Talk:New Paltz (village), New York

message: The end of the history section as well as the paragraph on politics have largely the same information, with one contradiction.  The history section says Julia Walsh is a Green Party member but the politics section says she is a democrat.  The two paragraphs should be merged and the party affiliation of Julia Walsh should be clarified.  --Beirne 00:06, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplicate paragraphs on politics 

message: Removed "Daniel J. Torres" from the notable residents list.  I cannot find anywhere on google that can tie anyone with this name to New Paltz in a 'notable' way.  If you revert - please put some evidence here to back it up.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Caidh (talk • contribs) 02:24, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Daniel Jason Torres lives in town.--otherlleft 14:10, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Residents section 

message: I happen to agree with unsigned on the police issue. The motto for the town should read "Welcome to New Paltz, you're under arrest". I can't even tell you how many times I've had my car damaged by police dogs, my things broken, and them finding nothing. Then laughing that my car was trashed. The probable cause for them is, there's a person who's under 30 and driving a car. I avoid driving through the town whenever possible. People are afraid of the predatory tactics in the town. People are afraid of the police. 
Secondly, in regards to dirty, filthy drinker drivers. Let's consider the fact that every major parking lot in the town threatens car impound if you leave your car overnight. This CREATES drinking and driving. People do not know where to park and get put into the situation. Apparently there's a non-listed park and ride across from Stewart's that might be safe to park in. There's no signs. There's no literature. There's only threats and police swarming like sharks at 2am. 
On one occasion I had a a driver who thought she was fine, she had 3 drinks over the course of the night. An officer was stalking the bar we were at so I marched her over to the officer and demanded that she be breathalyzed before she got in her car. The officer was ANGRY. He reluctantly performed the test. But then refused to let us see the numbers and said.. "I dunno.. MAYBE she can drive". This means, he wanted her to get in the car so he could pull her over despite our encounter so he could get the collar. WHAT A DICK. We took a taxi ($20 bucks one way) and requested that we could leave the car at the bar. The bar owner had to write a special note to stop the car from being toed. 
New Paltz, has Town police, State Police, Campus Police, Sheriffs, and you occasionally see Environmental police and rangers. From what I hear. The police arrested 150 collage kids last week. People who are trying to invest their money and time into a career only to get a black mark on their record that will haunt them forever. 
Police are a necessary element in society. Without them there would be total anarchy. However over policing feels like tyranny. New Paltz is a tyrannical police shark tank, and the parking lots are a set up that promote drunk driving. It's probably known by the police and town that it's a set up and they don't care because ruining lives equals money. It's also great business for "Tow-Riffic" who seems to be in kahoots with the whole scam. It gives the town a bad name. 
184.74.239.106 (talk) 17:24, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Over policing in New Paltz, DUI scam 

message: I have conducted interviews with several local residents about Halloween in New Paltz and published the results in a series of articles.  I hope that an editor may find some of this information useful in developing the Halloween section of the article, as New Paltz itself gives Halloween more weight than the present sources are able to indicate.
The kicker is that, should any of these article be considered, the editor will have to request it be whitelisted in order to reference it.  The publisher's site has been blacklisted, but there is precedent for whitelisting individual articles that are considered verifiable.
These are the article URLs:
http://new-york-travel.suite101.com/article.cfm/haunted_hasbrouck_carries_on_a_scary_tradition
http://holiday-entertaining.suite101.com/article.cfm/new_paltz_halloween_parade_open_to_all
http://sculptingmaterials.suite101.com/article.cfm/night_of_100_pumpkins_draws_new_paltz_artists
http://pagan-wiccan-practice.suite101.com/article.cfm/samhain_in_new_paltz
http://dutch-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/huguenot_streets_historical_halloween_event
http://kids-holiday-activities.suite101.com/article.cfm/new_paltz_teen_seen_haunts_community
The first two are, in my opinion, the most valuable, because they contain historical information which was new to me.--otherlleft 14:22, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi otherlleft.  My gut instinct is that these sources don't pass WP:RS as the site doesn't display a "reputation for fact-checking and accuracy". If it did then I wouldn't be objected to you using them as citations within the article, but I don't believe that they'd be acceptable as external links. I've posted this at WP:RSN and you're welcome to contribute to the discussion there.  If the consensus there is that the site meets WP:RS than I wouldn't object to letting you cite the article without going through the normal COI routine, as it is obvious that you know the gist of the COI editing guidelines.  ThemFromSpace 23:10, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

text: The information does not appear to have any unique scholarly basis – they are just general articles. Accordingly, the links should not be added as they do not clearly satisfy WP:EL. Per WP:NOTDIR Wikipedia does not attempt to list all relevant links. Johnuniq (talk) 01:42, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

text: Not a problem - I found that some of the interview subjects contributed previously undocumented historical information, which is why I suggested the review.  I won't participate in the RS discussion because I've as yet been unsuccessful in getting the editorial staff at Suite101 to seriously consider any changes.  Cheers!--otherlleft 12:24, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Halloween sources