Talk:Lewiston, Maine/Archives/2015

Baby Back Ribs
Is there an article about that crazy lady who put her baby in the oven because her husband told her to? I'd like to learn more about that.68.202.82.33 (talk) 17:54, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Population
Can someone please cite the source of Lewiston's 2007 population estimate? I can't find that figure anywhere.

The 2010 population is incorrect... it should be 36,592 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.12.84.28 (talk) 17:20, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Somali's skills
The documentary "The Letter", so named after Mayor Raymond's letter, seems to argue that the Somali's are well-educated (they are doctors and nurse, for example, the movie says) and speak English very well (one Somali speaks 5 languages). These examples, obviously, could be isolated incidents. This article claims that they are uneducated and speak poor English. Are there any reliable statistics on this?

Why are you looking to the movie "The Letter" to be a fair representation of ANYTHING about Lewiston, given the filmmaker is a total egotist who only wrote the "documentary" to try and get an award or something. As one of the people that arranged the first screening in Lewiston, I have actively told other groups NOT to deal with this "filmmaker." As for skills of Somali's - Flip it around - How do you gauge the skills of whites/ non- Somali's/ any other ethnic group, I mean I think they bring some needed diversity to Lewiston. Uppitycrip (talk) 02:27, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Further on Somali Section
(to avoid confusion, I didn't write the above unsigned comment)

I've removed some material from the Somali influx section as both highly POV, containing unsubstantiated generalizations, and being unsourced to boot. An additional observation: even with a influx of 4,000 non-white immigrants, Lewiston, a city of 35,000 to that point, remains "predominantly" caucasian/Acadian. JamesofMaine 01:42, 6 May 2006 (UTC)


 * while as a raw percentage somalis make up only 10-15% of the population, Maine being the 'whitest' state in the US, a rapid change of culture is significant.Wvfd14 18:29, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Why is there a link to a racist webpage in the section about Somali immigrants? As if we don't already know what white supremacists think about nonwhites, particularly nonwhite immigrants! Don't give them any more attention; they don't deserve it. I request to remove this link. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.124.180.142 (talk • contribs).
 * Since it was a dead link (when I accessed it anyway) and debate of its inclusion is now therefore a moot point, I removed it. You don't have to request to change anything you think needs changing in an article, "be bold", and feel free to do it yourself. Ripogenus77 20:32, 19 December 2006 (UTC)


 * How many Somalis live in Lewiston now? There were 1,000-1,100 in 2002 but how many are there now?  131.123.231.143 00:38, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

$$Insert formula here$$

Images
Seems like some of the images need to be moved and/or resized. Text is squeezed between them, etc. Wednesday Next (talk) 16:05, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Bantu Section
I believe that it would be best to leave out the physical characteristics of the Bantus. This is an article on Lewiston, Maine, and not the bantus. they have their own article. if people are more interested, they can click the wikilink.Wvfd14 (talk) 14:28, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I see your point. I've just removed that part of the text. Middayexpress (talk) 15:51, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I replaced "Bantu" with "Somali and Somali Bantu immigration" since it was an anonymous user who changed the original "Somali" into "Somali Bantu" without providing any source or comment. According to this Article, the Somalians in Lewiston are mostly ethnic Somalis, but there are Bantu as well. Béka (talk) 07:40, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Article needs more info on the Bats Mill complex
There is missing information on the Bates Mills shoes industry, back in 1963 the Bates Mill had a shoe defect where they made so many shoes for a customer that sent the shoes back to the Mill when the company was having financial problems. When that happened the owner or the general manager was under fire, later committed suicide over the customer sending all the shoes back and shortly later the Bates Mill was closed down. What I need to know who was the general manager or owner that committed suicide and when was the dates?--Globalstatus (talk) 18:44, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

How Wal-Mart killed the original Lewiston downtown
I was born in Lewiston Maine but I have lived in California my whole life. There is no question that when Wal-Mart came to Lewiston & Alburn, it killed Lisbon street. With bad city planning and money corruption of corporate companies such as Wal-Mart they killed all the mom & pop stores on Lisbon street back in the early 1990's making the orginal Lewiston downtown street Lisbon despressing. It is horrible to see Lisbon looking the way it does. If I were to say what Lisbon street it looks like Skid Row in Los Angeles almost but it's too cold for the homeless to sleep in the streets there. It is ashame to see what the city council members did within the years of bad planning to let them be bought out by large corporate companies bringing in box store with items made from China. Lewiston used to be a town where many things were USA made but now the town has all these box stores that centered the people away from the original downtown bcause of bad city planning. Lewiston needs a big investor with a big heart to save Lewiston to fix the downtown with being back small stores all along Lisbon street and to stay away from the City Council as they were sold out by big box stores. It is ashame to see Lewiston no days, it nothing I could tell anybody about, it is depressing to look it.--Globalstatus (talk) 18:41, 4 April 2011 (UTC)