Talk:Flower Mound, Texas

The mound
The line in the opening paragraph: "Though surrounded by commercial and residential development, the mound, believed to be a Native American burial ground, is privately owned so as to be protected from further development." Is there some reference that this is siting? I grew up in the area and my grandmother is on the Flower Mound Foundation Board. I know of no commonly held belief that the Mound was a burial ground, nor any archaeological evidence to support this. I will double check my reference and get back. Until then I have edited the statement to remove this and to site that ownership as a Non-Profit. Wildwose 07:18, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I may not be posting here correctly, as my experience with Wikipedia is limited. I have edited the opening paragraph again, as it was changed to mention being a ceremonial site for Wichita Indians and cited a dead link. I tried to find the link and no credible sources can corroborate it's use as a sacred site. There are numerous legends and folklore, but none of any sources that meet Wikipedia standards. I have edited it reflect this and added the mention of the Mound Foundation, which is a non-profit that manages it. As I note above, in disclosure, my grandparents used to be active on the foundation and in the town. Wildwose (talk) 19:38, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

"Made up primarily of shopping centers"
Come on, this is getting a little silly. No city of nearly 70,000 people is made up primarily of shopping centers. Of course, residential and undeveloped land accounts for most of Flower Mound's area. You might as well say that Flower Mound is made up mostly of schools and churches because there are dozens of them in the city. The article is already balanced with criticisms of growth in Flower Mound. Please remember that we're trying to write a reasonably neutral encyclopedia article, not a polemic against shopping centers and grocery stores. Casey Abell 13:55, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm tired of the edit war, and I won't violate WP:3RR. I've left messages here and on User Talk:Spsummerlin about the inaccuracy of saying that a city of nearly 70,000 is primarily shopping centers. But I won't make any more reverts. I'll leave it to other editors to ensure that the article remains accurate and balanced. Casey Abell 04:49, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

In Dallas County?
I'm a Flower Mounder myself and I know for a fact that it is mostly in Denton County and some of it is just barely is in Tarrant County. I don't think it could possibly even be close to being in Dallas county...anyone beg to differ? 71.240.164.41 (talk) 14:24, 19 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Support. There is an reliable source that claims that Flower Mound is a city itself and that majority of Flower Mound is within Dallas County, Texas, but no matches claiming that it is within Tarrant or Denton.

Here.

http://www.county.org/about-texas-counties/county-data/Documents/towns.html

What Development Scheme?
"It was part of the United States Army's failed "New Town" development scheme." Every single online reference returned from a search for a US Army New Town development scheme traced back to this unsourced sentence. Unless someone can provide some citation to buttress this line, I'll delete the sentence in a week's time. Irish Melkite (talk) 07:20, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Town vs. City
I think it's fine to mention that Flower Mound refuses to call itself a city in the text, but in the info box on the right hand side, I think the appropriate thing to do would be to list Flower Mound as a city under the name. Flower Mound can demand to be called any word it like, be it town, hamlet, or banana, but by commonly accepted English definitions, a place where 65,000 people reside is a city.

Keep "town council" and "town manager" if those labels are the proper ones used by Flower Mound, but under "Flower Mound" and above the picture, it should be labeled a city. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.21.232.176 (talk) 00:38, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

No dictionary distinguishes a village, town, city, or otherwise by exact numbers of residents. Google the definition for "town" and it is easy for one to see that no dictionary includes numbers in their definition for town. 173.71.5.232 (talk) 05:08, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Googling the definition isn't a sufficient way to find the proper use for Wikipedia. Though the terms "town" and "city" may be somewhat interchangeable, but if there are common uses on Wikipedia (and there are) for what constitutes what, especially regional differences, those should be taken into account. Using the term "town" creates an unnecessary ambiguity as to whether the area is incorporated or not, etc. At this time, we have no reason to think that Flower Mound has any reason at all to call itself a town except for the sole purpose of PR. We can mention that they call themselves a town "officially", but for the purposes of this site it is clearly and by all common definitions considered a city. Any resident would call it as much, unless they remembered to correct themselves and say "oh wait they call it a town, I guess." Runfellow (talk) 06:24, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Excessive and cumbersome notes and references
The Notes and References in this article take up half the article! Yikes! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.33.205.218 (talk) 18:59, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

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