Talk:West Newbury, Massachusetts

This article is deficient, I say! Let's make this better! I know there has to be somebody from West Newbury out there besides me!!!--Alhutch 07:23, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

What the heck b**** it was good the way it was!!!

Please sign comments. FYI, "good" is a partially subjective judgement with a basis in reality. Here articles must conform to WP standards to be considered good. The Gettysburg Address would be a terrible WP article. It has a different basis in realty from WP. You can't really compare apples and oranges; you might think the article is a good apple when in reality it is a very bad orange. Enough said.Dave (talk) 16:35, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

POV/tone

Words like "beautiful", "quaint", "old-fashioned", and "sleepy" are subjective judgements that are more appropriate to a travel guide or a boosterism brochure than an encyclopedia. -- Beland 02:28, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

More true than not. One commends the enthusiasm for the town while affirming it is not acceptable WP. But, there is another issue preempting the correction of this language: references. The article contains many unreferenced subjective assertions, which must be addressed first. Editing WP is above all a look-up task. On the bottom line, it is put up or be still.Dave (talk) 16:35, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Census and non-census

The census is taken every 10 years. Thus you get census numbers from 1990, 2000, etc. Numbers from 2006 are not strictly speaking the census. The site given for reference in this article by now has changed. Formerly we got the population of 2006 and the other numbers of 2000 passed off as 2006. Now we get the population of 2009 and the other numbers of 2000. Let's be precise about these things. I'll have to change it, starting with the census of 2009. There was no census in 2009.Dave (talk) 04:10, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Overpriced housing

Revised paragraph (in History section) about now-outdated 2010 Forbes article asserting overpriced housing in West Newbury with discussion of perennial issue of preserving rural character vs development, with current citations and with NYTimes article about this issue in West NewburyWest Newbury (talk) 10:40, 25 August 2019 (UTC)