Talk:O'Fallon, Missouri
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Vandalism?
[edit]Someone had edited the "History" paragraph to contain "John O'Phallus" instead of "John O'Fallon," the city's founder. This person had also changed the name of the city's baseball team to the "River City Rapers," when the actual name is the "River City Rascals." The person also says that John O'Fallon was a "noted misanthropist." Was this originally "philanthropist" before being vandalized? Does anyone know anything about John O'Fallon?
I reverted the changes, there was one update regarding a pie plate factory that may not have been vandalism, but the user that contributed it doesn't have a talk page. --harpchad 17:38, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Other things to add?
[edit]List of city Councilmen? Ward Map? City limit map?
Links to topo or sat maps? Deeper history of the town founding? Fort Zumwalt info? School district counts Crime stats
What else??
I either have or can find most of this stuff. Reverend Lee 15:24, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
Best Places to Live Awards
[edit]2006
[edit]- Money.com selected O'Fallon to its Top 100 Best Places to Live Link
- Ranked #39
2007
[edit]- Ineligible for Money.com survey. (Population was over the 50,000 threshold) Link
- Relocate America selected O'Fallon, MO as one of the Best 100 Places to Live
- Ranked #9
2008
[edit]- Money.com again selected O'Fallon to its Top 100 Best Places to Live Link
- Ranked #68
- Relocate America again selected O'Fallon, MO as one of the Best 100 Places to Live Link
- Only top 10 are ranked
Reverend Lee 18:23 19 August 2008 (CDT)
Megan Meier
[edit]While I can agree that mention of the MySpace.com harassment suicide merits inclusion, the form in which it has been presented needs some "fleshing out" and inclusion of societal affects. (effects?)
The Megan Meier suicide controversy involves residents of O'Fallon and nearby Dardenne Prairie; the Drew and former Meier residents are located in Dardenne Prairie, and the house addresses are rendered as Dardenne Prairie addresses in some instances and O'Fallon addresses in some instances. [1] A partner of the Drews who sent many of the "Josh Evans" messages, lived in O'Fallon. [2] The authors of the "Josh Evans" account involved falsely stated that the "boy" was a resident of O'Fallon.
Until these issues can be addressed, I have commented the section out of the viewable page. The information is still there, it just can't be seen without editing the page. Reverend Lee (talk) 20:09, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
References
- ^ "Offense/Incident Report," St. Charles County Sheriff's Department via The Smoking Gun
- ^ "UPDATE: No charges to be filed over Meier suicide," Suburban Journals
NPOV
[edit]Just as the Megan Meier section, the following has been removed from the viewable page. The information is still there, the page must be edited to view it.:
Questionable political moves and a large increase in affordable housing led to increased traffic and crime rates.[neutrality is disputed]
Reverend Lee (talk) 20:13, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I've added the link to the Meier article in as a See Also
[edit]It's been a long while since this happened, and it was big news there. Enough time has probably passed. Lawrence Cohen 22:19, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Economics/Notability
[edit]Is the loss of "more than a dozen jobs" actually noteworthy in a city of ~80,000? It's got a citation, yes, but surely even locally this is hardly front page news.72.197.227.204 (talk) 04:37, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Pam Hupp
[edit]should pam hupp be added to the list of notable people? --Kermitisawesome (talk) 21:10, 13 March 2022 (UTC)