Talk:Framingham, Massachusetts
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[edit] Framingham Heart Study
What's the Framingham Longitudinal Study? AJD 13:27, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- It'll be one of the studies of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the population of Framingham which are used worldwide to help set public health policies and to inform medical trreatment of coronary artery disease. Midgley 22:38, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- The article refers to " the Framingham Heart Study at Framingham State College", but it actually has nothing to do with Framingham State. The Heart Study is serious medical research, and Framingham State doesn't have a medical school. The study is actually run by the NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), which contracts with Boston University to operate it. I'd make the appropriate changes myself, but I have little direct knowledge of the study and I think someone with better information should do it.
[edit] In search of editors
I'm a reporter for Boston Globe writing a story about Wiki entries for local cities and towns. Interested to talk to contributors to this article. On deadline. Please contact me at thomascaywood@yahoo.com by Sunday, Sept. 17. Thanks! Thomas
- The story is "Answering Wikipedia's call to fill in the blanks." Nice reporting, Thomas! <>< tbc 23:01, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Family Guy???
So there are like six sentences about the town's history under the History heading, and two of them are devoted to an episode of some dumb, canceled cartoon? I don't think that has any place in a brief synopsis of Framingham's history. You would never see something like that in an encyclopedia. I bet a Family Guy fan felt compelled to add that. I guess this isn't a hugely important page any way, and I don't live in Framingham, but that's my opinion. Deadcorpse 22:34, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I used to live in Framingham. Believe me; the Family Guy reference is pretty much the most interesting that's happened there, ever. --Marco Passarani 00:25, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Christa McAuliffe
Can a smaller picture of her be found? On my screen at least (Firefox) it's enormous and takes over the entire page, and even in IE it's way too big for the article. I'm honestly not good enough with Wiki yet to be sure any pictures I find don't violate copyright, or I would change it myself. RaCha'ar 18:58, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
- is that better? Dmharvey 19:16, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
- Much, thank you! RaCha'ar 18:54, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] As a note re: the library....
First of all, it's a subjective issue as to why it was voted down, and without a source, it really shouldn't be in the article (especially since "many South Framingham town meeting members" is weselly in the extreme - without sources, how do you know that the North side members were wholly in favor of it?
As I heard it, the branch library in Saxonville was closed (which somebody might want to note was the McAuliffe Branch Library), and then the town government decided they wanted to build a new one. I'm sure the plan was voted down as being ridiculous (the same way the town closed a few of the schools years ago, and then discovered there were too many students, so they had to reopen them), because there was a perfectly usable building already available. In short, the town created the issue it then sat down to "solve". MSJapan 22:51, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
- As a matter of fact, the McAuliffe branch library in Saxonville is not closed and never has been. As of this week it is still open and busy with no plans to close it. [November 5, 2006]
[edit] Two Separate Communities
The article was rewritten recently and this section was torn apart. I had fleshed that section out to show how the community was divided through various ways- Financial, demographics etc. I am going to revert it the previous version by me if no one objects. Jerem43 11:40, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry about your section reorg. I've done quite of bit of work standardizing city and town articles in the State of Massachusetts with appropriate section titles and organization. I've reordered the sections here again, but have not edited your added sections to the article. Let me know how it reads now.--Dalmatian Mommy 17:28, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
- No problem. I have reworked the rest of the article so that it was properly referenced, better organized and read better. I will not touch the layout as you state that it is now more standardized. I removed the Transportation Stub and expanded the section.
- Jerem43 23:27, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
