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[edit] older comments

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It is correct in the article. (There was a lot of discussion about this somewhere a while back; I thought it was on this Talk page, but I guess not). - DavidWBrooks 12:12, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
Whoops ... I just responded to my own, undated comment from a year ago! - DavidWBrooks 12:13, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
That's a clear sign of something, but I'm not sure quite what. :-)
Atlant 22:02, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Red Links

I'll fill in the red links later. What do you guys think, can the Pheasant Lane Mall be considered notable due its regional significance? I believe precedent is against it. Karmafist 02:06, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm ... borderline, isn't it? It wasn't the first mall in the state, nor in the city, so it lacks historical importance. However, an article could argue that it and the Rockingham Mall in Salem marked the start of southern NH's relative explosion as a low-tax shopping mecca for Mass. ... but that would be pretty iffy. I guess I'd say no. - DavidWBrooks 02:16, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
Unlike a paper encyclopedia, Wikipedia has no hard upper bound on its size, so I think that as long as we can keep the namespace organized, there's no reason not to write an article on the Dead Pheasant Mall if that would please you.
Atlant 16:11, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
I think it seems like a good idea, especially because of the no sales tax deal, and the huge amount of Massachusetts buisness it brings in. - Log'a'log 01:00, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] area

I erroneously figured that a tiny numerical tweak by an anonymous editor was vandalism - it usually is ("heh heh I put a mistake in Wikipedia and nobody noticed!") - but as Atlant pointed out, it corrected a metric conversion error for the city's area. So I've incorporated the correct km^2 figure in the infobox, as well. - DavidWBrooks 14:26, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Don't feel bad -- I had the same train of thought that you did, but luckily I had my handy Geek Watch w/ Calculator, so when I did the math and it checked out, I let the edit stand (and reverted you later). I am only assuming that the square miles figure is correct, however ;-).
Atlant 14:48, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
It is, according to local data - 1 square mile of water, the rest of land. Who exactly measured it, though, I don't know. - DavidWBrooks 15:10, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] White space

Any way to get rid of all that ugly white space up top? (Sorry, I'm a perfectionist. :P) Zafiroblue05 08:53, 6 December 2005 (UTC)


[edit] The Cookson Link

What do you all think in regards to that? It seemed like self-promotion putting it there, but i'm on the fence, so I removed it to be better safe than sorry. karmafist 22:54, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

I agree. - DavidWBrooks 00:55, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nashua Corporation

I do not know the history well enough to write a correction. But I believe the textile mill mentioned was call the Nashua Manfacturing Company and was not related to the paper company Nashua Corp. --Miked84 19:05, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

You are absolutely correct - my bad! I'll fix it. Good catch. - DavidWBrooks 19:23, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Distance from the sea?

How far is Nashua from the sea and from Boston? I'm thinking of moving there and I'd like to know how far it is and how long it takes to drive.

It's about an hour from Boston. Probably about the same from the sea. DrIdiot 21:59, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
It's about 45 minutes from Salisbury Beach. - Log'a'log 01:00, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

Yesterday I took some pictures around Nashua, with a thought toward replacing some of the old pictures in the Nashua article with up-to-date ones. My initial thought is to replace the century-old pictures of the City Hall, Nashua Manufacturing Company and Railroad Square with my pictures of the City Hall, mills on the river, and Hunt Library Building. But I'd like some feedback before going ahead. GMcGath 11:45, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I'd say leave at least one old shot, but otherwise, contemporary photos are better. (And don't forget to mark the property copyright on the photo page, or they'll be deleated by copyright police!) - DavidWBrooks 12:01, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
The Nashua Manufacturing Company picture is relevant to the section, so I left that alone but put in the City Hall and Hunt Building pictures. GMcGath 10:03, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Be bold! But if you want to add a lot of pictures, consider adding a photo gallery at the bottom. And please do try to put the pictures in Wiki commons (commons.) rather than just the English (en.) Wikipedia; that way the pictures will be available to any WIki article that wishes to include them. When you try to upload the pictures, you'll be prompted with this suggestion as well.
Atlant 12:45, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] South Nashua and neighborhoods

 Please help improve this article or section by expanding it.
Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. (January 2007)

I have seen several references to "South Nashua, New Hampshire". Is this a neighborhood or something? I have redirected South Nashua, New Hampshire here, so it should probably be explained in the article. Actually, I see now that the article doesn't have any coverage of neighborhoods at all. -- Beland 15:35, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

