Talk:Tulsa Metropolitan Area

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[edit] Collaboration Goals and Tips

Note: these tips and goals are not official in any way, but simply suggestions from editors and can be discussed, changed, added to, or deleted at will. In fact, please add any and all suggestions -- anything!

This article needs to come out of this as either a great B-class article, an A-class, or one that can be considered for GA Class!

• Take a look at some of the articles under Category:Metropolitan areas of the United States to find well written examples that can be a guide for this article.
• This should be like an article for a city and an article for a state combined, so not as specific as a city article but not as general as an article for a state.
• Sections needed:
  • Cities
    • Sub-headings could describe either the first ring and second ring with subheadings for each city in the respective ring, or headings for direction from Tulsa (I.E. cities to the east, cities to the west, etc.) with further subheadings for each city.
  • Transportation (or infrastructure) in the Tulsa M.A.
  • Education in the Tulsa M.A.
    • RSU, NSU-BA, Northeast Technology Center, etc.
  • Economy in the Tulsa M.A.
    • This should be more of a description of regional economic value rather than each city's economic value.
    • Try to capture how the metropolitan area economy is as a whole. For example, manufacturing is important in the entire area and every manufacturing hub in the area is aided by the port of catoosa and the Tulsa airport, and other things. If I think of more examples I'll put them in.
  • Geography
    • Topography, climate, etc.
  • Recreation and tourism(?)
    • The suburbs are beginning to match the city of Tulsa in recreational opportunities, with Jenks and Sand Springs developments, etc.
    • The area has many lakes and state parks.

[edit] IMPORTANT REMINDERS

• Think of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area as a whole. This article is about the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, and should not be thought of as an article about the cities or towns that occupy it. Try to consider the Tulsa Metropolitan Area its own entity, much like you would consider the state its own entity when writing about Oklahoma, instead of writing specific things about the counties that make up the state.
• Green Country and the Tulsa Metropolitan Area are not the same. Try to not stray outside of the Statistical Metropolitan Area (the map is on the page). Whereas "Green Country" officially occupies all of northeast oklahoma, the census-designated "Tulsa Metropolitan Area" occupies only 7 counties (8 if the Tulsa-Bartlesville Combined Statistical Area is included). Okiefromokla•talk 18:42, 7 June 2007 (UTC)