Talk:Edmonds, Washington

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that an enclave of Edmonds, Washington, was formed after several failed attempts at annexing the community of Esperance?

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Ken Jennings[edit]

I don't think such a trivial person as Ken Jennings belongs in the intro paragraph. How about a Trivia heading at the bottom where we can put that as well as the Roslyn Summers bit. Headquarters 19:39, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ken Jennings is a nationally recognized figure, and according to the [Notability] guidelines, a figure that has been "documented in multiple, non-trivial, independent, published sources" is considered of substantial notability to be included in Wikipedia. Though if Ken Jennings had come from a place such as NYC, there would be many people who are more notable than he. However, as Edmonds is a small town, Jennings is a good candidate as the cities claim to fame.24.17.77.57 06:33, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fountain[edit]

"The Edmonds fountain has been soaped several times, and was recently destroyed by a car crash": incomprehensible without more context; I live in Seattle and I don't even know what this might be about. - Jmabel | Talk 08:52, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, so I deleted the line. You quoted it here so if someone wants to write about it in more details, go for it! As it was the sentence was too vague to be of much value, I think. Something would need to be said described what the Edmonds fountain is, for one (it was destroyed in a car crash, but I don't have it in my to write about it). And I'm not really sure what "been soaped several times" means. So I just removed it until someone feels like describing it better. Better yet, someone could describe the Edmonds fountain itself, its position at Edmonds ground zero, its (perhaps debated) beauty, its traffic hazard, etc etc. I've seen it a lot, but don't know much about its history and purpose, its being wrecked in a crash, etc. That kind of info would be much more useful than its apparent occasional vandalization... just saying.Pfly 10:13, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Major edit[edit]

I've added an infobox, several citations, and a new section in this edit, and if nobody objects, I'll see if I can get it a B-class rating soon. --Hojimachong^talk 02:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Edmonds, Washington[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Edmonds, Washington's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "factfinder.census.gov":

From Langley, Washington: "982 3-Digit ZCTA by 5-digit ZIP Code Tabulation Area". U.S. Census Bureau. 2000. Retrieved 2006-08-04.
From Tacoma, Washington: http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFPopulation?_event=Search&_name=tacoma&_state=04000US53&_county=tacoma&_cityTown=tacoma&_zip=&_sse=on&_lang=en&pctxt=fph
From Redmond, Washington: "Washington by Place - GCT-T1-R. Population Estimates". Census Bureau. 2001-04-01. Retrieved 2011-03-11.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 10:05, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Unexplained reversion[edit]

@General Ization: What's your rationale for removing the links to Washington (state) and United States? I'd added them after trying unsuccessfully to click through to Washington. 216.249.251.243 (talk) 04:53, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain how this was an improvement versus the existing lead:

'''Edmonds''' is a city in [[Snohomish County, Washington|Snohomish County]], [[Washington (state)|Wasington]], [[United States]]

. It a) contains a typographical error, b) unnecessarily creates a separate link for the state, and c) unnecessarily specifies that the city is in the United States, in that there is no other "Edmonds, Washington" to be disambiguated. In short, it is needlessly complex. Anyone wanting to know more about Washington (state) may click on the county name and click on the link to the state which appears there, a perfectly logical arrangement. General Ization ^Talk 20:20, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Simply put, this is also overlinking to common terms like Washington and United States, which applies to the prose but not infoboxes (where these terms are linked). Please don't go around editing archived pages like the GAN subpage, which causes headaches for other editors. Sounder Bruce 21:09, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]