Talk:Marysville, Washington

Commercial Events not encyclopedic
Wikipedia is not really the place to publicize the opening of stores. I will temporarily move such events into their own section for comment but, most likely, they will be deleted. If you want to publicize your store, buy an ad somewhere rewinn 00:20, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

School district
In the education section, there's a link to Marysville School District, but that is just a self-redirect to this page's education section. We might remove the link, but an editor on the school district page a while ago suggested making it into a stand-alone article, so I don't know. 71.231.76.242 (talk) 20:17, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Per the "self-redirects" section of WP:R2D: "Avoid linking to titles which redirect straight back to the page on which the link is found."
 * I do agree that the district should have its own stand-alone article. But for now, I think the link should be removed from this article. It can always be re-added later once the school district page is created. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:25, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I notice that this article says nothing about all the tweakers and dopeheads around here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.231.130.113 (talk) 02:38, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Rename park structure
This is not a "gondola" (a boat) but better described as a gazebo.Parkwells (talk) 14:38, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Overlinking
Bruce: great improvement and expansion. This issue I'm sure is a relic of the expansion and a bit more smoothing is needed. You or another ed. may want to consider the proliferation of links described below. I know we can IAR and re-link terms in a detailed section when they were first mentioned way up in the lede, and some in the list below are in captions/infobox which is OK, but this may be a bit overboard. I'm not just ripping these out wholesale because as primary author I thought you'd want the choice of which to leave in. Cheers - Brianhe (talk) 20:32, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Arlington Municipal Airport (Washington) 3x
 * Community Transit 4x
 * Everett, Washington 6x
 * Mount Pilchuck 3x
 * Naval Station Everett 3x
 * Quil Ceda Village 4x
 * Seattle 4x
 * Smokey Point, Washington 6x
 * Snohomish County 8x (I think)
 * Snohomish County Public Utility District 3x
 * Snohomish River 3x
 * Tulalip Indian Reservation 7x
 * Thanks for the thorough review and spotcheck. I seem to have missed a lot of errors and typos in my week-long scramble to get this article into shape! I'll work on delinking most of these, but a few links will need to be repeated.  Sounder Bruce  22:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * That's what's awesome about crowdsourced/participatory content creation, you can leave it half-finished or 99% finished and there's no shame, in fact maybe it's better that way to get a fresh perspective. Anyway enough philosophizing, again you did a great job with the expansion. - Brianhe (talk) 23:51, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Growth management
This article is a good potential showcase for a discussion of the relationship of a rapidly growing urban area and the former rural character of Western Washington, and in particular the role the state's Growth Managment Act (GMA) has to play. Here are some suggested sources for expansion. I may be able to return to start this but I thought that sharing the sources could get the ball rolling if another editor wants to take it on. - Brianhe (talk) 20:54, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Snohomish County: Growing Pains -- Rural Areas Left Out In The Cold, Landowners Say, Seattle Times, 1995
 * Snohomish County expected to grow 25 percent by 2035, Everett Herald, 2016
 * Snohomish County facing hefty penalty, Seattle Times, 2004 (state imposes penalties for ignoring GMA)
 * Lynnwood tries for more turf in South Snohomish County Seattle Times 2008 - implied competition between Bothell, Lynnwood, Marysville all of which are mentioned
 * Navy homeporting plan (1998) 2.8 percent housing vacancy rate discussed due to rapid growth, §5.8 -- PD document can be freely copied from
 * GMA population projections, Wash. OFM, 2008 - perhaps newer document can be found
 * While Marysville is definitely a showcase of what the act and urban development in the region looks like, I think it would be better suited to articles like the GMA, Seattle metropolitan area or the county's history section.  Sounder Bruce  22:35, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Good point, it may make a better quick gloss here with a further or other link to the main subject. - Brianhe (talk) 23:49, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Some comments
I don't have time to do a full review for good article, but there are some important issues with the text. For example:

"As the second-largest city after Everett," .... do you mean in a particular county? Because I'm pretty sure Spokane is the second largest city in Washington state. But then, you end the sentence by talking about the whole state again "; as of 2015, Marysville is the fastest-growing city in Washington state". There are two ideas here in one sentence, so this is very confusing. Randomly further down, you write "Marysville's population was historically limited to below 2,000 residents" ... what does this mean? Need some specific dates for this to make sense. Sorry this is just a drive by, but those are 2 easy fixes. Mattximus (talk) 16:59, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comments. I've clarified the population statements in the lead and re-worded the demographic section's sentence.  Sounder Bruce  05:53, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Status of Marysville Globe and The Arlington Times
First off, I want to congratulate on the article in the Herald; he's certainly part of an exclusive club now! That said, with it mentioning Marysville and knowing that both the Herald and the Globe are sister papers, I wanted to see if the latter made any mention of him, so I checked it only to find that it and the Times have not made independent reports since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown in Washington state. Seeing as Sound Publishing doesn't even list them in its portfolio now, I think it's safe to assume that both papers have ceased operations. With that in mind, I have updated the articles of both newspapers with this info, and I feel that the Media sections in the Marysville and Arlington articles should be updated as well; however, since no official statement was ever made (and I doubt Sound Publishing will do so in the near future), I don't want to run afoul of WP:OR. I have no idea on what should be done at this point, so I would like to solicit suggestions here on how to proceed. SmartAn01 (talk) 08:45, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the shoutout. I think it's best to treat this as an unverifiable situation until a proper source is found. We can always update the articles as needed once an official statement is released, but for now the status quo should do.  Sounder Bruce  18:09, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
 * In that case, would it be okay to state that both papers are on indefinite hiatus (or that they have not issued in print) since the last print publication, or would that run afoul of WP:OR as well? SmartAn01 (talk) 19:21, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
 * That would definitely be OR.  Sounder Bruce  00:34, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

35 miles north of Seattle?
Google Maps shows that the driving distance from the "center" of Marysville at 4th and State to the 145th Street exit at I-5, the Seattle city limits, is 25.0 miles – much less than 35 reported in the lede of this article. This kind of measurement is IMO how Americans usually reckon distances between cities. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:51, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I think it's being measured from Downtown Seattle, which is also what WSDOT also uses for their mileage charts.  Sounder Bruce  21:30, 21 April 2022 (UTC)