Talk:Fairmount Park

Contiguous...
Considering this park isn't contiguous, how can it claim to be the largest municipal park? The criteria is certainly flawed is it allows 65 seperate pieces of land to stake a claim at the largest municipal park. Largest park system, perhaps. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of park is as follows:
 * Pronunciation: 'pärk
 * Function: noun
 * Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin parricus, from pre-Latin parra pole, trellis
 * 1 a) an enclosed piece of ground stocked with game and held by royal prescription or grant b) a tract of land that often includes lawns, woodland, and pasture attached to a country house and is used as a game preserve and for recreation
 * 2 a) a piece of ground in or near a city or town kept for ornament and recreation

A park is a single piece, not 65 pieces. That is all. --Daysleeper47 19:51, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Valley Forge?
Sorry, but Fairmount Park does not reach all the way to Valley Forge, which is several miles outside the Philly city limits. The Morris Arboretum, maybe.--BillFlis 18:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Fairmount Park Commission
The Fairmount Park Commission is going out of existence at the end of June, 2009. How will this be documented in Wikipedia articles? The park(s) continue in existence and will be governed by the Mayor and City Council, with a support operation under the Park and Recreation Department. --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:40, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually, it will be on July 1, 2010, that the Philadelphia Recreation Department will combine with the Fairmount Park Commission to become the Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation.--DThomsen8 (talk) 21:51, 15 May 2010 (UTC)


 * See http://www.phila.gov/Recreation/History_2.html for the history. --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:53, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Park houses
I have removed Rockland from the list of park houses. The link was to a disambiguation page, and I cannot find an article in Wikipedia on the house. Perhaps another editor can find out the facts.

Also, there are many more park houses, not mentioned in this article. I added two of them to the See also section, but I know there are more. --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:46, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Misspelling "Fairmont Park" should not redirect
After noticing that the name was misspelled "Fairmont Park" in a Wikipedia article, I found many other occurrences of this mistake by using Google searches. There are dozens. I have fixed some.

Many of these misspellings were wikilinked to this article. The links work because "Fairmont Park" redirects to "Fairmount Park". I suggest that this redirect encourages the misspelling; an editor who introduces a new occurrence of the misspelling is tricked into thinking it's correct, because the link works.

If we drop this redirect, wikilinked new occurrences of the mistake will show up as red "create an article" links. This will help people avoid this common mistake.

I suggest we drop this redirect. Does anybody object? (Or concur?) TypoBoy (talk) 18:02, 1 December 2013 (UTC)


 * After posting this, I realize that this isn't the place for it. The procedure is to nominate the redirect for deletion (like any other article). I also see from the relevant WIkipedia how-to that redirects for misspellings, like this one, are considered OK. They give the example that Condoleeza Rice redirects to Condoleezza Rice.


 * This seems wrong to me. If an editor introduces a misspelling of Condoleezza Rice's name, I think we should give him an error message (in the form of a red "create article" link) to help him find his mistake. But I don't seem to be in tune with the consensus here.


 * So I used the "what links here" tool to find and fix the pages that were referring to "Fairmont Park". Maybe I'll leave it at that. TypoBoy (talk) 15:45, 4 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Also, it turns out that there's a category "redirects from misspellings". I added the "Fairmont Park" redirect to that category (by adding the tag). TypoBoy (talk) 05:33, 22 February 2014 (UTC)