Wikipedia:Peer review/California/archive1

California
Looking through this article would indicate to me that it is a candidate for peer review en route to featured article status. Therefore, I would appreciate any views on this article and also how to improve it. It seems like, with improvement, this article could be a candidate for featured article status and with over 22 Million Californians there shouldn't be shortage of ideas. --Chazz88 16:29, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I live far away from California in the UK, but I can give you some ideas anyway:
 * I don't like the image galleries, images should always go beside text on the left or right.
 * The Sports section needs more context: those lists need converting into prose and expanding.
 * 'Important cities and towns' section is a jumble of stuff - Can't that image gallery be taken away and some context be made? An image gallery, table and then a list looks very messy.
 * 'Religion' subsection in 'Demographics' section is just a list, convert it to prose and expand.
 * The article is seriously lacking references and footnotes - All statements and figures, (population, racial makeup, tables, etc) should all have references linking to a note in a 'Notes' section - See Footnotes. Some more general book references would be good as well, and what about newspaper references and websites? All these can go in as footnotes or just in the 'References' section.
 * Please make sure all images have an acceptable copyright status and a source, and make sure that all fair use images (not sure if there are any on this page) have fair use rationales.
 * Before submitting to FAC, please make sure to check the spelling and grammar of the article.
 * That's all from me. — Wackymacs 20:47, 30 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Overall, it looks good, but I echo Wackymacs suggestions above, particularly with regards to the lists present in the article -- they should be prose; hive off lists if necessary. The Transport section has too many short or one-sentence paragraphs. Also, make sure that the article refers directly to the United States and not ambiguously to "the nation" - we are writing for an international readership. --cj | talk 15:20, 1 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I actually like the image galleries as presented. A few small suggestions:
 * I'm not sure the phrase "Important" cities is appropriate. Why are they important? Aren't they just the largest?
 * I'd spell out the names of collleges.
 * I'll leave additional comments and make some minor edits on the article page itself. It's easier than going back and forth to here. Crunch 20:44, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't know where to put this perhaps someone can help put this in the right place. This list has been compiled from the California Association of Counties, see http://www.csac.counties.org/default.asp?id=437

County - Population

Orange County		2,939,500 San Diego County	2,918,300 San Bernardino County	1,783,700 Santa Clara County	1,719,600 Riverside County	1,644,300 Sacramento County	1,279,900 Contra Costa County	981,600 Fresno County		826,600 San Francisco County	793,600 Ventura County		781,100 San Mateo County	717,000 Kern County		687,600 San Joaquin County	596,000 Sonoma County		471,000 Stanislaus County	469,500 Monterey County		409,600 Santa Barbara County	407,900 Solano County		405,800 Tulare County		379,200 Placer County		264,900

Santa Cruz County 	260,200

San Luis Obispo County	253,600 Marin County		249,900 Merced County		218,900 Butte County		207,000 Yolo County 		176,300 Shasta County		169,200 El Dorado County	163,600 Imperial County		150,800 Kings County		133,100 Napa County		128,000 Madera County 		129,700 Humboldt County		127,700 Nevada County		95,300 Mendocino County	87,700 Sutter County		81,900 Yuba County		61,000 Lake County		60,300 Tehama County		56,900 San Benito County	55,900 Tuolumne County		55,800 Siskiyou County		44,450 Calaveras County	41,700 Amador County		36,100 Lassen County		34,200 Del Norte County	27,850 Glenn County		26,800 Plumas County		21,000 Colusa County		19,450 Inyo County		18,250 Mariposa County		17,250 Mono County		13,250 Trinity County		13,100 Modoc County		9,350 Sierra County		3,500 Alpine County 		1,210