Talk:Portsmouth, New Hampshire

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[edit] Notable Inhabitants

There seem to be waay too many on this list. Would anyone be willing to move the list to Portsmouth, New Hampshire/Notable inhabitants and trimming the one on this page down to the most notable? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 05:24, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Done. However, I'm not sure if the list should be in a subpage instead of a page like Notable Inhabitants from Portsmouth Thank you for your suggestion on improving this article. --EvaGears 04:19, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
And thank you for doing that! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 05:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
The page should NOT be a subpage. Please read Wikipedia:Subpages. You should move it to something like Notable residents of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and then get the subpage deleted. You should also think about creating categories of residents, such as Politicians, Entertainers, etc. BlankVerse 03:15, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Done. Page moved to List of notable inhabitants of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Will create category. We might consider reformatting and expanding the page to look like List of notable people from the Halifax Regional Municipality. I'll create the category, too, and populate. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 05:01, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Update: someone already did it :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 05:12, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed link

An external link I added to the page on Portsmouth, New Hampshire was deleted apparently because it was deemed a commercial link. After browsing your guidelines, I see that I should have first proposed adding link here because, while I think the link is relevant and in line with Wikipedia guidelines, I have a conflict of interest.

So ... I propose adding an external link for the Portsmouth NH page to www.portsmouthnh.com. The site is a commercial site, but it has free useful information, such as descriptions and links to area attractions, movie listings, a custom local weather forecast, local tides, a guide to restaurants and accommodations, a calendar of events, free links to local nonprofit organizations, and many regional photographs.

I would argue that PortsmouthNH.com contains at least as much information about the city of Portsmouth as the three newspaper sites that already links on the page. And, how can an Ottaway Newspapers publication, which is owned by Dow Jones Company, be regarded as less commercial than a sole proprietorship operated by a local resident? As for relevancy, a reviewer in the above-mentioned Ottaway paper wrote last fall that PortsmouthNH.com "is truly packed with information and is a must for visitors as well as locals." www.seacoastonline.com/calendar/07202006/entertainment-s-jy20-webreview-jy7.html

Thanks for your consideration. Zpinhead 14:49, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

I checked other cities in the region to see how commercial regional guides like this are handled. New Hampshire cities have pretty diligent editors who have been keeping links like this off their pages, so I looked for cities in nearby states. Boston, for example, does not provide links to such guides. Cities like Portland, Maine, and Hartford, Connecticut, do, however. My personal belief is that the New Hampshire and Boston editors have the right idea in keeping links to regional commercial pages off the external links. City articles which do show links to regional guides tend to have long lists of external links which make navigating difficult. This is precisely the situation that the wikipedia policy against "link farms" is intended to avoid. So, sorry, but I think the editor was right to revert the link. Ken Gallager 12:42, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

Can we get some that are not a hundred years old? --141.154.208.152 01:22, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Depends -- have you got any ;-)?
Atlant 14:16, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Portsmouth, NH Seal.png

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BetacommandBot (talk) 00:47, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Capital of What Colony?

Contains the following sentence: "In 1679, Portsmouth became the colonial capital." It is my understanding that the Province of New Hampshire was formed from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691. Was it actually formed in 1679? 76.102.31.185 (talk) 03:02, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What happened to Norfolk County?

It is my understanding that Portsmouth joined Norfolk County when it became a part of MA Bay Colony in 1643. Does anyone know if Norfolk County encompassed all of present New Hampshire? Also, did it stay as a county when the Province of New Hampshire was formed in 1769? Did Norfolk County live on until 1769, when all the "original" counties, such as Rockingham, were incorporated? I haven't even been able to find out what happened to the status of New Hampshire in 1769! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.31.185 (talk) 03:37, 18 February 2008 (UTC)