Talk:Cape May, New Jersey

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Removed paragraphs starting "The town long priding itself...", "The period coined...", and "A 500,000 square foot..." due to lack of sources and probable falsification. The cleansing.jpg is clearly not a real historical document (the EEOC was established in 1965, and telephones became mainstream in the late 1910s). With this and the NNPOV tone of the text, I believe this text merits deletion. --138.89.249.123 00:37, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] POV

"Pleasant," "scenic," and other adjectives in this vein are clearly biased and should not be used in this (or any) Wikipedia article. There is no definite way to judge whether something is scenic or not without having an opinion on the subject. It may be difficult, but please try to stay away from this kind of language in the future.

A Google search for the artist "Alice Steer Wilson" turns up 259 hits and none of the sites found seem to be particularly authoritative. I've been going to Cape May every summer for twenty years and never once heard of her so I've removed the mention of her "scenic" paintings. If anyone feels that she is an important part of Cape May's culture please feel free to reinsert her name, but try to remain objective.

The term "beach bum" is not isolated to Cape May, New Jersey so listing it as a subculture endemic to Cape May doesn't seem like it belongs. Perhaps simply a link to the beach bum article will suffice. =) Indi^talk 21:19, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Town or City?

Is Cape May legally considered a town or a city by New Jersey? The first sentence states that its a town, with a link leading to the legal New Jerset defination of a town, but everything else seems to indicates that its a city... 72.90.134.226 22:17, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

It is officially incorporated as a "city," not a "town" or "borough."

[edit] Populaton

I have been tagging a lot of assertions in shore town articles that the seasonal population is over 100,000. This is particularly dubious for a town as small as Cape May. Please find a source that clarifies this! -Dmz5*Edits**Talk* 16:02, 9 February 2007 (UTC)