Talk:Ferndale, California

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"According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.0 square miles (2.7 km²), all of it land.
[edit] Demographics
As of the census[7] of 2000, there were 1,382 people, 611 households, and 392 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,343.2 people per square mile (518.1/km²)"
::so an area of one square mile, 1382 people in it, working the math we have ?1346.2 people per square mile? 98.148.182.33 (talk) 06:16, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: March 2010

message: Recently, an anonymous editor has repeatedly reverted a small comment about the presence of Sitka spruce in Ferndale.  I spent some time this morning and have changed the single mention of its presence to the following: 
... Local microclimates are varied and support tropical palm trees[1] and Sitka spruce,[2] including a mature Sitka forest in Russ Park,[3][4] and the over 150 feet (46 m) tall spruce lighted every year for Christmas.[5]
:1  Corwin, Diane (2011). "Palm Tree Toupee". Sense of Place. National Geographic. Retrieved 01 October 2011.
:2  "Ferndale Series". Soil Series of California. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 01 October 2011.
:3  Sawyer, J.O.; T. Keeler-Wolf (1995). A Manual of California Vegetation. Sacramento, California: California Native Plant Society. p. 471.
:4  "Russ Park". California's Redwood Coast. Humboldt County Convention & Visitors Bureau. Retrieved 01 October 2011.
:5  Hasslinger, Tom (January 9, 2011). "Tall tree tale". Coeur d’Alene Press. Retrieved 01 October 2011.
I realize it may be unlikely that this anonymous editor will read the discussion page.  He or she seems to be someone making mostly personal knowledge edits.  No citations have been left for any edit by this IP.  I request, however if indeed this person reads this section, to please enter into discussion about the pages before cutting out chunks with no explanation and no citations. Otherwise it begins to look like a pattern of disruptive editing. Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:06, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sitka Spruce in Ferndale 

message: I removed "The 1891 Eastlake-Stick Style Russ-Williams Bank Building (currently the Victorian Inn), corner of Ocean and Main, was designed by noted architect J. Frost, with a millinery store, a haberdashery and the Ferndale Enterprise newspaper on the ground floor, as well as business and professional offices on the upper floors." from the article because it is only one building in the historic district.  It might make a nice photo caption.  Ellin Beltz (talk) 02:56, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Points of Interest 

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message: There have been many edits by someone who is on the board at Ferndale Museum (see discussion on Ferndale Museum page) who has done a lot of "buffing up and building up" without citation.  Elsewhere, citations have been changed from the actual editor (Beverly Carlsen) to an editor of the second edition (Wendy Lestina) in many cases.  While Wendy might have proofread the text from first edition to second edition, she in no way did enough work to have B. Carlsen changed to W. Lestina.  This looks to me like more Ferndale Museum politics spilling out into Wikipedia.  
The worst ones are where the original citation says A, B, C - but this editor inserts other statements thus
A, B, Q, R, Z, C (citation).
These are incredibly difficult to root out and several taken off the Ferndale Museum page have been utterly without merit.  
I will be fact checking this page and removing a lot of aggrandizing elements.  I would request that the editor with the conflict of interest cease doing this to local pages.  I have no idea how many hours of work it will be to restore all these pages.  
Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:36, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict of Interest Editing