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Crestwood, Illinois

Just wanted to let you know, there's a discussion on the Talk:Crestwood, Illinois page about separating the section on water contamination into a separate page. Since the section is much larger than the actual article, it may be notable enough for a spin-off. Please feel free to comment there. Thanks! Dayewalker (talk) 23:23, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Undue weight

Please read WP:UNDUE and trim Crestwood, Illinois appropriately. One topic is currently dominating the article. 98.248.32.44 (talk) 05:59, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree- the article should be about the village as a whole. A single news event in the village would be described in one or perhaps two sentences. If this event is truly something so notable that an international encyclopedia would be incomplete without information on it, then you should create a separate article about it rather than trying to change the subject of the Crestwood, Illinois article to be about this incident. Would you like to summarize this event in a few sentences, or should I make the necessary cuts? -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 16:05, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Could you move the whole Water Contamination story to its own page and write the summary on the Crestwood page? I would appreciate that and I could continue to update the water contamination story. It is the biggest intentional poisoning of any population in US history and I think it's worthy of its own page too. Thanks Watermiester (talk) 16:11, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I can't, because I'm not sure I agree with your evaluation. However, you can feel free to create an article using that information yourself. Just create a title like Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois, then add the relevant information there and 'save.' -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 16:14, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see that there's already discussion at Talk:Crestwood, Illinois about the creation of a separate article, and other users agree with you. You should feel free to take part in that discussion. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 16:15, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll do it. — goethean ॐ 16:16, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Goethean!Watermiester (talk) 16:20, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Watermiester. Here, I removed text which has been copied from a CBS website.[1] Do not insert copyrigthted text into Wikipedia articles. All content must be re-written. Please read Wikipedia:Copyright_violations before editing Wikipedia any further. Thank you . — goethean ॐ 17:19, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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