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I agree with Dr. Cash, the GA reviewer, that this article is nicely done and not far from a run at FA. The only lacuna that jumped out at me was absence of information about the original inhabitants. I added a paragraph about them to the "History" section that is a short, slightly revised version of the one I used for Fanno Creek. I added it boldly, but if it doesn't suit or needs work, please revise.
I turned a couple of lists into prose per my understanding of MoS guidelines. Ditto for the unbolding. I see a few other low-level things to fix such as italics missing from newspaper article titles in citations. The citation 61 link is dead.
I'd be happy to create a table of monthly high/low temperatures per Dr. Cash's suggestion and add it to the bottom of the climate section if other editors here think that's a good idea. Finetooth ( talk) 21:37, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
I synchronized the weather numbers and attended to a few more nit-picky things. Along the way, I noticed some oddness in the citations. Specifically, some of the news refs have a double page-number entry, such as "pp. West Zoner, p. 8". Since these have no urls to track down the originals on-line, I think an acceptable fix would be to include "West Zoner:" at the beginning of the "title" attribute and to change "p. 8" to "8". Also, since the date formatting in the citations should be consistent, "January 4, 2009" is I think what we want in the West Zoner citation. The revised citation would look like this: Potter, Connie (April 23, 1992). "West Zoner: Hillsboro students eager for trip to Japan", The Oregonian, p. 8. Retrieved on January 4, 2009. If everybody here is OK with these changes, I will go ahead and make them. Finetooth ( talk) 20:34, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
<outdent> Done. I replaced the GRs with cite templates and resorted to putting the retrieval date on citation 42 outside the template. All the dates now meet the internal consistency requirement probably needed to get the article to FA. I think the article is ready for PR with FAC as the step after that. Finetooth ( talk) 00:57, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
I believe all of the issues raised by the two peer reviewers have now been addressed with the exception of the suggestion by User:Peripitus that the health care section would be better with "a bit of history . . . What happened prior to 1918". If Tuality was the first hospital in Hillsboro, I think that would be a sufficient bit. If it wasn't the first, we could add the first and its opening date. I went back and forth about one of the other suggestions from Peripitus, that we use European instead of European-American to describe the people who drove out the Atfalati. The European explorers brought new diseases to the Columbia River basin, but the surviving Atfalati continued living in what became Washington County until the settlers, European-Americans, drove them out.
Every time I re-read any article, I find a few more nits to pick, but I think this article would now have a good chance at FAC. The image licenses look OK to me, but reviewers might suggest that the image descriptions be expanded in some cases to include date, location, description, author or photographer, "self-made" or "own photo", or anything else that might be helpful. Something is wrong with the link to citation 83; I think it's probably dead or semi-dead, and I don't know what to do about it. Aboutmovies is the main contributor and would be the one to nominate the article at FAC and would be the go-to editor on questions that might arise (as they always do). I'll be glad to help with the FAC suggestions or anything else however I can. User:Katr67 has worked on the article too and might like to join in the fun. Finetooth ( talk) 22:40, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
After Genentech's announcement, it would be appropriate to add information about Hillsboro now being home to North America's largest photovoltaic solar panel manufacturing facility developed by Solarworld, the German solar manufacturing firm. Announcement was in 2007. Phase 1, a re-tooling of a former Komatsu Group silicon wafer manufacturing facility, is complete and Phase 2 is under construction. Korynasz ( talk) 18:27, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Since the census data of 2010 was bot-added, U.S. city articles have included a double whammy of eye-glazing statistics. I think it would improve this article for humans to revise the bot work by eliminating the 2000 data while retaining the 2010 data, with tweaks such as rounding for readability. I would also suggest replacing the general FactFinder link with one that goes more directly to the Hillsboro stats: here. If no one objects, I'd be happy to do the work, which could then be revised further if needed. Finetooth ( talk) 18:26, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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Now that we have 2020 census data available, do we need to keep the 2000 census sub-section? Or thta can be removed? Please discuss. Sabih omar 03:11, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
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I agree with Dr. Cash, the GA reviewer, that this article is nicely done and not far from a run at FA. The only lacuna that jumped out at me was absence of information about the original inhabitants. I added a paragraph about them to the "History" section that is a short, slightly revised version of the one I used for Fanno Creek. I added it boldly, but if it doesn't suit or needs work, please revise.
