Talk:Boulder, Colorado/Archive 2

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Sorry- my bad

Sorry about the FAC tag. I'm still relativley new to Wikipedia. Could someone add it please? --Jimbo Herndan 23:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Notable Boulder people

I see that Ace Young has disappeared from the "People" section for whatever reason (don't really care). I guess the notability threshold for listing people in this article is different than the notability criteria for Wikipedia itself (don't really care). So, along with Young, here's my Hall of Fame of B-list Boulder people:

• Joan Van Ark —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fleminra (talk • contribs) 09:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC).

Goodbye to Ace Young, and good riddance -- what are game-show contestants (apart from -- perhaps -- Ken Jennings, Charles Van Doren, and Herbert Stempel) doing in an encyclopedia? Of course, some game-show contestants went on to distinguish themselves in other ways -- Dr. Joyce Brothers comes to mind -- but if the show is one's only claim to fame, why are we bothering?

As for Joan Van Ark, a fairly well known television actress a few decades ago, I (like you, I suppose) don't care whether she is included or not. Paul 09:29, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Change Picture

I think that the article needs a better picture for the box at the top of the page. Just a map is pretty sad as it shows nothing about what boulder looks like and most other pages about cities have a picture of the city at the top. Maybe a picture taken from an overlook above the town would be appropriate. --K1000 23:56, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. There used to be a nice picture of Pearl Street in the snow, but I don't know what happened to it. I like the idea of a picture from the overlook. Logawi 16:17, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

The next time I drive by a good overlook I'll try to remember to take the picture and post it. --K1000 00:24, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I like that picture too. I put it back. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.166.29.168 (talk) 01:17, 7 May 2007 (UTC).

I think that picture is ugly, brown and too far from anything interesting looking. How about a nice picture with good color?

How about this? This shows the town, trees, and a tiny bit of the mountains. I don't think a picture of just Pearl Street Mall is representative of Boulder.Hustvedt (talk) 22:44, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

"Boulder in fiction" vs. "Boulder in popular culture"

The Boulder in fiction and Boulder in popular culture sections are completely redundant. They should be combined. Plazak 14:54, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

View from Fairview

Which picture is better for the view from Fairview: or or . --K1000 22:07, 11 May 2007 (UTC) The last one: View from Fairview, Close Up. Definitely. Aruhnka (talk) 14:13, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Anyone interested or can advise on Gunbarrel?

I'm working on the Gunbarrel, Colorado article and would like to connect it with Boulder in some way while keeping it semi-independent - Gunbarrel is both an incorporated Boulder subdivision and a built up area of Boulder County - e.g. you might live there and be a Boulder citizen but your friend in the house across the way lives in the County and is democratically represented in a totally different way. As such it's a strange governmental entity, with a contentious political history and many areas of overlap and dual control and I think this merits separation. The Boulder country club is there, as well as a residential population that differs politically (more "red") from the rest of Boulder (especially in the unincorporated areas). It is also the location of the Celestial Seasons plant, Tyco Healthcare Valleylab, and has technical facilities belonging to Ericsson, Lockheed-Martin and Micro Motion - all but the last are in the city's areas. I'd love any help or advice. Ucbuffalo81 01:35, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Sexual Orientation

In 1974 the Boulder City Council passed Colorado's first ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. Boulder voters, however, repealed the measure by referendum within a year. In 1975, Boulder County Clerk Clela Rorex was the second in the United States to ever grant same-sex marriage licenses, prior to state laws being passed to prevent such issuance. [5] In 1987, Boulder voters reversed their 1974 vote, and the city became the first in the United States to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation by a direct vote of the people.

This doesn't make and sense. 'Boulder voters reversed their 1974 vote' implies that they voted to remove the ordinance prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination, while "and the city became the first in the United States to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation by a direct vote of the people" implies that they voted to retain the ordinance. So which is it?193.195.75.20 (talk) 08:33, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

It makes perfect sense to me. In 1974, the City Council passes the ordinance but Boulder voters repeal it. In 1987, the Boulder voters re-instate the policy they had originally repealed back in 1974. So yes, they voted against the ordinance, and they voted for it. 205.175.225.22 (talk) 20:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

One problem is the ambiguous use of "their" in the phrase "their 1974 vote" - whose vote was it - the City Council or the voters? It was the people's vote that was reversed, and I think the sentence does say that, but it's easily misunderstood. Making the matter a bit harder to understand is that the article says that the Council vote took place in 1974, but doesn't say that about the referendum - "within a year" from some date in 1974 also includes part of 1975. I can understand the meaning, but it could be worded a bit better. Merenta (talk) 20:53, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