As a Nashuan, if I were to speak of "South Nashua", I'd be referring to the shopping district along the Daniel Webster Highway from the Massachusetts border to the point where you can enter the turnpike at Exit 3. Other neighborhoods that come to mind:
  • Long Hill -- The East Dunstable Road residential area southwest of Exit 4.
  • Crown Hill -- The area around Dr. Crisp School
  • "The Tree Streets" -- Elm, Chestnut, Ash, etc., west of City Hall
  • French Hill -- East of Library Hill at the top of Main Street
  • "Concord Street"
  • Downtown -- The compact commercial blocks around Main, Spring, Pearl, Factory streets, etc.
  • Birch Hill -- Near the Birch Hill School
  • Broad Acres -- The area between Dublin Avenue and the Turnpike
  • The Northwest/Amherst Street
  • (Obviously missing from my list: A term for the whole Main Dunstable area)
Atlant 16:04, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if all the neighborhoods should be included in the article, but if someone wants to start it, I'll add to it. I'm a resident of one of the tree streets :-) - JNighthawk 07:08, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photo Ideas

Is there any particular reason why the Pennichuck and Bicentennial Schools are pictured here? I don't find them necessary. There's nothing particularly important about these schools that means they should be featured over other areas of Nashua. For example, other than Daniel Webster, Rivier is the only other College that's Nashua's own. Why isn't that pictured?

Why not have pictures of other landmarks that are special to Nashua? A few examples: Holman Stadium, a modern shot of downtown Nashua, Nashua Transit Center, major shopping areas (i.e. DW Highway, Amherst St.), etc. I think these would be more interesting to the average viewer than the outside of Pennichuck. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.128.129.221 (talk) 17:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC).


I agree. I don't see why two bland brick pictures of the schools really help people in envisioning Nashua. M. McNeish 23:21, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

What about one of the manhole covers? They are unique for being triangular, so they could be significant enough. Alx xlA 22:48, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Education

Hi all. I was tooling around looking at Nashua's HS education stats here on the NH DoE website and found some interesting data that might be useful for Nashua's Education section... maybe... Specifically, the data on high school completers, dropouts, etc. For instance, the Nashua District had a total of 160 dropouts in 2005-2006, with 61 of those from NHS North, and 99 from NHS South. That report is here. One can view additional school years here.

In other data for the 2006-2007 school year, Nashua School District had a total of 11,896 enrollees in school, and 811.3 teachers, with a student/teacher ratio of 14.7 (not a measure of actual class size). That report is here, and was found here.

From the Nashua School District's website comes more info. Here's a report showing average class size for North and South high schools. An interesting piece of data is the disparity of Career and Tech Ed classes between North and South - 43 vs. 22 respectively. NHS South also has 14 more mathematics classes than North. Have a look at this fact sheet, too, which could be one of the more useful links here...

Anyway, hope this stuff is useful to someone some day.JordanSealy 17:01, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Nashua Seall.png

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BetacommandBot 23:23, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notable residents

Regarding my comment on re-adding Alexandra Socha... I am referring to the fact that Jeff Giuliano is listed. I see no justification for deleting Miss Socha while keeping Mr. Giuliano, but according to WP:ATHLETE, Mr. Giuliano is notable as a hockey player who played 25 games in the NHL in the 2005-2006 season. Miss Socha has played in many more performances on Broadway, surely one of the "major leagues" of musical theater, than Mr. Giuliano played in the NHL. She is currently in the lead role in a Tony Award winning show. (No, she has not herself received or been nominated for an award.) According to WP:ENTERTAINER, however, Miss Socha is not considered notable. Her page is currently nominated for deletion from Wikipedia.

By the current standards, therefore, Miss Socha's page should be deleted, and she should be deleted from the Nashua page, and Mr. Giuliano should be kept, but I consider this disparity in standards for athletes versus performers to be a blot on Wikipedia.

I have voted to keep Miss Socha's page, on the grounds that as long as this disparity is unresolved, pages should not be deleted for failing WP:ENTERTAINER, if they would pass by simple analogy with WP:ATHLETE. If you disagree with this, then please register your own "DELETE" vote on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexandra Socha.

If, however, you agree that the inconsistency needs to be resolved, then please leave her link here, cast a vote to keep her page, and join the discussion on Wikipedia talk:Notability (people). It may be the case that the better answer is tightening the WP:ATHLETE standard rather than loosening WP:ENTERTAINER, in which case both Miss Socha's and Mr. Giuliano's pages should be deleted and both should be dropped from the Nashua list. But first and foremost, IMHO, the inconsistency in policies should be resolved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rhsatrhs (talk • contribs) 15:54, 8 June 2008 (UTC)