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• Sbmeirow • Talk • 05:33, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

MathCounts

Going back through the history of the Sugar Land Article, I notice that anytime anyone has attempted to mention MathCounts, it has been removed. The Sugar Land MathCounts team from First Colony middle school has always done well, having students on the first-place national team twice, I believe, and having a national state champion. Googling 'Sugar Land MathCounts' turns up many third-party results. I believe a small note regarding MathCounts should added under the 'education' section. Samir Patel 02:59, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is ridiculous. The thing that Sugarland is most well known for - that is, Kevin Chen and the Texas team - isn't mentioned in the article. I'll integrate it into the "public education" section, but it really deserves its own section. Nousernamesleft^{talk and matrix?} 02:16, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Politics

In the politics section, all mention of the level of corruption among the city council is not needed. It implies that there has been scandals before, or that they should be expected without any type of justification of evidence. Also, the sentence about most single party-dominated political bodies being corrupt should be included, because even though it's true, it's an opinion and has nothing to do with the Sugar Land City Council. 74.134.250.61 (talk) 19:53, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Concur; I've removed it. Kuru ^talk 20:01, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The following sentence does not have a source. I work for the City and would like to see a source or I plan to remove it: "all of its current elected officeholders are endorsed" Republicans.^{[citation needed]}

Woah, woah, woah, bros, NPOV!

This reads like a travel brochure. There's so much happy-peppy sugary positive stuff in here it's making my teeth rot. I've lived here for a long time. Yes, we know it's a great city where your little Aiden won't get snatched up off the street. But could we please, please tone it down a bit?

This article is nearly as long as the Houston article. Houston has many times the population, but the article is lacking all the irrelevant information about Native American tribes and geology and such. Which is a good thing. In fact, reading over it again, I do see it as a travel brochure. I think it needs to be rewritten in some sections, some things (like Native American settling and geology info) need to be removed unless proper citations can be found. Because, to be honest with you, nobody really cares that much. Junjoh (talk) 23:25, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

First, go to the dentist and have your teeth checked. Second, start editing the article. Be bold! Cheers, Postoak (talk) 23:59, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thing about the dentist ;3 . I don't really like making changes that would possibly lead to some confrontation. I hope people understand that I'm only trying to help make the page easier to read and such. If anyone objects to my edits, please let me know. Junjoh (talk) 04:56, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're doing fine. The tribe sentence was unsourced and should be removed. Thanks, Postoak (talk) 03:11, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to second this travel brochure argument. More than half the economy section has been needing cleanup since March. I've cleaned out some of the weasel-y sentences, left the facts I could account for and expected to be valid, but the language the article uses to describe the city is way too grandiose. Please note that there is a potential COI since this city does have a lot of very powerful developers who have an interest in raising the city's image by way of wikivertisement. --98.227.159.142 (talk) 19:29, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed a while back that some of the content is copied from the the Sugar Land city web page, although I haven't checked lately. Postoak (talk) 19:49, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a SL native (Clements HS '02) and provided a lot of -initial- work for this article way back in 2004/2005. The Sugar Land Town Square/City Hall photo taken before the Minute Maid Building's arrival is my work as a matter of fact. Over the years, people have changed up the article to their liking, and I've basically left it alone. I completely agree that this article immensely biased, and if I wasn't already engaged, I would love to change it back. It's apparent that many have gotten carried away. For instance, I made a note of how the town is "highly college educated", someone changed it "highly university educated." Stuff like that.Halcyon (Halcyon) 22:37, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the appropriate term is boosterism. I am particularly puzzled by the inclusion of two paragraphs related to the _temporary_ relocation of BMC Software headquarters to Sugar Land, twenty years ago. That cannot possibly have any significance to the history of the city, nor to its economy now or in the future. From the article, I infer that the lease terminated in 1993, when the company moved back to Houston and into its new headquarters.LineChaser (talk) 16:48, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sugar Land Fire Department stuff

