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[edit] Education under History

Shouldn't that be about the history of educational system in Westport?

[edit] Was The Swimmer shot in Westport?

If you want to argue a point, the standard way of doing it is to put your message on the discussion page, not on the article itself. As for whether The Swimmer was shot in Weston, that should go on the Weston page. If you know for a fact that not one part of it was done in Westport, I'd like to know. I've heard it was shot in a number of towns, including Westport. That's why I'm putting it back in for now, but if you can cite something or even if you have a certain memory yourself that no part of it was in Westport, I'll accept that. I'm putting a copy of this on your discussion page and on the Westport discussion page.Noroton 20:34, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Parts of The Swimmer were definitely shot in Westport. I am an eye witness to one of the scenes being shot there. As I was coming off the Merritt Parkway at Westport one day, in 1967 or 1968, I was greeted with a full fledged camera shoot for the film. NickP 12:55, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I can also confirm that The Swimmer was shot in Westport. During the production of the movie it was the talk around my neighborhood and was posted in the Westport news. One pool scene was shot at a house located on Old Hill RD. and was clearly visible to us as we got off our school bus. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jsjwestport (talk • contribs) 20:15, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Flooding in Westport

The deleted information about flooding in Westport is both accurate and important. I'm restoring the deletion.Noroton 02:06, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Flooding in Westport is not Westport specific and should not be a part of the article. The paragraph digresses into houses built up and flooded cars at the train station. That was the case in many coastal cities in Fairfield County and may be more suited to the article on Fairfield County. Therefore, it should be removed. I am removing it and requesting it be added to the Fairfield County article.AspenFlutter 16:42, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
The information in the Flooding section, now restored, is entirely Westport-specific and the subject is an important part of the subject "Westport, Connecticut". Flooding at the large train station is extremely important to the town. It is irrelevant that flooding happens elsewhere. Noroton (talk) 22:28, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Schools

To say that Weston High School is superior to Staples High School in terms of its athletic programs is simply untrue.

Heh, I remember my junior year (1995), the freshman football team where much better then the Varsity team!


What does this have to do with anything?

Agerstein 13:00, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Donuts

When I stayed in Westport last summer, we went to this coffee and donut shop in Westport., and I remember seeing an issue of USAtoday on the wall, with an article about donuts, and the very coffee shop I was in being featured on the frontpage, and Bill Clinton allegedly saying that the donuts he had had there were "The best he had ever tasted". I thought this might be interesting to add to the Famous Places and Events section. Sadly, I can't remember the name of the shop, nor where it was, but if a resident knows the coffee shop I am talking about, would they please add it to the article? Phalanxia 09:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

This might be "Coffee And", which is well known in town.Agerstein 22:28, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External Links

The following links were removed by DMCer - please see my comments for each after each link:

[edit] Community Organizations

[edit] Arts

[edit] Science and nature

[edit] Other

Based on the relevance of these links, I'm putting them back in again. Agerstein 13:43, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

These links were removed - some of them for the second time. And for the second time, I refer to the WP:External_links page:
"Adding external links can be a service to our readers, but they should be kept to a minimum of those that are meritable, accessible and appropriate to the article."
I can't speak to all of those links (listed as "Other" just above), but I know that at least some of them are relevant - they are resources available to the town or for people who live or lived in the town. A clear case of "spam" is the link to the Fairfield County Business Journal - while it may cover companies located in Westport, it's more of a resource - commercial, to be sure - for all of Fairfield County. The Coastal Fairfield County Convention and Visitor Bureau also appears to be a commercial link. Unless I hear differently, I plan on putting the other links back.
Agerstein 13:15, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
I agree that some of the links should be restored. Someone who comes along and deletes several links, labeling all of them as spam when they're not, may have an ulterior motive, such as disgruntlement with the link providers or jealousy that certain organizations or individuals get exposure through Wikipedia. Many Wikipedia users have the distorted notion that every single link must have zero advertising. Commercial links are not excluded from Wikipedia--only overly commercial links. People who don't understand this nuance of Wikipedia's link policy often delete links to author Web sites because the author has the audacity to mention a book he or she has written and tell people how to get it. They rationalize the deletion by labeling it as spam, commerciality or self promotion. The real reason is pettiness: these people haven't written a book and probably never will, so they cut the author down to their small size by deleting the link. Not all users suffer from this inferiority complex, but it's a significant problem. We can't let users compensate for their personal failures by controlling Wikipedia's content. 69.0.16.51 14:43, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Please sign in before posting.-DMCer 17:59, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
The Coastal Fairfield County Visitors Bureau is a state agency, not commercial. Look, the policy is at WP:External links. I'd support changing the policy, but it is the policy. Best of luck with it. Noroton 23:42, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
To quote the WP:External_links page:
"This page in a nutshell: Adding external links can be a service to our readers, but they should be kept to a minimum of those that are meritable, accessible and appropriate to the article."
The above external links ARE a service to the readers - they link to various resources around town of Westport. People considering moving to the town would potentially find them useful as examples of what to do in the town, and people who live there might not even know some of them exist - for example, the Nature Center, which is well known in the school system due to field trips, but is rather hidden away (due to it's location and need to be out where "nature" is) so it's not something that everyone in the town might know about.
Agerstein 17:57, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Once again, I've added the external links back into the page. See WP:External_links yet again - the links are meritable, accessible and appropriate - they are all for resources in and around the time. I also re-jiggered the various comments about the external links so that they're no PART of the external links, and then put them in chronological order and indented as needed.
Agerstein 02:39, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wealthiest art collectors

How are the "Wealthiest art collectors in town" notable? -- Rmrfstar 11:08, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to have to agree with this notion which is why I deleted it. If anyone can post a reasonable defense of this information and its inclusion, beyond the inflation of the ego of said collectors, I would be quite interested.Wambear1 05:50, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sister Cities

I just added links to the three sister cities shown on the article. However, the link to the French sister city is to a disambiguation page, because I was not sure which one of the many different Marigny s was the sister city of Westport. Now, I remember reading in a book I have about Westport that it was adopted as a sister city after WWII as an effort to help rebuild the damaged French city, but I can't seem to locate the book (ostensibly it would be helpful in determining which one of the Marigny s is the one that Westport is twinned with). If someone is able to find out which one it is before I do, please adjust the link appropriately. Thanks!--Nkrosse 03:18, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Stepford Wives

If the novel The Stepford Wives is "based in Westport" (sic) as this article claims, then why did Ira Levin (the novel's author) write a letter to the editor of the New York Times claiming that the novel was based on Wilton, a town that he actually lived in during the 1960s? Levi, Ira (March 27, 2007). Political Theater: A Banned Play on the War (5 Letters). New York Times. 67.86.73.252 (talk) 23:32, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Sounds like that's what we should be saying. Noroton (talk) 04:27, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Here is a proposal to rewrite the list item for the film (I'll leave this a few days before adding it to the article): 67.86.73.252 (talk) 22:17, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
The proposed rewording above has been substituted into the article along with an imdb reference for the filming locations of the 1975 version of the film. 67.86.73.252 (talk) 12:40, 3 June 2008 (UTC)