Talk:Contra Costa County, California

message: Wondering how to edit this U.S. County Entry?
The WikiProject U.S. Counties standards might help.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Rambot (talk • contribs) 21:32, 26 July 2003 (UTC)
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message: 63.197.235.94 - I reverted your re-edits of my corrections. Please note that if a name in a link (especially an unsatisfied link to be later filled in) is overspecified it will not be likely to be found by article title. As city names tend to be not unique, these are always followed by the state name. However, well known major cities usually have a redirect - so that you may enter San Francisco and will get to the article San Francisco, California.
I have also satisfied the links, mostly with external references that I found by simple search engine and page navigation. I do not have time now for your Alameda County, California changes, so these are also reverted.
For example - Blackhawk Auto Museum. Only one of these - Blackhawk Auto Museum Blackhawk both incorrect and rather useless, as it is unlikely to be entered in an article search, and while more technically correct, Blackhawk Auto Museum, Blackhawk does not improve the situation much and Blackhawk Auto Museum, Blackhawk, California is even worse.
San Ramon train Museum is improperly capitalized - If the title seen at the site is capitalized, then this would be San Ramon Train Museum. There is no such museum, but there is a "San Ramon Valley Museum" located in a refurbished train station.
Lindsay Wildlife Museum Walnut Crk - no, we do not abbreviate Creek, and if we were to use the name for disambiguation purposes, it would be Lindsay Wildlife Museum, Walnut Creek. The city name is not required at this time.
Generically, if there is only one of something, say Fubar Towers located in Walnut Creek, California, Fubar Towers works fine. Now suppose there is discovered a Fubar Towers in some remote location. Fubar Towers then becomes a disambiguation page, pointing to the renamed original, now Fubar Towers (California), or some such (someone more expert than myself should be consulted concerning this name).
Rather than create twenty unsatisfied links as you have recently done, it would be better to write one article. You even broke the one link that I fixed (Mount Diablo) by putting editing it back to Mount Diablo State Park Danville Walnut Crk.
Your copying of display text from Mount Diablo State Park to Mt. Diablo State Park resulted in a junk article - no pictures. Besides, this is not the way it is done. Go to the Mt. Diablo State Park article and click on edit to see how it is done using a REDIRECT command. Just as with programming, it is bad to do the same thing in two locations - fixing anything is double the work, articles may diverge, and what the user gets is dependent upon the wording used.
So please think about studying and writing one article - for example, where is the San Ramon Valley Museum, what does it exhibit, include some pictures, link to the external web site so the viewer may get current operating hours, etc. Then link to the article from the appropriate places, replacing any external link references (replace single bracketing with double bracketing). By the way, if you are using a Macintosh you may turn on the built-in on-the-fly spell checker, which works when editing article text.
Also, It would be best if you registered as a user - you will find a lot of help in our community. It is also possible to communicate privately by e-mail. Your addition of information will be welcome if it does not degrade the article through too many misspellings, bad link names, bad link syntax, etc. I will try to get back to the Alameda article re-insert the material with proper links. 
Best wishes, -- Leonard G. 05:58, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Linking

message: Can anyone fill in the modern history of the native tribes, including the various casino controversies? -- Beland 01:50, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion

message: Anybody want to add this very small community between Crockett and Rodeo to the cities and towns list?  I believe Selby may be a census-designated place.  Correct me if I'm wrong. --68.127.152.9 09:46, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Cities and Town list and Countybox list

message: Why does the time zone display as 'mountain' even though it says 'Pacific' in the text?68.223.77.240 17:29, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch. Tracking that one down was interesting; looks OK now. --rich<Rich Janis 23:17, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Time Zone

message: This article is looking pretty good in terms of how much information is provided. However, at this point it has no inline references (footnotes, citations) which would really help when you come to a statement that seems to be controversial.  For example, it says that "all of the bayside portions opposite San Francisco, and Northern portions of Santa Clara County were given up to form Alameda County in 1853." But isn't Richmond on the bay? Or is this saying that Richmond is not opposite San Francisco? Anyway, good work. --Tinned Elk 23:11, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Looking good, needs references

message: :Another point. This article is long. I would like to suggest that the Mt. Diablo portion of the article be shortened to Wikipedia:Summary Style, and make sure that the material in the Contra Costa Article is in sync with the main Mount Diablo article. Having two long discussions tends to  let them get out of sync. I can work on this if no one else is interested. --Tinned Elk 00:09, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Mount Diablo section

