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Implement RfC

@ Thelostone41:@ Jebbles:@ Hammersoft:@ Jurisdicta:@ Wingedserif:@ Deathlibrarian:@ BristolTreeHouse:@ Pincrete:@ Idealigic:@ Sea Ane:@ Szmenderowiecki: Since the RfC is now closed and unanimous, can someone please implement it? To make it easier, I wrote a paragraph with language modeled after three WP:Featured Articles of other cities, Hillsboro, Oregon#Crime, Ann Arbor, Michigan#Crime, and Providence, Rhode Island#Crime. As I disclosed above, I have a conflict of interest, so I can’t be the one to edit the article. Here is the proposed replacement sub-section for Crime, which would be placed at the bottom of the Demographics section.: 

Crime
 
The city’s crime rate, including violent and property crime decreased by 38% from 2011 to 2020 with 4456 incidents in 2011 and 2171 incidents in 2020.
[1] The FBI reported a violent crime rate in New Bedford, Massachusetts of 640 per 100,000 residents in 2019, compared to a national average of 366.7 per 100,000 residents.
[2]
[3]  An FBI report in 2020 showed burglary and breaking and entering dropped about 52% from 969 crimes in 2011 to 465 crimes in 2019.
[1]

Thank you. Hudson2276 ( talk) 17:04, 19 August 2021 (UTC) reply

Hudson2276 I have implemented the new section, as it appears and was supported and voted on in the RFC.I hope I have interpreted where it was supposed to go (in the demographics section, at the bottom?) Deathlibrarian ( talk) 01:22, 20 August 2021 (UTC) reply
I propose a rewrite (though the general idea seems pretty sound for me). Changes: included statewide comparisons; wrong calculations by author of the local newspaper (recalculated per WP:CALC).
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there were 640 reported violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2019, compared to a national average of 366.7 per 100,000 people and almost double the statewide average of 327.6 violent crimes. [4] It was also among the cities with the highest crime rates in Massachusetts, according to 2019 data. [5] The city’s crime rate, including violent and property crime, has declined by more than half from 2011 to 2020, with 4456 incidents in 2011 and 2171 incidents in 2020, which was in line with the statewide reduction of crime during that period. [1] [6] Some crime rates, however, did not decrease as fast as statewide - though the FBI reported a 52% fall in burglaries and breaking and entering from 2011 to 2019, the city's decrease in these was less pronounced than in Massachusetts as a whole. [1] [6] Szmenderowiecki ( talk) 18:17, 19 August 2021 (UTC) reply
hi Szmenderowiecki - The RFC that was voted for (wtih support) included the suggested wording, so I have inserted it.If you want to insert a new, different section, we will probably need to get consensus on that, but for the meantime at least, I have inserted the wording that was included with the RFC Deathlibrarian ( talk) 01:26, 20 August 2021 (UTC) reply
@ Deathlibrarian:

Thank you for adding the new material with crime stats. But the first part of the RfC consensus is still not implemented -- to delete the existing Crime section with the long list of individual crimes, New Bedford, Massachusetts#Crime, in lieu of the new language you already inserted. Right now, the article has two Crime sections. Would you please be able to implement the deletion as well? Thank you. Hudson2276 ( talk) 14:04, 24 August 2021 (UTC) reply

References

  1. ^ a b c d Lennon, Anastasia E. (22 March 2021). "FBI data shows rate of reported crimes in New Bedford down nearly 40% over last decade". Standard-Times. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  2. ^ Johnson, Patrick (1 October 2020). "FBI's annual crime report shows declines in violent crime in Springfield, across Massachusetts". No. MassLive. Advance Local Media LLC. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  3. ^ "2019 Crime in the United States". FBI: UCR. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Crime in the United States by State, 2019". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  5. ^ Johnson, Patrick (1 October 2020). "FBI's annual crime report shows declines in violent crime in Springfield, across Massachusetts". No. MassLive. Advance Local Media LLC. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Massachusetts Crime Rates 1960 - 2019". The Disaster Center.

December 2021 Proposed Updates for New Bedford, Massachusetts

Hi, I have some suggestions for a few improvements to the lead section for this article about New Bedford, MA. I work for the city of New Bedford and therefore have a conflict of interest, so I can’t make these changes myself. Could an independent editor please review these proposed changes? @ Pincrete: Since you answered the last REs and are familiar with this article, I am alerting you as well. I do think it’s best if someone without a COI review updates. If you instruct me to implement specific REs here, and that will make it easier for you, I am happy to help.

1. The existing lead section for the New Bedford article does not conform to best practices for articles about cities, as can be seen by looking at Featured Articles for similar-sized American cities such as Hillsboro, Oregon, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Providence, Rhode Island The FA leads for city articles briefly highlight different parts of the article (history, demographics, etc), unlike here. Please delete the current one paragraph lead and replace it with the following three paragraphs, which incorporate pertinent content from the original. Most of the content and sourcing is already in the existing article.

