Talk:Kenmore, Washington
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| This article is within the scope of multiple WikiProjects Click on [show] for further details |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||||
|
||||||
Contents |
[edit] Article format model
My edits have been based upon loosely following the Seattle page's model, which is one of the proposed models for city/town entry layout. However, somebody recently screwed up the info box (at least, in Safari), so now I'm a little worried about that idea. Solarbird 01:47, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Not sure what you mean
Hmoul's addition in "neighbourhoods" included the phrase, "resulting in the creation of numerous commercial developments." I'm confused by what you mean here. The housing developments are, of course, commercial. I'm not aware of retail development in the northernmost part of the city, but is that what you mean? (I'm well aware of the downtown changes; I've been going to the public meetings and such. But I'm not seeing those as being driven by the Swamp Creek-area developments in particular.--Solarbird 19:37, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] This is kind of funny
Brio Reality, whoever they might be, apparently stole the entire contents of a much older version of this article for their lame real estate page, but apparently can't be bothered to point back here or update their copy. Lame! Solarbird 04:52, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Fact archive; add to trivia? Or a new section?
Kirby Larson's novel Hattie Big Sky has been named a Newbery Honor Book; he's a Kenmore writer. [1]. Fact and source archived here in case there's a reason to add something about that later. —Solarbird 01:00, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Citybox added
I feel kind of silly adding a citybox, but it was fun, so I did it. Does anybody else read this talk page, anyway? I feel like I'm writing in notepad or something. ^_^ Solarbird 03:42, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WP:CITIES assessment
Hi! I recently assessed this article per WP:CITIES (see the banner above). I assessed it as B-class with a priority assessment of 'low'. B-class is the class on the assessment scale below Good article. The priority assessment is not meant to degrade or disparage the city's importance; it's actually meant as a priority ranking to guide the vast majority of editors towards articles in editing. Usually here, a 'top-class' assessment is for major cities and national capitals, like NYC & Washington, DC. 'High-class' is given to things like state capitals, and cities like Seattle or San Francisco ('major', but not exactly as big as NYC). 'Mid-class' is usually given to a moderately-sized city (pop. of maybe 100,000 to 700,000 or so), with some suburbs surrounding it. Smaller cities might be upgraded to 'mid-class' for reasons of historical significance (like Williamsburg, VA) or a city with a major college (like Flagstaff, AZ). 'Low-class' is usually reserved for a lot of the small towns around the world. The priority assessment has no bearing whatsoever on the article's quality, so these articles have the same chances of getting promoted to GA & FA status as any other article.
The article looks good, and is clearly much more than a 'stub'. Usage of the city infobox, with a reasonably good photo and city seal/flag, etc, increases the assessment. Most of the information is reasonably well-organized into sub-categories (table of contents). There's still several important categories missing, so I can't say the article is comprehensive enough for GA status. For example, a 'government' section is completely absent. The 'economy' section should be expanded.
I'd recommend changing 'civic events' to a 'culture' section, and expanding this section with various culturally-related subsections (see Richmond, Virginia or Louisville, Kentucky as an example of how to do a culture section. The 'media' section should actually be included as a subsection under 'culture', not 'education'.
The 'trivia' section should also be removed, as they are generally discouraged from articles; it's to include a trivia section early in the article's development, so many editors can quickly add information in a simple list-based format. But before achieving GA & FA status, the content of these sections should be integrated into other parts of the article.
There are no inline citations (references) included in the article. The contents of the 'references' section are, in fact, items that are not directly cited by text in the article, so these should actually be included in a 'further reading' section. It might be helpful to review WP:CITE for guidelines regarding how to included inline citations. I've actually fixed the further reading & references sections already,... ;-)
'Neighborhoods' isn't really a general item that should be included as a main section in an article. I'd move this under 'geography'. The geography section also says nothing about the climate. Most city articles have a subsection here covering the climate, or yearly variations in temperature.
The photos look reasonably good, though they're mostly pictures of countryside and lake. Is there a main street in the city? Perhaps a good photo of some of the shops and storefronts in the downtown area? I see there's a lake near the city. Is there a boathouse, fishing piers, marina at the lakeside? Perhaps a city park there? City parks are good to included under the 'culture' section.
Hope this helps. You might want to review WP:WIAGA for information on the criteria associated with a good article. Perhaps sometime in the near future we'll see this article on the list of good article candidates. Cheers! Dr. Cash 23:01, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