I found http://blogs.chron.com/sugarland/fire_department/ - Which has archives of Sugar Land fire department news. WhisperToMe (talk) 00:54, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Map

http://www.sugarlandtx.gov/sugarland/publications/documents/SL_Map_Book_2011.pdf

Here is the current map book! WhisperToMe (talk) 00:19, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Climate data

It appears to me that the climate data shown, particularly the average max/min temperatures, disagree significantly with the source that is cited. I would be happy to correct it myself, but I would like someone to confirm my observation, so that I can be sure that I haven't simply misinterpreted something. LineChaser (talk) 16:03, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done. It appears that the anonymous contributor who edited the box in August used an incorrect Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion. LineChaser (talk) 15:07, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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The average June, July, and August high temperature is off. There is no way the average is over 100 deg F. Rlbarton (talk) 16:07, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

City Nickname

There is a nickname "the land of sugar" in the infobox....anyone have a source for that? I have lived and worked in and for the City of Sugar Land and have never heard that nickname. If it was a nickname at one point, it certainly is no longer used with any degree of regularity. A quick Google search turned up only a few blog references from a blog of the same name that I don't know even is related to Sugar Land. I'd like to ask that this be verified, or I plan to remove it unless I hear differently.204.65.34.204 (talk) 18:21, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

looking back in the archives it looks like this has been raised as early as 2006 with no response or sourcing. I'm deleting it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.65.34.204 (talk) 18:26, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Lede needs pruning

The lede starts off well but then descends into an unbulleted version of a bulleted list of accolades; they look like they have been tacked on everytime a new honr is bestowed on the City. This is not really a summary, it's a laundry list. I'd recommend that the content be summarized here "Sugar Land has recieved many accolades, inclduing blah blah blah" and then the content relocated to an appropriate section below. Not to take anything away from Sugar land's accolades; the lede just isn't a place to list everything the City has ever been recognized for when each is not in and of itself notable in terms of the scope of the lede. See text I'm referring to foillowing:

"As of 2007, Sugar Land held the title of "Fittest City in Texas" for the population 50,000–100,000 range, a title it has held for four consecutive years.[8]

In 2006 CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Sugar Land third on its list of the 100 Best Cities to Live in the United States.

In 2007, CQ Press has ranked Sugar Land fifth on its list of Safest Cities in the United States (14th annual "City Crime Rankings: Crime in Metropolitan American"),[9] and in 2010 it was ranked the twelfth Safest City in the United States, making it the safest city in Texas.[10]

In 2008, Forbes selected Sugar Land along with Bunker Hill Village and Hunters Creek Village as one of the three Houston-area "Top Suburbs To Live Well", noting its affluence despite its large population.[11]

Sugar Land is the home of the Sugar Land Skeeters minor-league baseball team and their new stadium Constellation Field.[12]

Sugar Land is the home of the Sugar Land Imperials an Tier III Junior "A"ice hockeyteam that plays in the Sugar Land Ice & Sports Complex"

204.65.34.204 (talk) 18:26, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

First section is duplication of daugher article

The history section (whose titles are pretty unencyclopedic...this is a wiki entry not a promotional documentary) is an exact duplicate of the "History of Sugar Land" article that is referenced before it. Additionally the History section is missing a section header; it only has subheadings. I would recommend deleting the existing content and replacing it with a few sentences, and the link to the History of Sugar Land daughter article. As it is, it's a bit of a mess204.65.34.204 (talk) 14:55, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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No discussion of prison

I was directed to this article by a link involving the prison facility that is--or was--located here, but found no information on it in the article. This is nothing more than an egregious puff piece that could have been written by the local chamber of commerce. I see that others have noted this as well. Digthepast (talk) 16:14, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. They're whiting out history as usual because people want to obscure the truth. That sugar is dyed red from the blood that birthed Sugarland. 2600:8807:107:9400:F0F9:A4FC:F540:5C00 (talk) 11:58, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting article

Lots of good information here: https://www.fastcompany.com/91220696/sugarland-flying-taxis-gondolas-future-transportation -- John Broughton (♫♫) 23:29, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]