Talk:Andover, Massachusetts

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[edit] Witchcraft

I am removing the following sentence from the article: "Although the city best known for witchraft hysteria is Salem, Andover executed the most of its citizen in connection with witchcraft charges." This statement is grammatically incorrect to the point that I'm not even sure what the author meant to claim -- Andover executed most of its citizens? Or did Andover execute more citizens than Salem did? Is either of these claims true? Please provide a source and be clear if you would like to add a note about witchcraft to the article. NBS525 12:59, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


I have started working on a better description of the witchcraft episode. Citations are coming. Ogram (talk) 05:00, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Civil War

Harriet Beecher Stowe did not write "Uncle Tom's Cabin" while she resided in Andover and this statement should be removed.

[edit] "Racist Reputation"?

This whole subsection smells like vandalism to me. It was added by an anonymous user, includes no sources, and describes the distance between Boston and Andover in minutes rather than miles. The location of its placement in the article seems somewhat random, and the "15 minutes" is not even correct! Can anyone provide a source to back up the legitimacy of the claim? Does anyone agree that perhaps the section should just be deleted? Also, see this edit, made by the same user to a different article. NBS525 13:41, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I Agree with the vandalism notation. As near as I can determine, there is no such periodical as the "African-American Weekly". In addition, while Andover does have a large number of large homes that could be described as mansions, they are not located on Colonial Drive, which is a fairly moderate income neighborhood. The entire addition smells of agenda.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Seal of the town of andover.png

Image:Seal of the town of andover.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 09:18, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I've changed the "licensing" section of the image's page to indicate that the image is in the public domain. The rationale is that there is very good reason to believe that this image was published well before 1923. Unfortunately, the history of this seal is not that well documented so it is difficult, and may not be possible, to establish a definitive first date of publishing. Moulding (talk) 18:03, 21 January 2008 (UTC)