Talk:Pearlington, Mississippi

Created

The article "Pearlington, Mississippi" was created on 21-October-2002 by User:Ram-Man. Almost 3 years later, the article became a topic for Hurricane Katrina. -Wikid77 09:29, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Towns map

Over the past 2 years, I have added and re-added a coastal map of Mississippi that shows Pearlington, along with other coastal towns. The map gets removed from time to time, so here's the link (if it still exists after July 2007):

• Coastal map: Image:Mississippi-Coast-towns-NOAA.jpg.

As you might have learned, Wikipedia has some (many) bizarre fringe elements with peculiarisms: in late 2006, an all-out "crusade" to convert images to PNG format (from quicker JPEG & GIF) went wild and started renaming or deleting other maps, leaving text that red-line linked to the removed maps, and what a mess. Rather than carefully convert specific detailed maps to PNG format (and adjust text references), many maps were just *deleted* (as an improvement: better nothing than "horrible" GIF/JPEG format or some bizarre psycho reasoning). Anyway, in the fanatical zealot mindset, the above coastal map was completely deleted, but I found it still existed on website "answers.com" and rescued it, adding more towns as seen on NASA maps.

Anyway, as could be expected in a project with no focused management, there are a lot of people extremely busy reformatting images or developing standards to force the few article writers to work harder (meanwhile trying to recover botched maps or whatever), and expansion for mature article text has continued to lag. Naturally, Enc-Britannica is not worried about info-competition from Wikipedia: they obviously see the hollow article contents and sense the slow progress. I have not seen any evidence that Wiki problems are fostered by real encyclopedias, it's just what happens when random forces meander around: bureaucracies tend to gravitate to form over substance. Meanwhile back at the ranch, the info-trend is for linking animated or video clips to better illustrate subjects, but that is an evolutionary step even beyond the acceptance of maps. Don't hold your breath. Just enjoy the comedy of it all. -Wikid77 09:28, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Other topics

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John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) section added

Hi, folks. Since Pearlington is one or six Hancock County communities either wholly (Gainesville, Logtown, Napoleon, Santa Rosa, and Westonia) or in part (a portion of northern Pearlington) absorbed in 1961 to create the buffer zone for NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC), I added a section on SSC to the main article (with a Template:Main link to the longer SSC article). Scarletsmith (talk) 06:57, 22 August 2012 (UTC)