Talk:Darien, Connecticut

message: I've removed this addition to the section:
*  Baubles Jewelry Store,  Sterling Silver 1070 Post Road, Darien
I removed it because when I started that section, I realized that it was open to abuse -- any business in town might be listed unless we have some standards for it. This is my proposed standard: A business that is well known throughout the town either because it is very old (not sure how old should be the cutoff) or because it is well known for doing something important or doing it extremely well, or does something innovative that no other business does. That standard could probably be refined more, but I think it's a good start. 
Does "Baubles" fit the standard? If not, I'd oppose putting it back in. Anyone have any thoughts?Noroton 20:38, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable retail businesses

message: The templates and images near the top are in severe need of cleaning;  they leave a lot of open space, and overlap.  I'd clean it myself but I don't have the proper knowledge to fix the templates readily at hand.  So please, Noroton, don't make snide comments about how if an article needs cleaning, I should 'lift a finger' and do it myself.  It isn't very polite.--Vercalos 22:44, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And this is polite? "Article is very sloppy. No offense to the contributors." You sound very much like someone else I've seen around here. Same lack of courtesy, same phony shock at being called on it. Same concentration on criticizing and lack (at least initially) of constructive help. If you're not "TJ" you two sure have a lot in common. Thanks so much for the changes you've made so far, it really helps to have the contents box crowd the top of the page.Noroton 00:20, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As opposed to having them crowded in the middle, just below the introduction?--Vercalos 00:38, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Well, I'm taking a look at the articles for other cities, and thinking it might be a good idea to flesh out the infobox and get rid of the images(at least in the introduction.  Check out Los Angeles, California and Detroit, Michigan to see examples of what I mean..--Vercalos 01:27, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, and as for getting rid of the white space, short of floating the Table of Contents(which seems to mess up the formatting even more if you try floating it anywere other than the top), it seems more or less impossible.--Vercalos 01:28, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I made an example in my sandbox if you want to see.--Vercalos 01:30, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I made a slew of changes which basically follow the Los Angeles and Detroit pages: I put a picture into the municipality box, removed the other pictures (I think having a picture up top is important, ideally a "skyline" type of picture showing some typical scene that everybody in town sees, but I think the picture in the box will do). I relengthened the table-of-contents box by returning subheadings to recreation and education. Now, as with LA and Detroit, the layout works either with full-screen or smaller window versions. Your help was useful.Noroton 02:57, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry about blowing up like that.--Vercalos 04:38, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: Where did you get the information that "In 1948 a billboard reading "Gentiles Only" greeted visitors on Hollow Tree Road."? I have not found or heard that info anywhere other than Wikipedia, despite having lived in Darien for several years. I realize that this quote, along with the information about Darien being a sundown town, has been removed but that merely makes the section about anti-semitism seem even more out-of-place and wrong. Please provide a source citation(s) to prove that Darien has an anti-semitic past and was not just used as a fictional example in Gentleman's Agreement. I am not saying it is not truth - it may very well be. I simply want proof. Without proof it's just really nasty mud-slinging. Thank you in advance! —Lilly Williams (talk) 15:27, 16 November 2006
:I was about to post that nobody from Darien must read Wikipedia but you proved me wrong, thanks. I changed the section title since the movie was fictional and references are required for such material. I remembering seeing this when I first joined Wikipedia and had the same concerns as you but didn't edit it. Anyways, if anybody else wants to chime in or provide sources, that would be fine. Thanks --Tom 18:29, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ditto with Tom.  I added a "citation needed" a night or two ago.  Like Lilly Williams, I'm not saying it's not true, but I'm saying for something like that a citation is in order.  I did a google search and couldn't find anything that wasn't wikipedia itself or an extraction.  I would give it a little more time, then if nothing is added, delete per WP:Verify.  Jakerforever 14:02, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Thanks so much for fixing this! —Lilly Williams (talk) 15:20, 15 June 2007
Darien is notorious in Fairfield County for being anti-semetic, and it is probably the only town in FC where real estate brokers actually tell their jewish clients, against their ethical rules, that Darien is probably "not a place they would feel comfortable". I obiviously don't have a source for this as it is unethical.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.119.103.36 (talk) 22:41, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anti-semitism? 

