Talk:Herndon, Virginia

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:The settlement was named Herndon in 1858. In the 1870s, many Northern soldiers and their families came to settle in the area, taking advantage of moderate climate and low land prices; some may have mistaken the town for being named for William Henry Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's law partner in Illinois.
Do we have a reliable source for this apparent confusion, or is this original research? ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:13, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for William Henry Herndon confusion 

message: Ther was a concernt in the city in 90's that attracted some major bands does that include mentioning. 
--AnthonygayraperCerbini 00:46, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music in the city 

message: I think this article is in need of information on elementary and middle schools; not just high schools.
<BR>--FLaRN<FONT COLOR="green">2005</FONT> (talk) 16:11, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education 

message: I recall reading a while back that Herndon's agreement with Fairfax County regarding Worldgate was to not incorporate any area south of the toll road until 2010.  It would be nice to have a source for that (with details corrected as necessary), incorporated into the article.  Tedickey (talk) 19:12, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Herndon "South of the tollroad"

message: The southern incorporation boundary of Herndon is at the Dulles Toll Road, yet there are parts of this article that talk about places with a Herndon address that are not in incorporated Herndon. My impression is that the article is about the incorporated town; if this is the case, I don't believe these items about unincorporated Herndon belong. What do others think? --Tim Sabin (talk) 15:31, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the article content should generally only cover places and events within the town limits, not the broader Herndon mailing address — unless the place or event directly affects the town.  Some examples are a reference to school or a future Metro stop that serves the town even though it is outside the town limits.  In those cases the fact that the place is outside the town limits should be noted.  --hulmem (talk) 16:12, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The same issue comes up in other contexts - the Post Office doesn't pay a lot of attention to town boundaries in any location that I'm familiar with (and occasionally it gets city boundaries wrong ;-).  Adding the clarification that the place is outside town limits is something that we should do however, to make the topic accurate. Tedickey (talk) 21:59, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Herndon - Incorporated vs Unincorporated 

message: There are large sections from this article that I have removed, due to the fact that they are directly copied and pasted off of various sources. As per WP:COPYOTHERS:
I see no such license or disclaimer on the text I've removed, and thus it needs to go. This is an important element of Wikipedia. Sections removed include:
* The entire "Downtown Master Plan" section.
* The entire "Metro Area Station Plan" section.
* The entire "Brand Identity" section.
All three of these sections were copied and pasted from press releases here, here, and here. It's worth noting that citing the source isn't the issue here; rather, it's because the source has been copied, rather than paraphrased. If someone wants to paraphrase these releases in an encyclopedic tone, they can feel free, but for now all this stuff had to go. – Runfellow (talk) 15:39, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violations/removals 

message: A reliable source is something which can be referred to "later".  Patch is ephermeral, not reliable. TEDickey (talk) 23:15, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Patch" as source 

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message: A recent edit asserted that USPS had a particular viewpoint regarding Greater Herndon.  Without a WP:RS, that part of the edit should be removed, since USPS treatment of unincorporated areas does not appear to be particular about Herndon or other places which have a main post office. TEDickey (talk) 20:33, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. While yes, many locations share the issue, what is the point of this project if not education? I actually live here and see how average people have no concept for how the distinction works, but as an educational product, this encyclopedia should. Famartin (talk) 23:42, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

text: However, the entire paragraph (like similar edits you've made today in several topics) is unsourced, and introduces a term which hasn't gotten into common usage (and in context, has to be sourced back to USPS).  TEDickey (talk) 23:46, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  need RS for Greater Herndon term