Talk:Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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Why did ashlux remove some my links as irrelevant links?
And yet keep US75.com which is all but out of bussiness?
Granted wherehouse web page died, and I did not know it.
What is the critiera for relevant for external links? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimwelch (talk • contribs)
I tagged the article for cleanup. It is conversational in places, and could use polish and enhancement. The Community Center for instance is a clone of Gammage Auditorium at Arizona State University, I believe. A picture of the Community Center would be nice. A picture taken from Price Tower would be nice, too, if it's open to the public. Catbar (Brian Rock) 04:32, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Why is the no information on OKMozart when it is probably the most important program we have here. And, I might ask why is there no information on Indian Summer? Whomever did this really knows little about our community. - amal3113 (Ann Connors-Maloney)9:51 am 08/21/06 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Amal3113 (talk • contribs)
[edit] Cleanup
I took a mop, polish, and lots of sharp scissors to this article today. I can sense some howls coming from people who had pet paragraphs in the old version, so here's my defense in advance:
- Someone above asked about the External links policy, so there it is, along with the guidelines on when to link externally. The piece read like a Chamber of Commerce tourist guide, complete with places to spend your dollars. That stuff doesn't belong in an encyclopedia, so I edited it out. There was a link to a site selling books about the city, so that was cut, along with links to retail sites for local businesses and the newspaper (other similarly-sized cities do not have their newspaper sites listed unless that newspaper has a Wikipedia entry, and this newspaper does not).
- I don't know who got the idea to put in that section about Bartlesville being known as "The Nexus", but... not so. I asked someone who actually works at The Wherehouse about the phrase, and he's never heard that term used to describe the city or the music at the venue - and he would know. The section was badly written anyway, so it got the scissor treatment and was moved closer to the OK Mozart info I added in the 'Tourism' section.
- Likewise, I cut some POV text about the Wall of Honor. The old paragraph was seriously NPOV - but the place is a local attraction, so I rewrote it to be more moderate. The English Wikipedia is not written just for Americans, and it's important to keep that in mind when writing articles. I replaced "Operation Iraqi Freedom" with a link to the 2003 invasion of Iraq because that's the link I felt fit best, and I also linked to Prisoner of war, Missing in action, and Military of the United States.
- It's unnecessary to EL to every school's subpage on the school system's site, so I replaced them with one link to the school system site. I did the same with the ELs to other education providers. For future reference, lists like that need to be bulleted with '*' so they fall in a line instead of one long sentence.
I'll watch it to keep it neat and tidy. Additions and subtractions are, of course, welcome, 'cause I certainly don't own it. Baseball,Baby! balls•strikes 08:53, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Residents of Bartlesville are Bartians
Just in case anyone wonders, yes, they are Bartians. I lived there five summers and that's what they call themselves. Catbar 22:53, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
