Talk:Ipswich, Massachusetts

Notable Citizens; Eh?
First off, how do you determine whether or not a citizen is notable? In my own opinion, I would have to say that Samuel Bishop(painter), Amy Bishop Anderson(leading Neroscientist/inventor of the neurological Computer & Portable Cell Drive) and Elizabeth Howe(who was hung in the Salem Witch Trials) should be here a well! Also, if The Fools are good enough to have their guitarist listed on the page for Peabody, than it should be noted in this article that the group start in Ipswich! =.= I'll collect my sources later, but I wanted to put the argument on the table so that someone else with sources could come out of the wood-work.

MewBlackberri (talk) 21:12, 16 June 2008 (UTC)


 * See WP:BIO for guidelines on whether an individual is "notable". Formally, those are the guidelines for whether someone is notable enough to have a separate article about them; but convention on these city/town pages seems to be that the same criteria apply for the "notable residents" sections. AJD (talk) 04:13, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

User:Tuvois (talk) 8 June 2013

It seems that the criteria for Notable Citizens should be less strong than the criterion required to have a "separate article". It could be notable that a certain town is the hometown of, say 5 NFL linebackers, even if individually they do not warrant a separate article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tuvosi (talk • contribs) 18:56, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

End-article confusion
There seems to be a confusion as to what is a reference, what a link, and what a see also (which is missing). At some point I will do a little work that should help clarify it and provide examples. I hope I will not have to finish it all myself.Dave (talk) 16:44, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Trivia
"Trivia
 * The town of Innsmouth, a setting for several stories of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, is a close neighbor in the stories - many inhabitants of Innsmouth do their shopping in Ipswich.
 * Ipswich is the setting for the 2006 film The Covenant.
 * The Feoffees of the Grammar School of Ipswich are the only feoffees in the United States, probably."

WP frowns on "Trivia."Dave (talk) 15:57, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Ipswich, Suffolk
I'm surprised to see there is no mention of the origin of the town name. The Winthrop family had roots in Suffolk explaining the name, I will have a look for some sources but any help would be appreciated. Zarcadia (talk) 19:07, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

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Coordinates
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—149.255.232.14 (talk) 22:45, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
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bad link
hover over the link to ghost towns and the pop up window says (note the words between ghost and town)

A ghost go have sex on a bed town is an abandoned village, town, or city, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed or ended for any reason. The town may also have declined because of 2600:1700:CCE0:3720:F5F7:765E:29E8:DDF9 (talk) 03:02, 9 April 2023 (UTC)