1 New first paragraph. I have modeled this after the Providence, Rhode Island article since it is the closest in terms of both geography and history to New Bedford. Please delete the current first paragraph and replace it with: 

New Bedford (
Massachusett: Accushnet
[1]) is a city in 
Bristol County, 
Massachusetts, 
United States. It is located on the 
Acushnet River in what is known as the 
South Coast region. Up through the 
17th century, the area was the territory of the 
Wampanoag Native American people. English colonists bought the land on which New Bedford would later be built from the Wampanoag in 1652, and the original colonial settlement that would later become the city was founded by English 
Quakers in the late 17th century. The town of New Bedford itself was officially incorporated in 1787.

2. New second paragraph. In keeping with the structure of the lead section of the Providence article, I propose that the lead should have a new second paragraph concerning the city’s 19th century history. Much of the article’s current History section focuses on this period. Please delete…. 

During the first half of the 19th century, New Bedford was one of the world's most important 
whaling ports.
[2] At its economic height during this period, New Bedford was the wealthiest city in the world per capita. New Bedford was also a 
center of abolitionism at this time. The city attracted many freed or escaped African-American slaves, including 
Frederick Douglass, who lived there from 1838 until 1841.
[3] The city also served as the primary setting of 
Herman Melville's 1851 novel, 
Moby-Dick. From 1876 to 1900, New Bedford served as the initial home port for the 
Revenue Cutter School of Instruction, the precursor of the 
United States Coast Guard Academy.
[4]

3. New third paragraph. Again in keeping with the structure of the lead section for the Providence FA, I suggest a third paragraph for the lead section of this article that provides information about New Bedford in the present day: 

As of the 
2020 United States Census,
[5] New Bedford had a population of 101,079, making it the state's sixth-largest city and the largest of the South Coast region. The city is also known for its high concentration of 
Portuguese Americans. New Bedford remains known for its fishing fleet and accompanying seafood industry, which as of 2019 generated the highest annual value of any fishing port in the United States.
[6] The city is also home to the 
New Bedford Whaling Museum.

4. In the Economy section, the Fishing subsection contains information that is now out of date. To update this, I propose replacing the second sentence in the current subsection (which begins with “From 1999 to 2018, New Bedford has been the highest-valued port in the nation…”) with the following sentences:

From 1999 to 2019, New Bedford has been the most valuable commercial fishing port in the United States. [6] In 2019 the port’s catch was worth a total of $451 million. [6]

5. In the Economy section of the article, I propose replacing the third sentence in the current Fishing subsection (which begins “While volume is below that of other major ports...”) with the following sentence, which provides up-to-date information about the importance of scallops to New Bedford’s fishing industry:

Although New Bedford only brought in the 14th largest total volume of fish among American ports in 2019, its catch was still the highest-grossing because scallops accounted for 84% of the port’s annual fishing revenue. [6]

Thank you for your consideration. Hudson2276 ( talk) 16:51, 10 December 2021 (UTC) reply

References

  1. ^ 1813-1898., Ricketson, Daniel (1858). The history of New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts including a history of the old township of Dartmouth and the present townships of Westport, Dartmouth, and Fairhaven, from their settlement to the present time. D. Ricketson. p. 13. OCLC  1263627689. {{ cite book}}: |last= has numeric name ( help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link)
  2. ^ MacEacheran, Mike (20 July 2018). "The city that lit the world". BBC Travel. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  3. ^ Barnes, Jeanette (2 April 2018). "3 years in New Bedford changed Frederick Douglass, but why?". SouthCoastToday. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  4. ^ Coulter, John A. (2017). Cadets on Campus History of Military Schools of the United States. Texas A&M University Press. p. 99.
  5. ^ Robinson, Kate (13 August 2021). "New Bedford Population Above 100,000, Fall River Reaches 94,000". WBSM. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  6. ^ a b c d Nesi, Ted (20 May 2021). "New Bedford is America's most lucrative fishing port for 20th straight year". WPRI 12 News. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
Hudson2276, I have only looked very briefly at these changes, but since you are open about your CoI, and since the changes don't seem to be controversial, or over-promotional, I don't see why you cannot make these yourself. I am actuaaly European and have little knowledge of the norms of articles about US places. Pincrete ( talk) 15:06, 11 December 2021 (UTC) reply
Go ahead: I have reviewed these proposed changes and suggest that you go ahead and make the proposed changes to the page. Yitz ( talk) 04:56, 14 December 2021 (UTC) reply
(Some of the above requests weren't marked as approved, so I marked them as such because they look good to me. Spencer T• C 23:16, 2 January 2022 (UTC)) reply
Hi, I’ve completed these implementations. I also have a conflict of interest as an employee of the city of New Bedford. Please let me know if there are any problems with the implementation of my changes. HazelStanley99 ( talk) 20:48, 9 February 2022 (UTC) reply

Famous people

Isn’t Aaron Lansky from New Bedford? 108.20.26.12 ( talk) 22:11, 1 November 2022 (UTC) reply

Hideous Lead Image

This was done unilaterally by an unknown user with no consultation with the talk page. This picture is absolutely terrible and in no way accurately reflects the city. It's an historic, densely populated city of 100,000, not a highway rest stop. I will change this soon. Trilobright ( talk) 23:45, 15 October 2023 (UTC) reply

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