Talk:Montebello, California/Archive 1

March 16, 2007 edits
I believe tonight's deletions were good faith edits because the mayor's data in the infobox was incorrect. It is as per Council Members. Additionally, the sister city is correctly listed as per Montebello-Ashiya Sister City Affliation. Ronbo76 05:06, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Updating Article
ref: http://socalhistory.org/bios/italiansinla.html
 * http://www.montebellochamber.org/History.aspx
 * http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/monterey-hills/recent/3

Oscar De La Hoya, 10-time boxing world champion, was born in Montebello. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.240.32.162 (talk) 11:51, 26 August 2010 (UTC)


 * http://www.whittierdailynews.com/ci_17306405?source=rss_viewed Mysterious City Bank account foundDocOfSoc (talk) 14:52, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

http://egpnews.com/?p=24140 more on above  — DocOfSoc • Talk  •  09:02, 14 April 2011 (UTC) Armenian Memorial Signs: http://www.topix.com/city/montebello-ca/2011/04/armenian-genocide-memorialized-on-l-a-area-freeway-signs  — DocOfSoc • Talk  •  09:19, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

More updates
"Montebello used to be called the Beverly Hills of the Eastside. Officials openly admit that incompetence has fueled many of the city's problems but insist that Montebello is not mired in corruption." (Irfan Khan, Los Angeles Times / September 24, 2011) Once respectable, Montebello plagued by instability, rancor The city is seeking a short-term loan to avoid running out of cash in its general fund and state audits have found that officials mishandled millions. And the FBI is investigating the city's use of federal housing funds. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-montebello-20110924,0,324170.story?track=rss Help!  — DocOfSoc • Talk  •  09:06, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Clean up
This article is/was an unbelieveable mess. I have done a good amount of ce on it, removed a bunch of blah-blah that really didn't belong in the article to begin with along with plenty of undue weight, and some WP:CRYSTAL. Also moved some sections/subsections around, created some subsections, and removed a whole bunch of unnecessary WP:NOTNEWS. Not to mention there was also way too much verbatim stealing of wording directly from online sources. ( talk→  LesHB   ←track ) 03:54, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

The Japanese nursery owner story is nice, and it may be "historical" to a certain degree, but it's not encyclopedic in relation to this article and that's why I removed it. It might work in the Wikipedia article on the California Japanese internment during WWII, but even then, it would probably have to be pared down considerably to be considered encyclopedic. It's really more of a human interest story in the vein of a Sunday paper insert or Life Magazine. ( talk→  LesHB   ←track ) 04:24, 4 January 2012 (UTC)


 * And what led you to Montebello? I take great umbrage at your calling this article an " unbelieveable mess" and that there was language "stealing." and other BS. Could you be more insulting? What happened to Good faith and  alleged courtesy in Wiki?
 * It WAS outdated because I have been driven to take a Wikibreak.


 * THREE Japanese nurseries were stolen by "good American citizens". The fact that one was saved is of historical importance to the city and I believe is indeed encyclopedic.  What "degree" of historical are you referring to?? There was NO instance of copyright violation. I carefully rewrote every line. It may be similar but there is only so many ways of saying something. The exact "quote"  was the same but it was a quote as noted!
 * Montebello is a political morass and you removed all reference to their problem instead of updating it, as if you really cared about the article. I give up — DocOfSoc •  Talk  •  05:39, 4 January 2012 (UTC)