Talk:Avon, Connecticut

Latest comment: 4 years ago by 80.229.4.222 in topic History section

SOMEONE IS TOYING WITH THIS PAGE. SOMEONE MUST LOOK INTO THIS IMMEDIATELY.

George Will went to Trinity College in Hartford, not the local high school

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Please cite sources for information in this article. I have removed advertising and attacks that were not sourced. —WAvegetarianTALKCONTRIBSEMAIL 01:17, 8 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

I have tried to do a bit of cleanup, removing the worst bits (the Dutchess of Schlut? Yeah, right...) and checking a few facts. I don't have a local history available to question the bit about slavery and the founding, although it sounds a little dubious to me. --Brianyoumans 08:37, 25 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

History section

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Was this directly copied from somewhere?

The name “Avon” in 1830 cannot be derived from “County Avon” in England, since that was not created until 1974. 80.229.4.222 (talk) 15:31, 7 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Content and Tone

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Perhaps another Wikipedian could comment on whether it is appropriate to characterize a town as "affluent" in the lead paragraph.

The questions that come to mind immediately are:

  • Affluent compared to what? or by whose standards?
  • What authority has declared that this is an "affluent" town?

I am not a resident of Avon, nor have I ever lived there. I was searching the town through Google, which uses the lead paragraph of the article in its own capsule descriptions. Bikerbudmatt (talk) 21:29, 10 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

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