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Randy Godwin[edit]

I've removed the entry for Randy Godwin, as it did not link anywhere, and the only references I can find to a person with that name are:

1) A local actor who performs in community theater types of performances

2) Vague references to a character from Escanaba In Da Moonlight

While I don't consider myself the sole arbitror of who is or isn't famous or notable, I think the difficulty in identifying this person demostrates by very definition that the person in question is not notable.

Kevin 04:04, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've undone a revision that had the following information:

Notable Businesses with 25+ years history Milford Times Arms Brothers Men's Wear Village Peddler

The rationale is as follows:

1) The heading "25+ years history" is entirely arbitrary. If a business is notable, great. But businesses are not Wikipedia-level notable simply by virtue of having existed for 25 years or more.

2) The sparse listing is suspect. Arms Brothers is indeed notable, as it is not only the oldest still-operating store in Milford, it is arguably the very first retail store in the State of Michigan, having operated for nearly 170 years. Similarly, one could argue that the Milford Times has a certain degree of notability for having been published continuously for over 125 years -- despite the fact that it no longer has an office in Milford.

So it begs the question "What's the Village Peddler doing on this list?". The other businesses have legitimate notability, and well over an entire century of operation -- not to mention the fact that the Village Peddler is mysteriously hyperlinked while the other businesses are not.

We have the oldest retail store in the state, and one of the oldest newspapers in the state, sharing notability with a knickknack store that happens to have been open for 25 years? I don't think so.

3) Assuming you hold the above two points invalid, consider the number of businesses in Milford that have been open for 25 years or more. The Village Butcher, The Shutter Shop, Huron Valley Furniture, Milford Baking Co., etc. The simple fact is that many (curiously omitted) businesses were omitted, and having such a list is more appropriate for the Chamber of Commerce's website than Wikipedia. This isn't the Yellow Pages. (ref: WP:NOT). Kevin 22:25, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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