Talk:Indian Wells, California

New wealth, new homes, new jobs
Indian Wells came into being in the 1950s when developers from the Eldorado Bank Inc. created a golf course, the Eldorado Country Club on a square mile parcel of land next to the Santa Rosa Mountains. Other developers came in a second to create Indian Wells country club in 1962, followed by The Vintage Club and Desert Horizons in the 1970s. Celebrities bought second homes in Indian wells since the 1960's, such as Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball on their street, DesiLu Circle. By the 1980's, Indian Wells and neighbors Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage and the main destination, Palm Springs had a new wave of tourism, wealth and real estate appraisal. In the 1990s, more new residents head out to La Quinta, Cathedral City and the upper-income sections of Indio. The huge socio-economic gap between Indian Wells and the Indio area like Coachella is quite remarkable. Indio and Coachella is where employees of the lodging, landscape, restaurant and retail industries tend to live, have a large lower-income class group, compared to the rest of the Coachella Valley. Where else a person earn $35,000 a year can live?...not Indian Wells, nor Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage. The shift of population to the Indio area in recent years to find moderately priced homes (for now) and a large young Hispanic immigrant community, is changing the long-held wealthy resort image of the Palm Springs area. + 207.200.116.130 04:19, 29 October 2006 (UTC) 03:12, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

History
I just added a new section to Indian Wells' article. It is based on that city's official web site and summarizes the information there. I hope it will suffice. DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 00:51, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Controversy section removal
Taken in context the section is both temporal and out of proportion to the article. If Indian Wells had a pattern of municipal corruption - which it does not appear over its history to have demonstrated; or if the instance cited expanded into a larger investigation of corruption that made a durable mark on the city's reputation, particularly as a resort destination which depends both on public perception and a high level of municipal service to remain successful, or anything like it - which did not occur - the incident cited would deserve consideration for retention. But as it is it was a passing item that fails to demonstrate encyclopedic germaneness. It isn't realistic or Wikipedia policy to have individual, 1st level "Controversy" sections for every town, county, state, or other political division that ever had a public official resign their position in protest of something, let alone as the section's sole content. Yours, Wikiuser100 (talk) 14:41, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * A plausible argument. I don't believe *every* municipality needs to have a "Controversy" section. However, many do.  I should ask: do you have any conflict of interest here?—Stepheng3 (talk) 20:51, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * None. Stumbled onto the page looking for information on a golf tournament held there relevant to the Cadillac Eldorado page I'd been editing, made some general edits cleaning it up, got to the Controversy section and expected it would either contain a material historic controversy/pattern of corruption like say Mayor Daly's Chicago, or a substantial ongoing one. It proved none of the above, with a dead reference link and no indication even of arrests, let alone trials and convictions.  Being three years old and moribund, the content failed to be germane, encyclopedic, or meet the criterion of MOS:Weight. Yours, Wikiuser100 (talk) 23:17, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * That's fine, then. Thank you for your contribution.—Stepheng3 (talk) 21:39, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

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Clarify "People"
Are these people who were born there, or live there, or who have once had a second home there, etc., etc., Typically, "notable residents" would be used. This list looks to be an undefined grab bag of people associated with Indian Wells in some way. Billyshiverstick (talk) 22:03, 17 March 2024 (UTC)