Talk:Marshalltown, Iowa

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Isn't the municipality a top employer?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Idave147 (talk • contribs) 08:17, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I restored the deleted section. Better to edit the section for accuracy, and add information, than to delete wholesale an entire section of sourced factual material. (Incidentally, as far as I can tell, there is no material in the section reguarding any racial conflict within the Marshalltown community. The conflicts referred to in the article per se seem to be between some Marshalltown residents and federal agencies involved in the raid.) --Ramsey2006 00:23, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess it's more how the section is phrased; to me it sounds like something out of a newspaper rather than encyclopedia. In particular, the line that stands out is the "the baby refuses to eat" sentence. I wouldn't have said anything about the rest of the section if it hadn't been for that line, because as soon as I read that I immediately assumed that the author was attempting to make an emotional appeal, and then I couldn't help but read the rest of the section with an eye for bias. I understand that it is all sourced material, but it just seems to not fit in with the article, and in turn with all the the other Project Iowa articles on cities. However, I have no problem with it staying; I'll take a look at the sources and try to find a more encyclopedic way of phrasing it, and possibly try to balance it out by adding a line or two about why the government decided to crack down on illegal workers so we can get both sides of the issue covered. Wingman1331 20:24, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I have restored the reliably sourced factual material on the raid and its aftermath of the raid. I also changed the title of the section from the overly general "Marshaltown in the news". This is not really a general news section.--Ramsey2006 (talk) 12:48, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

text: Information on the raids has been re-added under the Immigration heading, as well as just more general demographic information to the rest of the article. There may very well be a lot more to say about immigration in Marshalltown (including before the 1990s). The page for Cleveland seems to offer a useful template on how to continue updating the immigration section, and adding other relevant information.TheBananaKingForgot (talk) 23:00, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias over Swift raid, racial conflicts, etc. 

message: is made in marshalltown. can anyone insert this into the industry section that is more knowledgable  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.88.230.11 (talk) 04:17, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
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message: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cities/US_Guideline#Notable_people says, "Provide information, preferably in prose form, of any famous or notable individuals that were born, or lived for a significant amount of time, in the city" (Emphasis added.)
Judge Fagg's bio says that he practiced law in Marshalltown from 1958 to 1972 (fourteen years). However, as User:Magnolia677 pointed out, Judge Fagg's bio only says that he worked in Marshalltown. The bio doesn't say, specifically, that he lived in Marshalltown. I can't find a source that says whether he actually lived there or not.
Is the fact that Judge Fagg practiced law in Marshalltown for 14 years, sufficient to include him in the list of Marshalltown's "Notable people"? Is there anything in WP"s guidelines that directly addresses whether a person who worked in a town for many years qualifies him to be listed in "Notable people?" Or can someone find a source that says Judge Fagg actually lived in Marshalltown? 2600:1700:7822:6190:5D90:B16:AB7C:1A6C (talk) 20:32, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do we add someone whose bio says he worked in Marshalltown for a significant amount of time? 

message: I found a source here that says George Gardner Fagg resided in Marshalltown. So, he belongs in this list of notable people. I declare this debate closed. 2600:1700:7822:6190:5D90:B16:AB7C:1A6C (talk) 20:39, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  I declare the George Gardner Fagg debate closed. 

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thread_title:  AFFORDABLE AND APPROPRIATE HOUSING SHORTAGE IN MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA 50158