Talk:Benton (Maine)

there is a fun park here. Glassywings (talk) 21:11, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

That's fine, but the article had no useful information. Please use a Wikivoyage:Small city article template and create a "Do" listing for the fun park - but if there's nothing else to do, see, eat, drink, buy nor anywhere to eat or sleep, consider whether this town actually merits its own article. Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:59, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

I will work on this

Please move to own article its apart of fairfield right now thats incorrect.

Baozon90 (talk) 17:19, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

@Baozon90: Before you do that, I think you would need to convince us that there's enough contents for either of these towns. The population of Fairfield is just 6,700, and Benton is 2,700. This article for Fairfield is already woefully empty, and I don't see that changing very soon. Benton is adjacent and probably has even less things to write about than Fairfield.

On Wikivoyage, we don't create an article for every tiny little town just because it exists. Quoting from wv:Geographical hierarchy#Cities:

Wikivoyage's definition of a "city" is flexible... Occasionally a city-level destination article will cover a large rural area, serving as a container for multiple tiny villages, parks or islands. Whether particular suburbs, satellite cities, and villages deserve their own Wikivoyage entries is a matter of judgement – usually depending on the amount of information about those places.

I think several of these small towns, including this article (Fairfield), China, Oakland, and Belgrade, should probably be merged and redirected into Waterville. It's obvious from the map of the region that there are too many articles for this rather sparsely-populated area, at least given the amount of content they actually have right now.

If you have things you want to add about Benton, add them to this article. You could put a sentence at the beginning that says "This article covers Fairfield and the nearby towns of Benton and Clinton" if that helps. But unless this article gets substantially longer, there's no reason for Benton to be a separate article. --Bigpeteb (talk) 20:24, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

it is notable it has a fiddlers gettogether. Baozon90 (talk) 00:20, 19 October 2019 (UTC) bing maps has more on benton just look. Baozon90 (talk) 00:22, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

I'm afraid that backfired on you... looking more closely at both Bing Maps and Google Maps, I'm completely convinced Benton does not merit being its own article. I'm not seeing any places to eat, drink, or sleep in Benton, not even a park or campground. Thus, Benton fails the most basic test of "Can you sleep there?". I see no possible way that a traveller would visit Benton without also passing through Fairfield, Waterville, or some other nearby town.

The fiddler's festival does sound interesting; I can't find recent figures but in decades past it attracted several thousand people. I also see there's an amusement park, which might also be worth mentioning. But I'm not seeing any restaurants or places to eat, so by WV policy Benton must be combined with an adjacent town like Fairfield. --Bigpeteb (talk) 19:29, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

@Bigpeteb: In case you didn't know, Baozon90 was blocked for being the pcv vandal. I agree with you that the fiddlers' festival is interesting enough to be added to a nearby article, and that Benton fails the sleep test.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 19:38, 21 October 2019 (UTC)