Portal talk:San Francisco Bay Area/Archive 1

Timeline of featured material

So far, we've been able to spread around the love:

September-November 2006:

Article - SF then East Bay (Oakland)

Picture - Peninsula

DYK picture - East Bay (Bridge) and SF

Quote - SF

December:

Article - Silicon Valley

Picture - Peninsula

DYK picture - North Bay (Napa)

Quote - SF

January 2007:

Article - North Bay (Sonoma)

Picture - East Bay (Berkeley)

DYK picture - SF

Quote - Silicon Valley

February:

Article - SF

Picture - North Bay (Marin)

DYK picture - Silicon Valley

Quote - East Bay (Berkeley)

March:

Article - East Bay (preferably not Oakland or Berkeley)

Picture - SF

DYK picture - North Bay (maybe Solano?)

Quote - Silicon Valley/Peninsula (preferably Peninsula, if one can be found. Else, SF)

Not too bad. We need some more featurable content for Contra Costa County, Solano County, the Livermore Valley, the upper/mid Peninsula, and northern reaches of the North Bay.DaveOinSF 00:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Quote discussion

I don't think we should strive for regional balance in this section. There are simply a lot more famous quotes about San Francisco than there are about the other areas in the Bay Area. So I think this section should alternate between a San Francisco-based quote and a non-SF-based quote.--DaveOinSF 05:49, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Inasmuch as the first two quotes were SF-based, the next one should not be based on SF.

Proposal for January, 2007 quote:

• "On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984." - from the famous 1984 television commercial.

Cal Bears

I loved Joe Starkey's quote from the 1982 Cal - Stanford Big Game. Maybe the next one should be a sports quote??

Cal Bears

Maybe Raiders 49ers etc quote? Paul Italiano 23:34, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Do you Know discussion

Initial suggestions

Limit to 4 per month, with one each focussing on:

• San Francisco
• Peninsula and Silicon Valley
• East Bay
• North Bay and Wine Country

Ideas for the future:

San Francisco

• Palace of Fine Arts and Exploratorium and Panama-Pacific International Exposition
• One Rincon Hill (20 May 2007, user:Hydrogen Iodide)

Peninsula and Silicon Valley

• Charles Herrold and KQW

East Bay

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and National Ignition Facility

North Bay

• Sonoma County Airport and Charles M. Schulz

-5 December 2006 User:DaveOinSF

Comment

The above suggestions are now over 5 years old. Right now, there are no guidelines or suggestions beyond general portal guidelines (whatever they are)Mercurywoodrose (talk) 00:47, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Contra Costa County

I live in Contra Costa County and there is nothing on that Paul Italiano 00:39, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Santa Cruz County?

The map of the San Francisco Bay Area on this portal shows Santa Cruz County to be part of the San Francisco Bay Area, yet Santa Cruz County is not listed as one of the counties in the SFBA. I think its appropriate it not be so listed, as Santa Cruz County is part of the Monterey Bay Area. Additionally, while the SFBA is clearly located in Northern California, a strong case could be made for Santa Cruz County being the beginning of the Central California Coast. While most of Santa Cruz County lies directly west of Santa Clara County, the Santa Cruz Mountains actually make it quite geographically isolated from Santa Clara County, and the rest of the SFBA. Additionally, Santa Cruz County does not, unlike the other nine counties indisputably a part of the SFBA, share any coastline with the San Francisco Bay. I believe the map should be edited in order to remove Santa Cruz County from the visual depiction of the SFBA (but I do not know how to do that, alas). KevinOKeeffe (talk) 14:15, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

I found a map over at Wikimedia Commons, which features just the nine counties traditionally regarded as part of the San Francisco Bay Area, and have replaced the previous image with it. KevinOKeeffe (talk) 09:42, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind including Santa Cruz county within the scope of the task force. WhisperToMe (talk) 13:58, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

By local definition, its not strictly part, but I am not opposed to including occasional material on it.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:22, 24 November 2011 (UTC)