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I've started restructuring this article per the WikiProject Cities/Guideline in WP:USCITY. About half of the recommended sections currently have no content, so I have left those out for the time being. Some other sections are obviously incomplete. We need much more content, so feel free to contribute it! Also place in this section any comments on the restructuring. Thanks! -- Uncia ( talk) 20:55, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
We now have all the top-level sections recommended by WP:USCITY, except for Sister cities (Alamogordo has no sister cities so I have left that out). However Economy and Infrastructure are very incomplete. I will dig up more information for these and add it. The rest of the sections are not bad, I think, but the narrative flow is a little ragged and there are probably important items that have been left out. The article weighs in at 37 kilobytes right now. -- Uncia ( talk) 18:46, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I've plumped up Economy and Infrastructure with additional data. I would rate the current article as "more or less complete". It weighs in at 55 KB. The narrative is still a little ragged, and there are probably still things that are missing. I've listed the article under the New Articles section of WP:WikiProject New Mexico in the hopes that it will attract some reviewers and polishers. -- Uncia ( talk) 02:58, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Was the White Sands National Monument addition to Points of Interest removed because I forgot to sign? And the absolutely objective and verifiable misery of painting the "A"? Boadicaea ( talk) 02:34, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Fastest man on earth? Or is it supposed to read "Fattest"? People have gone faster than the speed mentioned, and it mentions deceleration and the resulting weight. I recall reading mention of him before as experiencing the highest acceleration/deceleration ever (at least doing so and surviving), so that would make him weigh more than anyone else for the duration. -- Fitzhugh 07:07, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
I removed the picture, that is not a picture of the town that is a picture of a motel called the Satellite Inn. It's unfair to provide free advertising to a motel. And if it's an old picture and that motel isn't there anymore it's wrong to provide such an outdated picture. There must be someone in the town who will take a free picture of the town 63.26.80.187 ( talk) 23:29, 2 July 2008 (UTC)eric
I'm preparing this article for peer review. As a first step I'm attempting to fix up everthing flagged by the automated peer reviewer. -- Uncia ( talk) 14:27, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
whew! That was a lot harder than I expected, but the article is now ready for peer review; please comment at Wikipedia:Peer review/Alamogordo, New Mexico/archive1. Thanks. -- Uncia ( talk) 23:36, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
My concerns reading the article are that a lot of the information from the history section involves things that happened at Holloman AFB. As far as I know Holloman is associated with Alamogordo, but it is not part of the city. The same with the economy; Holloman isn't the largest employer in Alamogordo, it's the largest employer of Alamogordo residents. Another example is the lead: "Skiing is available in nearby Mescalero and Cloudcroft, and gambling is available at the Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino in Mescalero." This reads more like an ad than an encylcopedic entry, plus it's not about Alamogordo (if anything it should be briefly mentioned in the recreation section, not the lead). I've heard other editors refer to this as "border creep" where an article will focus on things near a particular city as opposed to within a city. My understanding is that city articles are about that specific city, generally defined by its physical borders. For larger general areas, articles about a metro- or micropolitan area can be written. Yeah, we have to include things around it because they influence it, but there is a limit how much detail. For instance, talking about the impact of Holloman on Alamogordo is of course appropriate; however, detailed events that happened at Holloman aren't totally relevant to Alamogordo. A lot of the history I'm reading here from Holloman should be at the Holloman article rather than here unless they happened within the city limits of Alamogordo. The same is true with the atomic bomb testing. It occurred some 60 miles from Alamogordo. Should it be mentioned? Sure...it affected the city, but the great majority of the details about it should be elsewhere unless they are directly related to the city of Alamogordo, not the general area. The name of the Alamogordo Test Site isn't because it was in Alamo, it's because Alamo was the nearest town of any size. -- JonRidinger ( talk) 01:10, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Apart from the fact that the sentence reads as if the device had been detonated in downtown Alamogordo, Trinity Site is about 50 miles from Alamogordo - as the crow flies. Using public roads, it's probably more like 100 miles, because you have to drive all around White Sands Missile Range, and also Trinity Site is only accessible twice a year these days, on the first Saturdays of April and June, respectively.-- Cancun771 ( talk) 23:42, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
We should consider the 5-10 most important events in the city's history. I suspect that the book burning is not one of them. Help consider if we left something important out and if the book burning should be reduced to a few sentences, not a sub-section. Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 14:57, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Preliminary comments: I appreciate your concerns over the withdrawal of the nomination, and then resubmission. The length of time it takes to get a review has nothing (or at least little) to do with the date you submit it; it has everything to do with who picks up the article to review, and at this point there aren't enough reviewers to take care of the submissions.
Drop me a line on my talk page when you want me to come read the whole thing again and give you a response. Good luck improving the article. Auntieruth55 ( talk) 19:07, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Reviewer: Auntieruth55 ( talk) 00:33, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Your chart in the economy section needs to explain what the numbers are (percentage? thousands, $?).
Question by Auntieruth55 has been answered and improved on the chart. Looking at the reference, it is the number of people employed in each category. Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 23:41, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
"PreCheck announced in 2009 that it would move its headquarters from Houston to Alamogordo." appears to be incorrect. PreCheck built a back-up facility in Alamogordo however the corporate headquarters remained in Houston. If fact, the company recently relocated the hq to a new building in Houston. [1]. Postoak ( talk) 21:14, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Alamogordo held it first annual skate park tournament to commemorate the new skate park for the locals. Also in entertainment in Alamogordo thers is talk about building a new family fun center over by the aviator ten.
The Atari section is confusing at best and horribly written. Dump it or fix it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.129.189.225 ( talk) 19:57, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
I think it might be time to reconsider this section; the site has been excavated. Dan ( talk) 21:58, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
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== Initial rating, copied from WikiProject New Mexico == I copied the ratings of class B, importance Mid from the WikiProject New Mexico ratings; these seem fair, although importance Mid might be too high in the context of all cities and not just New Mexico articles. -- Uncia ( talk) 03:57, 14 July 2008 (UTC) |
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