Wikipedia:Peer review/Calgary/archive1
Already a Good Article about a large Canadian city, request feedback for improvement toward Featured Article. --Qyd 18:24, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
From Thomas Dzubin
[edit]- The History section needs expansion, although perhaps nothing really happened in the city before the 1973 Oil Embargo :-) Even a single sentence for each decade between 1900 and 1970 would be an improvement. I also think that the 1988 Olympics should be highlighted somehow instead of being buried inside the Sports and recreation section. Other than that, it is quite a good article. I wish the Saskatoon article was in similar shape. Thomas Dzubin Talk 20:09, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- Emphased the olympics in the sports sections (they are also mentionead in the lead and history section). Will probably have to dig out something for 1900-1050 history.--Qyd 20:41, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
I also think that the economy and politics sections leave something to be desired. All that's really in economy is basically a list of large companies. It doesn't talk much about the city's various industries and their development. The gov't and politics section is a lot better than before, but there is not enough about local politics. Personally, I don't think there needs to be much added to history or the two sections that I mentioned, but they definitely need to be summarized better. I think that the bulk of the information for these sections should go into sub-articles. --Arch26 06:24, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
- Added some numbers and statistics for economy. What other aspects can be mentioned? maybe taxation? tourism? For local politics, some words on property taxes? city departments? should the List of mayors of Calgary, Alberta be mentioned there? --Qyd 15:37, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- A few single-sentence paragraphs, could be removed or merged, starting with "A resident of Calgary is known as a Calgarian."
- Also the sections "Local media", "Other names", and "Sister cities" are to short to be sections. "Other names", and "Sister cities" seem to trivial to be sections.
- Some transitory stuff could be removed, like "One growing alternative movement was recently active during the 2000 World Petroleum Congress demonstrations ...". As the years march on, such specific events and dates, look out of place, and irrelevant.
- The "Government and politics" section has, at this moment, has only one citation. The rest is uncited. The opinions, are largely unattributed. The whole article needs more citations, and where appropriate, attribution in the body of the article (e.g. who stated what opinion).
- The "Government and politics" focusses too much on global, federal, and provincial politics, and barely mentions municipal politics. --Rob 03:30, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- Added some refs for provincial politics. I guess you're right about other names and sister cities. Should those be deleted, or merged somewhere else? sister cities merged maybe into local politics? --Qyd 15:37, 12 March 2007 (UTC)