Talk:Avon, Connecticut

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Site Sources

Please cite sources for information in this article. I have removed advertising and attacks that were not sourced. —WAvegetarian^TALK_CONTRIBS^EMAIL 01:17, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I have tried to do a bit of cleanup, removing the worst bits (the Dutchess of Schlut? Yeah, right...) and checking a few facts. I don't have a local history available to question the bit about slavery and the founding, although it sounds a little dubious to me. --Brianyoumans 08:37, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

History section

Was this directly copied from somewhere?

• Yes. It's a slightly edited and uncredited ripoff from this: "AVON, 1830-2005, A BRIEF HISTORY" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.235.217.14 (talk) 17:03, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

The name “Avon” in 1830 cannot be derived from “County Avon” in England, since that was not created until 1974. 80.229.4.222 (talk) 15:31, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Content and Tone

Perhaps another Wikipedian could comment on whether it is appropriate to characterize a town as "affluent" in the lead paragraph.

The questions that come to mind immediately are:

• Affluent compared to what? or by whose standards?
• What authority has declared that this is an "affluent" town?

I am not a resident of Avon, nor have I ever lived there. I was searching the town through Google, which uses the lead paragraph of the article in its own capsule descriptions. Bikerbudmatt (talk) 21:29, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

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