Talk:Waterville, Maine

Muskie
http://abacus.bates.edu/muskie-archives/OralHistories/MuskieOHFA.shtml

Is this wrong? Muskie ran unsuccessfully for mayor. I don't think George Mitchell also ran unsuccessfully. If he did, we now know that losing the mayor's race makes you become Senator (ha ha, but true!) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spevw (talk • contribs) 02:41, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

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Abrams?
Is J.J. Abrams really a resident...? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.146.139.90 (talk • contribs) 15:01, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

center of what?
The opening paragraph states, "...Waterville is the regional commercial, medical and cultural center." Of which region? "Region" is a very broad term and could mean anything from the county to the state to New England, depending on the reader's point of view and pre-existing knowledge of the area (or lack thereof). This could use some clarification. Furthermore, the reference for this statement is a publication from 43 years ago. A lot can change in 43 years, and a lot HAS changed in that time in central Maine. 64.185.130.217 (talk) 20:30, 16 April 2013 (UTC)


 * It's been a few months and no one has provided a newer reference or a clearer/more-specific statement, so I removed it. 64.185.131.107 (talk) 17:37, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

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C.F. Hathaway Company
The article asserts that the evil Warren Buffett's evil Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. purchased the floundering shirt company and closed it. It cites someone's college paper as its source, but I'm unable to find an indictment of Berkshire Hathaway anywhere in the paper. The paper states that the shirt company lowered its quality standards in a effort to be price-competitive, and when that didn't work out, some locals took the helm, reinstating the quality standards. But this didn't pan out, either, and in 2002, they locked their doors.

I'm not saying the article is wrong, but it seems to me that "Hathway" and "Berkshire Hathaway" sound enough alike that an urban legend could be generated, and "it was that Warren Buffett who done it, he bought our factory and just closed the doors, trying to give his Fruit of the Loom company more of the market." Berkshire Hathaway does own Fruit of the Loom, but I don't think the two companies were competing for the same market segment.

I've done some looking, and I can't find anything to substantiate the Berkshire Hathaway villainy. If anyone can find a legitimate source that says that Berkshire Hathaway was involved with C.F. Hathaway at any time, I invite them to share it with the rest of us. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.1.99.188 (talk) 21:26, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

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Climate data
I will be looking at this soon ... The high proportion of .1's and .9's leads me to believe this data had been shuffled through metric and back again. Direct source should be in Fahrenheit only. — Soap — 17:51, 5 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Replaced with fresh link, still online at DRI. The extra sigfigs in the old data could not possibly have been real, since data is not recorded in hundredths of degrees. This means that it was a recycled source, probably in Celsius, and may have been incorrect in any case as some of its values were surprisingly far off of this one's, more what one would expect for a coastal station like Portland. — Soap — 19:18, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Waterville, Maine
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Waterville, Maine's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "USCensusEst2018": From Westbrook, Maine:  From Aroostook County, Maine:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 10:32, 4 August 2019 (UTC)