Talk:Farmington, New Mexico

Nuclear test site
I think the fact that it was a nuclear test site is certainly significant, possibly needs rewording. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.147.140.120 (talk) 03:34, 18 October 2005 (UTC) If by "it" you mean Farmington being a nuclear test site, I don't think so. Ground zero for the Gasbuggy explosion was many dozens of miles away, not even in the same county; saying that Farmington was therefore a nuclear test site would be stretching it, to put it mildly. It'd favor keeping it about the way it is. Ohyesbut (talk) 04:23, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Desert Rock Blog
I've removed the link to the Desert Rock Blog because it doesn't have anything to do with the comment period for the proposed Desert Rock power-plant. If someone wants to add a section for controversy over Desert Rock, it might be more at home there, but as it is, it's a mis-leading link. --Hoganp1 (talk) 21:18, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Proposed merge from Farmington Public Library
User:Redfarmer marked Farmington Public Library as Template:mergeto on 14 January 2008, but did not provide any comments. Please make any comments here. Thanks. --Uncia (talk) 03:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC) There being no further discussion, I have deleted the merge tags. --Uncia (talk) 14:43, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep separate. The current article has roughly the same amount of detail as Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System, which describes a much larger library system. I do think Farmington Public Library should have more details, so a more appropriate marking would be Template:Expand. --Uncia (talk) 03:17, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Education
Since community/junior colleges don't even award bachelor's degrees, they certainly aren't going to confer doctorates, so I re-worded the blurb on College Blvd. in the section. 74.215.242.83 (talk) 05:35, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Graham 87 15:32, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Education
I'd suggest deleting the paragraph about College Boulevard having four schools on it. That's really not particularly extraordinary, and sounds more like Board of Education puffery than anything else. Even moreso, I'd drop the paragraph about the "feud" between the two high schools. Any town with two or more high schools has exactly these same sort of rivalries. This simply isn't encyclopedia-type information that's worthy of inclusion in an article about this city. Ohyesbut (talk) 04:46, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note; I've removed them both. The college boulevard thing would be more unusual where I live in Australia, but most universities here are in major cities. Graham 87 15:09, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Notable Places
Is it me, or the "notable places" section is just an ad for some restaurant? Zhuravskij (talk) 15:57, 20 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Good catch; I removed it. I obviously didn't read it properly when [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Farmington,_New_Mexico&diff=prev&oldid=679481635 it was added]. Graham 87 06:20, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

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Population estimate from 1953 likely wildly innaccurate
The page reads:

"It grew from 3,637 in 1950 to 35,000 in 1953 and the expansion continued after that"

The linked evidence claims:

"In 1946 Farmington city limits covered only 630 acres; by 1950, it expanded to 2,240-acres as the city stretched north encompassing the new forty-one house subdivision built by El Paso Natural Gas Company for workers at their San Juan River plant. Population burst from 3,637 in 1950 to the local estimate of 35,000 in 1953, as oil and gas workers flooded into Farmington."

It's not clear if the 35,000 is even Farmington population or metro area population from that quote - and 35,000 is not born out of census data, which has 23,785 for the population in 1960 (still - a huge jump). 2600:1700:6971:F080:9172:866D:E8CB:A68E (talk) 22:46, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note; I've gone and removed the exact figure, even though I know nothing about the subject and only have this article on my watchlist to deal with vandalism. I've encountered similar mistakes in articles more local to me; these sorts of misinterpretations of old data are common. Graham 87 02:52, 28 February 2023 (UTC)