Talk:Brattleboro, Vermont

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Contents 1 downtown improvement district? 2 Notable People 3 Article title 4 Nude bicyclists photo

[edit] downtown improvement district?

There was a lot of information about the DID including tax rates which seemed to be a bit out of place (and unsourced). I removed it from the main article during clean-up and am pasting it here in case someone wants to find a way to fit it in more appropriately or with better formatting. The following appeared under the heading commerce.

On a daily basis over 30,000 people make a living in Brattleboro, making the town commercial hub for the entire Southeastern corner of the state.

Taxes-
The following is a description of the tax rate in Brattleboro as of 2005.
Town Res.- .9519
Non-Res.- .9519
School Res.- 1.3341
Non Res.- 1.1985

Resident Total- 2.2860
Non-Resident Total- 2.1504

DID- .1559

The DID tax rate represents the Downtown Improvement District. Encompassing a majority of the Downtown area, the DID is a specially tax zone that pays an additional tax called the DID Tax. This tax goes towards an initiative to secure grants from the State and Federal Government to improve the aethetics and economy of the Downtown District.
Jessamyn 00:03, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable People

What was the basis for removing Kevin Daley and Psycho Billy from the Notable Folks of Brattleboro, where the listing of James Fisk has no correlation nor mention of Brattleboro at all?

I'm not sure why those people were removed, but it may have been that they were added with no citations so that someone else could verify that they are a) notable and b) from Brattleboro, this is often why things like that go missing. If you have a good link or source that points out those two things about those people, feel free to insert them again and add the citation in some format into the edit summary box or as a citation at the bottom of the article or after their name like this: Psycho Billy [1]. When you write on the talk page, it's helpful if you sign your comments with four tildes like this ~~~~ which will automatically sign your name and the date and time. Jessamyn 20:34, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I also don't know why Whoopi Goldberg keeps getting removed from the notable people's list. I know where her house is -- have actually seen her out in her yard -- and have run into her at the grocery store and at several galleries downtown. She clearly lives here and is a respected member of the town. (Scout)

[edit] Article title

What is the rationale for this article being titled "Brattleboro (town), Vermont" instead of simply "Brattleboro, Vermont"? I suggest this article be renamed if there is no legitimate reason for the inclusion of "(Town)" in its title. -albrozdude 17:28, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

I was going to say it is because other locations in Vermont are cities, villages (incorp. and unincorp.), gores, and grants. However, Brattleboro is the only town that I can find (in Vermont) that has the parenthetical distinction. Mrs. Grobe 17:26, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nude bicyclists photo

I removed this photo from the trivia section for two reasons.

One, I feel it is inappropriate to put a picture like that on a page that will be surfed by children. My students use Wikipedia for research and learning, and I do not feel the need to explain to parents why their third graders saw naked people at school.

Second (and probably more importantly), I have lived in Brattleboro all my life and do not believe this was taken any where in our town. The street lights are not what we have and the street is too long, straight, and flat to be in Brattleboro.

Thank you, Mrs. Grobe 17:42, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

good catch, that picture was taken in Burlington, outside the Five Needs brew pub, it looks like. Jessamyn (talk) 19:20, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not censored. Alphachimp 03:51, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

correct, but the picture wasn't from Brattleboro which I think is why it was removed from the Wikipedia article on Brattleboro. Jessamyn (talk) 04:46, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I was only responding to the first point. Alphachimp 06:02, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia may not be censored, but the (Wikipedia is Not) article actually says "some articles may include objectionable text, images, or links if they are ' ' 'relevant to the content' ' '" and a photo of naked people on bicycles (or naked people in general, I suppose) is not really relevant to an article on Brattleboro in the big picture. Other articles, those on pornography, gynocology, sexual issues, body parts, all either carry warnings or can be expected to contain nudity. I have lived in Brattleboro for 30 years and do not run into naked people on a regular basis, outside my own home, so I do not believe photos of them are "relevant to the content" of the article on Brattleboro. Especially when the photograph is of people in Burlington. Mrs. Grobe 01:36, 28 December 2006 (UTC)