Talk:Buffalo, New York

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[edit] Moving towards GA and FA status

This article is, let's face it, crappy. As a Buffalonian it really depresses me. It was so bad that it convinced me rewriting the introduction was worth 5 hours of my time to redo, lol. I got a little less encyclopedic and more poetic at the end, lol, and I knew it wouldn't stand for very long. The end of the introduction does still need a modern day rap-up though that shows where Buffalo is headed.

I think what this page really needs is some dedicated people with writing ability to take all the raw info we have on the page and whip it into some sort of readable form. Not just editing, but whole-scale rewriting: taking the facts and citations we already have and organizing them in some coherent form, because as it is it just reads like a conglomeration of unrelated facts.

I think what we need is each section wholly rewritten by a single author into coherence. This takes several hours, of course, but I think if we do it little by little it will put this page back on track.

I'm very interested in hearing what any other interested parties think about this plan. With a little work from all of us, this page can get back on track.

Willseychew (talk) 21:45, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Does anyone really care what roads go through Buffalo? This seems like unnecessary information to me.