User:Starstriker7/Sacramento Worklist



This worklist concerning the article on the city of Sacramento, California outlines what needs to be done in order to improve the Sacramento article to GA status as observed directly by editors working to improve the article.

Participants

 * --Starstriker7(Talk) 20:10, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Guidelines to consult

 * United States city guideline
 * Lead guideline

Exemplary articles

 * Minneapolis, Minnesota
 * Detroit, Michigan
 * San Francisco, California
 * New York, New York
 * Boston, Massachusetts
 * Cleveland, Ohio
 * Louisville, Kentucky
 * Seattle, Washington
 * Providence, Rhode Island
 * Tulsa, Oklahoma
 * Washington, D.C.

Lead

 * Should be expanded to cover briefly all sections of the article. (?)

History

 * Needs to be truncated to a few paragraphs.
 * Needs citations.
 * Note: The history of Sacramento, California article can be used as a guideline up to before the world wars.

Geography

 * Citations needed.

Climate

 * Citations needed per tag.

City neighborhoods

 * Note: If necessary, this section can be broken off and set into a new article should the section become too long.
 * Change subsection titles for the sake of clarity. (?)

Area one (Central/Eastern)

 * Expand from a bare list.
 * Explain the neighborhoods, note any locations of interest and their location relative to each other. (?)

Area two (Southwestern)

 * Expand from a bare list.
 * Explain the neighborhoods, note any locations of interest and their location relative to each other. (?)

Area three (Southeastern)

 * Expand from a bare list.
 * Explain the neighborhoods, note any locations of interest and their location relative to each other. (?)

Area four (North of the American River)

 * Expand from a bare list.
 * Explain the neighborhoods, note any locations of interest and their location relative to each other. (?)

Demographics

 * Cite or remove (if necessary) paragraph concerning homeless people.

Government and politics

 * Cite end of paragraph.
 * Expand to cover Sacramento's political history (?)

Colleges and universities

 * Cite all uncited paragraphs.
 * Consolidate loose short paragraphs into lengthier paragraphs
 * Remove information irrelevant to Sacramento proper.

Public schools

 * Add citations to cover all uncited information.
 * Reword and expand the section for the sake of clarity.

Catholic schools

 * Add citations.
 * Rewrite to reduce the need for parenthesized information.

Independent schools

 * Add citations.
 * Note: Consider the necessity of this section in the paragraph, and if it could be combined in a summary section at the beginning of the education section.

Other religious schools

 * Add citations.
 * Note: Consider the necessity of this section in the paragraph, and if it could be combined in a summary section at the beginning of the education section.

Culture and arts

 * Add citations.
 * Refocus section lead paragraph to summarize information from subsection.

Theatre arts

 * Add citations.

Visual arts

 * Add citations.
 * Note: If possible, this section should be expanded.

Museums

 * Add citations.
 * De-peacock.

Music

 * Add citations.
 * De-peacock.

Sports and recreation

 * Add citations.

Notable residents

 * Add citations.
 * Note: If possible, this section should be removed and divided amongst the rest of the article.

Transportation

 * Add citations.
 * De-weasel.
 * Expand lead to summarize subsections.

Amtrak service

 * Add citations.
 * Consolidate loose short paragraphs into lengthier paragraphs.

Other transportation options

 * Add citations.
 * Add caption for the thumbnailed picture on the left.

Television

 * Expand into a section with words.

Sacramento newspapers

 * Add citations.
 * Expand the other listed newspapers from a bare list into a paragraph.

Magazines

 * Add citations.
 * Expand into a paragraph.
 * Note: Merging this section with the Sacramento newspapers section should be considered, placing both sections under a common name pertaining to written works.

Radio

 * Expand from a bare list.