Talk:Merrick, New York
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[edit] Libraries
I removed the libraries section due to a lack of significance. See the following quotation from Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not - emphasis added by me.
[Wikipedia articles are not] Travel guides. An article on Paris should mention landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, but not the telephone number or street address of your favorite hotel or the price of a café au lait on the Champs-Élysées. Such details are, however, very welcome at Wikitravel, but note that due to license incompatibility you cannot copy content wholesale unless you are the copyright holder.
The existence of the public libraries is hardly notable, and the borrowing policies of the Nassau public library system doesn't belong on the Merrick page. Feel free to create a page on that topic and put information there, but use pages on other libraries as a guide. You could include a link to such a page on the Nassau County page. Alternatively, you could do some research on the Merrick libraries and try to dig up some more significant facts, but in that case you should give each of the libraries its own page. I could see including them as a brief mention in a list of other puclic facilities, in the way that every Encyclopedia Brown novel starts - the town has # libraries, # churches, # synagogues, # banks, and # schools. Xstryker 14:57, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Here's an example of a Library section done right, taken from the Johnson City, New York page:
Library
Your Home Public Library, founded in 1917, serves the Village of Johnson City and the surrounding area.
The library building was originally the old Brigham homestead, erected by Elijah Brigham in 1850. The old farm house was of wooden construction but was later replaced by a much finer homestead, the foundations, walls and partitions were built using brick from the Brigham Brick Yard, situated just north of the library building. The newer homestead was erected in 1885 and it was this building, with its broad lawns and pleasant verandahs, that was chosen by Harry L. Johnson and the Endicott Johnson Corporation as the site of the present library.
In 1920 a large addition was built and the children's room, dining rooms, and kitchen were removed to the new wing of the building. The library was owned, and entirely supported, by the Endicott Johnson Corporation until September 1921 when it was incorporated.
In 1938 the library building was purchased by the Village of Johnson City.
Xstryker 15:14, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Winnick
For proof that Gary Winnick, Merrick Ave. Middle School teacher is not the Gary Winnick who designed Maniac Mansion, see here (you'll have to scroll down a lot). He is in fact retired as of 2002. If he'd been teaching for 37 years as of 2002, he would not have been working for LucasArts in the 1980's. Also, he probably would have mentioned Maniac Manision in the little bio he gives on that page. X Stryker 21:28, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merokean
Is a "Merokean" a resident of Merrick, or is it more complicated than that? (See an example.)
--Jerzy•t 14:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
