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

Exemplary articles

Lead

Not done Should be expanded to cover briefly all sections of the article. (?)

History

Not done Needs to be truncated to a few paragraphs.
Not done Needs citations.

Note: The history of Sacramento, California article can be used as a guideline up to before the world wars.

Geography and climate

Geography

Not done Citations needed.

Climate

Not done 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.
Not done Change subsection titles for the sake of clarity. (?)

Area one (Central/Eastern)

Not done Expand from a bare list.
Not done Explain the neighborhoods, note any locations of interest and their location relative to each other. (?)

Area two (Southwestern)

Not done Expand from a bare list.
Not done Explain the neighborhoods, note any locations of interest and their location relative to each other. (?)

Area three (Southeastern)

Not done Expand from a bare list.
Not done Explain the neighborhoods, note any locations of interest and their location relative to each other. (?)

Area four (North of the American River)

Not done Expand from a bare list.
Not done Explain the neighborhoods, note any locations of interest and their location relative to each other. (?)

Demographics

Not done Cite or remove (if necessary) paragraph concerning homeless people.

Government and politics

Not done Cite end of paragraph.
Not done Expand to cover Sacramento's political history (?)

Education

Colleges and universities

Not done Cite all uncited paragraphs.
Not done Consolidate loose short paragraphs into lengthier paragraphs
Not done Remove information irrelevant to Sacramento proper.

Public schools

Not done Add citations to cover all uncited information.
Not done Reword and expand the section for the sake of clarity.

Private schools

Catholic schools

Not done Add citations.
Not done Rewrite to reduce the need for parenthesized information.

Independent schools

Not done 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

Not done 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

Not done Add citations.
Not done Refocus section lead paragraph to summarize information from subsection.

Theatre arts

Not done Add citations.

Visual arts

Not done Add citations.

Note: If possible, this section should be expanded.

Museums

Not done Add citations.
Not done De-peacock.

Music

Not done Add citations.
Not done De-peacock.

Sports and recreation

Not done Add citations.

Notable residents

Not done Add citations.

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

Transportation

Not done Add citations.
Not done De-weasel.
Not done Expand lead to summarize subsections.

Amtrak service

Not done Add citations.
Not done Consolidate loose short paragraphs into lengthier paragraphs.

Other transportation options

Not done Add citations.
Not done Add caption for the thumbnailed picture on the left.

Media

Television

Not done Expand into a section with words.

Sacramento newspapers

Not done Add citations.
Not done Expand the other listed newspapers from a bare list into a paragraph.

Magazines

Not done Add citations.
Not done 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

Not done Expand from a bare list.

References

Not done Reformat existing references using {{Cite web}}, {{Cite news}}, and {{Cite book}}.