Talk:William Levitt

message: It seems like this is mostly about Levitt & Sons. Perhaps Levitt & Sons should be broken out into a separate article.  Several other pages reference it. Toddstreat1 03:08, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  split article

message: Moving quote unsourced since June to here.  If we can find a source, let's move it back.
Toddstreat1 05:08, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced Quote 

message: 1947: Housing [Municipal Code]
William Levitt, the developer of the nation's first modern-day suburb of tract housing in Long Island, NY, believed that segregation was good for business and used restrictive covenants to maintain racial homogeneity. Following the Federal Housing Administration's lead which recommended against "inharmonious racial or nationality groups," he used the following covenant in 1947 to create a segregated community: 
The tenant agrees not to permit the premises to be used or occupied by any person other than members of the Caucasian race. But the employment and maintenance of other than Caucasian domestic servants shall be permitted. 
Although Levitt eliminated the racial covenants after the 1948 Supreme Court decision declaring such provisions as "unenforceable and contrary to public policy," he continued to practice discrimination in his housing developments in New Jersey and Maryland. The original Levittown never had more than a handful of black families well into the 1980s, and remains 97 percent white today. Ironically, though Levitt was the grandson of a rabbi, he also agreed to use restrictive covenants to ban Jews from his early developments. In his mind, it was strictly business. (LI History)
Cited:
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/lawsoutside.cgi?state=New York  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.11.34.109 (talk) 15:33, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  William Levitt the Racist 

message: I would like to discuss several things blanket reverted by User:Magnolia677.
===Irrelevant text removed===
This is all mostly irrelevant and was moved, in some form, to Levitt & Sons:
I only kept the few texts that were actually relevant to William himself, such as his role in the development of Levittown, NY (as opposed to his company's); his appearance on Time Magazine; and his other community.
It was also a copyvio; see , where this "removed section" was relocated. In fact, almost everything from "While William Levitt was in Hawaii" to "the risk to the lenders was small" was plagiarized.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.12.206.17 (talk) 14:27, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevant information about Levitt and Sons, other changes 

message: This is all mostly irrelevant and was moved, in some form, to Levitt & Sons:
I only kept the few texts that were actually relevant to William himself, such as his role in the development of Levittown, NY (as opposed to his company's); his appearance on Time Magazine; and his other community.
It was also a copyvio; see , where this "removed section" was relocated. In fact, almost everything from "While William Levitt was in Hawaii" to "the risk to the lenders was small" was plagiarized.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.12.206.17 (talk) 14:27, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Irrelevant text removed

message: * Categories have to be alphabetized.
* Some cleanup of links (like U. S. Government to United States government), some addition of links that weren't there
* Tone changes. The previous version had a tone of unnecessary embellishment
* Removal of urls in "publisher" field, which causes errors.
* Removal of deprecated persondata
* Deleted image removed
* Some miscellaneous changes that were not "removal" and not unconstructive
I would like to know why these changes are being removed without good reason. The edit summary "This was sourced material" is not pertinent here, as there were 15 sources then, and there is the same number now. "It appeared relevant" is not true, but I don't think that a cursory glance can reveal that in depth. 100.12.206.17 (talk) 13:54, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Other fixes

message: Willingboro Township, New Jersey is now 70.5% African-American, as of the 2020 census, despite Levitt's efforts to exclude that ethnicity. Bill S. (talk) 16:10, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Willingboro, NJ mostly black today  

message: Levitt's film corporation should be included in his Wikipedia page. In 1971, Levitt joined Jerry Pickman to form Levitt-Pickman Film Corp., which specialized in offbeat and specialty product, ranging from Fellini’s “The Clowns” to Andy Warhol’s “Heat” and a telepic, “The Groove Tube.” Abazapa13 (talk) 17:19, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Levitt-Pickman Film Corp.