Talk:North Adams, Massachusetts

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Cite References[edit]

References need to be cited

Rgoodermote 11:33, 31 May 2007 UTC

Opinion piece[edit]

This page is basically one huge opinion piece. Mayor Barrett came up with the idea for Mass Moca? B.S. I remember the first local news article about it . Guess what he's not mentioned. If this page isn't cleaned up a bit . I'm going to start pulling down the garbage and putting up a dose of reality. Indio 22:35, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I could see that being the best idea for this article. But in honesty there aren't that many sources to reference. Most of the local news websites don't keep pages up for to long. If memory serves they keep them up for roughly 1 month and then replace the articles with something new. The last time I checked the only still existing article about MassMoca can be found at the library downtown. But I am not going to go down there and shift through the microfilms. Rgoodermote 22:40, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE: I don't think that the author meant to convey that Barrett had the idea for MASSMOCA- I think he just meant to say that Barrett had the idea to use the old mill. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.25.139.40 (talk) 03:29, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

History[edit]

I'm no expert on the differences between plagerism and paraphrasing, but this section is largely a re-working of [1]. I didn't want to flag it as copyvio because it's not exact, but it's gray at best... CSZero (talk) 21:23, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that kind of gray-area plagiarism is all over wikipedia. Nobody seems to care. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.199.76.177 (talk) 13:25, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup images[edit]

There are two issues with the images. First, the image use policy which states that images should be manually sized only where necessary has been ignored. To make matters worse, images have been placed across from a wide infobox, causing squeezing of text down to about 2 inches wide as I generally browse. Of course, it's even worse on smaller devices, with the text pushed down entirely after the images. I'll be fixing this soon unless a reasonable justification can be provided for this state of affairs (i.e. something other than a single editor's personal preferences). Thank you. Yworo (talk) 17:12, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese-Americans[edit]

"On a June morning in 1870, 75 Celestials came to earth in North Adams, Mass. They were Chinese men..." (Max Byrd's review of Karen Shepard’s Celestials, a novel about the Chinese immigrants in North Adams: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/books/review/karen-shepards-celestials.html?nl=books&emc=edit_bk_20130726&_r=0). According to this review, the Chinese strike-breakers mentioned above led, through their actions, to the Chinese exclusion act, so it seems they are significant and should be mentioned -- assuming this is correct and verified. Kdammers (talk) 09:01, 27 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in North Adams, Massachusetts[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of North Adams, Massachusetts's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "USCensusEst2016":

From Manhattan: "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2016 Population Estimates - New York County, New York". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
From Peabody, Massachusetts: "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". Retrieved June 9, 2017.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 13:47, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Former Schools Section[edit]

I am not experienced with this sort of comment but perhaps it is worth mentioning that Johnson school operated for years after its initial closing, operating under being a preschool until it was completely dissolved and repurchased, the preschool classes moved into the elementary schools in September of 2016. Greylock Elementary school is also closing their original building and shutting down the school with the intent of reopening in 2027. 24.39.44.160 (talk) 13:06, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]