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Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa

I am reminded of the university professor who announced on the first day of class, "If any of you turns in a paper in which you use Wikipedia as a resource, you will fail this course."

Wikipedia is an "open source" resource. Anyone can go in and write anything, and in most cases can edit anything that has already been written. If you will look at the entry that you linked you will see the illustration of a pencil to the right top of each area of information. If you click on that pencil YOU can change the entry to whatever you want it to say.

In addition, the statement that refers to The Villages as a "city" has a numbered footnote. If you go to that footnote you will find that the source used by the Wikipedia editor was a Fox News article, which contained several other errors.

Community Development Districts are authorized by the State of Florida to be special taxing districts for the purpose of funding community improvements. They do not constitute an incorporated City or Town.

Great reply.