Talk:Ocean City, Maryland

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One of the most influential events in the history of Ocean City/MD is missing: on December 30, 1958 the oil tanker African Queen went ashore a sandbank and broke apart, causing a major oil spill (see the article "List of oil spills") and subsequently ruining the nearby beaches. It lasts about ten years to remove all the damages, ruining tourism for a couple of years. ~~sjb —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.181.134.79 (talk) 14:13, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Proposed OCVFC Page Merge

The Ocean City Fire Department page should not be merged in with the Ocean City page because there is enough information on the OCVFC to fill it's own page. Patrickm12829 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 03:48, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Chronological order

This article starts off telling the history of Ocean City in a chronological order, but then halway through events are told out of that order. I'm going to move around some of the text to put it in chronological order. ~~TBD

Picture

hey that picture is looking at Fenwick Island. Ocean City ends about halfway up the picture. Then it turns into Fenwick Island. I know because ive lived in the building with the pool in front of it. does anyone have any other pictures? this isnt even OC

http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=38449631&x=-75051470&z=17&l=0&m=h&v=2

look at this map, i labeled some of the buildings you see in the picture. Look to the north. the MD Delaware line is right there. the picture from the plane on the ocean city page IS NOT OCEAN CITY. ive lived there all my life, im tellin ya its wrong and misleading. that picture belongs in a delaware article about fenwick island. in fact you see MORE Delaware and Fenwick Island then do you Ocean City in that picture.

~mack mackel309@adelphia.net

Well then, looks like someone needs to do a photo flyby this summer to get a better picture huh?  immunity  talk  01:47, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

I live here, and I have a million better photos, but everytime I upload one they delete it. Peace Out, Box —Preceding unsigned comment added by Box420 (talk • contribs) 04:43, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes. the picture only contains about six blocks of the northern most part of OC. Most of the land mass in the picture is delaware. It seriously needs to be changed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.88.220.17 (talk) 19:09, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Weather

"Mild, wet winters" my ass. How about "frigid, unimaginably brutal winters, punctuated by icy winds that cut like knives to the very soul and overpowering blizzards whose endless rain of sleet and snow slowly strangles the life and happiness from the people"? I think we can all agree that that would be more accurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.174.73.238 (talk) 22:27, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Transportation section

Can someone with even a grade-school grasp of English grammar please re-write the Transportation section? Sheesh. I cry for the state of our country's education. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.179.4.100 (talk) 20:02, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Wonder years episode

The Wonder Years episode was in Ocean City, NJ. Can someone check this and update it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.214.109.116 (talk) 20:12, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Ocean City Surf Report

This post regards an ongoing editing dispute. A cursory look at the history for the Ocean City, Maryland article shows at least three four editors reverting the addition of http://www.oceancitysurfreport.com to the "external links" section, including myself, and a maximum of two editors re-adding it (unless 71.200.70.155 (talk · contribs) and Flyinhawaiian (talk · contribs) are the same person, which I suspect). It appears, then, that there is a de facto consensus that this external link does not meet the standards of what an external link should be. Does anyone dispute this? Any contributions to the discussion are welcome. —Notyourbroom (talk) 17:13, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
This post has been edited. Deletions are striked through and additions are bolded. The reader is asked to keep in mind that this markup does not entail shouting; it is just to clarify where changes were made. —Notyourbroom (talk) 17:18, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I would agree that according to WP:External links that the posting of the Ocean City Surf Report link is not appropriate to this article. I would say it falls under the links to avoid: "4. Links mainly intended to promote a website. See external link spamming." and "13. Sites that are only indirectly related to the article's subject: the link should be directly related to the subject of the article. A general site that has information about a variety of subjects should usually not be linked to from an article on a more specific subject. Similarly, a website on a specific subject should usually not be linked from an article about a general subject. If a section of a general website is devoted to the subject of the article, and meets the other criteria for linking, then that part of the site could be deep linked." I would say that this link should stay off the page, and that Flyinhawaiian should be particularly careful to follow the 3RR. GorillaWarfare ^talk 17:34, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

The thread above this comment was deleted in its entirety at 19:58 on 5 April 2010 by 71.200.70.155 (talk · contribs). I issued a level 1 warning. —Notyourbroom (talk) 22:04, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

I agree, the link is unsuitable to the article and fully qualifies as a spam link. Flyinhawaiian has already outed himself as having a conflict of interest, just by his email address as he has posted elsewhere. Further attempts to add the link should and will be viewed as spamming and will be dealt with accordingly. Trusilver 00:55, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

I agree that the link is a spam link and is a conflict of interest for Flyinhawaiian. In fact, http://oceancitysurfreport.com/ says at the bottom "Designed & Hosted By Flyin Hawaiian Productions" which proves the conflict of interest. David (talk) 01:39, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Why is my ip blocked? This is a wifi connection Why is this happening?

--71.200.70.155 (talk) 23:35, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Your IP address has not been blocked, though it may be if it used to make disruptive edits. Individuals who make an account are able to log in and edit Wikipedia even if their IP address has been blocked; however, any user account used to make disruptive edits can also be blocked. In addition, if the case arises, it is trivial for administrators to detect sock-puppet accounts created for the purposes of avoiding a block. —Notyourbroom (talk) 00:50, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Pretty sure your IP wasn't blocked, as I see nothing in your block log, but I just submitted your IP address to Administrator intervention against vandalism for this attack against Trusilver, so you may be soon. GorillaWarfare ^talk 15:52, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

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Make Ocean City a city

there are a bunch of buildings that look like the town is a city. The fact that it is a town isn't helpful since more people vacation there rather than people staying there. Which the total amount of people gets up to 8 million annually, which is less than New Jersey's variant. Even if they are apartments, it wouldn't be considered a town and the main highway has 6 lanes total.Benetroxx (talk) 14:03, 10 July 2024 (UTC)