Talk:San Leandro, California
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Oh, the writing on this page is SOOOO Eurocentric - if that's the right word, I'm trying to say it's written from a european/european-Amerrican viewpoint rather than an Indigineous Peoples/ Native American viewpoint. For example, The "History" section starts out "San Leandro was first discovered on March 20, 1772 by Spanish soldier..." but for anyone who has studied California, it's obvious that the whole bay area was "heavily populated", in terms of populations of Indiginous Peoples of the time, and going back several hundred if not thousands of years.
I guess it's a question of Wikipedia style, and perhaps I should be looking at Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style instead of shooting my virtual mouth off here... but as an (originally) American phenomenon, how does Wikipedia as an entity view the question of eurocentricity in articles such as this one? (Oh, so I did look, and it does not seem to be addressed... hmmm).
I'm not quite presumptuous enough to edit the page on my own to try to remove or even mitigate the eurocentric angle, but I find the topic interesting enough that I am jotting it down here... I'll "watch" this discussion page and see if anything comes of it.
Tzf 18:49, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
- you are correct TZF. article could use more info on Native American settlement and use. i shall try to find something, but it may take some time. Newarknanny 18:46, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Seems to be largely copyvio
The entirety of the first 5 paragraphs of the history section (save 1 sentence about natives) appears to be copied in toto from http://www.ci.san-leandro.ca.us/slcityhistory.html which specifically claims copyright to its content. 71.231.107.188 03:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] San Leandro, California is in United States?
Has California moved? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.142.213.199 (talk) 03:45, 25 January 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Schools Section
This section should be mostly eliminated by the creation of seperate entries for each of the high schools. I do not know much of anything about these schools, so am not the right person to do so.--Fizbin 14:28, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Honesty about San Leandro High School
Whoever has been maintaining this page is mis-representing the issues at SLHS. It is an inaccurate picture to only allow the "glowing" things to be presented. You should also include the statistics which shows the issues they face. Omitting these challenges is akin to allowing a drunk to ignore his problem. It is only when the truth is known that the situation will improve.
