Talk:Watsonville, California

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Relevance to article?[edit]

I question the relevance, of two sentences in the introduction: "The larger coastal town directly north of Watsonville is the city of Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz is a draw for many young college students who attend Cabrillo College or University of California, Santa Cruz." The first of the two sentences appears only indirectly relevant to this page. Listing the nearest, largest city in the same county appears to serve no special purpose here. As a general feature of city pages, it might be helpful to note proximity to well-known landmarks. If that is the purpose here, then the statement should be more direct. For example: "Watsonville is approximately 18 miles south of the City of Santa Cruz, home of the University of California at Santa Cruz." The second of the two sentences appears irrelevant to the page. In the absence of further explanation of the relevance to this page in particular, or an explanation of the purpose of such references in city pages generally, I suggest these sentences be removed or amended as stated above. --WillisNo (talk) 05:50, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm in favor of deleting the whole paragraph. Watsonville is not a "beach town". "Like Salinas..." is misleading and irrelevant, and the list of agricultural products duplicates info in the first paragraph. WCCasey (talk) 23:28, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If there continue to be no other comments, I agree, go ahead and delete the last paragraph of the Introduction, which current reads in its entirety: The larger coastal town directly north of Watsonville is the city of Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz is a draw for many young college students who attend Cabrillo College or University of California, Santa Cruz. Because Watsonville and Santa Cruz are beach towns, they draw many visitors from San Jose and from the Central Valley areas. Like neighboring Salinas in Monterey County, Watsonville produces a variety of fruits and vegetables, primarily apples, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and table mushrooms. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WillisNo (talk • contribs) 23:09, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]