Talk:Sacramento (disambiguation)
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I removed the following text because it is not about either Sacramento or Sacramento County (entries that would be defined in Wikipedia). But it is about the Sacramento public Library. A link would suffice. Of course if someone has a good reason to keep this, then lets hear that reason. maveric149
- The Sacramento Public Library's Sacramento Room maintain a comprehensive collection of materials documenting Sacramento City and Sacramento County history and life. It includes city directories and telephone books, as well as the Sacramento periodical collection which consists of newspapers, magazines and newsletters published in Sacramento and about Sacramento people, businesses, organizations, places, events and history.
I had put that text in, only because the Sacramento article is necessarily incomplete, and a reliable pointer to a centralized repository of historical information about Sacramento would be useful to those who need to get more information than we can supply.
Balanone
That's good. Now it at the top of /Talk so that others may use it to gather more information. maveric149
I find reference on http://www.usacitiesonline.com/cacountysacramento.htm#statistics that Captain Sutter first named Sacramento "New Helvetia, a haven for his Swiss Countrymen." Can this be verified?
- That's not entirely true. His name for what we call Sutter's Fort was New Helvitia -- which is considered to be early settlement of the Sacramento area and not the establishment of the city itself (which was accomplished by John Sutter Jr). Sutters Fort was unfortunetely overrun by gold seekers who were unconcered about Sutters ideas about a utopian farming community. As a result of river-borne commerce, the city grew a couple of miles west of the fort and very quickly surpassed it in importance. maveric149
The addition of the list of past mayors is great! However, I think it might be overkill to have full fledge stand-alone wiki articles on all of them. Don't get me wrong, anyone is welcome to try, but I am not so masochistic -- and I don't know how valid such additions to wikipedia would be seen by othr wikipedians (if every city article had this, we would quickly have rediculously long lists for mayor John_Doe). What I suggest is this: Each mayor should have their own subpage directly off of the Sacramento article (instead of their own, stand alone page on the wiki itself). For example, instead of having the link on Sacramento/Mayors go to Heather_Fargo, why not have it link to Sacramento/Heather_Fargo? maveric149
- I have no strong feelings about this. I was originally thinking of leaving the wiki links off, and just let people add them if/when they actually create pages concerning any of those people.
Balanone
Since there are several cities with the name "Sacramento" in the world, and Wikipedia has the unofficial convention of demarcating cities as city, state (USA) and city, country outside the US, I was wondering if we should do the same with "Sacramento". The entry "Sacramento" could then serve as a jumping-off point to the various "Sacramento's" around the world. I am the original author of this entry, and it seems to be the most logical thing to do -- even though Sacramento, California is obviously the most famous "Sacramento" in the world (a check of Google might indicate to some that there is the only "Sacramento" in the world). But even so, renaming does seem to be the best thing to do. What do you think fellow Wikipedians? maveric149
