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Wondering how to edit this U.S. County Entry?
The WikiProject U.S. Counties standards might help.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Rambot (talk • contribs) 22:23, 26 July 2003 (UTC)[reply]

Transportation

I just visited the page and saw that the Turnpike wasn't even listed as one of PBC's "major highways". What a joke. I have since pasted those words onto the page. The Wikis for other Florida counties have a 'Transportation' section which discusses everything from major roads/freeways, public transit, and any planned future transportation projects. I will take it upon myself to create such a section for Palm Beach County. I don't know if the freakin airport is even mentioned now that I think about it. ::rollseyes:: —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.229.180.117 (talk) 18:44, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistent

History states: It was named for the palm trees and beaches in the county. whilst Geography states The county was in fact named for the first town established within, namely Palm Beach. The second explanation seems more likely (not to mention the increased modal strength; the article almost seems to be arguing with itself). But in any case it's out of place in the Geograpy section. 66.32.111.143 19:40, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Jewish County

I heard somewhere that Palm Beach County is the only U.S. county where the majority of the population is jewish

can anyone find confirmation on that?

Not even close to true. It's probably comparable to NJ or NYLeppy 06:59, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Notable high schools

I took that out. Everybody thinks their own high school is notable, and there are 23 high schools operated by the district, not counting charter schools and private schools. Any time you call something notalbe you had better be able to cite sources establishing that. What we could use in the article is a discussion of the range of education available. I will fight against simply inserting a list of names of schools. -- Dalbury^(Talk) 15:30, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

fair enough. There is plenty of stuff about suncoast being ranked among the top schools in the country academically, among those having the most AP and IB tests available, with the highest passing rates, and SOA has similar performance indicators, although I know the pitfalls of rank reliance to boosterism. Also I'm terribly lazy in terms of citations. Leppy 07:03, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Incorporated/Unincorporated Places Map

The current map is a small thumbnail, and to actually view the numbers, you need to view the whole image. This forces someone to flip between the 2 pages to find out which area is which with the key being on the article. Broward County has their map large so where you can easily look between the key and the map, without having to flip between the two. I made the PBC map image large, but it seems as if someone reverted it back to its small size. I think it would be better large, like the Broward county setup. Am I missing the advantage to it being small? Discuss.

Keeping the map small means that it doesn't crowd all of the text off the screen at lower resolutions (the size you set the map to was really ugly at the 1024x768 size of my display). People keep forgetting that fiddling with a page to make it look good on their display may really mess things up for people using smaller displays. This is especially true for readers with vision problems who must configure their displays to use large text. Actually, the Manual of Style and Image Tutorial recommend that most images be displayed as thumbnails with no pixel size specified (which defaults to 180 unless the reader has specified otherwise in their preferences). -- Donald Albury 12:45, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see your point. Should we scrap the thumbnail properties of it and make it just an image on the page, like how the Broward and Miami-Dade Counties are laid out? I would be willing to reformat it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Andyxox (talk • contribs) 01:32, 6 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

I don't know that I would want to change it for now. A quick check at 800x600 has the map filling most of the white space to the right of the list of city names. A setting of 320px might still fit at 800x600, but anything larger would force the city names to wrap. -- Donald Albury 02:31, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps not put the county map to the right of the text, but above it instead, and have the cities listed underneath it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Andyxox (talk • contribs) 01:00, 8 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Unincorporated Communities

Should this section be added to the article. There appears to be a list of communities that could be added into a section called Unicorporated Communities. Reference Category Unincorporated communities in Palm Beach County. I would like to open this for discussion. I would be willing to incorporate this into this article. Will Danner IV (talk) 16:50, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the articles in Category:Unincorporated communities in Palm Beach County, Florida are very questionable and essentially unsourced. The Acreage and Jupiter Farms may be real communities (although the census bureau has not seen fit to designate them census-designated places), Boca West is a real estate development with the only cited source being the development's own web site (and we don't have articles for every country club development in Palm Beach County), and the others are names on maps, but not really communities any more, if they ever were. -- Donald Albury 18:32, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Census-designated places

Hi, the article says that Mission Bay, Florida is a census-designated place of Palm Beach County. But the Mission Bay article says that Mission Bay 'was a census-designated place (CDP)'. So obviously the list of CDPs isn't correct currently, is it? Is there anybody able to update the list? It would be of much help for my work in German WP. Regards, Dionysos1988 (talk) 01:08, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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No list of cities or towns...

... under "communities." It goes directly to census-designated places, former census-designated places, and an unincorporated community. I've never seen that before. 2602:306:BC65:4E09:AD1C:C9FE:F1E3:4417 (talk) 02:22, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In the early part of January 2024 a version with incorporated municipalities listed out existed but it seems to have been removed for some reason. Could it perhaps be reverted? 2601:586:5100:18B0:39D1:D8B2:151B:37EE (talk) 02:11, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A Tale of Two Counties

Isn’t it rather silly to spend the whole last paragraph of the intro on “Palm Beach County is so rich and successful” when the county also contains the notoriously poor town of Belle Glade?

There are many Americans who have never been to Florida but have still heard of Belle Glade, because that town is really notorious for being such a miserable place to live. It has been discussed in the national news many times, and never for anything good.

Anyway, I think if we’re going to write “Palm Beach County is the richest county in Florida” in the intro section, then we should also follow that up with a caveat about “although some parts of it are extremely poor”, or something to that effect.

Thegoldenconciseencyclopediaofmammals (talk) 04:51, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do you know of any reliable sources that say that. You have to be careful about original research. You cannot add anything that is your own analysis but is not found in reliable sources. BTW, I am somewhat familiar with Belle Glade. Yes, it is poorer than most of the county, but you should be careful to describe Belle Glade in WP articles in neutral terms, and certainly not with anything that is not well sourced in reliable sources. Donald Albury 13:23, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Belle Glade's average household income in 2022 was several thousand higher than the U.S. national average, FWIW, so it's not even "extremely poor" by definition. There's no evidence that "there are many Americans who have never been to Florida but have still heard of Belle Glade, because that town is really notorious for being such a miserable place to live. It has been discussed in the national news many times, and never for anything good." Belle Glade is widely known nationally for producing some of the state's top athletic talents, particularly in football; and from the Zora Neale Hurston book "Their Eyes Were Watching God". We already adequately cover the town's crime and poverty issues in the article for the town of Belle Glade; they are not particularly relevant for Palm Beach County as a whole. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 19:56, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]