The article goes off wandering into such minor things - but it never mentions once what form of local government that Boulder has. Does Boulder have a mayor? Some cities do and some don't. What about a city manager? Some cities do, and some don't. Does Boulder have a City Charter granted by the State Legislature, like lots of really large cities do, but some medium-sized cities do and some don't. Cities with charters get some degree of "home-rule" (the ability to run their own business), but lots of other cities across the country have to rely on the permissions of their County Commissions, or even the State Legislature to do very much at all - such as assessing city taxes, setting up and running systems of land zoning, establishing school systems, and so on and so forth. Some counties have "home-rule" of some degree, but others have to take every little thing to the Legislature. I find it rather amazing to find that nobody said if Boulder has a City Charter or not. For example, places like New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Nashville, Birmingham, and so forth, do. Denver probably does, but I am not sure. The Wikipedia does say that Denver City and the County of Denver have some form of a unified government, but it wasn't 100% clear. On the other hand, there are places in Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, and other places where the Legislature has explicitly unified the city government with that of the county that contains it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.146.52.117 (talk) 05:53, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

The information you're looking for is in the infobox and in the very first sentence of the article. Merenta (talk) 14:18, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

someone fix the dates at the beginning of this section 98.240.86.35 (talk) 02:54, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

4/20

The largest Boulder area newspaper calls the 4/20 celebration an "annual and renowned event" [1]. Yes, it is a community tradition regardless of your personal opinion of marijuana use. Encyclopedias are supposed to be objective. 75.71.116.195 (talk) 02:36, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Regardless of one's view of marijuana use, 4/20 or 4:20, did not originate in the Boulder. Moreover, the 4/20 event is relatively new, not steeped in tradition that any local historian would associate with the town. It is true, that the event has received increasing media attention over the last 4 years but it was considered a casual and little visited event before that.

Massive list of magazine articles

In the last few days there was a deletion, and then re-addition, of a massive list of various mentions of Boulder from a wide range of magazines. Most of these are "top-10" style "awards." This seems to be absolutely useless information. Is there an argument to keep this in the article beyond marketing the city or the magazines? Cheers, Pugget (talk) 19:05, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Since no one seems to have any comments, I'm going to kill the list. Cheers, Pugget (talk) 12:39, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Main picture

Come on, this picture makes Boulder look more like Los Angeles--not at all a representative photo of the city. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mutorq (talk • contribs) 07:48, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Peaks in the Boulder Area

I was a little afraid to edit the "Outdoor Sports" section of "Culture" myself, in case I am missing something, and since I don't really know how to edit pages, but South Boulder Peak is actually the tallest peak in the "area", and it's not even mentioned. It should be included, since its summit is only about a half mile south of Bear Peak, and it is higher than Bear Peak.

1. South Boulder Peak - 8,524 feet (see http://www.mountainzone.com/mountains/detail.asp?fid=915545) 2. Bear Peak - 8,461 feet (see http://www.totalboulder.com/resources/42.html) 3. Green Mountain - 8,144 feet (see http://www.totalboulder.com/resources/69.html) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.224.49.221 (talk) 19:45, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

--Edit: Never mind, I changed the Boulder page to reflect this info. Someone please check to make sure my work is solid; this is one of my first attempts at editing Wikipedia. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.224.49.221 (talk) 06:51, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Unsourced Material

Below information has been removed from the article after being tagged for needing sourcing for at least several months. Please feel free to reincorporate this material into the article with appropriate references. Thanks. Doniago (talk) 15:05, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

History

In the early-to-mid-19th century, the nomadic Southern Arapaho Native American tribe frequently wintered at the base of the foothills in the Boulder area. Chief Niwot and his tribe called the site their home. Other nomadic tribes included the Utes, Cheyennes, Comanches, and Sioux. The first recorded European settlers in the area were gold prospectors who arrived in 1858, when Boulder was part of the Nebraska Territory (The former boundary between Nebraska and Kansas territories is the present Baseline Road in Boulder). The "Boulder City Town Company" was founded on February 10, 1859. Boulder's first school house was built in 1860, followed by the creation of the Colorado Territory in 1861. In 1871 then "Boulder City" was incorporated. In 1873 the railroad was extended to Boulder and, in 1890, the Boulder Railroad Depot was constructed to serve as a station for the Colorado and Southern Railroad. In 1876 Colorado was granted statehood. Gold, silver, and coal mining continued to be a prominent part of the local economy until the mid-20th century. A coal miners strike lasted from 1910 to 1915, causing a military presence in nearby Louisville. Mining's relevance in the local economy declined in the 1940s, when the city began actively recruiting clean industry, such as the National Bureau of Standards, which today is the National Institute of Standards and Technology. On January 19, 1952, the Denver-Boulder Turnpike opened as a tollway between Boulder and the northern Denver suburb of Westminster. In 1967, the bonds for building the highway were paid off early, its tollway status was lifted, and it became part of U.S. Highway 36.

