Talk:Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania

Incorporation
After personally speaking with the township clerk, I was informed that all books and information citing the townships' incorporation as 1736 is incorrect. There is no document that governed the township until 1907 when the township was formed at the Fernwood hotel in Yeadon. -- HighWiz


 * The township was definitely not formed as late as 1907. Upper Darby split from Darby township in the 18th Century. 24rhhtr7 (talk) 17:27, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Notable residents
There are effective two sections of this article (one near the start, one near the close) that focus on notable residents and these even mention some of the same people. I'd rather someone else than me fix it but if worse comes to worse... - Boston (talk) 16:05, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Rowhouse photo
I'm fairly sure that the rowhouses pictured on "Locust Street" are actually found in the 300 block of Richfield Road. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Treeemont (talk • contribs) 17:19, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Police scandal
In 1991, a staggering five Upper Darby cops were convicted of brutally beating and framing an innocent father and son. This incident garnered international attention and is an important part of Upper Darby's history. As such, it belongs in this article.--PhiladelphiaInjustice (talk) 11:34, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

I fixed your ridiculous edit, people who have nothing to do with Upper Darby. If you want to add things like this then do it right. The Wikipedia page for my hometown isn't your personal pulpit or soapbox. 24rhhtr7 (talk) 22:32, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

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Inclusion of “Delaware County” in the title.
Upper Darby Township in Delaware County is the only “Upper Darby Township” in all of Pennsylvania, so why is “Delaware County” included within the article title? Doesn’t that just make the article title unnecessarily long?

I could understand doing that if a township name is re-used across multiple different counties, but in this case, it isn’t.

In addition, other townships that are unique to one county do not have their county names within their article titles. Look at the page for Lower Merion Township in Montgomery County. Mcleanm302 (talk) 23:30, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Removed "inner ring" original research
The article previously stated: "Upper Darby, along with Lower Merion, Haverford, and Cheltenham [sic] form the major inner ring western suburbs of Philadelphia."

This is unsourced original research. Who designated this "inner ring" and why were places like Drexel Hill, which are actually closer to the city than Haverford, not included? Where is this documented? 72.78.79.60 (talk) 18:36, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

As much as I agree with you, how do you not know that Drexel Hill is a section of Upper Darby? 24rhhtr7 (talk) 20:49, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

This article is all over the place.
Whoever has edited this page recently has made it completely incoherent and random and clearly forced things into it just to force them.

Since nobody seems to want to fix it or even bother to make things the least bit balanced, I guess I will. It wouldn't be the first time I fixed this page after an edit was used to push an agenda. This current version of the page really isn't how you correctly add complex topics to an entry.

I'll find sources for everything I add, and not biased opinion pieces disguised as fact like others have used. 24rhhtr7 (talk) 20:48, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

I added a Community section to place things like police involved incidents, activism, and other community-related content. I think the George Floyd content is written in an idiotic manner and don't think a picture of a largely white crowd marching with signs is the slightest bit representative of Upper Darby but I moved it rather than deleting it like I should.

I'm going to change and expand the history section so it doesn't look like Upper Darby went from founding mills to building the 69th Street business district overnight and then nothing happened until some kids in the '70s got the state to choose an official insect and then some people marched and pretended to die in a busy intersection almost fifty years later.

Industrialization is a main feature of the page so I will add that after the section on the division of Upper Darby and Darby, and then I'll add one on residential and commercial development. Then we can add the specifically twentieth and twenty-first century stuff. There is way too much information left out on those centuries as it is. 24rhhtr7 (talk) 22:47, 1 January 2022 (UTC)