 21:29, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suburban West Palm Beach 

message: I've just done a clean-up of most sections of the page, removing the weasel-worded and WP:OR-style hyperbole that appears to be straight from the city's tourist-brochure/publicity-guide. The page will be on watchlist to ensure that reverts and similar such  edits are removed. Plutonium27 (talk) 03:45, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publicity brochure style 

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thread_title: File:West Palm Beach Skyline Night 2.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion

message: I already question the encyclopedic nature of these sorts of sections, but this one is particularly long. It's huge. Is there any agreement that it should be trimmed? Scarlettail (talk) 15:53, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable People 

message: The Historic Districts section is large and unwieldy. Can we break it out into a new page? 174.48.201.128 (talk) 17:35, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historic Districts 

message: The current history section looks good. But there is a great deal of additional historical details that could be included. I would love too see more in there about West Palm Beach. -Melsis Lopez  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Melsis.sarai.lopez (talk • contribs) 04:24, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  More history 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I could not find the names of the city administrator, city clerk, or city attorney on the city's web site. IMO, there is no encyclopedic need to name appointed officials in most articles about municipalities, and if, in fact, the City of West Palm Beach does not list the names of such officials on its web site, then I think such officials are not significant enough to include in the article, even when their names can be found in reliable sources. Why should I leave those offices in the infobox? - Donald Albury 14:12, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appointed officials in infobox 

message: A "split section' template for Notable people was added in August 2021 but I see no discussion for it here. There is a comment posted much earlier saying that this section was "huge". I would not call the current contents huge. And the only justification for a new article would be to increase the Wikipedia article count. User-duck (talk) 11:54, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree: That's always a great thing when a list becomes so lengthy that it starts to overwhelm the page. It's a very bad thing if the list is not yet that lengthy. I'd agree the West Palm Beach list is lengthy enough to warrant a separate page (along with a main category listing under the page's subhead of "Notable people" as is typical done on pages with separate lists of its notable people).  TheGables (talk) 02:51, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split Notable people into separate article.