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Education[edit]

I reverted the changes to the final sentence in the education section. No school in Bothell is part of the Edmonds School District, there are no Edmonds School District schools in Bothell, and there is no connection between the two school districts. The list of Edmonds schools are available at http://www.edmonds.wednet.edu/schools/default.cfm, and the map of those schools is at http://www.edmonds.wednet.edu/about/map/elemmap.cfm (the secondary school coverage is the same). See Northshore School District to compare. Brier is within the Edmonds district. There are places where Brier borders on Bothell on its northeast, but none of the areas covered by Brier schools are in Bothell. In any case, even if there were some slight overlap the added text was incorrect.

Koganei, Tokyo as a sister city?[edit]

I've heard that Koganei, Tokyo is the sister-city to Bothell. If someone can confirm this, please add this info. I do know that Cedar Park Christian School in Bothell has had several exchange students travel to Koganei (and vice-versa). -- Eptin 08:02, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Politics section?[edit]

Is the "Politics" section intentionally bolded instead of section-headed? It looks wrong as it is. Solarbird 16:40, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The politics section seems to be correctly formatted. It is a subsection, and in the code it uses three equal signs instead of two. --Eptin 19:28, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I understand - it just seems odd as a subsection of demographics. I agree it's too small for a section of its own, it just seems, you know... odd. (No, I'm not going to make a Wiki case of it. ^_^ ) Things like that, I've started putting into talk: as kind of a storage bin until there's more. (C.f. Kenmore's talk page.) Solarbird 04:24, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen similar information in other demographics sections for other cities, though not usually set aside in a subsection. I wonder if, even though this is census information, it might make more sense in the Government and Politics section that I just added? Llachglin 01:18, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ben Gibbard[edit]

As far as I know Ben Gibbard never lived in Bothell (as it states in the Residents section)... any sources? Abcdemily 03:14, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reorganization of sections[edit]

Per Wikipedia guidelines, I deleted the Trivia section. I think I'm the user who created this section in the first place, moving information that was in History that didn't really belong there. Rather than delete the content, I moved it into a new Culture section (matching usage for other city articles). I made the existing Civic Events section into a subsection here, and created a Sports subsection with information from the trivia section (and new info about Pop Keeney Stadium) and grouped everything else in an admittedly nebulous "Popular Culture" subsection. All three items in that section are national media references or events that featured Bothell. It's possible none of these items are encyclopedic enough to really belong in the article at all, but I didn't want to make that call without opening a discussion. The Blake Lewis item in particular is probably more relevant for the Blake Lewis article. I also think the list of famous people from Bothell is also probably not necessary for this article, and not standard practice in most city articles, but I don't want to make that call either.Llachglin 01:18, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Motto[edit]

I'm not sure we have the motto right. An official source for that would be great, but I don't know if that's possible. I know it's what we have on our welcome signs. As far as I know, it might be just "Bothell - For a day or a lifetime" or "For a day or a lifetime". I can't just trust that the full text of the sign coming into town is the official motto. I've seen Bothellites using different versions.

This Seattle Times article gives the motto as "For a Day or a Lifetime"

Even looking at the city's official site lends credibility to the shorter version, it seems to me. Its graphics read:

The City of Bothell
Welcomes you...for a day or a lifetime

You see that? It has the "For a day or a lifetime" part, but the rest is just rearranged in front of it.

Hmm...*strokes beard*

Misha Vargas in Bothell (talk) 11:49, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I grew up in the city and the note about "Hype" is funny because I remember when that happened. It was a very common occurance among the local teen population in the 1990s (i.e. spraying the BOT out of the welcome sign). Welcome To Hell For A Day Or A Lifetime was a motto among the Bothell High classes of the early '90s.HansEworth (talk) 17:32, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think it still happens. A few years ago I was heading into Bothell and the BOT on the sign was much brighter than the HELL, suggesting it had been repainted only recently. Love that place! Begeun (talk) 12:26, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment[edit]

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Article is okay. History section needs more references along with the notable people. -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 22:54, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 22:54, 25 April 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 10:06, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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Area of Bothell[edit]

In "Geography", it is stated: "According to the City of Bothell, the city has a total area of 13.7 square miles (35.48 km2), all of it land."

How can that be? The Sammamish River cuts right through Bothell. Note that the cited source does not support the assertion that all of Bothell's area is land. So I am going to modify that statement. --Alan W (talk) 05:59, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Census Bureau must not have counted it. The raw 2020 Gazetteer files list the water area as "0". Sounder Bruce 06:10, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

OK, good. You found a reliable source (which I overlooked in the InfoBox). I meant no "original research"; I just couldn't see the statement allowed to stand as it was, since it was not supported by the cited source. Still seems odd to me; but "you can't fight city hall". Or the U.S. Census Bureau. :-) --Alan W (talk) 06:35, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]