Talk:Beaumont, Texas
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[edit] Mark Henry
He is actually from Silsbee, Texas. In fact, the Silsbee article mentions him as being a famous native son. I recommend it for deletion from this page, unless it is documented that he "grew up" (or the like) in Beaumont.
[edit] LAPD Chief
Where did Chief Parks grow up? does he still have family in Beaumont Texas?
[edit] 2006 flooding
From subsection "Severe weather events": On May 29, 2006,...Numerous homes were flooded, but no major flooding occurred. Well, which is it? --Blainster 08:32, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
- There's a distinction between some flooding and major flooding. -- Cyrius|✎ 00:43, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Melissa Meadows-fiber artist?
Google of
"melissa meadows" fiber
brings up 3 hits: two for this article, and one from the minutes of a Hurst-Euless-Bedford I.S.D. meeting.
Doesn't strike me as that famous.
[edit] History
The last sentence sounds way too informal and personal. I'm removing it.--Makiten 23:56, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merge from Joseph Perkins Pulsifer
- A merge from Joseph Perkins Pulsifer has been proposed.
- Merge. The Beumont article mentions a business partner but not by name. I'm guessing it's Pulsifer. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Emana (talk • contribs) 23:03, 1 March 2007 (UTC).
- Merge to Beaumont article. The person is notable in context of the town, so he fits in with the history. YechielMan 03:25, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
- If someone ever decides to give this person's biography a real treatment (more than one line or paragraph), the JPP article will need to be reinstated. Thegreatdr (talk) 17:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Conn's Link
I made this change but it was removed as vandalism. I am placing it here for discussion.
The current link to Conn's is to the official site which is nothing but an advertisement.
I propose this 3rd party link which is 10x more informative about the actual company, is very light on advertising, and additionally includes a link to the official web site.
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Conns-Inc-Company-History.html Source: International Directory of Company Histories, Vol.67. St. James Press, 2005.
So what does the community think is a better link for Conn's? The history of the company or it's latest salespage? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.82.9.86 (talk) 14:42, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
- Point one under "what to link" in the external links guideline, "Articles about any organization, person, web site, or other entity should link to the official site if any." The Conn's external link is really only on this page because nobody has written an article about the chain yet. If / when someone does, the link to their home page will go on the Conn's article page and on the Beaumont page only a wikilink will remain. Scott.wheeler 17:42, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
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- Replying to myself -- that is indeed a very good link, just not the one that belongs there. If there is a Conn's article at some point that seems to be a good place to cull some of the info from. Scott.wheeler 18:44, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Section Edits
I created sections for "Economy" and "Culture", and moved existing content into them. I deleted the "famous people" section, because most of those people are already part of the category "People from Beaumont, Texas". A link can be found to that category's page in the new Beaumont, Texas, template bar at the bottom of the article (link "Beaumonters"). Deatonjr (talk) 17:27, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
