Talk:Fresno, California

message: The section listed both the US Naval Sea Cadets and Navy League Cadets as military units, which they are not. They are a youth orginization, sponsored by the Navy League, but are in no form or fashion a military unit with any deployment possibility or obligation. Further more, the program itself does not condone units being passed off as a military unit. It is a youth group. There may be active duty sailors who volunteer their time, but the unit is not officially recognized by the Navy as an active duty/reserve component. Further more, the Navy does not use the Sea Cadets in any matters of national or international force projection. Please visit the Sea Cadets homepage for more info. http://www.seacadets.org/public/ Spook498 (talk) 01:31, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Military/US Navy section inaccurate

message: The entire Tower District section needs a rewrite, in my opinion.  Here are some samples of the poor writing in this section:
"The Tower District became the pre-dominant locale in Central California through 1990 - 1995-6. "  •Huh?
"Many businesses experienced problems with at-risk and many youth who were believed to be a contributing factor toward problems with declining business profits during the mid 90's Some businesses within the surrounding areas within the zone of influence felt a high degree of business zoning regulation and control by areema.a/as;q'wkdkaa business committees."   •This makes no sense at all.
"These homes stand in stark contrast to the uncontrolled urban sprawl that runs north and east of downtown and attracts a diverse group of residents. Moreover, the Tower District remains one of the few walkable neighborhoods in Fresno."  •Again this is hard to understand, plus it makes bold claims that need some documentation.
This section reads more like an insiders play book than an article of fact for an encyclopedia.  Anyone want to undertake redoing this section?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcheath (talk • contribs) 20:20, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Regarding walkability, the best reference I can find would be the Planned Land Use Map, which shows that much more of Tower is zoned "neighborhood" than any other part of Fresno, allowing residential or tiny commercial use of property. Due to this, homes and small businesses freely intermix along the avenues. However, this extends only along the Olive strip and small parts of Fulton & Van Ness, unlike most cities with mixed zoning over a larger area, and peters out quickly. Most of the other areas zoned this way are arterial corners, giving rise to the funny Fresno phenomenon of quarter-mile squares of houses with a couple of stores at the corners. I'm unable to find any good reference to the walkability, which is generally the number of businesses within a small area, usually with small storefronts. I would argue that it is only partly walkable, given that total business count is still low and directly off of the main strips are nothing but houses for a half-mile either way; Fresno Civic Center is the only true "walkable" area imho. --Foxyshadis (talk) 03:49, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Tower District section hard to read

message: Doesn't Selma,_California proclaim itself to be Raisin Capital of the World?  Is this really a nickname for Fresno too?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.175.154.213 (talk) 20:29, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Raisin Capital of the World?

message: These are two very different streets. Van Ness Avenue is the downtown "main street"http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=fresno,+ca&ie=UTF8&ll=36.758622,-119.79917&spn=0.020939,0.0421&z=15 and Van Ness Boulevard is the street with the expensive estates http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=fresno,+ca&ie=UTF8&ll=36.792447,-119.800415&spn=0.02093,0.0421&z=15 (two streets East of Palm Ave.), eventually curving into Palm Avenue. Neither of these two streets meet. Van Ness Avenue "turns into" Maroa right after McKinley Avenue. Van Ness Boulevard starts at Weldon, right after Fresno High School. (The other side of Weldon, the side in front of Fresno High, is Echo Avenue.) These two streets are separated by two blocks East-West and another two North-South.http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=fresno,+ca&ie=UTF8&ll=36.767286,-119.798012&spn=0.020936,0.0421&z=15
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thread_title: Van Ness Avenue and Boulevard

message: this needs to be completely overhauled. its pathetic.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.106.187.212 (talk) 09:43, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the following phrase from the "Old Fig Garden" section - "Old Fig Garden is considered the ideal neighborhood to live in, especially the houses on Christmas Tree Lane.", since this is very obviously an opinion and doesn't belong in the article. Saberswordsmen1 (talk) 12:35, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

text: found a similar quote under the Van Ness Extension section which reads as follows - "Old Fig Garden is still considered the ideal neighborhood in Fresno, even though Van Ness Extension is more modern and possibly wealthier.".  This is clearly more POV.  Who considers it the "ideal neighborhood in Fresno"?  At the very very least, this warrants a citation. Saberswordsmen1 (talk) 12:40, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

text: There is another error in the links.  The link for Mayfair connects to Mayfair, Kern County, not an article about Fresno's unincorporated county island of Mayfair.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.252.65.65 (talk) 21:42, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: neighboorhoods and history