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for File:ContraCostaCountySeal.jpg

message: I'd like to see mention of the huge pension/health care liability discussed recently for the county.  The county's plan is CCCERA for Contra Costa County Employees' Retirement Association.  Here is an older link , think it is now $2.6 billion.--Billymac00 (talk) 06:42, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: County Pension Woes

message: I'm entering this as a justification for my recent changes to the Contra Costa County article, so that any and all discussion regarding these changes can be facilitated if necessary. 
First, I NEVER do anything in Wiki without a good reason. The changes that I just made are for the purpose of bringing this article in-line with all other California county articles. Relocating the "Transportation infrastructure" section higher in the article served a two-fold purpose; first, to have the afore-mentioned uniformity between articles, and second, because when one reads about these adjacent places, the next logical question is "well how do I get there from here?"
I have been working on the transportation sections of all California county articles since 2006, mainly because I've driven most of these routes in my lifetime, and know where they lead... Edit Centric (talk) 19:17, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Realignment of sections

message: The current Rancho text seems to be too detailed for this page.  I have added a simplified list of Contra Costa ranchos, and am suggesting deleting the old text (rest of this section).  But leave that to others. Emargie (talk) 03:43, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Ranchos

message: I took out this paragraph:
:Some of the inner suburbs accessible from highway 24 (such as Rockridge in north Oakland, Alameda County), in turn have become gentrified, offering easier access and shorter commutes to businesses that remained or established in San Francisco, particularly financial organizations.
First, it references a neighborhood in Oakland for some reason, which is not in Contra Costa County.  Secondly, these assertions are opinions, rather than encyclopedic facts.  I will try to find some better material for this section.
I am new to editing Wikipedia, so let me know if I have done anything wrong.  I should 'be bold', right?
Tarastar42 (talk) 15:57, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed paragraph about Alameda County

message: Anyone mind writing up about marijuana laws and medical marijuana laws/dispensaries in contra costa?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.116.49.238 (talk) 03:51, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Marijuana

message: this paragraph appears as little other than conjecture, opinion and appears to explain its points solely by inference. Complaining about the economic inequalities seen in the county - which to be fair, are vast - seems to have little factual relevance to the article as a whole. None of the claims put forth are cited nor are they substantiated. 
Bravotango (talk) 01:20, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Urban decay at the fringes 

message: Seems to be missing from the chart.  Will have to fix it later if someone else doesn't get to it. Bastique ☎ call me! 00:36, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pleasant Hill 

message: If you help out in the Sheriff Dept and the sheriff gives you permission to do some thing get it in writting. They are very willing to turn on you and treat there volunteers like a criminal. Just saying.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.119.68.26 (talk) 16:29, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
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message: In the interest of full disclosure, let me tell you that I don't go around looking for factual inaccuracies in Wikipedia, but when I believe I have found one, I usually feel compelled to look further on the subject.
For this entry, I took issue with a statement that appears twice regarding the origins of the name "Contra Costa", as it did not sound right that it would translate directly into "opposite shore or coast". I'm not a native Spanish speaker, but a quick dictionary search (wordreference.com or dictionary.com) seems to prove my point.
'Contra' is either a preposition or a noun, but not an adjective. 'Costa' is 'coast'. While the English word 'opposite' is also a preposition, its Spanish translation (as a preposition) would be 'enfrente de, frente a'; or 'in front of' in English. The English adjective 'opposite' could only be translated in Spanish (also as an adjective) as 'contrario'. Therefore, if the county was to be named due to its geographical location opposite San Francisco's coast, it should have been named 'Costa Contraria'. While 'Contra Costa' passes the same idea, it doesn't change the fact that it is, from a strict linguistic perspective, wrong.
I'm not trying to change the name of the county. I just thought it would be best to define on an encyclopedic entry that its name is a freely-adapted Spanish expression, not an actual one.
Furthermore, the only referenced source for the county's name origins links to the county's website. I could not find where on that website this information is located, but I could find an article by Jose Ignacio Riverahttp://www.mdia.org/site/history/contra-costa-county-name-origin on another website that corroborates what is stated on this entry.
I kindly ask any native Spanish speaker to provide us an explanation for why 'Contra Costa' can be accepted as a correct translation for "opposite shore/coast". In case it cannot be accepted, but tolerated, I think it would be a sensible move to point it on the article.
I know this smells like original research, but I did not invent Spanish and its rules. I'm barely pointing out that 'contra costa' does not mean 'opposite shore' unless we're willing to broadly stretch the actual meaning of the words.
Ebacci EN (talk) 03:41, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Right on! 2600:1004:B16D:C243:B126:ED85:98AF:55D6 (talk) 02:51, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
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message: So, just about how many "Indians" (Native Americans) were there in the area in 1850?  Only a few thousand?  32,000?  60,000 or more?  The single paragraph about this would seem to suggest all of the above, which is obviously impossible, and seriously needs editing by someone with reliable sources.  2600:1004:B16D:C243:B126:ED85:98AF:55D6 (talk) 02:54, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
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message: Looks like the tables in the preceding section on politics are screwing up the formatting of the section header for the Crime section, causing it to appear to the right of the politics tables. I'm not familiar enough with the markup to fix it. -- SpareSimian (talk) 09:52, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
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