Why was the information I added regarding radio stations, including NPR affiliate KCFC, removed from this article by Doniago? Simply because I did not provide footnotes to sources?? Both KCFC and KRKS-FM are licenced to Boulder by the FCC. I also mentioned a powerful progressive talk station KKZN which has its transmitter located 15 miles east of Boulder, and identifies as "Thornton-Denver-Boulder." BlueMesa171 (talk) 00:32, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

I saw those changes and did not revert them because the removed information was uncited and appeared to be of dubious notability. --Kvng (talk) 14:14, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Exactly. I also notified BlueMesa on their Talk page, where they've received multiple messages about adding unsourced material previously. BlueMesa, I highly recommend that you review WP:V and provide reliable sources when adding material going forward, per WP:BURDEN. Doniago (talk) 15:47, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Working from home

US census bureau notes that Boulder is the #1 city in the US for %age of workers working from home, at 10.9%. source:www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p70-132.pdf, page 18. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.238.247.105 (talk) 22:25, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Unlicensed radio section does not read particularly neutrally.

There is a section in this article on unlicensed radio, It read to me as very pro- unlicensed radio, wikipedia is a place for facts not promotion of an idea. Does it seem neutral to anyone else?CombatWombat42 (talk) 20:47, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

As a second point of discussion, is the unlicensed radio section adding to the article? Is it that important to Boulder? With no citations it is all liable to be deleted per WP:VERIFY, can someone find credible sources for this section? CombatWombat42 (talk) 20:47, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Advertisement

Did the Chamber of Commerce write this or what?67.190.86.13 (talk) 19:42, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Well that was just a knee-jerk reaction to the culture section; reading further, it's worse that I thought. Culture and growth management should be deleted. Top rankings should be incorporated into other sections. Education and Transportation should be halved (individual bus routes, WTF?). Finally, that directional doodad in Geography is a real eye sore, I'm deleting that post haste. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.190.86.13 (talk) 20:01, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

I agree. There are also POV issues and I have added a tag as such. I do not have much access to offline sources, but I will help where I can. Gtwfan52 (talk) 20:23, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

The Culture section is far too excessively detailed. All those events should be merged together into one paragraph, and the details of each event left off. Place an "Annual Events" external link at the bottom of the article if need be, but the length of the current article is ridiculous.--Chimino (talk) 06:38, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Is anyone going to WP:BOLDly delete some of this stuff. The article continues to grow and that's not a good thing IMO. Trivia tends to attract trivia. ~KvnG 00:05, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Is there a reason you're not doing so? DonIago (talk) 03:25, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

No particular excuse other than available time. How about you? :) I thought it would be useful for me to add a voice to the chorus here that there's a problem and thinning stuff appears, to me, to be the solution. If we don't at least continue the discussion, the WP:NPOV tag expires and the talk page gets archived and we get to start all over again. ~KvnG 15:15, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Maintenance tags don't expire, and in fact shouldn't be removed unless they no longer apply, unless there's a policy I'm unfamiliar with. Cheers. DonIago (talk) 15:23, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

See point #3 at Template:POV#When to remove. ~KvnG 18:19, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Huh. That's a new one on me. I'll see if I can take a look at it, but I might need a reminder to do so. DonIago (talk) 21:42, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Okay, I took a pass through it and did what I'd call a reasonable job of cleaning up the section. Feel free to re-add anything you think should be mentioned or make any other changes you feel would be appropriate. DonIago (talk) 22:19, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Nice start! ~KvnG 22:33, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Boulder, Co

Why no info on health care in Boulder, Co? One bit of info I was really looking for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.75.30.30 (talk) 02:43, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Boulder Cruiser Ride

This event has no place on this wikipedia page, it is a local event for those who wish to have fun and enjoy the biking cultural of boulder. The entry on this page is discriminating on that and bringing attention to something that is run by locals and should propagated by those alone.

I'm somewhat inclined to agree...has the event attracted attention from third-party sources beyond the ones currently listed in the article? DonIago (talk) 13:14, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

What? discriminating? against who?

from "bringing attention to something that is run by locals and should propagated by those alone" it sounds like you want to WP:CENSOR wikipdia. It very clearly has coverage in WP:reliable WP:secondary sources. CombatWombat42 (talk) 14:27, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Criteria for Culture sub-sections

I gather from edit comments that John from Idegon and CombatWombat42 don't think that eTown and Conference on World Affairs should be included in the Culture section (at least not in the way they were originally included). Theses Boulder specific things at least are notable enough to have their own Wikipedia articles. Other items in this section are less clearly notable or are not as Boulder specific. Does someone want to propose a criterion for inclusion in this section? ~Kvng (talk) 04:33, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

