Talk:Lowell, Massachusetts

message: I made a pretty major rewrite of the history section. Enjoy the process of revising it. Couldn't figure out how to cite offline sources; my source for the early history of the site of Lowell is Gookin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.147.228.204 (talk • contribs) 03:16, 27 July 2005
More recent additions: I changed the listing of "Centralville" to reflect the way it is spelled by the Lowell Police Department on their website; I have seen both spellings in wide use. The only neighborhoods I mentioned that are not listed on the Lowell Police Department website are "Lower Belvidere" and Oakland. Oakland is the area around Shedd Park (particularly on the south and east sides of Shedd Park: the school used to be called the Oakland School, and the Fire Station near the park was called the Oakland Fire House, I believe (and I think both buildings probably still have the name "Oakland" on them).
I added a short description of the government of Lowell. I added the names of the current City Manager and the current representatives in the Massachusetts House and Senate, and the representative in the US House, because those names don't change too often (but added a date). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.147.160.15 (talk • contribs) 23:31, 16 August 2005.
[24.147.228.204 (27 July 2005) and 24.147.160.15 (16 August 2005) edits by same person. Yes, I want to remain anonymous.] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.147.160.15 (talk) 23:37, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You also forget to mention many more neighborhoods that make Lowell what it is.  There is "Wigginville" which is off of Lawrence St. adjacent to the SouthWood Plaza.  "Riverside" is the neighborhood off of Woburn St. that has a school that bears the neighborhoods name.  "Swede Village" which is off of Gorham St. near Lundberg Ave. and Stromquist St.  "Middlesex Village" which is near Hadley Park up on the high side of Middlesex St.  "Back End Belvidere" which is off of Andover St. from Harland Ave. to Burnham Rd. to River Rd.  This neighborhood is right adjacent to "Broad Acres" which is anything from Trull Lane to Stafford Rd. back to the Merrimack River. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.232.132.46 (talk) 04:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Old statements about someone's edits

message: Prosperity? I find the line "The public and private funds that have been invested in Lowell in the past few decades have been paying off greatly." to be a little baseless and simply anecdotal. Are there any numbers that can back this claim up? Are more businesses being opened and surviving? Are median incomes rising faster than inflation? If there isn't such information, and instead we have only the assurances of the elected officials, I think it should simply be considered an advertisement for the city and not actually fact. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.253.229.131 (talk • contribs) 13:59, 18 April 2006.
:I think it can be reasonably argued without any numbers that the opening of the National Park, the renovation of many of the old mill and commercial buildings, and the improvements to public space have been good for the city as a whole - at least its image.  The median income in downtown has gone up quite a bit, although it remains well below the city-wide average.  Compare Lowell to Lawrence - something is paying off.  Crime rates have fallen dramatically in Lowell in the past 15 years:
:http://www.lowellpolice.com/crime_safety/crime_rates/crimerates.htm
:This isn't very formal and maybe someone should do some more formal research, but I think the statement in question is fair.
:-- CSZero 15:43, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Statement about prosperity True/NPOV ?

message: Per this section, I currently live in Lowell. Let me know if I can inform you on local things. Yankee Rajput 13:56, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: I'm From Lowell

message: The info box lists Lowell as having a Mayor/Councel government.  This is incorrect I believe.  Lowell has a Council-manager_government and the Mayor is more or less only a figurehead.  Does anyone have a problem with me changing this? CSZero 14:49, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just noticed that the actual "government" section on the page is correct, so I'm just going to make the change. CSZero 14:50, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Government

message: "Please do not add links to your book to Wikipedia, as you did to Lowell, Massachusetts. This is considered spamming. Thank you, CSZero 16:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but the text of the book is not available at the site.   Wikipedia:External_links is the guideline on this sort of thing.  As a Lowell resident from a long line of Lowell residents, some French-Canadian, the history is definitely appreciated.  Perhaps we need an immigrants section in this article, since Lowell's history, intertwined with its industrial heritage, is those who have come here and continue to come here looking for a better life.  However, we cannot allow Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, to become a collection of links to books that must be paid for, or compete against each other.  CSZero 15:02, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Let me add that I feel that many of the books in the "Lowell in Print" section are unnotable and are basically spam as well.  Jack Kerouac, for example, is a well-known, encyclopedic person.  Many of the other people are not and should probably be removed.  Actually, let me go do that now and clear out the red links.  CSZero 15:05, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Link added for text about immigrant women coming from Canada, historical

