Talk:Golden Triangle (New Hampshire)

Move to Merrimack Valley Region?
I propose that this article cease to exist in its present form. I believe it should be moved to Merrimack Valley Region as a subsection as the entire area of the Golden Triangle is in the Merrimack Valley Region. What are others thoughts on this? Assawyer 22:58, 17 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I disagree. I seriously doubt that Salem thinks of itself as being in the "Merrimack Valley".


 * Atlant 23:50, 17 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Salem is in Merrimack Valley according to the state: Towns in the Merrimack Valley Region. I do not know what Salem thinks about the State considering them in the Merrimack Valley, but then I do not think that matters; I doubt that Salem is concerned with being in the "Golden Triangle."  The reason I deleted the Golden Triangle from the regions on Template:New Hampshire is because it is not an offical region, while the others are.  The inclusion of the region in the template and moving the page are two separate things in my opinion.  The discussion that I was proposing was to move this article to be included in the Merrimack Valley article. I do realize that you created this article, but I do not see what justifies putting this "region" on the template.


 * Assawyer 03:17, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

This article should really be merged with (referenced in?) Merrimack Valley. As a native of the "Golden Triangle", and as an Employee of the City of Nashua, I have never heard this term or seen it referenced anywhere besides wikipedia.--nelsonleese 19:10, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * You should read the Nashua Telegraph more often ;-) ; they use the term.


 * Atlant 22:22, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Delete this article?
There are no sources for any information on this page.

I searched for "golden triangle" "new hampshire" (with the quotes) on Google, and checked the first two pages. I got these results:


 * This Wikipedia page (twice);
 * A real estate blog that describes a "golden triangle" of real estate from Nashua to Concord to Portsmouth;
 * A promotional page for the city of Manchester, NH, that mentions a "'golden triangle' of economic opportunity" that is not defined;
 * A forum discussion page on the Chronicle of Higher Education website that suggests the general area under discussion, but doesn't specifically define it;
 * Two pages whose only reference to a Golden Triangle in New Hampshire refer back to this Wikipedia page;
 * One page from the Nashua Telegraph that gives a 404 error;
 * Eight pages that have have the terms "golden triangle" and "New Hampshire" but not as a single concept (often referring to areas in other states);
 * Two pages that are first-page entries repeated on the second page (both having nothing to do with a Golden Triangle in New Hampshire).

I also searched for "golden triangle" specifically in the Nashua Telegraph, since that was referenced in earlier discussion. I found three articles:

One editorial from 2014 said:


 * There once was an area of the state that was known as the “Golden Triangle” of New Hampshire – the region between Manchester, Nashua and Salem.
 * The “Golden Triangle” was where good jobs fueled a housing boom and a retail explosion that led to the development of the Mall of New Hampshire, the Pheasant Lane Mall and the Mall at Rockingham Park. It was where small towns burst at the seams and populations exploded.
 * It’s probably no accident that you don’t hear it called that much anymore.
 * It’s probably no accident that you don’t hear it called that much anymore.
 * It’s probably no accident that you don’t hear it called that much anymore.

Two articles about fiber-optic cable, one from 2012 and another from 2011, said:


 * Using fiber-optic cables and microwave towers to beam power where it’s too expensive to lay cable, it wants to make high-speed Internet connections more common outside the “golden triangle” of southeast New Hampshire, stretching from Nashua and Milford north to Concord and east to the Seacoast.

and ...


 * Lightower is hardly alone in its push hereabouts. A number of companies, based in New Hampshire and elsewhere, provide high-speed Internet services to businesses and data-heavy operations such as server farms throughout what is called the state’s Golden Triangle, roughly stretching from eastern Hillsborough County to the Seacoast.

Searching the Union Leader for "golden triangle" produced no results.

The only article that gave a specific description of the term "golden triangle" that uses what this Wikipedia article mentions (the editorial from the Nashua Telegraph in 2014) said that the term is on longer used. That same newspaper had two other articles that gave a different description of a "golden triangle" area.

Is there any good reason to keep this article? I think it should be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdak06 (talk • contribs) 16:03, 15 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I agree. It's always seemed like an odd term for the area, and knowing that even the Telegraph no longer uses it leaves no reason to keep the article. The topics are all better covered in Merrimack Valley and the respective county articles. --Ken Gallager (talk) 19:23, 15 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Convert it to a redirect and make sure all of its content is subsumed in the Merrimack Valley article. Atlant (talk) 17:02, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Redirect
This page has been changed to be a redirect page, as this term is rarely (if ever) used anymore. It now points to the New Hampshire subsection of the Economy section of the Merrimack Valley Wikipedia page.

The content that I was able to confirm with references has been transferred. Mdak06 (talk) 20:56, 17 March 2017 (UTC)