Talk:Vinalhaven, Maine

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The island of Vinalhaven, Maine, was home to John Calderwood who emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland in 1725. His descendants prospered on the island and today the name Calderwood is still prominent in landmarks, roads and local history. The Historical Society of Vinalhaven, located on High St., just a short walk from downtown, has a large collection of memorabilia, not only for the Calderwood family and other early settlers, but also the early economy, which thrived on granite mining and cutting. Many of the nations well-known bridges and edifices are constructed from granite quarried on Vinalhaven (the Brooklyn Bridge and cathedral of St. John the Divine in NY). With the advent of cement as a more utile building material, the island's quarries slowly went out of business and many of them now function as local spring-fed swimming holes. After granite, lobsters became the primary product of Vinalhaven, and the island boasts the largest lobster fleet in the US, if not the world. The ferry from Rockland to Vinalhaven is a beautiful trip as it wends it's way through what would seem to be a veritable minefield of multicolored lobster pot buoys, thousands of them, that litter the channel between the mainland and the island. The one and a quarter hour ferry trip is well worth the time if just for the visual beauty of the coastline and scattered outcrops of granite islets that lead to the little port of Vinalhaven.

"Rival Islands"

If you can't give a cite, don't put it in the article. All this "rivalry" stuff is just speculation, and while I'm pretty sure there's competition between lobstermen, that probably doesn't make a rivalry. Include a source, or I'll just keep treating it like vandalism. --UsaSatsui (talk) 18:18, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Vinalhaven High School"

Please edit/remove the line "Because of the islands isolation some questionable methods have been allowed to fly under the radar at Vinalhavens educational institute." There is no citation nor proof of this statement. Cyberbytli (talk) 18:48, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Recent pictures

The article doesn't have any recent pictures of the island. I would gladly put some up when I'm there this summer, but if anyone has some now to put up, that would be great. 74.4.248.78 (talk) 21:12, 11 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Best to upload them to Wikimedia Commons rather than here. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:27, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Question about tense

The section restored by editor BeyondMyKen had outdated sentences such as "the project is expected to." The project is now completed, windmills spinning merrily, and it is no longer a case of eager expectations. We can say what the project has actually accomplished. "Significantly reduced" is a matter of opinion; by now we should have hard facts on how much rates are actually reduced. There is a quote in the restored section and while it appears also outdated language (a statement from years ago predicting what the task force will do which presumably by now it either has or has not done) still, assuming it is still valid I simply to ask for a citation. Quotes need a footnote: who said it, when. Best wishes, ElijahBosley ^{(talk ☞)} 21:36, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You did more than that, you removed sourced material entirely. The answer is not to remove sourced information, but to change the tense of the statements, or to replace it with newer sourced information. I have corrected the tense, please do not removed sourced information again. (I've also changed the title of this section; section titles are expected to be neutral in tone.) Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:57, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Actually the edit removed outdated material. I see the oudated material is back, but without any new sources confirming it is still valid. Fine, we'll leave it the way it is and await further refinements. May I gently suggest to an editor who goes so far as to change a Talk page section heading "Tilting at Windmills"--consider the Wikipedia recomendation that one genrally avoid use of the word "you." It personalizes an otherwise impersonal editorial difference, and produces the result of two dogs staring at each other. Cordially, ElijahBosley ^{(talk ☞)} 23:26, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Point taken. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:20, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]