Talk:Pleasanton, Nebraska

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Kzwiener. Peer reviewers: MSeldal.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 06:47, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Article Critique
This article contains a large amount of factual, unbiased information about Pleasanton. However, a few improvements could be made. First, a clarification about what the "Loup Township" is and how it is related to the village needs to be made. Also, context as to what a "D2" high school is and what criteria it is based on would be helpful. Although as much information as possible is helpful to an article such as this one, census data from almost 16 years ago might not be relevant or useful to this article. Instead, simply including the 2010 census data might be a better use of space on the page. Additionally, a citation is needed for the information provided on the village's churches in the final section of the page. Hratliff25 (talk) 08:06, 9 November 2015 (UTC)


 * The "History" section needs a complete rewrite: it should be in chronological order, with earliest events first. The "location is unusual" statement is opinion and should be treated as such.  Some fact-checking is also in order: other sources, e.g. the Nebraska State Historical Society's Buffalo County historic buildings survey, pp. 12 and 19–20, indicate that the railroad on which Pleasanton was built wasn't the Kearney and Black Hills, as the article suggests, but the Omaha and Republican Valley, which ran from Boelus through Ravenna to Pleasanton.  Unfortunately, the source cited in the article doesn't appear to be available online, so checking it will necessitate a trip to the library.  If there's actually a conflict between sources, we need to rewrite the article accordingly, and to insert a footnote re. the conflict to warn other editors about its existence.
 * The "History" section is also very much incomplete: a sadly common tendency in Wikipedia articles, but unacceptable in a piece of work being written for a course grade. If nothing else, the closing of the railroad line should be included. Ammodramus (talk) 12:33, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Peer Review
I am pretty impressed with the amount of factual information included on the page, such as the demographic info. I also would keep all the census data because it provides more history to the page, and an encyclopedia entry is meant to be a record. -MitchMSeldal (talk) 20:58, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

possible sources
http://www.city-data.com/city/Pleasanton-Nebraska.html this can help with the census info http://www.faithstreet.com/pleasanton-ne this can be used for the churches section MSeldal (talk) 18:46, 11 November 2015 (UTC)