Talk:Dix Hills, New York

message: This is a note to all trolls and anons/users who would like to add names to the Notable Residents section. If a name is added, and is not notable, it will be removed on sight. If you are not sure of notability, ask yourself if it would pass CSD criteria A7. Your religious center's preachers, your spouse or your family member are probably NOT notable.
A list of Notable Circumstances are listed below:
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     If you have any questions, you are welcome to post them on my Talk Page. Thank you. Thedjatclubrock :-) (T/C) 02:07, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
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message: Does anyone remember a day camp in Dix Hills called Timber Lane?  My recollection is that it was on Burrs Lane.  In reviewing Google maps, Wikimapia, etc., I'm not sure I can locate it.  I'm wondering whether the property was developed.  It could possibly located at the intersection of Burrs and Calumet, but I can't tell.  ButtonwoodTree (talk) 02:24, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
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message: in the hope of turning things around, I will try again to work with you. However, the last time I made the attempt, I lathered praise upon you, only to receive a personal attack in response. My biggest regret in starting this one assignment is that it looks as though it may result negatively upon the Baker page. However, as you have made many edits and additions to the page, the deletion now seems highly unlikely. The assignment in question, the improvement of the notable residents section for Dix Hills, NY, was only meant to last during the holiday break. But there are still two entries that we feel may not be entirely correct; Jackson and Moriarty. It would be my pleasure to assist you from my vantage point in making these as accurate as possible. Therefore, before I make changes to these, I will certainly write my suggestions here for your thoughts and comments prior to posting. A very sincere "thank you" in advance for your assistance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.208.64.240 (talk) 17:10, 1 January 2014‎ (UTC)
:Could you please clarify who and what you mean by "we" and "the assignment"? I understand that you contend that 50 Cent doesn't live in Dix Hills daily. The sourcing says he owned property that his family occupied there. Whether 50 Cent spent one day a week or one day in his life in that DH house is of little concern since WP is not concerned with what is true as much as what the reliable sources can confirm (¶11). If you can find another reliable source that says the house was used otherwise, we can modify the article, but the only sourcing available says his house was occupied by his family and owned by him (which makes him a resident). I'm not exactly happy with Patch as an editorial authority, but it's all I could find for Moriarty (which is better than none, as the other unsourceable listings were deleted). It clearly says she lived in DH. On a WP note, please remember to sign your talk page posts with four tildes. czar ♔ 18:57, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: A few balls in the air at once here... I still don't know about the classroom/assignment nature of these edits or what "group" you're representing (there are COI guidelines if you have an affiliation, such as with the local library as you've mentioned previously), especially with the IP hopping. The 50 Cent links are largely copies or variations of the same text and the others don't say anything applicable. At best they say that he didn't live there, as in his ex-girlfriend and son lived there without him at the time of the fire. The property is/was owned by him for the purposes of his family, which would make his family residents regardless of his personal time spent there. Would you prefer to phrase it differently, and if so, what is your suggestion? I'm guessing you're fine with my rationale about Moriarty. The Baker stuff belongs on the Baker talk page, but I'll answer here fast. I removed a link to a YouTube video posted by someone other than the copyright holder (some random YouTube user). The link was to copyright infringing media, the same idea as linking to a page of photos that were posted without the copyright holder's permission. WP doesn't allow such links. If you linked to a Howard TV video posted by Howard TV, that would at least be a start. YouTube is usually only used as a last resort. For more, see Wikipedia:External_links/Perennial_websites#YouTube. The idea of general notability says that if the subject is so worthy of its own article, it will have plenty of coverage from independent, secondary, reliable sources (see WP:42), which Baker doesn't. He has a handful of mentions—asides in articles—but lacks significant coverage as an individual, as a topic. It would be impossible to write an article about him because there aren't enough reliable sources and, in fact, there aren't enough to reliably source what's currently written, as we're resorting to third-party YouTube videos while simultaneously arguing that he's a notable producer. That's why it's going to be deleted. I highly recommend flipping through the GNG, WP:FILMMAKER, and WP:BIO to get a feel for the types of subjects whose articles are kept. I also recommend the talk page guidelines for talk page etiquette like indenting replies. czar ♔ 23:47, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
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** "Ananias Carle, of Hempstead, was induced to settle in Huntington by a gift of a large arm at Dix Hills, as he was a military man and the people needed an officer to command their local militia efficiently against the Dutch and Indians." p. 36
** "Huntington, in 1776, was not thickly inhabited. The farm houses were scattered here and there over the East and West Necks, at Cold Spring, Dix Hills, Long Swamp, Sweet Hollow, West Hills, Fresh Pond and Little and Great Cow Harbor. The principal road ran from the east side of the Harbor to Dix Hills. There were some 225 freeholders living here at this time. ... Platt Carll had an inn at Dix Hills." p. 53
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** On Robert Moses building the Northern State Parkway: "The barons of the Dix Hills in the western portion of Suffolk County—Otto Kahn, Stimson, Mills, Winthrop and De Forest—had thrown back with contemptuous ease his attempt to penetrate the fastnesses they controlled, but Kahn's $10,000 had enabled him to snatch from James Roth and other meek farmers of the plains to teh south thirteen more miles of right-of-way." p. 299 (see map on following pages)
** On "long-term costs" of Moses's "accommodation" of the barons: in addition to the five-mile Wheatley Hills detour, "Coupled with the six-mile detour forced on parkway users by Moses's previous accommodation with Otto Kahn and the other Dix Hills barons, it meant that a commuter who lived anywhere east of Dix Hills and who used the parkway to get to his job in NYC was condemned to drive, every working day of his life, twenty-two extra and unnecessary miles. He had to drive 110 unnecessary miles per week, 5,500 per year—all because of Moses's 'compromise'. By the 1960s there were about 21,500 such commuters, and the cost to them alone of Moses's accommodation totaled tens of millions of wasted hours of human lives." Also "deprived the public forever of parks in the loveliest part of Long Island"—it was designed to be a road leading to parks, as the Southern State Pkwy, and apart from a spur to Caumsett, no parks were developed on the North Shore/Gold Coast." pp. 301-2
** Terms Moses's actions as "unconditional surrender" to the barons, and the two great southward detours the NSP makes are a testament to the barons' power, p. 303
czar 05:58, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
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