Talk:Houston, Texas

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To-do list for Houston, Texas:

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Insert more references to the article Improve to featured article standards Condense some parts (especially History section, and also Politics) to follow WP:SS Ensure quality of footnotes, both in style (needs dates, authors, date of last access where applicable) and the quality of sources. Improve quality of daughter articles, especially: Geography of Houston (has no intro, it appears that this was just cut-and-pasted from the main article) History of Houston (quality, needs more sources) Architecture of Houston (has 1 source). Also, maybe the architectural info from The six wards of Houston could be incorporated, provided that it is sourced and is original writing. Nominate article for peer review Nominate article at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates

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[edit] Image review

This image review is part of WikiProject Houston, an attempt to better organize information in articles related to the city of Houston. The following images may have problems with tagging, licensing, or adherence to WP:FUC.

• Image:HoustoninTexas.PNG - no clear source, image is on commons
• Image:MainStreetHouston1864.jpg - no clear source
• Image:Houston streets 1942.jpg - no clear source
• Image:Mayorwhite2004.jpg - no license, may fail WP:FUC
• Image:HarrisCountyCourthouse.jpg - may fail WP:FUC, should be easily replaceable, probably could get a better picture even
• Image:BayouPlaceHouston.jpg - may fail WP:FUC
• Image:Houston freeway 002.jpg - may fail WP:FUC
• Image:Bush Intercontinental Airport.jpg - may fail WP:FUC
• Image:UH skyline.JPG - may fail WP:FUC

cohesion 21:53, 30 November 2006 (UTC)