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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on August 30, 2007.

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Date	Process	Result
September 25, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
January 3, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
December 15, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
February 11, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
February 22, 2007	Featured article candidate	Promoted
February 16, 2018	Featured article review	Demoted
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Good article

It would be great to get the Houston article back to at least GA status. Postoak (talk)

Enclaved cities

Is there any way to make enclaves on this map for all the places that are enclaved within Houston? NintendoTTTEfan2005 (talk) 01:35, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Anti food sharing ordinance

I've readded prose about the city ban on sharing food. This time I've included six sources, including the nyt, the guardian, and Reuters. Previously this was removed as "trivial" despite being considered newsworthy by, well, do a search yourself... hundreds of news organizations of all sizes and stripes. Big Money Threepwood (talk) 05:00, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging @Magnolia677: as they deleted the sourced content and are the most likely to want to come here and discuss these sources. Big Money Threepwood (talk) 05:04, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Climate

I think we should highlight somehow, that Houston has a very short winter. And most days throughout February and March has a daytime temperature above 22.

kind of bordering a tropical climate. דולב חולב (talk) 06:07, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Talk:San Antonio PAper GOL (talk) 08:29, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Zoning/flooding comment

Regarding the following sentence "Flooding has been a recurring problem in the Houston area, exacerbated by a lack of zoning laws, which allowed unregulated building of residential homes and other structures in flood-prone areas," this is a subject of controversy among urban planners. M. Nolan Gray states in "Arbitrary Lines" that the lack of zoning actually PREVENTED the flooding from being worse. Here's the relevant passage: "To the degree that the damage of Hurricane Harvey was a story of development run amok, this development was almost entirely in Houston’s zoned suburbs, where regulators callously allowed development in floodplains and without sufficient stormwater infrastructure. Ironically, to the extent that Houston’s lack of zoning made infill development easier, non-zoning likely helped to stem the tide of wetlands development and mitigate the damage." Here is his citation for that sentence (written by himself lol): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-04/how-houston-s-zoning-can-help-hurricane-harvey-recovery Sharpie 928 (talk) 21:50, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If no one objects, I will add a sentence stating that zoning's roll in Harvey's flooding is disputed after a few days. Sharpie 928 (talk) 21:57, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hip hop

how the hell is there no brief paragraph on the hip hop scene in houston. The atl page has one. Houston is literally one of the most influential cities in hip hop, with one of the richest scenes. 2605:B100:542:6B85:80AE:5FF4:A0D4:E5E (talk) 22:16, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You could make a "music" section under "culture" maybe? Then emulate the style of the Atlanta music section. Sharpie 928 (talk) 20:49, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Most diverse"?

The source cited for the claim that Houston is the "most diverse" city in Texas and the country only says that Hispanic residents have taken a larger share of the population than previously and that segregation has diminished. Does that really support the claim? 'Diversity' should have to do with the number of significant minority groups, not the relative size of one of them 216.16.137.230 (talk) 13:27, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Most diverse" is the exact language used by the source, so yes, it supports the claim. On Wikipedia we generally don't use our personal definitions of what a term should mean (see WP:NOR), we go with what the source uses. MrOllie (talk) 13:34, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It was the validity of the source that I was questioning; it's a secondary source (riddled with typos) that only discusses one ethnic group in any meaningful depth. Here's an NPR article (still secondary, but it appears the original sociological study is inaccessible) that uses the same "diversity" language but includes relevant statistics for all major groups and would support the sentence on Wikipedia far better: https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/07/01/195909643/tx2020-houston-racial-ethnic-diversity-americas-future 216.16.137.230 (talk) 14:08, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to me both are worth keeping. I added the source you suggested. Cerebral726 (talk) 14:13, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Change Houston (/ˈhjuːstən/ ⓘ; HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States to Houston (/ˈhjuːstən/ ⓘ; HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas in the Southern United States. Just remove the and 2603:8080:D03:89D4:76E7:6E76:D599:24BE (talk) 23:11, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]