Talk:Los Altos, California

message: I'm taking it out right now.  This is an article for a general audience, not phone phreaks. If we really need to mention utilities, we should merely mention that AT&T (formerly SBC Pacific Bell) is the local telephone carrier and the NPA is 650.  The other information really should be at 650 area code for the small number of hard-core hackers who really care about that stuff.  --Coolcaesar 00:19, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The telephony stuff makes no sense

message: What do "Sister Cities" mean?
:It means Town twinning. Habbak 20:16, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: Two years ago it was okay and now the article is a real MESS.  I am going to clean it up later this year.  
Current issues I will eventually deal with:
*The claim that Los Altos may have had the first sound baffle is unverified.  WHO has stated or made or verified that claim?  If that claim hasn't been published elsewhere, it shouldn't be published here because that would violate official policies Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not.  
*Links to neighboring cities should have the state name spelled out in full (California), not condensed to the postal abbreviation (CA).  Wikipedia is not an envelope. 
*The History Museum text may be a possible copyright violation and in any case most of the detail can be deleted.  
*The parades/activities list is unnecessary, irrelevant, inappropriate, and in violation of Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not.  Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of random information.  Thousands of American cities have similar parades.  In contrast, Laguna Beach's Festival of Arts and Pageant of the Masters are institutions unique to that city. 
*The tornado section is silly and irrelevant (some part of the world has freak weather on any given day).  The freak tornado issue can be dealt with in the article on the Climate of California if it really needs to be mentioned.  Most Wikipedia readers in the Midwest take tornadoes for granted.  Wikipedia policy is to cater to a worldwide audience, not just a local one.
Any objections? --Coolcaesar 08:29, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Pet Parade and Festival of Lights. Remember, Festival of Lights is the only one in the entire region, since Mt. View, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Cupertino, and San Jose all have incredibly congested main streets that can't host such a parade. I'm going to go delete that tornado thing and re-add the San Francisco Earthquake, since USGS specifically stated that Los Altos was in the red zone (VIII). I'll add a source to. --haha169 (talk) 04:50, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs to be cleaned up! 

message: Since [ɔ] does not occur in California English, I'm wondering what the real pronunciation is. Is the al like the name Al, or like all? Should it be ?  kwami 08:37, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Since no one's responding, I'm making a guess and putting in the first one. kwami 23:14, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  pronunciation 

message: although I agree that those two sections were not really clean, the 1906 and 2007 quakes both had an impact on the city. 
According to 1906 earthquake shake maps, Los Altos was colored "red". For the 2007 one, it dramatically increased the likelihood of of a major quake in 2007, so I think that those two should be left there. --24.6.103.162 (talk) 05:18, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: earthquakes

message: I'm removing the bit about there being a question about Bullis School going into a new Los Altos Hills school district; the county Committee on School Organization decided against it last January.  
--Flashcube (talk) 22:52, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Education

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replies: text: I'm not sure the image really belongs here.  The link probably should be removed, since public education in Los Altos involves more than just the Los Altos School District.  --Flashcube (talk) 22:27, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:LASD logo.gif

message: Someone changed the mayor's name from Megan Satterlee back to Val Carpenter.  The mayor changes every year; the city website was a little slow reflecting the change but is now up to date.  See also this article from the Los Altos Town Crier of December 3, 2008.  --Flashcube (talk) 20:43, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change of Mayor 

message: Someone added an external link to a very short blog talking about the real estate market. This appears to be a marketing piece written by one of the local real estate agents, so I'm going to remove it. If that seems inappropriate, please comment here. ----Flashcube (talk) 20:39, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real Estate Market 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I suggest that Robert Noyce be added to the list of people who lived in Los Altos.  He is considered one of the inventors of the integrated circuit. His Patent US2981877 A is often cited as the first to specify all the key solutions to being able to make integrated circuits ("chips").  Given how ICs have changed the world, that patent is one of the most significant of all time.
Multiple cities claim to be the birthplace of Silicon Valley.  I have always wondered why Los Altos isn't mentioned, since "Los Altos" appears immediately after Noyce's name on the first page of that patent.  BTW: the Wikipedia article on Noyce mentions that he lived in Los Altos.
If I had the time to learn more about how to edit a Wikipedia article I'd make the addition myself. Since I don't, I wanted to at least make the suggestion.
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thread_title:  Add Robert Noyce? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Do we really need to say "not to be confused with Los Altos Hills"?  It has a different name, and it's mentioned in the article anyway.  If we need a hatnote at all, it might be to distinguish from the neighborhood of Long Beach called Los Altos (actually we have an article on it, Los Altos, Long Beach, California).  Of course there are also other Los Altoses, but they're not in California. --Trovatore (talk) 06:58, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Distinguish" template 

message: I removed the See Also section because it contained two links, to Simla Junction (the page had been deleted) and converted the Hidden Villa reference to an inline link. Hidden Villa is in Los Altos Hills, not Los Altos, so I didn't feel it needed that much prominence. But I just noticed that User:Fettlemap had recently added that link back. If it should in fact be a See Also reference, please explain.  --Flashcube (talk) 02:02, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  See Also section