Talk:Point Richmond, Richmond, California

Needs for Improvements

I found this article with four tags, which seemed a bit excessive, especially considering there is no discussion. I tried to copyedit but couldn't make much sense of it without doing my own research. There seems to be valuable information here though. Lagringa 08:45, 21 September 2006 (UTC) I removed the cleanup and copyedit tags. They don't really belong on a talk page. Forteblast 18:35, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

beached whale

i removed the word occasionally because that word implies frequency, that it has happened before even if not often, after reading the article it can be concluded that this is an isolated incident if it is not, then further references need to be found and if so, it may merritt includsion in the richmond city article as not many places are the location of frequent or even ocasional whale beachings.^{T ALK}•^QR_C2006•¢ʘñ†®¡ß§ 20:18, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pt. Richmond

I have to go with IL2BA on this one. "Pt." is an abbreviation that can always be applied to the word "Point". There's no reason to include that fact here. - Richfife 02:59, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well allright, I didn't know that, I just thought it should be mentioned that its almost always spelled in the abbreviated form.^{Cholga is a SUPERSTAR}¡Talk2Cholga!_{Sexy Contribs} 23:25, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nickols Knob or Nicholl Knob

The user ILike2BeAnonymous insists that the actual name of the hill overlooking Point Richmond is Nickols Knob. I've checked with the following authoritative sources.

Two community leaders: Mildred "Mid" Dornan, president of the Point Richmond History Association and David Moore, editor of the Point's quasi-official website, PointRichmond.com. Both confirm that it's Nicholl--double L, no S.
The Point Richmond History Association site refers to it at least twice (here and here) as Nicholl Knob, with no references to Nickols Knob.
The Mount Diablo Audubon Society places names page lists Nicholl Knob, not Nickols.
A search on Google for "'Nichols Knob' 'Point Richmond'" turns up 15 pages, and a search for "'Nicholl Knob' 'Point Richmond'" turns up 35--more than twice as many.
The East Bay Regional Parks map of the Miller-Knox Regional Shoreline clearly shows it as Nicholl Knob.

The reason for this agreement is simple: an early settler in Point Richmond was John H. Nicholl, who in drilling for oil found a hot spring, upon which the Plunge was built. A street near the downtown area was named after him, and anyone can check the spelling there, too. (See a story about him in the Contra Costa Times published a few days ago, on July 29.)

The evidence for Nicholl is overwhelming, and I've corrected it again.

TedC 18:52, 2 August 2007 (UTC)--[reply]