Talk:Oyster Bay, New York

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Cities, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of cities, towns and various other settlements on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CitiesWikipedia:WikiProject CitiesTemplate:WikiProject CitiesWikiProject Cities articles

New York (state): Long Island Start‑class

	New York (state) portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject New York (state), a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of New York on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.New York (state)Wikipedia:WikiProject New York (state)Template:WikiProject New York (state)New York (state) articles
Start	This article has been given a rating which conflicts with the project-independent quality rating in the banner shell. Please resolve this conflict if possible.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Long Island, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.

Removed trivia section

Trivia sections are discouraged - and these are more about the hamlet & ZIP code than the TOB

Speaking of trivia, the economy of Oyster Bay presumably isn't based on Air Lingus' U.S. office being located there. Perhaps, the economy section should either be expanded to be less humorous or just eliminated. Jmdeur (talk) 03:21, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia

In the following trivia, usages of Oyster Bay refer to the hamlet and places within the Oyster Bay ZIP code:

Oyster Bay was the setting for the 2000 comedy Meet The Parents.
Oyster Bay is mentioned prominently in the song "Billy the Kid" by Billy Joel.
Oyster Bay is the setting for the song "Captain Jack by Billy Joel.
Oyster Bay is the location of Phil Leotardo's assassination in the final episode of The Sopranos.
Oyster Bay is mentioned in the movie "Wall Street"
Kal Penn's character, Gogol, goes on vacation with his girlfriend to her parents home in Oyster Bay in The Namesake (film).

Requested move 4 April 2015

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) Calidum T|C 19:07, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

– See disambiguation page, Oyster Bay, New York. Oyster Bay (hamlet), New York can stay there or can be moved if anyone has a suggestion. Aidan721 (talk) 14:55, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Survey

Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.

Oppose Oyster Bay (hamlet), New York is if anything, more prominent, and more historically significant. Also WP:PRECISE the proposed title fails to be sufficently disambniguous to identify the topic of the article. Especially as the hamlet is more notable. -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 04:39, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oyster Bay (hamlet), New York is within Oyster Bay (town), New York so how can it be "more prominent, and more historically significant". Most towns are usually, town, state unless county is needed. Then villages, hamlets or CDP's are usually, town (hamlet/CDP), state.—Aidan721 (talk) 00:03, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This "town" is not a town, it is a division of a county (a "township" as it were). There is the landform, a bay, and the hamlet which sits on the bay. The hamlet is what the history is about, its history of settlement, and the prominent persons that resided there. -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 01:10, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support the first move, no opinion on the second. The town has more than twice the page views of the hamlet, which should be enough to be considered the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. kennethaw88 • talk 02:30, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The "town of Oyster Bay" appears to be more of an administrative unit, while the entity most commonly called Oyster Bay in general parlance is the hamlet. As such, it's hard to say that one is more primary over the other, and I think the current arrangement is fine. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 14:10, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Oyster Bay (town), New York. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 08:31, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Oyster Bay (town), New York. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20111123144913/http://www.lieconomy.com/li/li/nassau/zipcodes.htm to http://www.lieconomy.com/li/li/nassau/zipcodes.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 11:52, 19 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Town of Oyster Bay Town lived #1

Plainview, Syosset, Plainedge, Bethpage and South Farmingdale. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IndependentMusic (talk • contribs) 02:08, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Villages (incorporated)

Change "The Town of Oyster Bay contains all or part of 20 incorporated villages:" to "The Town of Oyster Bay contains all or part of 18 incorporated villages:"

Delete 1. Amityville (partial) Delete 20. Westbury (partial)

Source: http://orps1.orpts.ny.gov/cfapps/MuniPro/ Source: https://amityville.com/ Source: https://www.villageofwestbury.org/

Note: I called the Village of Amityville (631-264-6000) and Village of Westbury (516-334-1700) today and both confirmed that their incorporated villages are located entirely outside of the Town of Oyster Bay. The Village of Amityville is wholly within the Town of Babylon, Suffolk County, NY and the Village of Westbury is wholly within the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, NY.

70.19.74.217 (talk) 16:50, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]