Talk:Glendora, California/Archive 1

Notable residents
In the "Notable Residents" section, shouldn't there be some indication (at least for those other than for instance Sally Rand who have their own articles), as to why they are worth noting? Ironwolf 14:46, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Since I made the above comment last September, I continue to see families being added to the "Notable Residents" section, but since there has been little action in adding support to why these residents are notable I'm considering moving the unsupported listings to the Talk page until people choose to support these assertions. 21:06, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I've now marked the article as needing more citations, and specifically called out the Notable Residents that need them. Please help by adding the needed information. Ironwolf 21:54, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Uncited Notable Residents
I have moved the following entries here from the Notable Residents section. Please add the needed support for including them, then move them back to the main article. Ironwolf 00:30, 9 January 2006 (UTC)


 * George Whitcomb
 * Joe Finkbiner
 * Heinz Rubel (known as Hal Raynor, comedy partner with Joe Penner)
 * Grant Toneck
 * The Milhous Family
 * The West Family
 * The Flowers Family
 * The Gordon Family
 * The Bidwell Family
 * The Bollinger Family

-The "Gordon" Family ties back to a previous mayor of the city and now a mult-million dollar mansion housing tract in the Glendora Foothills. -There is a school called "Whitcomb" and a street but beyond that I dont know the significance. I cant find much more info on the other families listed above. Bruce12 22:52, 19 April 2006 (UTC)


 * There's a lot of family names with historic significance that Ironwolf removed which should be restored though with newly-created Wikipedia articles which provide more information about their history in the city.
 * There is also no mention of the Donut Man doughnut store which is the city's most famous doughnut store and has ended up being covered in numerous newspaper and magazine articles, television shows, and is enumerated by many Hollywood actors as their favorate "restaurant." Damotclese (talk) 18:54, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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Why do the districts of this plae lead to an estate agents website ? Needs a cleanup 78.105.34.66 (talk) 12:03, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Puff, puff
Would it be possible to work just a trifle more puffery into the opening section?Cactus Wren (talk) 10:08, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Eight years later, the opening section is still somewhat biased in favor of Glendora. Earlier today there was the sentence "Glendora's most exclusive neighborhoods contain many very large, secluded, estate homes with sweeping views across the San Gabriel Valley to Downtown Los Angeles." I made one slight change to this sentence. A lack of citations prevented me from changing it further. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.175.94.213 (talk) 23:35, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Same editor. I just added a bias template to the page. The opening section has a weak Self-serving bias. —104.175.94.213 (talk) 00:07, 23 December 2020 (UTC)104.175.94.213

Needs a lot of work
Not any mention of the extensive orange groves? Or, for that matter, there is no mention of the South Hills which overlooks the 210 freeway which is used for hiking, meth production, housing the homeless, all that happy stuff. No mention about notable historic landmarks like Glendora Mountain Road, the early locomotive transportation that passed through the city over 100 years ago even before it was officially a city, no mention of being part of the San Gabriel Watershed or mention of the Dalton Wash drainage that supplies Southern California with a lot of drinking water.

I also see that some of the information is woefully out of date. The local hospital has been greatly reworked with new Emergency Room facilities while at the same time the number of people working there is now far lessthan 500 thanks to layoffs and thanks to the unpaid volunteer staffers having mostly abandoned the facility due to the Republican corporate management's take-over of the hospital's volunteers.

If nobody else updates some of these failings, I'll do it. Damotclese (talk) 21:19, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Religious Institutions For Removal
I'm going to suggest the removal of the newly-added "Religious Institutions" sections since it appears to be Blatant Promotion of a specific religious group and thus violates a number of Wikipedia guidelines.

If the editor who made the update would like to re-submit a section covering Religious Institutions which is inclusive, informative, and meets Wiki guidelines, please do so. For now if you would like to discuss my proposed removal, please do so, if I don't hear back from you in 3 days I will remove the section and assume you are working on an update.

Thanks! Damotclese (talk) 18:18, 18 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Okay, I reverted the editor who added the Blatant Promotion of a specific religion's offices since the editor has not responded. If the editor would like to discuss further development of a section covering religious offices, please discuss it here. Thanks! Damotclese (talk) 21:48, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Dottie Walters update
The entry for Dottie Walters which was reverted, if you would, please create a page covering Dottie Walters -- even if it is just a stub -- and then provide the link in this extant article again.

Usually broken links are not and should not be a fatal flaw, they are often used as place-holders however since an editor reverted the update, it would be good to have an article created on Dottie Walters and then have the link restored. Thanks! Damotclese (talk) 16:48, 15 September 2014 (UTC)


 * It was not a broken link. It was red because there is no WP article for Walters. If a page is created and if there is reliable sourcing that shows Walters as a Glendora resident, I'd have no objection. But these "notable people" sections are prone to spamming, so WP:WTAF is generally followed. – S. Rich (talk) 17:16, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
 * A so-called "red link" may be removed if a case can be made that Wikipedia should not have an article on that subject. There was also no citation provided to verify that this person, in fact, passes the notability guidelines or that she has ever lived in Glendora. Zzyzx11 (talk) 03:53, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Undue promotion
The article's tone is one of promotion with adjectives such as "sweeping" and "very" sprinkled in which makes it un-encyclopedic yet also there are numerous statements which lack references or citations. I see that a new account "Glendorachamber" is a WP:SPA -- a Single Purpose Account -- which is generally met with disapproval, and the user account name is also a minor violation of Wikipedia guidelines.

The promotional tone of the article needs to be fixed, and references and citations need to be added. Damotclese (talk) 16:42, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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