Talk:Mountain View, California

message: The difference in importance between this and the other Mountain View is so vast that I'm inclined to just put this one at Mountain View, California and disambig at the top - the other one is a bedroom community of Martinez not even marked on most maps. Stan 17:03, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Works for me. -mhr 17:51, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, after 457 days with no argument, I moved them. :-) Nohat 05:25, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hee hee, how time flies! Stan 13:08, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming

message: Can you please change the location to include  Mountain View as is a city at the southern end of the San Francisco Peninsula. Interesting that Los Altos is posted that way with no water really engulfing it at all, which would preclude it from being on the S End of the Peninsula.  The definition of a peninsula is the following :A piece of land that projects into a body of water and is connected with the mainland by an isthmus. You want to give an exact and correct presentation and representation of where Mountain View is.
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/peninsula#ixzz19xJLMYAP  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.9.235.131 (talk) 07:42, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  The source doesn't prove Mountain View is part of the peninsula.  It really isn't.  It's due south of the southern edge of the bay.  Is there any official source that establishes that Mountain View is geographically considered part of the San Francisco Peninsula? I would suggest removing that reference until a source is provided.  —Torc. (Talk.) 23:47, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.—Stepheng3 (talk) 01:58, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Peninsula

message: What's the history of the name Mountain View? Why is the town called that way? Does it refer to any mountain(s)?
:yes, the Santa Cruz Mountains. Nohat 00:19, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll try to get a photo this weekend, if I can.  -- Alvincura (talk) 19:53, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Etymology]] 

message: Unless this section gets beefed up, I think what is there should be removed.  Its more a current events thing than an encyclopedia item, don't you think? John (Jwy) 18:04, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would be more than happy to beef it up.  What do you think it needs?  Links to Voice articles?  No problem; anyone can get those.  Scans of MVWSD handouts showing the chart of enrollment in total, and broken down by lunch assistance category?  I hve some from last month; will do. --James S. 04:05, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You seem to misunderstand me.  I'm not looking for more current events.  My problem with the section is that it is currently about a single school shutting down.  If we have a school section, I would expect it to describe the schools system - for example, some metrics of how good it is (% going on to college, that kind of thing), some history of the system, etc.  That's what an encyclopedia should have.  As it stands, it appears to be a protest of the school closing. John (Jwy) 06:01, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The best predictor of how good schools are is the student-teacher ratio, which I have added.  This predicts public school student performance in college better than absolute and relative teacher salaries, student economic background, or any combination thereof.  Today's current event is tomorrow's history. --James S. 19:38, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Also, by leasing Slater, there aren't enough extra classrooms to significantly reduce class size anymore. All of the wealthy families who were going to Slater are probably going to want to flee to private schools, too. --James S. 18:40, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Schools

message: What kind of card do you need for the new system? 802.11_?—Preceding unsigned comment added by David Jordan (talk • contribs) 
:Answered on user's talk page. (John User:Jwy talk) 21:34, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll update the article with this information a bit later. . . (John User:Jwy talk) 22:26, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citywide wireless Ethernet 

message: I thought we already have articles on area codes which are quite decent.  Do we really need sections on telephone system history in the city pages?  What a mess that would make.  What do we do next, history of the city's sewer and power systems?  This is ridiculous!  If we need to mention the history of the telephone system in the mid-Peninsula region, we can always do a "See also" link at the end to 650 area code.  --Coolcaesar 05:40, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: During the 1960s, Mountain View telephone calls were switched by a large Pacific Telephone operated Western Electric Number 5 Crossbar system. This is an electromechanical switch. Two-party service was common in residential areas. Telephone numbers in the 1960s all started with YOrkshire and had five additional digits. These eventually evolved to 96x-xxxx numbers in the mid 1960s. With the roll-out of area codes, Mountain View was in (415). There was permissive dialing to (408). This meant you did not have to dial (408) to call into that area code. In those days, the number plan was constructed so that no office codes or prefixes were duplicated across area codes (408) and (415).
I did leave in a sentence about the area code switch in 1997. --James S. 21:18, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Telephony history? 

message: I deleted the mention of revenue limit district and basic aid funding after the comparison to Palo Alto's class size ratio, because these things change from year to year -- Mountain View might not remain a revenue limit district if property values go up, and Palo Alto might not remain a basic aid district if they go down.  Plus, those terms were undefined and unlinked, so I think they were more confusing than helpful. 1of3 17:28, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That is inappropriate. The difference in class size might also disappear with time and you do not seem to be letting up on that because you seem to be latching onto some unfavorable comparision to make at Mountain View's expense.  Did you bother to mention the differences in property valuations? No. Did you do any other analysis with the less weathy neighbors such as Sunnyvale or Santa Clara. No.  The current class sizes and the current tax structures both apply.  Otherwise we just cut the whole section. -- PinkCake 03:27, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Inappropriate?  It is the truth.  And, contrary to your insertions, Basic Aid districts aren't so rare in Silicon Valley; in fact the MVLA High School district is one.  I've included additional explanatory material about the Shoreline Regional Park Community District, which is the real reason for MVWSD's low budget relative to Palo Alto and Los Altos. 1of3 03:59, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revenue limit vs. basic aid school district funding 

message: The cited articles make it clear that Martello and the council never reached an agreement about the date of his disclosure of the affair.  I don't agree with the abridgment of the scandal which obscures that fact and deletes the summary of the Metro's investigation of the surrounding facts. 1of3 04:10, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would prefer that we restrict ourselves to strictly legal outcomes, which tend to retain their Importance over longer periods of Time. If Mike got his penis all erect and into Pamela, who was, hopefully, all nice and wet, and they enjoyed it, well... so did a bunch of other people in that area around that time, some of those adulterous as well (with or without the other spouse's permission and blah blah blah. Gosh, this is such a soap opera!).  I do not see how this is so Important that it deserves the space it is getting, but I am letting it go.... for now. See what I mean? "Encyclopedic" is supposed to mean that it might still be important ten years from now. And why are you going on about the $740K? It may sound like a lot of money to some readers, but it is less than the price of one single-family home in the downtown area. You should focus on percentages because inflation and whatnot tends to degrade the immediate usefulness of this information over time. If we are going to keep this info around for 100 years, it should be in a format where the future-reader can easily appreciate whether it was a big or a small increase. -- PinkCake 16:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So, uh, can we come to an agreement that 2-3 months from now, maybe we can knock it down by a few sentences?  That is about all I am willing to wait. This is ridiculous. -- PinkCake 04:38, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Agreed. The Mario Ambra misconduct was a much bigger deal and it only gets one brief mention. Martello doesn't need more than that. And the header itself needs to be changed to something less POV. CovenantD 09:11, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Well they would be notable for WP:ONEEVENT and thus not qualified for their own article. Whereas San Jose's scandals are included in its former mayor's Ron Gonzales#Criticism and controversy because Gonzales is notable for more than just one event. Since it appears to be sourced to reliable news stories, I think this should stay. MB83 (talk) 09:15, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Cut it down from a paragraph?  Ron Gonzales gets five paragraphs, and he wasn't even convicted of anything. MB83 (talk) 16:53, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Martello 

message: 1.4 million items per year works out to more than 11 items per minute, solid, during business hours.  Even when they are really busy, they aren't nearly that busy, and most of the time they aren't really busy.  However the number apparently checks out with city publications.  Can it be right? 75.37.23.162 03:06, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Library circulation 

message: At the top of the page, there is a message that reads For other places called "Mountain View", see Mountain View. I motion to delete this because Mountain View does not redirect to this page, but rather to a Mountain View disambiguation article. The only way someone would get to this article internally would be to type in Mountain View, California on the address bar, and then they wouldn't be looking for any other Mountain View. I motion to delete, but as always, comments appreciated. BlackBear 19:12, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, one of those "Other places called 'Mountain View'" is in California.  (It's even in the same metropolitan area; see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California.)  It's comparatively insignificant (which is why this one gets the "Mountain View, California" title) but it's possible someone might come looking for it.  This way they can find it.  So I think we should keep the link. -- Why Not A Duck 02:17, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Message at the Top of the Page 

message: What's this Jajah company added a few days ago?  Are we supposed to list every single company in Mountain View like Mountain View Lock and Key or Clarke's?  The Jajah article is written like an advertisement.  My vote is that they're not any more significant than dozens of other high tech or low tech companies and they're just trying to spam.
75.62.7.111 05:09, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To keep with the guidelines, I am thinking of "verifiability, not truth".  In that case, if we can cross-reference the corporate resident with either the Chamber of Commerce or City Hall, then maybe that can be our criteria for notability in the article.  What do you think?  - Alvincura (talk) 20:47, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corporate residents 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:OLD MV2.JPG

message: As far as I know, Adobe's headquarters situated in San Jose... Stansult (talk) 04:39, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adobe 

message: As of 2-27-09 at 12:00 AM PST, the mayor is listed as:
Government
 - Mayor 	Alan Tuan
I believe that this part has been vandalized because I personally know Alan Tuan, and Alan Tuan is a high school student! Sorry, I do not remember the current Mayor of Mountain View.
Jimtran93 (talk) 08:02, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: fixed. http://www.mountainview.gov/city_council/council_roster/mayor_abe_koga.asp (John User:Jwy talk) 15:44, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Government  - Mayor Vandalism 

message: I found different Numbers her and on http://www.ci.mtnview.ca.us/services/learn_about_our_city/demographics.asp . Are the numbers here old? witch are right?
--Torwart (talk) 23:23, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  different Numbers here and on the official Website about Demography  

message: Can we have more background on the Shoreline Regional Park Community? I've seen newspaper stories that say that it was created under state law but is not a revitalization district. However, can anyone cite which state law created this district?
63.147.59.2 (talk) 17:53, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shoreline Regional Park Community 

message: There's no material on the revitalization of the city's Castro Street downtown. Does anyone have some good sources to start with? Kortoso (talk) 22:12, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redevelopment? 

message: Under "State and federal legislators" Jerry Hill is now representing the 13th Senate District not Elaine Alquist.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.0.151.75 (talk) 17:38, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  State senator needs updating 

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message: For some reason, there are lists of "what borders Mountain View" in two places in this article - in the opening paragraph and under Geography.  This should be cleaned up. JGriffithSV (talk) 18:12, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geography 

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thread_title:  sunshine hours 

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message: Someone just updated this to claim that Mountain View is bordered by East Palo Alto to the northeast.  That appears to be incorrect to me - East Palo Alto is strictly to the west.  Can we just revert this whole sequence of edits? It seems like every year or so, someone wants to come along and make changes to the geography, even though the previous description was correct and geography doesn't change.  JGriffithSV (talk) 22:31, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: There were edits by an IP as well.  I looked at a map, and agree the original version seemed correct. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:02, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latest Geography Edits