Talk:Salem, Missouri

message: I am not trying to edit war here, but I do want to point out that the edit cycle on Wikipedia goes make a bold edit, someone reverts that edit, discuss on talk page til a consensus is reached.  It does not go bold, revert, reinstate, discuss.  Therefore, I will again be removing the reference to the recent special election and I will watch this space for discussion on why it should be in there.  As I said above, a special election to replace an elected official who resigns is just not important in the bigger picture of things and no assertion of anything special about it is being made.  It is simply a case of adding stuff because there are sources for it.  You can probably find a source for the results of every high school football game too, but that doesn't mean it should be in the article.  Would someone from say Great Britain care whether there was a special election in 2013?  Doubtful.  Well that is your intended audience here, not the local community. Gtwfan52 (talk) 05:38, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps somebody else such as GreyWanderer or DocKrin would prefer to give comment here. Has the town ever had a local resident elected to a national office before Jason Smith or not? If not, this would be a historical first for little Salem. Sent query to Jason T. Smith Wikipedia staff to see if Smith is indeed the first resident ever elected to national office/Congress.Taram (talk) 09:42, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: First off, that would be WP:OR.  Second, even if he was the first person from the town elected to a national office that is only historical to the town.  He certainly rates a brief mention with a Wikilink in a "Notable people" section.  That is why the city article guidelines include a Notable people section. And he has an article which he well deserves as a congressman.  I do not understand what you refer to when you say "his Wikipedia staff".  Can you please elaborate? Gtwfan52 (talk) 17:21, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That is a great idea, Gtwfan52! I do not want to take your idea, so would you like to edit the page and add the Notable figures section as they have in the Kirksville, Missouri section? I could do it someday, but I do not want to steal your edit. As you may have read, somebody suggested to me that it might be valuable to note that Smith was the first person ever elected from Salem for a national  office, though whether that is important is debatable. I think it is important to Salem, but not to anybody else. So, I tried to do some checking on that. Smith had staff watching his Wikipedia page during the election (along with Twitter, Facebook, and the like), but they seem to have moved on or with him to Washington. That is what I meant, but it seems to be a washed out idea, now, since they are all gone. Thank you! Taram (talk) 17:51, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: If the page deems a firstto be significant for the page, perhaps the Library of Congress has records of where variuos Congressmen and wowmen came from.Taram (talk) 17:57, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

text: Gtwfan52 : Are you planning on adding a notable figures section to the Salem page? Thanks! Taram (talk) 15:11, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  yes, sometime tonite after my boy crashes. :)  Gtwfan52 (talk) 21:42, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  History section 

message: It is apparently important to note in the case of Phineas, the man who had been mayor of Salem for 14 years dropped out of the 2014 mayoral race after Phineas was released by the courts and was replaced in office by the man who had sheltered Phineas and disagreed with Brown's declaration that the yellow lab was dangerous and had to be put down (That being J.J. Tune.) While nobody ran against Brown in the past, he had 3 challengers in the 2014 mayoral before he dropped out of the race.Taram (talk) 01:43, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gary Brown 

message: "Salem" is an Arabic word which can be transliterated into Hebrew as "shalom." See Salem (name). The source currently listed on the page claiming it to be Hebrew alone was written in 1916 and does not name its source (it only claims "one historian" suggests that Salem is a Hebrew word), so it cannot be investigated or challenged. This either needs to be clarified on the page or removed, but fighting to keep the statement just because another editor may dislike this editor is inappropriate.Taram (talk) 17:40, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Truth is a secondary concern on Wikipedia.  There is a valid reference for it; you have none for the edit you want.  And BTW, please read WP:AGF. John from Idegon (talk) 18:05, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: "Truth is a secondary concern on Wikipedia?"  May we quote you on that?Taram (talk) 18:14, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

text: And thank you for the  WP:AGFlink. The first archive on the talk page has interesting and useful information on "the issue of editor 'stalking' on wikipedia."Taram (talk) 18:40, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Salem versus Shalom 

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