message: I wonder why we have population numbers dated as of January 2009 and source is data from 2007. Is it some vandal change?  --Tigga en (talk) 06:38, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Population numbers

message: I'm removing the previous comments, which were just trolling rather than discussing the documentary and where it might belong in the article ().  I see it's been added and removed from the lead.  I tend to agree it doesn't belong there, but I do think the documentary should probably be mentioned, perhaps in the history section?  Any agreement/disagreement with that?
I haven't seen it yet, but I plan to watch it this afternoon when I get home, so I'll have more information on the actual content of the documentary then. Sχeptomaniacχαιρετε 20:30, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Crystal Meth documentary

message: It seems like the citation request regarding the lack of an interstate highway is in the wrong place. It can be deduced fairly easily from any map and population chart that Fresno truly is the largest city in the U.S. that doesn't have an interstate within its metro area. The bit about SR-99 being upgraded to interstate standards seems like it needs some support.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.248.19.13 (talk) 06:04, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Since it bothered me, I went ahead and cited it. Also changed the SR 99 section  --Foxyshadis (talk) 03:35, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Transportation section

message: I'm sorry, but that's just false. If you look at the statement of vote for CITIES, http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2008_general/ssov/5-pres-by-political-districts.pdf, you'll see that Fresno voted 56.76% for Obama in 2008. It's true that Fresno County just barely voted Democratic in 2008, but many Wikipedians seem to have trouble telling the difference between a county and a city...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.130.193.229 (talk) 16:15, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Politics Section

message: It says in the climate section that highest recorded temperature in Fresno was 154 degrees fahrenheit. Really? The highest recorded temperature anywhere on earth is 136 degrees. This needs to be fixed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JimmySand9 (talk • contribs) 04:05, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  154 degrees?! 

message: What is missing from the city timeline? Please add relevant content. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 11:10, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Timeline of Fresno, California]] 

message: To whomever is adding the Navy League/US Naval Sea Cadets under the Military:Navy category, you are in error. These are youth programs based on Navy traditions. You are NOT in the military. These are not active military units. These groups are more akin to the Boy Scouts. Spook498 (talk) 05:07, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: To Spook498 I see you have no talk page? I would like to reach you. I too noticed these changes and myself thought "but the Civil air patrol is also a federally charted org and it's members are civilians so perhaps that section should not be listed." perhaps we could talk more on your talk page or some other form of coms. I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely Vlarian559 (talk) 09:11, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
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message: It is common practice in English Wikipedia to have proper names of cities and regions translated into languages of peoples that have had significant cultural impact or political or linguistic impact on a certain city or region.  Fresno was settled by a large amount of Armenians over 100 years ago and the community is still there making a large impression in the city, as well as an historic Armenian District in the downtown of the city with many important government buildings, both city and federal.  Due to the huge Armenian cultural impact on this city, and that the Armenian-American history of this city is significant to Armenians as well as to Americans and the City of Fresno, it seems that it would be appropriate to transliterate the cities name into Armenian letters.  If examples are needed, I am more then happy to show you a large amount of examples of Wikipedia English articles with proper names translated or transliterated in different languages.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geragos (talk • contribs) 08:13, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems a bit of a stretch. There are other ethnic groups in this city too, and we don't transliterate the name for those groups. What percentage of the city is Armenian? Almost half the population is Hispanic but we don't transliterate to Spanish. Meters (talk) 08:46, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: If the proposal was extended logically, you would also need the Chinese and Japanese language version, and similarly for all cities with a significant immigrant population from a region using a non-Latin alphabet. . . Mean as custard (talk) 09:51, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Similar transliteration edits  by this user are under discussion on other pages. It has been suggested that this discussion and the similar discussion from Talk:Altadena, California#Name to be transliterated in Armenian. be combined in Talk:Watertown, Massachusetts#Town's_name to be translated or transliterated in other languages. Meters (talk) 20:07, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
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message: I note that the lists such as annual events are lacking in reliable reference.  Each event listed should have a reliable reference or two (and not just to the sponsor's web site) and perhaps a brief summary. Someone who knows Fresno can perhaps give an idea on which are really notable and chop out the chaff. --Erp (talk) 05:26, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reliable references needed for events, etc 

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thread_title:  The table in the demographics section is broken 

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message: Can we have some guidance as to how to pronounce Fresno? Is it 'Fres-no' or 'Free-no'? Valetude (talk) 00:14, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: it's "FREZ-no" RobotGoggles (talk) 11:01, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation? 

message: Annalisa Perea is the Council person for District 1
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