Talk:Paramus, New Jersey

Time Travel
Paragraph 2, sentence 1 states "Paramus was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 2, 1922, based on the results of a referendum held on April 4, 1922 that passed by a vote of 238 for and 10 against."

This is either very very interesting, or not entirely clear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.82.132.67 (talk) 18:48, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Comment
Nordstrom's flagship store has always been located in Seattle, WA, not in Paramus, NJ.
 * That may be, but its best performing store by far is the one in Paramus, NJ.

Entertainment section
Edited out this line from the 1931 drive-in paragraph: Easy Money starring Rodney Dangerfield was one of the last movies shown there.

Sorry, but who cares? Unless it's the final film it's not really relevant to the article. Even then, maybe this drive-in should have a name - and its own article. Mention it there. Kether83 11:55, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Latin Etymology
Could the name Paramus come from Latin? Paramus in Latin is "we prepare." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.15.162.63 (talk) 21:37, 7 October 2008 (UTC) I believe it's indian for "wild turkey" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.3.242.144 (talk) 01:37, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

-It is indian, but it doesnt quite mean wild turkey. The indians liked to use words to paint pictures so to them paramus really meant somethign like a fertile land which was good for growing crops and attrated wild turkeys. But "land of the wild turkey" is close enough--Rusf10 (talk) 23:46, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

pronunciation
I assume the pronunciation is messed up? Stress on the ra, maybe? kwami (talk) 08:28, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

I always thought it was pronounced puh-RAMM-us... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayouhas (talk • contribs) 16:02, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

I am from Paramus. It is pronounce pa (as in mom and pa) RAM (as in battering ram) us (as in asparagus). paRAMus. It definitely is not pronounced pa RA mus or poo RAM us, although you will hear some folks say per RAM is. The name is about as far from Latin as you can get. The Lenni Lenape people gave it the name in reference to wild turkeys. In one of the (many) large malls there is a large statue of a wild turkey with a sign explaining the name. Stwiso (talk) 23:48, 20 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm also originally from Paramus and I agree with Stwiso. I'm not totally familiar with IPA though.  I'm thinking it should be /pə'ræmʌs/.  Does that look right?    talk 03:05, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I've made the change. Please revert it if it is not correct.    talk 03:09, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Good apart from the final ə. I changed the respelling to match.
 * We don't have the pa as in "Pa", though. kwami (talk) 10:03, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced popular culture needing references

 * In Ghostbusters II a woman claims that she met an alien at the Paramus Holiday Inn: "I received this information from an alien. As I told my husband, it was in the Paramus Holiday Inn, I was having a drink at the bar, alone, and this alien approached me. He started talking to me. He bought me a drink, and then I think he must have used some kind of a ray or a mind control device because he forced me to follow him to his room and that's where he told me about the end of the world."

Inclusion of excessive cruft and references to bus accident
, the information you keep trying to add back to the article is unnecessary and cluttering the article. First, the WP:LEAD should be relatively short and not include trivial information like the town winning a healthy town award that hundreds of other towns in the state also have won or some arbitrary ranking by a news organization. Second, I removed information that does not pertain specifically to the town like climate information and who the governor of New Jersey is (the appropriate article to discuss these topics is New Jersey). Also removed were a WP:NOTDIR listing of parks and fire stations, some promotional information about schools, and finally a WP:LINKFARM at the end of the article. The article was also reorganized to more closely follow WP:USCITY.

Finally, while tragic, the bus accident falls under WP:NOTNEWS. It does not matter that it has been covered by national sources. Some idiot bus driver making an illegal u-turn is not notable and does not have a WP:LASTING impact.--Rusf10 (talk) 21:31, 25 May 2018 (UTC)