Talk:Fort Nelson, British Columbia

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All there is to say about Fort Nelson is a water ballon fight?

Could someone please write a bit about it's history, when it was founded, which aboriginal groups live in the area, demographics, mayor, etc?? (216.21.150.97, 09:30, 14 June 2006)

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Old Fort Nelson

This is a note to myself for later, or for anyone who'd care to start it, on Old Fort Nelson, British Columbia, which is a separate location, probably coincident with an Indian Reserve now, which is the location of the actual HBC post before the founding of the modern town. See "Old Fort Nelson". BC Geographical Names..Skookum1 (talk) 13:44, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

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Tidy up

This article was a mess. I have fixed all the bare references. Updated the stats from 2011 to 2016 census. Removed original research and unsourced opinions.

The lead was jumble of random and unconnected sentences. I moved stuff out and into better sections. The second paragraph had two sentences about where the community lies and driving conditions. But then the next sentence goes on about Greyhounds and medical access but no explanation. Then stuff about the population followed by residency. Next a short paragraph about forests and then back to medical access. Next paragraph about pharmacies and the older population.

In the opening paragraph the last sentence was "The recent divestment by the largest natural gas extraction company in the region, Encana, has extinguished any hope of a possible revival of the city-founding industry." and was referenced to this. The reference is about Encana but has nothing about divestment or any relevant mention of Fort Nelson. This is typical of multiple references in the article.

In the history second under WWII it says the town was named in 1850 for Nelson but that was before the war and shouldn't be combined.

In the Post Millenium section it said "Despite early optimism, the twenty-first century spells great misfortune for this small town." That's an unsourced opinion. It goes on to say "Many businesses have closed down, including the only lawyer in town," and referenced to this. It's sort of correct but the lawyer closed down because they were suspended. "The boreal protection initiative, with strong support of local first nations and the quiescence of newly elected mayor Gary Foster have further curtailed the potential logging quota and possible area for new gas well development." is sort of true but the amount of land is trivial.

In the next paragraph "Recently, frequent outage in electrical power, telephone service and internet access have put the municipality's basic infrastructure in serious question." That's one power and one phone outage, both in 2019, adn the internet was in 2017. Not really frequent and unsourced for the last part of the sentence. It said the triple homicide earlier in 2019 "has hampered the local tourism industry". Not only unsourced but the killings were in July and way too early to tell if there is any effect on tourism. Next "Aside from triple homicide, other incidences of increasing gun violence have disrupted the education system." referenced to here. This sounds like the number of shootings in Fort Nelson are increasing at an alarming rate. Truth is there were three threats at the school. This isn't good but there is no need to exaggerate.

In the Infrastructure section it says "In a recent petition to apply for maternity care coverage" but neither reference mentions a petition.

In general it looks like someone decided that they hate the place and decided to twist the references to make Fort Nelson look worse than it is. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 09:03, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

An IP thought that it would be a good idea to mix their comments in the middle of mine. Probably thought nobody would notice. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 09:59, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

And this IP with an axe to grind tried to refactor your comments again, which did not go unnoticed by me and surely would have not gone unnoticed by you. Now off to the IP's talk page to check warning history and see if already blocked as a result of the first instance... Hwy43 (talk) 09:44, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

While on the subject of tidying up, what's so “incredible” about the Aquatic Centre? Mr Larrington (talk) 13:39, 5 September 2022 (UTC)