Talk:Palm Bay, Florida

Updating for Idiots
I've been adding a few notes here and there where I can, but not familiar with the annotating that Student7 would like when editing. Sorry, learning. To explain repeated deletion of the Big Squeeze, it didn't happen this year and its future is in doubt. I don't know how to cite that other than to say it didn't happen. There are other events and so forth in the city that I will try to compile and cite, but it'll take me awhile. Just adding bits where I can and copying the reference process as best I can. I agree that everything neeeds to be properly sourced and cited.67.78.245.110 (talk) 18:00, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Copyvio June 2006
The copyvio issues could be dealt woth by contacting the owners of the sire, and enquiring about it.Dolive21 15:37, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * strange that we noticed this at the same time. i actually deleted it before i saw this note. I'll leave it to you to figure out if it is valuable. David D. (Talk) 22:04, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Rewrite desperately needed
I added an infobox and a bunch of cites from the Census Bureau (for accurate city size and population figures), reorganized the article to conform with the WikiProject Cities article organization standards, and did a little bit of copy-editing, but this article is in dire need of a thorough rewrite, preferably by someone who has some knowledge of the city. My ability to fix this article is seriously hindered by my total lack of knowledge about the city. Horologium t-c 20:14, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

I got you
I live in the city, ill help you out.

Population is 100,000
In the city newsletter, they congradulated the city for reaching 100,000, for some reason online it does not say so, but i LIVE in the city and i have the letter so yes, despite un updated sites the city is over 100,000 in pouplaton.

Government section
I just went through and removed a lot of material on the mayor that blatantly violated Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy, as well as glossed over the fact that he was apparently unopposed for reelection in 2005, which implies that he is not so reviled as the editor who added it was suggesting. I also eliminated the PoV statements about how the city is "looked down upon by other cities", and the information about drainage issues is addressed in the city history section. Lastly, I fixed the citations, which were incorrectly formatted. The Florida Today search archive was a puzzle to format, but I used the template that seemed to be most appropriate, the cite web template. Horologium t-c 15:41, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

As a note to all: Horologium you have stated before that you don't live in the City and know little about it. I live in Palm Bay and have been a Brevard resident for 34 years. Around the County there is a widespread belief that Palm Bay is the red headed step child of the County. Travel the County and ask people in restaurants or gas stations or local businesses and you will hear plenty. Even the City of Palm Bay itself has discussed at length how to change the image in the rest of the County. They have literally hundreds of miles of unpaved roads, the majority of the City does not have central water and sewer available, citywide flooding problems, a lack of commercial jobs, a lack of cultural activities, ect. Publius 1776


 * Being a resident of the city (or the county, state, nation, etc) does not give one carte blanche to edit the article in a blatantly-PoV fashion. The flooding issues are mentioned (in a far more neutral fashion) in the history section. Most of what I have reverted falls under the category of Original Research, which is not appropriate to Wikipedia. If you can add CITED, RELIABLE, neutral sources for your allegations, I will not revert them. However, using WP to smear Mazzioti or anyone else is not acceptable. I left in (and properly cited) the refs about Mazziotti's rather tawdry past, because they are valid cites. I removed the unsubstantiated and rather scurrilous portions of your screeds. Horologium t-c 17:17, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Population figure revisited
I didn't bother to revert the population figure that someone keeps adding to the article, but at least I found a page on the Palm Bay city website that actually quotes that figure; citing the index page of the city site was not an adequate reference. Never mind that there is absolutely no way of verifying that figure, and that Palm Bay is the only city in Florida with more than 50,000 people that does not use the U.S. Census Bureau data, because if I mention that, I'll get accused of having a bias against the city, or that I don't know anything about the city and shouldn't be editing its article. (I've already had that one thrown at me.) We'll just throw reliable sourcing out the window for this article, because, after all, it's only Wikipedia. Horologium t-c 20:11, 9 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree. We should be using only government census figures here, not the city's "best guess." This is supposed to be an encyclopedia here not a farmer's almanac that no body knows if they should trust it or not. It should NOT represent a Palm Bay Point of View, but rather an higher level, objective one - the truth! Changing dates of the reference is a clue to false census figures. The government always report census guesses on the same day for everybody each year ONCE a year, not every month! Thanks, Horologium, for trying to maintain our objectivity! Student7 17:39, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Heritage High School
The information presented in the school section is not accurate and or is not up to date. Heritage High has already opened, and is no longer called "School CCC," may somebody please change this information and cite it correctly. (R3445v (talk) 14:55, 22 August 2009 (UTC))

External links modified
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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20150509084215/http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20081124/NEWS01/811240335/1006 to http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20081124/NEWS01/811240335/1006

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Roads are sinking, Don't buy a home here
30 yrs waiting for roads in the N.W. end of this dump to get paved. Be calling time and again about when. Same old story next year ,we have to do piping first but never gets started.The liars just get better at lying to us They dont tell you that the ground is sinking into the swamp here. Dont waste your hard earned money buying a home anywhete in this city definitely not in the N.w. end of the swamp.... FACT.... 2603:9001:3E04:3EF:B42A:709B:6A31:BA3A (talk) 15:34, 26 May 2023 (UTC)