Talk:Wappinger, New York

Wappingers Falls

Would someone please rename this page to lose the "s". It is not a part of the town name. It is included in the village name and in the name of the school district, which is why many think that it is in the name of the town. If there are no comments after a while, I'll try to check back in and find out how to rename the page unless someone does this.Vegaswikian 20:08, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC) A former long time resident of the Town of Wappingers Falls.

• Since there have been no comments here and since someone has rewritten the text to correctly name the town, I'll likely move this to the proper name in a day or two. So if you have a reason not to move it, please comment. Vegaswikian 06:10, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Move completed and redirects and links changed. Vegaswikian 06:04, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

"Wappani" means inhabitants of the eastern land

"Wappani" means inhabitants of the eastern land. This statement is not referenced in the linked article. Needs citation.

--Lmcelhiney 13:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

The name is Wappinger.

User 173.62.8.37 insists on changing (incorrectly) the name of the municipality from the Town of Wappinger to the Town of Wappingers Falls despite evidence to the contrary readily accessible on the Town's website, -as well as, that of the Village of Wappingers Falls, and Dutchess County. (see [1]). As this has been changed back and corrected by no less than three separate users, it is now incumbent upon 173.62.8.37 to substantiate his/her edits with something other than OR. Mannanan51 (talk) 04:49, 10 August 2012 (UTC)mannanan51

COI tag

The COI tag has been placed because there seems to be a pattern of edits that suggests that a particular user has a close connection to the subject of the article. There also appears suggestions of a proprietary interest, on near sole subject entries, not to mention a bit of spam. Mannanan51 (talk) 04:37, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

@Mannanan51: A lot of that IP's edits seem to be cleaned up or reverted. Is it OK if the tag is removed? Epic Genius (talk) 19:47, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Check with User:Mee Merone who also noted NPOV. Mannanan51 (talk) 00:39, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

New Hamburg is not in the Town of Wappinger

Placed this here for the time being in case poster wishes to move it to Town of Poughkeepsie history

• February 6 1871 First New Hamburg Train Crash - The Hudson River Pacific Express train left New York City on February 6th 1871 at 8 o'clock. It was composed of an engine, baggage car, an express car, five sleeping cars and an ordinary passenger car. The engine was driven by DOC SIMMONS. PETER VOSBURG was the sleeping car conductor. The night was clear, and the run to the point where the accident occurred was made on time. The train reached New Hamburg about ten o'clock. As it was approaching that place a freight train was observed moving toward it at the usual speed and in order. But when the trains were within, perhaps, half a mile of each other, the exle of one of the oil cars broke, several of the cars were thrown across the track upon which the express train was moving at a speed of forty miles an hour, and, in an instant, the oil ignited and enveloped the entire freight train in flames. At this moment, the Express train dashed into the broken and burning mass. The collision occurred upon the bridge at New Hamburg, and the engine, with the baggage cars and the first sleeping car, were thrown over the bridge on to the ice -- a distance of about six feet. As they fell, an oil car toppled over upon them, the oil, inundating the sleeping car, immediately ignited, and, in a moment, it was completely enveloped -- the flames leaping up seemingly a hundred feet in the air. All the other cars kept upon the track, but the front of the second sleeping car received some of the burning fluid, and took fire also. Those occupying the front berths were in imminent danger, but were fortunately extricated in their night clothes, without material injury. 77 people were missing or unidentified. The number of confirmed deaths were 22. Some bodies were taken to Poughkeepsie for identification, others still remain below the depths of the Wappinger Creek and Hudson River.
• September 1 1892 Second New Hamburg Train Crash - The engine, tender and mail car of the fast mail train on the Hudson River Railroad was smashed to atoms early this morning at the New Hamburg drawbridge (between the town of Wappinger and Poughkeepsie), and three men were instantly killed. Their names are: ENGINEER JOSEPH OWENS, of Albany, FIREMAN EDWARD BEST, of East Albany, and MAIL CLERK J.H. KANE, of Cohoes. The draw had been opened to let the little steamer Young America pass through, and was being closed when the train came northward. A gap pf several feet remained when the engine reached the draw, going at the rate of nearly a mile a minute. The engine jumped the gap, but the rear end of the tender dropped enough to stop the progress of the train. Then the mail car, crashing into the tender, pushed it against the locomotive. After the mail car came two baggage cars. Conductor William L. Todd and Trainman John Hitchcock were in the forward end of the first baggage car. J.H. O’Neill, a trainman, was in the rear part of the same car. Todd and Hitchcock were thrown against the end of the car. The former was hurt about the head and bruised about the body, but was able to walk to the New Hamburg station and to send off dispatches regarding the accident. Hitchcock had one finger cut, but O’Neil was not hurt.

Mannanan51 (talk) 04:58, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Town of Wappinger Wiki Page

As I understand that that this page can be edited by anyone, I was asked by the Town Board of the Town of Wappinger to edit this page and manage it. Many of the recent changes are not accurate. Such as removing the New Hamburg train crash which actually happened in Wappinger, but is just known as the New Hamburg crash. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.62.67.168 (talk) 17:16, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

William H Beale, Town Councilman, asked me to edit this page As I am a volunteer of the town. There was no information that was not accurate on this page. New Hamburg train crash happened on the boarder of Wappinger & Poughkeepsie. I understand that New Hamburg is really in Poughkeepsie — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.62.67.168 (talk) 17:25, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

If the Town of Wappinger was formed on May 20, 1875, the 1871 collision actually took place in the Town of Fishkill. Mannanan51 (talk) 18:38, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Councilman Beale: anyone can edit this article, but no-one should "manage" it, that is not how Wikipedia works, see ownership of articles. Moreover, as someone with a close connection to the subject of the article, you have a conflict of interest, and are strongly discouraged from editing it. If you are aware of errors and inaccuracies in the article, you should give details on this talk page, preferably with references, and allow other, uninvolved, editors to correct the article. Maproom (talk) 21:37, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Councilman Beale, please also see our neutral point of view policy. Statements like "our beautiful town parks" are not neutral and can not fit in any encyclopedia. Please use more neutral terms and keep it simple. Many thanks, Epic Genius (talk) 22:07, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Neutral tone and link farm

I removed the word "boasts" it is clearly NOT neutral it was replaced by a COI editor. I trimmed the external link farm to those links which relate precisely to the articles subject, this was also reverted. Theroadislong (talk) 20:31, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

I agree with these link removals. Basically, all we need in the external links section is a link to the town's official website, not every single historical association related to the town. Epic Genius (talk) 00:30, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Historic districts and hamlets

Is there a good reason to have so many "historic" locations listed? I only spot a couple that are actually listed on the national registry. Perhaps those should be the only ones included.--~TPW 03:42, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Any historic district not a state or national historic district can probably be removed, per the fact that anyone can otherwise form a non-notable district and then put it on this page. Hamlets, though, may be notable, but we'd need to create some articles for these. Epic Genius (talk) 04:08, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

I'll trim per your suggestion.--~TPW 20:46, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Edits to consider redoing

I was thanked for a couple of edits I made yesterday, but nearly simultaneously an anonymous user undid two of them, here and here. I believe the reasons for undoing were spurious, but I believe in scrupulously avoiding edit wars more strongly than that. Therefore, I invent other editors to consider redoing those two edits.--~TPW 20:46, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Adding Tawana Brawley Controversy

I would like to add the 1987 Tawana Brawley rape allegations to the history section of this page. Would some user be willing to contribute? Andrewbdporter (talk) 02:09, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Noteable and should be included. Jjazz76 (talk) 07:18, 3 April 2023 (UTC)