Talk:Princeton, New Jersey

message: thumb|200px|typical screet scene
I removed a picture to improve format; it doesn't add that much to the article anyway. Septentrionalis 22:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Street scene

message: This is a basic problem with NJ entries: how can we be clear what should be in the general entry, and what in the spearate township and boro entries? For example, several of the corporate locations named are outside boro/twp lines (FMC, Dow Jones), but several "Princeton" schools outside town lines (Chapin, P'ton Junior School) are omitted.
If I had my druthers, the whole lot would be combined in one piece, but that is not wiki style.
The simplest thing is to strip most non-statistical, non-political content out of the boro and township articles, and fill out and wikify this one. And boy does it need wikifying. What say ye?
Also, can we divide up the famous Princetonians among University students, University/seminary teachers, and other residents?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Natcase (talk • contribs) 05:05, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Princeton/Not Princeton

message: There are basically three catgories of noteworthy Princetonians: Alumni who never lived in town otherwise, University faculty, and everyone else. The first two categories are heavily covered in List of Princeton University people, and I think the first category should be explicitly removed here (e.g. Brooke Shields). There's too many famous alums to justify a duplicate list, and the list here is woefully short. I think we should divide the remaining list here into two parts: (1) Princeton University faculty (but what to do about folks at the INstitute for Advanced Study, the theological seminary and the Choir College?) and (2) other Princeton residents (in otherwords, we list here only people who didn't just go to school here). This will help separate the "grew up here" from the "had a job at the University here". Any thoughts?--Natcase (talk) 03:46, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed that individuals whose only connection was attendance at Princeton University should not be listed here. I'm unsure about the other cases. Alansohn (talk) 02:08, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Noteworthy Princetonians

message: Any objection to reducing the big fat lead? I propose creating two new sections: (1) Geography, discussing the different "Princetons" and the relationship to Philly and NY, and (2) Economy, mentioning corporate and retail features. The lead would then be very short, a single paragraph. My hope is this would allow us also to remove the "Points of Interest" list at the end of the article.--Natcase (talk) 05:57, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No longer relevant Werymash (talk) 20:55, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  break up the big lead 

message: No wonder why it's so confusing a zip code! I was trying to differentiate between the Princetons for a research project one time, geocoding addresses into municipalities by hand, and 08540's sprawl made it me difficult for me to assign or associate "Princeton" addresses with any one municipality. Yes, I realize zip code boundaries often don't follow municipal boundaries, but Princeton/08540's situation made association with a town particularly difficult. 192.12.88.7 (talk) 20:06, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 08540

message: Should we add one of those boxes for towns, villages, and cities here?--Regaina (talk) 14:58, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, we should. It heavily decreases the quality of the article without one of those boxes. I will look into inserting one, but since I am not very knowledgeable about them, it would be great if somebody else could help with that too. Alexroller (talk) 04:56, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Make an info box 

message: This article needs some serious improvement to meet Wikipedia standards. Noteworthy Princetonians needs to be removed or severely reduced to significant people born in the city. Popular culture sections are normally to be avoided. Points of interests needs to be written in prose, not as a list. The lead contains a lot of unnecessary information, and information which is not in the body (the lead is supposed to serve as an introduction to the article). Also needs an infobox. EricLeb01 (Page | Talk) 02:39, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ouch 

message: It looks stupid to say the borough was "created" on January 1, 2013 when "Princeton Borough" has existed for a long long time.  Princeton Township no longer exists.  Princeton Borough still exists.  It sounds more like the borough "expanded" and absorbed all of Princeton Township.  Can someone point to a source that specifies something "new" about the new Princeton Borough other than its much larger size?  Because otherwise, the beginning of this article needs to be edited to indicate that really, Princeton Borough has existed for a long long time and just recently absorbed Princeton Township, nothing more. Famartin (talk) 10:44, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The wording will be up in the air, but the new Princeton is a successor to both the former Princeton Borough and Princeton Township. While the new Princeton is also a borough, it was formed ab initio in 2013, as described in the Profile of Princeton on the new borough's website which states that "It is composed of the former Township of Princeton and Borough of Princeton which consolidated effective January, 2013 and is now known as Princeton." It may seem hard to appreciate, but the 2013 creation date is accurate. Alansohn (talk) 18:26, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

text: Perhaps incorporated is better than created. Regarding the naming, it is not up in the air, the ballot question was clear, the new municipality will be called simply "Princeton", not "Princeton Borough", even though it will use the borough form of government.The State of NJ has issued a new municipality code and is not reusing either of the former municipality codes. I am a resident volunteer on a Transition Task Force subcommittee and personally attended meetings where the attorneys were clear - we are to be called Princeton. I also called the Mercer County Clerks office to confirm today.Henry Singer (talk) 19:49, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: For now, the term Princeton alone is being used to distinguish it from either of the two old municipalities that it replaced.  While you are correct that the new Princeton is a new municipality that replaced both the old borough and township, a true merger, it is unlikely that there will be no municipal title other than Princeton.  It most likely will be Borough of Princeton or Princeton Borough, but for now it's too soon and they want to distinguish it from the old borough which ceased to be on Jan 1.  A call to the clerk's office is not a cited source, however, and in time when the dust settles the new municipality will probably be known as Princeton Borough (although it's not the same entity as the old borough but a new municipality created by a merger).   98.221.141.21 (talk) 11:17, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Borough created on January 1, 2013??? 

message: A proposal has been made that the articles for Borough of Princeton, New Jersey and Princeton Township, New Jersey should be merged into this article in the wake of the consolidation of the two municipalities to form Princeton as of 2013.
*Support Don't see any reason for these other articles to remain separate.  Time to merge. Who's with me? Famartin (talk) 18:42, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not suggest the articles be kept "totally intact."  But I also don't see the need for "rush" that seems to be going on here.  The municipalities have been consolidated for two whole days.  I believe there is a template that says that an article needs to be updated, maybe that can be placed on the two "old" articles, and then a rational deliberate process of eliminating duplication can occur.  I don't think there is a need for immediate, radical change to these articles.  Obviously in many places the present tense needs to be changed to the past tense, and some of that has already occurred, I am not sure whether it has been completed. Neutron (talk) 19:34, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Princeton Township, New Jersey and Borough of Princeton, New Jersey into this article 

message: It's technically set in two Princetons, ours and an alternate universe's, but I don't think that disqualifies it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.202.188.102 (talk) 17:21, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add the book Enchanted Ivy to books set in Princeton? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: These are not referenced in the article, and should be transferred there with a few details. Valetude (talk) 13:24, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
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