Talk:Coal town

Coal towns are not the same as a Company town. Removed redirect.
 * We need to build a concensus on what a coal town actually is or was. I am a member of the Wiki projects for West Virginia, Ghost Towens and Appalachia and would very much like to create an agreed upon definition, ANY ideas???Coal town guy (talk) 13:43, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Creating Coal Town Page soon, will remove redirect from this page. Coal Towns are NOT the equivalent of a company town..Coal town guy (talk) 23:10, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

I feel like this entire article needs scrapped and started over, preferably by anyone who has knowledge of what a coal town actually is. Coal town guy had a great page here, but other editors wouldn't leave it alone. I understand that Wiki pages aren't supposed to remain static, really, but, honestly, Coal town guy is right -- "coal town" and "coal camp" are two very distinctly different things, and the definition of "coal camp" has absolutely taken over what this article was supposed to be. Mari Adkins

PAID in scrip
The percentage of coal miners who were actually PAID in scrip is rather small considering that most major coal towns had their own banks......I see the miners were paid in scrip added here repeatedly with no sourcing....IF YOU READ THE BOOKS, AND LIVED THERE, you would KNOW that usage of scrip was a credit. Was it unfair and open to misuse? YES. Was it the norm and thus can be used to advance a POV on wikipedia, NO. IF it is unsourced, WHY just stick it in there?Coal town guy (talk) 13:41, 18 June 2015 (UTC)