Talk:Gainesville, Texas

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The article needs to be cleaned up a bit, there are minor but noticable syntax errors. Also, who founded the city? Who was it named after?

[edit] Improvements needed

Please list improvements needed here:

  • Information about the Frank Buck Zoo
  • Clean up the "Things of note section" (for example, is the outlet mall still open?)
  • Information on the flBold textood of 1981
  • Who founded Gainesville, Who was it named after, other basic historical facts of interest.
  • Camp Sweeney's wikipedia page claims it *is* in gainesville, so we should add that info back in.

Magdela 22:07, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV Problems

This should be a no-brainer, but who considers it impressive? Too many instances of the word impressive in an encyclopedia article.

Gainesville is home to an impressive courthouse with an octagonal rotunda topped by stained glass, erected in 1910, and under renovation since late 2005. The courthouse grounds feature one of the most impressive Confederate soldier memorials in Texas, erected in the early 20th century by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), topped by a Confederate soldier facing northward, and bearing a poetic inscription honoring the Southland's fallen heroes. Other memorials on the courthouse grounds honor veterans of other U.S. wars.

I'm sure it's a nice courthouse, but...Dirtydan667 14:56, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

This NPOV comment is premature. Many of the courthouses of Texas are impressive, especially those built between the early days of the Republic (1835) and 1929. I have seen the responses of visitors to the United States viewing an older Texas courthouse for the first time. They were impressed.
While another adjective could be chosen to describe the courthouse, this use of "impressive" is not sufficient to brand this article NPOV. The editor needs to provide proof that the courthouse in Gainesville is not impressive. F3meyer
Using the word "need" isn't NPOV, either, so there you go 207.43.79.22 14:54, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some Changes

Why are we talking about the impressive courthouse? Every city has an impressive court house. And by the way, Camp Sweeney is not in Gainesville. It's not even close to Gainesville.


who ever wrote this is an idiot because Camp Sweeney is only 10 miles from Gainesville.. how can you say that it is not even close? Also, not every city has an impressive court house, only county seats.. And if you would like to see an unimpressive courthouse drive to Bowie or Decatur, and you will get more appreciation for Gainesville's courthouse.. Get a life man, and quit nit picking.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by [[Speci