message: Please see my argument, asking for whether the cancellation listings are necessary, which I claim, are not. Jakerforever 18:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: From Education Page-talk

message: I removed this for NOW. If this plays out into something bigger MAYBE it should be included, but for now this should try to be an encyclo article and not current affairs it seems. Thanks for the link. Cheers! --Tom 15:15, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It was on FOX (news), not just the local stuff, so people on the west coast even were hearing about this.  It's a big deal for a dinky town, but yeah, probably not going to have *lasting* impact...it was a nugget of information....a tidbit if you will.  Jakerforever 17:44, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Then its probably best to leave it out for now, but I am on the wrong end on a few edit wars so please feel free to add it back in to keep my losing streak going :) Cheers! --Tom 19:43, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Kid sent to padded cell

message: The lead is made up of some unrelated "factoids" I have little experience when it comes to manual of style for US towns but this seems like it needs help. Any volunteers :)? Maybe just a brief introduction and then put the factoids in their appropriate sub heads?? Anyways, --Tom 18:15, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, you've got it backwards: Find out if policy supports you first, then make changes you know would be controversial. Noroton 21:55, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: controversial?? wow, I thought this was ONE page that was pretty calm :) Anyways, I just made a suggestion, geeeshh. --Tom 23:50, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead section needs attention again

message: Quote: "As a counterpoint, at least one townsperson thinks that dair-e-en, with the middle syllable a long e sound and an emphasis on both the first and last syllable, is the typical pronunciation. A strong minority pronounce it to rhyme with Mary Ann. Almost no one locally calls Darien, "Darion" (rhymes with Marion)." 
a Wikipedia citation is okay from one townsperson, as long as that person's opinion has been previously published.  I'm deleting the sentences. I will also delete the previous example of "Darion." Apparently the original writer is from an area where -on and -en both sound like "-ən." The mysterious "townsperson" apparently takes exception to this.  Both the example and counter example is unecessary and will be deleted. Cuvtixo (talk) 03:11, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What the heck? 

message: Several images are always nice to have in an article, but are so many images of paintings necessary?  Landscape after landscape adds nothing to the article beyond mere decoration and the fact that they're all by the same painter makes so many inclusions look promotional.  Yes, the guy liked painting landscapes of the area, but one or two images of paintings would get that point across.  Not to mention, his own article contains fewer paintings of his than this article and it only mentions Darien in passing while he is not listed as a resident, putting the relevance of multiple images from him in serious question.  Most of these images belong in a gallery in the painter's article, not here.   Mbinebri  talk ← 02:41, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course they're not necessary. They don't need to be necessary. He was a resident of Darien, at least for part of the year, in the years he painted those scenes. As better illustrations are found or created, we should remove the least important pictures to make way for them. Until then, the pictures add a bit to the article. -- JohnWBarber (talk) 04:33, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos/paintings 

message: Darien has active churches, with a long history of philanthropic and volunteer activities. In October of 2009, all ten churches in town came together with approximately 1000 volunteers to pack 228,096 meals for delivery in Haiti at the behest of "Feed My Starving Children," a Midwest-based non-profit. It was the first time in the group's history that all of the churches in one town had ever worked together.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.120.82.155 (talk) 12:07, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Darien's Churches  

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message: I propose to merge Noroton,_Connecticut into Darien,_Connecticut. I think that the content in the Norton article can easily be explained in the context of Darien, and the Darien article is of a reasonable size that the merging of Noroton will not cause any problems as far as article size is concerned. 
IonFreeman (talk) 13:15, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal