Talk:San Francisco Peninsula

message: This page needs serious work done to it. It does not at all capture the essences of the SF peninsula region. In its notable structure section it does not even mention a single structure in the City of SF but in the first few sentences in clearly says that the City is included in the region.
There is no history section, no variety of pictures, no nothing really. This page needs major work. I will do it and list my sources but I do not want anyone changing this. For in the past I have tried to change this page and add a great deal of detail and pictures only to have it turned back to this sorry excuse of a wikipedia article in what I feel is the most important economic, historical and cultural region in the SF Bay Area.
And of course the coastside is in the SF Peninsula. Thats like saying Walnut Creek isnt in the East Bay because it is more inland then the Bay side cities of Oakland and Richmond and so forth. People need a geography lesson in Bay Area Regions.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.181.56.224 (talk) 22:29, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  One of the worst wikipedia pages on any of the Bay Area regions 

message: I'm curious whether anyone has any opinion on whether the San Mateo County coast, i.e. the "Coastside", should be included in the "Peninsula".  Geographically, it is certainly on the Peninsula, but in the same way that San Francisco isn't included in the term "Peninsula" as people use it, I don't think the Coastside is either. --Ortcutt
i think that we have two uses of the term here and the article is starting to make that clear. one is the physical geography, and the other is the social geography. in the first usage the coast would be included, as would san francisco itself, although the southern boundary is perhaps less clear. in the social sense "the peninsula" is considerably smaller, and does not include san francisco or the coastal areas. i have no sources for this info, however, so i leave it to others to source it out.
Slamorte 11:03, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As a former inhabitant of the Peninsula, I agree with your assessment; I'd further say (my own seat-of-the-pants guess) that while Pacifica is certainly part of it, Half Moon Bay isn't, so "Peninsula-ness" disappears somewhere between the two places: perhaps somewhere around Montara? (I'd say the reason is the widening of the peninsula going south; at some point it feels more like part of the "mainland".) --ILike2BeAnonymous 08:49, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coastside 

message: as a life-long bay area citizen i have often heard "the peninsula" used in the social geographic sense, and i've also understood that this term comes from the geographic feature of the peninsula itself. however i have never actually heard the term "san francisco peninsula". a detailed examination of two USGS maps (1:24k and 1:100k) show no name for the peninsula at all. plenty of names for many small mountain ranges and faults, but no name for the peninsula.
i'm questioning wheather anyone has a documented source saying this is in fact the correct name. for all we know the official names is the "san andreas peninsula" or the "san mateo peninsula". 
Slamorte 11:03, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  is there really a place name called "san francisco peninsula"? 

message: Article says:
:Just north of the Crystal Springs reservoir is the San Andreas reservoir after which the famous fault was named.
So the fault was named after the reservoir? I don't theenk so. How far back does the reservoir go, anyhow? (Presumably to the construction of Crystal Springs dam.) Anyone know for sure here? --ILike2BeAnonymous 20:29, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The San Andreas fault was named by geologist A. C. Lawson after the San Andreas reservoir in San Mateo County. He and his partner, Mr. Anderson, and others were privately referring to the fault as the San Andreas as early as 1883, but it was not printed publicly until 1908 --- after the great San Francisco earthquake in 1906.
--Nike 22:43, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

text: ...geologists, led by Andrew Lawson of the University of California, Berkeley...named the fault the San Andreas, after a jewel-like lake that lay within the rift zone less than 10 miles south of what was then America's largest and richest Western city...In a two-volume report published in 1908...
--Nike 13:54, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  San Andreas faultnamed after the reservoir? 

message: I don't know why people edit an article without making the least bit of attempt at researching it.  There are plenty of examples of this usage.
* West Bay Opera Palo Alto
* West Bay Sanitary District "Serving Areas in Menlo Park, Atherton, Portola Valley, East Palo Alto, Woodside, and Unincorporated San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties."
* West Bay High School San Carlos
* West Bay Christian Academy Redwood City
* West Bay Alano Club Daly City
* West Bay Community Band "San Francisco peninsula"
See also West Bay. --Nike 05:10, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I had to fix that last-referenced article (West Bay); see if you agree with my changes. +ILike2BeAnonymous 05:53, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  West Bay 

message: I imagine that if any city were more definitely associated with being on a peninsula, it would be the city on the tip of said peninsula.
To quote the article, "The Peninsula", used as a local geographic term, refers only to the parts south of, and excluding, the city of San Francisco
Why is it excluded?  I understand the smug pretentiousness of capital T, capital C "The City," but come on, it's clearly on the freakin' peninsula. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.141.115.210 (talk) 15:31, 27 July 2007
:I don't know exactly why The City is not considered part of the Peninsula, but it just isn't. As you say, it doesn't really make sense, as San Francisco is clearly physically part of the peninsula, but the two entities are always clearly distinguished. I'd be curious as to why; articles or other references, anyone? +ILike2BeAnonymous 17:15, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is San Francisco not part of "The Peninsula"? 

message: This section begins: "The San Francisco Peninsula contains a gamut of habitats including...".  I don't think that "gamut" is the correct word, as that is used to describe something that contains the "full range" of something.  Unfortunately, I cannot think of a good replacement at this time, so all I can do is bring it up here.  I considered "plethora", but that refers to an "overabundance" or "excessive fullness", and I'm not quite sure that is right for this usage either.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.161.1.201 (talk) 17:09, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Environmental Features 

message: Is there any source for including Mountain View as part of the peninsula?  It's almost entirely due south of the bay.  I'm a bay area native and have always thought of the border as the county line or, debatably, the Palo Alto-Mountain View border. But Mountain View is definitely part of the South Bay -- part of the northern Santa Clara Valley.  —Torc. (Talk.) 23:53, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I've always considered anything west of the California State Route 85 between 101 and 280 to be part of the peninsula. --haha169 (talk) 18:34, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: My vote is: PA=Peninsula, MV=South Bay (culturally, which is what matters in everyday life). More debatable is the status of Los Altos. And a nitpick, the paragraph reciting the names of Peninsula cities gives the impression that PA and MV are in S.Mateo County. They are actually part of Santa Clara County.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.65.77.184 (talk) 16:47, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Southern Border 

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