Talk:Buford, Georgia

Demographics

As well as 65% of husbands beat their wives.

I'm not saying this is wrong, but I think it may be. Citation?--Elatshaw 20:11, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Renaming

...they renamed the town after its president, Algernon S. Buford....

What was the original name? Is there a citation for this? —BozoTheScary 21:24, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Looks like that is what it was incorporated as. I think the article is wrong. [1]Akubhai 16:27, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

STD study

Buford STD Scare

A recent study showed that Buford's high schools and middle schools had STD rates ten times higher than the national average. One in five seventh graders in the city has Chlamydia, Herpes, or Syphilis. 60% of graduating seniors last year had HIV/AIDS. Buford's School Board has yet to respond to this news. Buford's School Board has yet to respond to this news.

The information about the proliferation of sexually transmitted diseases in the city was found in a respected medical journal and presented as neutrally as possible. I used only statistics and facts. When the school district issues a statement on the event, or when it comes up with a plan of action, I fully intend to update the entry accordingly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Karthikganapathy (talk • contribs) 05:52, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

I disagree with its addition to the article as I think it is undue weight on a negative event. Your use of the word "scare" is not a neutral point of view. Reviewing your edit history, you seem to have a negative view on several topics. I suggest that review Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. -- Gogo Dodo (talk)

Ok. Then if the word scare is changed to something like News, Study, or Disclosure, would that make it more neutral? Karthikganapathy (talk)

I agree with Gogo Dodo. If this article was much longer then it would be appropriate to add such a specific negative detail, but at the moment the article is very short and your "scare" jeopardizes the neutrality of the article. You are welcome to research more information about Buford, Georgia and lengthen the article a lot, but only then is it appropriate to add this detail. Your recent activity on both of your accounts (that I know of) displays ignorance to many of Wikipedia's fundamental values. I ask that you explore around the welcome page before making further edits. by hajatvrc at 06:20, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Government

This article desperately needs a section on the government structure of Buford, GA. I don't know enough about it yet to make this entry. If someone does, jump in.

Otherwise, I'll do the research an an opportune time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.168.208.34 (talk) 08:38, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

I've added a brief section on the city's local government and representation, but it could always use more information. - SudoGhost 16:17, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Tips for improving to a B quality scale rating.

Just a few thoughts, but not an exhaustive review. First, Notable people should be moved off to a List of people from Buford, Georgia page. You can do a simple one like this example; or shoot for a the gold standard like this example.

Second, the history section is way too short for a city. I know it may be hard to find some good history, but for a B article, "Readers are not left wanting", and this history section leaves me wanting. --Dkriegls (talk to me!) 22:28, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll certainly work on expanding the history section. There are a few books on the subject that can be used to expand the section, the only problem is getting access to the books, but I'll work on that. - SudoGhost 23:05, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

I created the List of people from Buford, Georgia and I'll work on improving it as much as I can as well. - SudoGhost 23:45, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

• I've added content to the history section, and tried to cover the most important aspects of Buford's history. Is it still wanting, and if so, in what way could I improve it? - SudoGhost 07:30, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi SudoGhost, I was just wondering, where do you live? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:AA61:5919:D84:C15D:486B:3EBB (talk) 01:39, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

I live in Gwinnett County in the US State of Georgia, and my goal is to get the article of every city in Gwinnett County, Georgia improved as much as possible. Beyond that, where I am physically located is not relevant to the improvement of this article. If you have reliable sources that back up a claim that Lake Lanier Islands is "not in Buford", by all means please present it, but the official website lists it as being in Buford, as do plenty of other sources. - SudoGhost 01:56, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

I respect that and I respect you alot for helping out the pages, I take care of the Braselton page myself due to me living in Gwinnett and in Braselton. Majority of companies and housing and businesses say that they're in a certain city, but are actually in a different one or are in unincorporated county. Being in Braselton, we're currently in 4 zip codes (30548, 30517, 30519, 30542) and in 4 counties (Gwinnett, Barrow, Hall, Jackson)and to be able to decipher if a company, business, or neighborhood is in our Town limits or not, I use the google search engine. Everything within the white dotted dashes (almost up to date, up to 2010-11) is within the Town/ City you are looking at. This also goes for ZIP Codes. Majority of the time, a school, a park, or any government building or site is not within the city limits but in the county, hence why I always double check to make sure I type it in right for the page I handle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:AA61:5919:D84:C15D:486B:3EBB (talk) 04:48, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Well I think that ultimately comes down to the question of "how do you define in Buford or any other city? Is it defined by the legal city limits, or by mailing address or other criteria? I'm inclined to think that reliable sources tend to use the latter. For example, although the Mall of Georgia is just barely outside of the city limits, the Gwinnett Daily Post describes it as the "Buford mall"[[2][3] and does the same with Lake Lanier Islands.[4][5] I'm looking into where Google gets that data from, and how up-to-date the data is, because that does tend to change rather frequently. - SudoGhost 05:23, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

I've lived in the Town for about 8 years now and I know the council members and mayor well and I go to all the meetings and study the Town daily, also my parent was a cop for the Town and also for Flowery branch for a while. I love learning about Towns and what consist of them! Zip codes/ Mailing addresses is a pretty inaccurate source for learning what city its in due to the Government/ USPS being the ones that say who that company, residence, or business gets it mail from if they like it or not. Most cities have their own city maps available to the public and i've been told by city officials that Google Maps is the best way to look at it since they usually update about every year to two years. Most counties wont allow businesses or "money making" businesses or stadiums annex into cities due to the county wanting the tax and say on that specific building or stadium (as seen in Duluth). By the way, I was trying to add the Town logo to the Braselton page but i'm unsure how and i've looked at the help section trying to add it to the page but it doesn't explain very well, do you know how? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:AA61:5919:D84:C15D:486B:3EBB (talk) 05:43, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Ownership of page

It seems that some feel they are the "owner" of this page. Please don't auto-undo every change on this page. To quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Ownership_of_articles there is this segment:

"This page in a nutshell: No one "owns" an article or any page at Wikipedia. If you create or edit an article, others can make changes, and you cannot prevent them from doing so. In addition, you should not undo their edits without good reason. Disagreements should be calmly resolved, starting with a discussion on the article talk page."

I have been trying to start a section of movies filmed in Buford as I believe it would be interesting to those with an interest in the community. However I can't get the section to stay a day without it being hit with an "undo". I've tried to address every objection (cited source, etc) yet "undo" keeps getting hit. I'd rather instead of an undo, we have a discussion, and ultimately if agreed upon fill the list with other movies filmed here. It doesn't feel right that a single person (unnamed out of courtesy) has decided to be the sole owner of what goes on this page. Driven01 (talk) 05:07, 27 May 2015 (UTC)