Talk:Norwood, Massachusetts

Famous People From Norwood
''Some of this seems untrue... '' Matt Hasselbeck may have been born at Norwood Hospital but was he FROM Norwood.... I've heard Westwood... Also, cannot find a reference on Anthony Constantino (the boxer) Dicky Barrett was a NHS graduate, however I cannot find citation for it nor the confirmation of his expelling from XBHS Allitalien 09:28, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Puzzling sentence
This was in the History section. I don't know what it means and it doesn't have a reference:
 * Known for their Lazy Managers which includes, but is not limited to Foreign Exchange Senior Managers. Eg, Robert Goldman.

Dpbsmith (talk) 03:10, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Religion
The religious demographic of Norwood has changed. The Jain temple there (a) is housed in a former Methodist church building and (b) represents three different historical styles of religious iconography - quite deliberately (as Jain 'ecumenism'). The Jain congregation serves the greater Boston community. MaynardClark (talk) 03:43, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

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50 bells in the carillon
I believe a reliable source for the number, as of 2015, is towerbells.org, see below. This source says there are 50 bells. If towerbells.org is not deemed to be a reliable source, then we should use one of the published print references that refer to 51 bells... or perhaps both numbers, with both sources. Since the carillon has been extensively refurbished several times--with three bells stolen (!) during one of the periods when it was out of service--it's perfectly possible that 51 bells was once correct and that 50 bells is the correct figure today.

The number 57 was inserted by an anon with no verifiable citation given.

1) The oldest revision of the article that mentions the number of bells is this one, from 2003, and says there are 51 bells.

2) The count of 51 matches the print reference, Norwood: A History, 2002, Patricia J. Fanning, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-2404-2, p. 102.

3) In 2011, a not-logged-in user changed the number to 57 in in this revision, with the edit comment "Corrected # of bells in the carillon. I'm from Norwood, I've played it and I know how many bells it has!" No verifiable reference is provided.

4) On a tour of the tower, Lea Leach, resident volunteer carilloneur, commented that "It has fifty bells. Wikipedia has the wrong number but I don't know how to get it corrected." I told him that I couldn't do it on the basis of his verbal statement, I needed a verifiable source. He recommended towerbells.org. This is a volunteer website maintained by a member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America; it has an extensive global database of carillon technical details worldwide, and is, at the least, a comprehensive and neutral source. The page for Norwood's Tilton Carillon gives the following information which is said to be current as of 2015:

Dpbsmith (talk) 22:33, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Further details: World Carillon Federation website shows "50 bells." So does the Norwood Library website. And so does a Boston Globe article from 2013.

Dpbsmith (talk) 23:16, 6 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Actually, that wouldn't be a reliable source either, but we're not talking about a figure that particularly matters in the bigger scheme of things. Imo, your source is certainly better than the unsourced 57. Feel free to change it to 50. If someone decides to get particularly anal about this, it may have to be changed back to 51 for verifiability, but I don't see that happening. John from Idegon (talk) 09:56, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Didn't see the last. I'll take the Boston Globe for the win, Alex. John from Idegon (talk) 09:58, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

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Carillon isn't the "seventh largest in the United States"
That statement has been in the article for a very long time--too lazy to find the initial insertion--but it isn't even close to being true. According to numerous sources it has fifty bells, and according to the list at http://www.towerbells.org/data/IXNATRnr.html there are fifty carillons with 51 bells or more. Even if it had the 57 bells once reported in the article, there would still be twenty carillon with more than 57 bells.

Given that there are four carillons with over seventy bells and fifteen with over sixty, I don't think it's a notably large instrument and don't think there's any point mentioning any rank.

Dpbsmith (talk) 01:12, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , I don't know (or really care one way or another), but are they possibly claiming largest based on criteria other than the number of bells? John from Idegon (talk) 04:37, 19 September 2020 (UTC)


 * I seriously doubt it. It's a handsome building and a carillon is a carillon but it isn't obviously huge. I'll see if I can figure out what the source was. Even "seventh largest" does not sound impressive or important to me, so I am not personally ready to restore it with a "citation needed" tag, but if you want to I won't edit war over it. I guess I'll see if I find the change where it was inserted and see if there's any hint of a source. Dpbsmith (talk) 23:24, 19 September 2020 (UTC)


 * And (of course), there isn't. It was added by an anon, with no edit comment. Dpbsmith (talk) 23:29, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

I have contacted the carillonneur to see if he knows anything about this, and he has replied: It's quite possible that was cited from another source without attribution or that at the time of its installation it was true. Also, there are different definitions as to largest, by total bell weight, number of bells, or some other esoteric quality. I think the Norwood bells are the most harmonious. But you are correct to remove the comment as not being much to brag about. I have found that you really cannot control what people (including reporters) write about on the internet (or in the news world).

Thanks, Dan, for checking up on this. I appreciate it.

As far as I'm concerned, it stays out. This is not a case of a fact is both important and probably-verifiable. Dpbsmith (talk) 12:31, 21 September 2020 (UTC)