message: I think we should move the history section into its own article: History of Lowell, Massachusetts.  For now, I've just tagged it a stub with a bunch of links, but I plan to, or others might, make it a bit more coherent and pull some of the size/pictures out of this article. CSZero 19:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There.  I completed the article this morning.  Please edit away.  I feel bad that I didn't inline cite virtually at all, but I did include a bibliography.  Also, the Greater Lowell article I feel could use a hand other than my own in it.  Thanks, CSZero 05:43, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Does anyone want to reconcile/edit the History section on this page with the History of Lowell, Massachusetts article?  I don't want to do it, because since I wrote the latter article, I'd feel I'd be unfairly biased doing it.  Thanks, CSZero 13:30, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. CSZero 17:22, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: The history section on this page doesn't cite a single source, DalmatianMommy is correct.  A large percentage of this information can be verified at .  What's the convention on how to attribute a section to a single source? CSZero 12:37, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources Cite Request

message: CSZero, the film has apparently indeed been renamed as The Invention of Lying. If you check the article itself, I have added a reference to Ricky Gervais's blog that mentions the name change in an April 2009 entry. It's kind a weird since this follows so closely on the heels of the February entry where he specifically mentions that the name is not Invention of Lying! My guess is that Warner Bros. told him he had to use the more basic/straightforward name, and that's what we're seeing here with the reversal on his statement about the title. –Fierce Beaver (talk) 21:35, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, thanks for the clarification :-) CSZero (talk) 17:59, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The Invention of Lying/This Side of the Truth

message: Both this article and the Cambridge article claim their respective cities to be the fifth largest in the state.  I suspect it is this one that is incorrect, but I will leave it to someone familiar with these pages to decide. Debollweevil (talk) 07:12, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem is some people are going by the 2000 US Census, which puts Lowell in 4th.  More recent local censuses put Lowell in fifth. CSZero (talk) 09:14, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Fifth largest city?

message: Might want to link this in somewhere.  CSZero (talk) 18:59, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Economy

message: David O. Russell was the director of The Fighter, as noted by The Fighter  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.216.137.144 (talk) 20:26, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The Fighter

message: It says that Lowell is ranked around the mid-100s in a crime ranking. When I checked the source for 2009, it puts Lowell around the mid-200s. Can someone verify this or is there something I'm missing?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.147.251.239 (talk) 06:12, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Crime Ranking?

message: Lowell National Historical Park Ethnographic Overview and Assessment: Ethnicity in Lowell by Forrant and Strobel 2011
:available online
The American Community Survey from the Census Bureau will have the most current statistics: http://www.census.gov/acs/www/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by NegMawon (talk • contribs) 20:31, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
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message: I've noticed that under the Private Schools section, the citation for St. Stanislaus School is actually from the website for St. Stanislaus in Fall River, MA. I was able to confirm that St. Stanislaus Elementary School did exist in Lowell, located at 368 High Street, and it is currently closed. According to Google Maps, that address is now Holy Trinity Polish Church. I was unable to find any more info on St. Stanislaus Elementary School. I'm fairly new to Wikipedia editing, so what's the proper procedure for rectifying this? Con268 (talk) 03:45, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Edit: I can cnfirm this school did exist, and it is now closed. Me and my siblings used to attend it. It was VERY small and niche. The school was associated with Holy Trinity (I was a member there too). The church still exists, the school is closed. The building is still there but is abandoned. 2601:18C:D080:22C0:EDFF:C4E3:91E0:BE33 (talk) 17:16, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
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message: Can anybody confirm the flag of Lowell? It seems dubious. Dylanvt (talk) 21:03, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I took the liberty of removing the flag. Dylanvt (talk) 23:24, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag 

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message: The chart listing private schools should be overhauled. 4 of the 12 on the list, or a full third, have closed permanently. It seems redundant to list closed schools alongside open ones. Maybe a separate chart should be made for schools that have closed? Or maybe in this section of the page there should be elaboration on the decline of religious education in Lowell as I'm certain there used to be many more religious schools in the past.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:18C:D080:22C0:EDFF:C4E3:91E0:BE33 (talk) 17:13, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
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message: I'm a new employee at the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell, and the URL currently listed is outdated.
The new URL for the school is:
https://www.collegiatelowell.org/
I would make the change myself, but I do not know how to do so.
Would somebody please make this change?
I thank you in advance for your time and attention to this matter. Recycler1973 (talk) 20:09, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested URL update for a public charter (K-12) school