Talk:Marin County, California

message: Edits by this person are suspect. Enters a lot of unsatisfied links (20 in Contra Costa County, California) bad spelling, bad naming, nonexistent locations, bad link syntax, etc. Unclear if vandalism or simply not capable, See article talk for CoCoCo and this user's history. I cleaned up for CoCoCo but reverted all in Alameda County, California -- Leonard G. 05:36, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: 63.197.235.94 (Cities and towns) suspect edits

message: I added some language at the top about this.  An architect may be able th phrase it better.  Coll7 21:41, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Frank Lloyd Wright Civic Center

message: I removed the claim that Nancy Pelosi is from Marin County. She represents San Francisco's district in Congress, and according to her Wikipedia article, she was born in Maryland, went to college in DC, and lived there until she and her husband moved to San Francisco. So I see no basis for claiming she's from Marin. Jcb9 07:47, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nancy Pelosi

message: "Created 1850" vs. "formed 1889": unless the latter refers only to the board of supervisors, this is a contradiction. Biruitorul 05:37, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Establishment date

message: I diverted this lengthy section to a whole new page.  I don't think 20% of the article on Marin County should be devoted to who used to live there.  Noneofyourbiznez 00:56, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable residents and former residents of Marin County

message: From the introduction paragraph: "Marin County is world-renowned for its stunning natural beauty, staunch conservatism and affluence." I'm not so sure about that claim to 'staunch conservatism' as a renowned trait of Marin, as it politically tends towards the liberal side. Perhaps the term that is meant is conservationism (although I'm not sure that this is a word, perhaps conservationist?) in reference to the open space provisions of the county? Cuffeparade 06:43, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Conservatism?

message: I noticed that there is only a incidental reference to Angel island in this page (referring to the Angel island ferry service in the public transportation section). I want to add a bit more information about Angel Island here, but am not sure where it should go, whether stuck in Geography or perhaps in the list of Cities, Towns and Unincorporated places? Alternatively there could be a new section on state and national parks with Angel Island included in ther with the Headlands, Mt Tam and the other various parks in Marin. Any thoughts? Cuffeparade 11:09, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Angel Island

message: For an article that claims the subject is known for "its natural beauty", it is unfortunate that the article includes only two photos. __earth (Talk) 02:20, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: More photo

message: Does anyone know the deal with the way the elementary and middle schools are organized?  Looks like it started out being alphabetically by school, and then partly by town.  I'm rearranging them to match the format for high schools, because it's more legible.  If anyone has better ideas, they are welcome.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Authentic You (talk • contribs) 01:37, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Educational Institutions Organization

message: strange there was no mention of anything new age going on here.  i just added it.  hope no one freaks out -- it's just the truth.  ask an average bay area resident (i lived in sf most of the 90's) about marin and they'd say "rich, liberal, new-age, natural beauty".  and now that's exactly what it does say -- previously it only had the other three.
Benwing (talk) 11:20, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[new age]]

message: The San Quentin Prison also was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Civic Center gets a lot of notice, but I think the Prison is even more remarkable. Unfortunately, the only good view of it is from the Larkspur Ferry as it passes slowly right in front of it.Ty2009 (talk) 23:53, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can cite a source for that information, you might add it to the San Quentin State Prison article. --Stepheng3 (talk) 23:56, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Much (most if not all?) of San Quentin predates Wright by quite a bit of time. Norcalal (talk)  06:43, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Wright

message: The "Income" section is comically subjective, seemingly written by someone who's never really lived outside of Marin.  It gives many examples that feign to be self-deprecating but are actually bragging.  The worst case in point is the following:
First, every legitimate city in Marin has an expensive enclave?  "Enclave," seriously?  I can't name an enclave in this county.  And those are examples of "conspicuous consumption"?  Conspicuous consumption, almost by definition does not flourish in a place like Marin, and definitely not south of Mill Valley.  When I lived in Texas, I knew many, many people whose cars cost more than their homes--that's conspicuous consumption.  Marin is known for quite the opposite--the huge amounts of money driving used Honda Accords.  It has a high density of BMWs because people can afford the highest quality cars, not because people are showing off (it would be logically impossible to show off a BMW in a place where everyone can afford one!)  You will see a much higher standard deviation of flashy cars most anywhere in the country--you'll see more Ferraris in Utah than Marin.  And a simple google search shows "basic marin wheels" was a big phrase one week in the 80s.  Okay, I'll stop now, but it needs to be cleaned up, and I've already spent my time writing this paragraph!--Mrcolj (talk) 03:35, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Conspicuous Consumption

message: This article http://web.archive.org/web/20031203111336/http://mcoeweb.marin.k12.ca.us/es/PubSchGuide/SchoolsGuide.pdf has URLs of school districts. They may be different than the ones they use now
WhisperToMe (talk) 06:03, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Old school district URLs

message: Wikipedia maps are just sad nowdays. Used to be so much better. I'll be so happy when WP figures-out how to interact with an open-source map project... Sadsaque (talk) 14:45, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maps 

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message: It would be nice to have an etymology for the name, by way of explaining where the pronunciation comes from.
122.60.217.100 (talk) 20:26, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology / Pronunciation 

message: This sentence is problematic: "Marino definitely did reside at Mission Dolores (in modern San Francisco) much of the time from his 1801 baptism and marriage until 1817, frequently serving as a baptism witness and godfather; he may have escaped and been recaptured at some point during that time." Why does the writer use the word "escape" when in the same sentence it is mentioned that Marino simply resided at the Mission? Was he incarcerated? Why "escaped"? Chafe66 (talk) 22:09, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

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message: A glaring omission in this article is that it has almost nothing on the culture of Marin County and how Marin County is seen in the larger culture of the San Francisco Bay Area and, more generally, in American popular culture. In the late 1970s in particular, Marin's reputation for affluence, self-indugence, hot tubs, cocaine, personal growth, and new age spirituality preceded it and was satirized in the 1977 novel The Serial, the 1980 film version Serial, and the controversial 1978 NBC News special, I Want it All Now. (In fact, "I Want it All Now" is notable enough that it should have its own article.) The article does mention George W. Bush's reference to John Walker Lindh as a "Marin County hot-tubber", but doesn't refer at all to where that cultural trope came from. 
It's worth noting that the fact that discussion of this cultural trope is missing from the article is a prime example of WP:PRESENTISM - if Wikipedia had been around in 1979, I have little doubt it would have been a large part of the article.
Anyway, there are some good sources out there for writing a section on this topic:
* https://www.marinij.com/2019/01/07/marin-still-wants-it-all-now/ (https://archive.ph/EC8kD)
* https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jul-14-tm-47295-story.html (https://archive.ph/7dvoE)
* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jul/16/worlddispatch.usa
Peter G Werner (talk) 18:12, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nothing on Marin County culture/in popular culture? 

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