• I have no problem with those being included, they just need to be sourced. I do wonder if the article is not a little too long and couldn't benefit from some trimming of the fat. CombatWombat42 (talk) 15:34, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

I added sources but then John from Idegon removed the sections again with the following edit comment, "Neither item needs its own section...And you have not indicated in any way why it should be here. DISCUSS BEFORE REPLACING please." So here we are. ~Kvng (talk) 05:24, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

I did. The first part is self explanatory. As for the second part, if it isn't noted in sources not connected to the subject of the article, it isn't important enough to be included. Note that you did not link either event in your edits. Upon investigating the links you now provided, I no longer have any objection to the Conference. Etown as it stands would not survive a deltion discussion, but I have not done my BEFORE research yet. As far as the subheaders go, I see that is how the section is written. That should be fixed, and I am in complete agreement with the Armored Wombat that the entire article suffers from a considerable amount of bloat. And since these items have articles, unless you can cite sources discussing their importance to the city, merely a brief Wikilinked mention is all that is needed. John from Idegon (talk) 06:05, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

It seems like there's consensus that it's appropriate to mention eTown and Conference on World Affairs here so I'd like to restore this material with my citations. I don't have a problem with the section being reworked to be shorter and without subsections but I think that improvement can be handled as a separate issue. ~Kvng (talk) 15:11, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

You have consensus for the Conference. Please provide out of town sources for eTown and you have consensus for that too. John from Idegon (talk) 20:30, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Non-local coverage is improtant to establish notability of the free-standing article eTown. I don't think this is required to justify a mention here in Boulder, Colorado. Lots of coverage of eTown in Boulder and Denver press and I have included a new reference from Colorado Springs, 100 miles from Boulder. ~Kvng (talk) 18:12, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Out of town sources are important for events to show that they have interest outside the community. We do not write settlement articles for the residents of the local community; and we certainly don't write them to publicize events. Per WP:NOTDIR and WP:NOTGUIDEBOOK. John from Idegon (talk) 19:25, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

I tend to agree with John from Idegon, If out of region sources cannot be found for e-town, it shouldn't be included. CombatWombat42 (talk) 17:41, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

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Climate

I just want to say that I'm tired of fighting with the people who keep changing my edits on Boulder's climate. The Western Regional Climate Center's data clearly indicates that Boulder has a Cfa climate but they just won't accept it. I've even been accused of making things up when I used actual weather station data. This is just one problem inherent in the concept of an open-source encyclopedia. And incidentally I wish I could ban Weatherbase from being used as a source because it's a terrible. Their data doesn't seem to be based on any real weather stations. JediScougale (talk) 00:18, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

@JediScougale: With this edit you changed "humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa)" to "humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa)". You provided this source, from the Western Regional Climate Center, to support your edit (it nowhere mentions Boulder's Köppen classification). In your edit summary, you stated "Boulder's semiarid threshold is 357.8 and it's annual average precipitation is 525.3 mm. It therefore cannot be considered semiarid. Also, no month averages below freezing so it cannot be considered a continental climate." User:John from Idegon reverted your edit because you did not provide a source (and you didn't). You determined the classification based on your own calculations, which borders on original research. To assist, I have located two sources. The first source (Weatherbase) says Boulder's climate is a BSk, while the second source says Boulder's climate is both a Dfb and a Cfa. Clearly, this is not a simple edit. Can I suggest you contact an editor at Wikipedia:WikiProject Meteorology to assist? Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 01:08, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

That's pretty fair @Magnolia677:, although I'd dispute the part about original research. I surely can't be the only person to have done that calculation. At any rate, thanks for the suggestion. JediScougale (talk) 01:29, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

History

I'm deeply surprised that in the 21st century, the 'History' section starts with White People. Seriously, yes, Boulder is a "Whiteopia" where white people don't have to worry about running into too many people with darker skin, but why is there no mention of the genocide that led to this being a whiteopia? Yes you can dig in and find it when you go to the 'timeline' about Chief Niwot, but I think its important enough to mention on the front page of Boulder that it is a city whose foundations are in genocide and bloodshed of a peaceful people who were trying to co-exist with whites. x

Odd that there is nothing about the 'founding' of Boulder City, it just existed for all eternity, right? Yes there is a link to the timeline but wouldn't it be less white-centric to talk about what this place was like before white people got here?

Jharish (talk) 03:00, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

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Birds

The Wiki article excludes the restrictions on killing wild birds. Wild birds are protected under Boulder County laws. http://ci.boulder.co.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1856&Itemid=593

Kudos to 71.208.110.28 ...

... for adding some noted, respectable academics to counterbalance the ridiculous Churchill and Tracey.

Paul 14 November 2006

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