I turned a couple of lists into prose per my understanding of MoS guidelines. Ditto for the unbolding. I see a few other low-level things to fix such as italics missing from newspaper article titles in citations. The citation 61 link is dead.
I'd be happy to create a table of monthly high/low temperatures per Dr. Cash's suggestion and add it to the bottom of the climate section if other editors here think that's a good idea. Finetooth ( talk) 21:37, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
I synchronized the weather numbers and attended to a few more nit-picky things. Along the way, I noticed some oddness in the citations. Specifically, some of the news refs have a double page-number entry, such as "pp. West Zoner, p. 8". Since these have no urls to track down the originals on-line, I think an acceptable fix would be to include "West Zoner:" at the beginning of the "title" attribute and to change "p. 8" to "8". Also, since the date formatting in the citations should be consistent, "January 4, 2009" is I think what we want in the West Zoner citation. The revised citation would look like this: Potter, Connie (April 23, 1992). "West Zoner: Hillsboro students eager for trip to Japan", The Oregonian, p. 8. Retrieved on January 4, 2009. If everybody here is OK with these changes, I will go ahead and make them. Finetooth ( talk) 20:34, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
<outdent> Done. I replaced the GRs with cite templates and resorted to putting the retrieval date on citation 42 outside the template. All the dates now meet the internal consistency requirement probably needed to get the article to FA. I think the article is ready for PR with FAC as the step after that. Finetooth ( talk) 00:57, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
I believe all of the issues raised by the two peer reviewers have now been addressed with the exception of the suggestion by User:Peripitus that the health care section would be better with "a bit of history . . . What happened prior to 1918". If Tuality was the first hospital in Hillsboro, I think that would be a sufficient bit. If it wasn't the first, we could add the first and its opening date. I went back and forth about one of the other suggestions from Peripitus, that we use European instead of European-American to describe the people who drove out the Atfalati. The European explorers brought new diseases to the Columbia River basin, but the surviving Atfalati continued living in what became Washington County until the settlers, European-Americans, drove them out.
Every time I re-read any article, I find a few more nits to pick, but I think this article would now have a good chance at FAC. The image licenses look OK to me, but reviewers might suggest that the image descriptions be expanded in some cases to include date, location, description, author or photographer, "self-made" or "own photo", or anything else that might be helpful. Something is wrong with the link to citation 83; I think it's probably dead or semi-dead, and I don't know what to do about it. Aboutmovies is the main contributor and would be the one to nominate the article at FAC and would be the go-to editor on questions that might arise (as they always do). I'll be glad to help with the FAC suggestions or anything else however I can. User:Katr67 has worked on the article too and might like to join in the fun. Finetooth ( talk) 22:40, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
After Genentech's announcement, it would be appropriate to add information about Hillsboro now being home to North America's largest photovoltaic solar panel manufacturing facility developed by Solarworld, the German solar manufacturing firm. Announcement was in 2007. Phase 1, a re-tooling of a former Komatsu Group silicon wafer manufacturing facility, is complete and Phase 2 is under construction. Korynasz ( talk) 18:27, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Since the census data of 2010 was bot-added, U.S. city articles have included a double whammy of eye-glazing statistics. I think it would improve this article for humans to revise the bot work by eliminating the 2000 data while retaining the 2010 data, with tweaks such as rounding for readability. I would also suggest replacing the general FactFinder link with one that goes more directly to the Hillsboro stats: here. If no one objects, I'd be happy to do the work, which could then be revised further if needed. Finetooth ( talk) 18:26, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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Now that we have 2020 census data available, do we need to keep the 2000 census sub-section? Or thta can be removed? Please discuss. Sabih omar 03:11, 12 July 2023 (UTC)