Talk:Farmington, Maine

message: I changed the wording in the opening paragraph from "University of Maine's Farmington campus" to just "University of Maine at Farmington," the university's official name.  My reasoning is that the previous term seemed to imply that Farmington is a campus of a larger university, when in fact it's a free-standing university within the UMaine System.  If no one objects....  JamesofMaine 20:25, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: Various IPs continue to suggest that Beethoven visited here.  They give a source as a "Franklin County Chronicle".  Given the population of Franklin county in the 1790s, I have my doubts such a paper existed.  I also have never seen a reference of a visit by Beethoven to North America.  I will continue to revert what appears to be vandalism by IP sockpuppets unless given further evidence.  Did such a publication exist in the 1700s?  Did Beethoven visit the North American continent?  I am highly dubious of either.  78.26 (talk) 02:48, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Before i turned my focus to newspapers in the early u.s. i allways thought, Beethoven seldom left vienna. but as i referenced, in an early march 1794 edition of the Eastern Herald (wich exsistence is referenced e.g. here: http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/newspapers/explore/USA/Maine/ ) you can find a reference to an 'Franklin County Chronicle' article, wich said beethoven was. it is still dubious but worthy to put in an encyclopedian article (about farmington not about beethoven).85.178.184.199 (talk) 13:57, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, there was an Eastern Herald (published out of Portland, Maine from 1792 to 1802. It was a weekly publication.  In March, 1794 it published on March 3rd and 10th, but not the 7th as you claim.  I also could find no reference to Beethoven in this publication.  That said, either we're getting somewhere, or this is one of the more elaborate hoaxes I've run across on Wikipedia.  Either way, you are to be congratulated....  78.26 (talk) 14:32, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: More importantly, consensus has it that a simple visit by a famous person is not a "notable event". If he performed some notable concert here great, talk about that, but visiting is not a notable event. See: (WP:USCITY) Dkriegls (talk) 23:19, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, but i disagree. The Notabilty of any event is related to the importance of the place, since an open encyclopedia is made by the users and for the users even in nowhere. so if the pope visits new york its not notable since new york is visited by many important people. but if the pope is visiting the moon, its maybe notable. 85.179.65.13 (talk) 01:13, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not an "open encyclopedia" whatever that is. It is an encyclopedia written by many. If you want to learn about how Wikipedia works, you can start here Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Mainly, Wikipedia is not a newspaper about local events. Wikipedia:Notability has a specific definition. There is a lot of encyclopedic information about Farmington that is not written yet, and I encorage you to research it and add it to the page. It is fun time (even with debates like this) :)  Dkriegls (talk) 17:54, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Beethoven, the Maine event

message: Population was fixed. It had some bizarre number, 7000 something or other, and the page states that it uses the 2010 census data. 
Reference: official data
Perhaps the other number represented the greater Farmington area?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.209.78.147 (talk) 16:01, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixed the population 

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message: I noticed something that might be vandalism. Could someone please check?
At Farmington,_Maine#Prophecy the link to  Licia Kuenning (formerly Lisa Bieberman) goes to Timothy Leary#Psychedelic experiments and experiences, impying thartthe prophesy was a result of drug use, not religious belief.
Also, are any of these suitable references for that section?
* https://web.archive.org/web/20120510235040/http://www.downeast.com/notes-from-upstream/2009/june/farmington-jerusalem
* https://quakertheology.org/farmington-farmington-a-review/
* https://quakertheology.org/apocalypse-later/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20091202084828/http://www.megalink.net/~klee/neworder.html
* http://www.qhpress.org/users/~klee/novel.html
* https://groups.google.com/g/soc.religion.quaker/c/Hm4Vs2XkHD8
* https://billanddavescocktailhour.com/caution-end-of-the-world/
* https://strangemaine.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_archive.html
2600:1700:D0A0:21B0:34A3:8C98:350B:62D1 (talk) 06:42, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism?