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Deleting article details[edit]

A lot of the details in this article are related to neighbouring townships and do not belong in the article about this town. If there is no opposition, I will be removing them in order to improve the article. Likewise, I don't think the article needs a detailed history of the local Judo club. 208.38.59.161 (talk) 01:34, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you are referring to the Regional attractions section, I've always felt that it adds no value and was promotional, even if well-intended. There is also a significant amount of unreferenced content on this article, some instances tagged with "citation needed" tags and some not. I wouldn't bat an eye if that was removed either. I may be able to find a reference for the Visible minorities section in the meantime. Hwy43 (talk) 02:51, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Notable residents[edit]

The previous section Notable people was recently changed to Notable residents, citing Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian communities/Structure guideline as the resason. I want to point out two things. First, the guideline says, “other topics may include sister cities, notable residents,” implying that such categories are optional and their naming not set in stone nor a standard. Second since the majority of the people listed in this section don’t reside in Raymond, what should be done with them? —Kmsiever (talk) 00:31, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am sweeping through Alberta community articles at a high level, applying the WikiProject's guideline (yes, it is not a standard) in terms of content, organization and section names and cleaning up some other things along the way. By making these articles consistent with the guideline and each other, the overall quality of the Alberta component within the WikiProject is improved, as well as the individual articles themselves. I've swept through all of Alberta's cities to date, as well as towns "A" through "R". In the case of Raymond, the high level sweep brought only a minor change to a section heading. Others, like Peace River, had more exhaustive changes.

I agree that “other topics may include sister cities, notable residents,” implies that such categories are optional, but don't see how it implies their naming neither being set in stone nor a standard. Rather, the guideline is silent on deviation from section naming, whether it be a "should have" section or an "optional" section.

In my history, I've observed the use of "Notable residents" being more widespread than "Notable people", presumably due to the WikiProject guideline, hence opting for the former rather than the latter in this sweep.

As for those listed in this section, if their past or present residency in Raymond is neither verified by a reference nor mentioned in their WP article, I'd say trim the list. Hwy43 (talk) 03:33, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Climate[edit]

The climate for Raymond was collected from environment canada but i could only find http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?hlyRange=2004-06-16%7C2017-12-02&dlyRange=2004-06-01%7C2017-12-02&mlyRange=2004-06-01%7C2007-10-01&StationID=42729&Prov=AB&urlExtension=_e.html&searchType=stnName&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=2017&selRowPerPage=25&Line=1&searchMethod=contains&txtStationName=Raymond&timeframe=2&Day=1&Year=2016&Month=1

This is January 2016 numbers this continues for the next 12 months couldn't figure out how to do cite all 12 months so the weather box has the references from lethbridge not raymond. Spaceman247 (talk) 01:06, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]