Talk:Hanford, California

Hanford, California was a Geography and places good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
November 21, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed

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USCITY guideline[edit]

Please follow the Wikipedia USCITY guideline for layout and content. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 17:27, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Failed GA[edit]

This article is a long way short of GA standards

Lead:The lead is far too short for such an article, a lead needs to summarise the article and should be about 4-5 times as long as it currently is
Please wikilink dates and years
The article has a uniform lack of refs. Some refs are just put in as external references without any filled in details. Please see a city FA like Bangalore and use {{cite web}} and {{cite news}} with the dates, publishers, authors and names of the sites that you reference
There are many MOS violations. section headers should not be all caps unless they are proper nouns, so "Hanford's Chinese community" is correct. Community should not be capped
Many short one-1.5 line sentences should be integrated elsewhere into a proper paragraph
This is especially prevalent in the history section
The name of the first teacher proably isnt required, but that's a minor issue.
History is unusual in that it is undue weight and surprisingly, one of the few times on Wikipedia where it is biased towards the historic stuff. Almost all the history is pre 1900
Economy and demographics section needs refs
Transportation needs to be prosified, instead of dot points
You'll need a ref for the Arsenic stuff, since we don't want a law suit from the city council for saying that they are life threatening
Utilities has many short setnences and many 1 line paras.
Ditto for education
"The jewel of the Clark Center" pov statement
opening hours of the various attractions should not be listed else it sounds like advertising
Sites of interest need to be prosified and come imagese need to be removed because we usually should not have pictures on both sides of a section of prose
Notable residents section should not be there.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:25, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bobby Joe Blythe[edit]

Before people add information based on internet memes, they should do a thorough Google search. Not very notable, considering I could only find a couple of local news articles on him at this point. Sχeptomaniac^{χαιρετε} 20:35, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Necrophages[edit]

This can't be right:

The 2010 United States Census[12] reported that Hanford had a population (Necrophages) of 53,967

..There can't be that many necrophages (zombies) in Hanford - it's just not that big a town. - Eric (talk)

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