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Request for Comment

A page similar to this one. List of people from San Francisco, is currently under review as an article for deletion, for reasons which would apply to this article as well. I am conducting an RfC on the talk page of the above-mentioned list to determine whether the concensus agrees on keeping such lists or not. Any and all comments are more than welcome. Badbilltucker 16:04, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It seems like this decision shouldn't be made on a city-by-city basis. No matter what the city, the issue of whether to keep the list as a "category" or a list. To tell the truth, I don't understand the distinction. Famous people who have lived in a city are part of that city's heritage, and such a list should definitely be easily accessed from a city's page. It would be great to annotate the list with some information about the person's ties to the city (whether merely born there, or lived there their entire lives, etc.). As I noted on the Berkeley page, people seemed to have included every famous person who has set foot in the city. It makes more sense to include an annotation about their ties to the city, because they may not be obvious, rather than a brief bio, which is readily available by clicking on the link to their entry. Lagringa 08:38, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree wholeheartedly. I myself have not yet begun to work on this particular page, and have only recently begun work to upgrade any of these lists at all. However, I intend, ultimately, to make this list resemble the List of people from Boston which has already been begun by me. It should be noted that even that list, however, is still in the early stages. In some of the areas with smaller populations, the "famous residents" section is being added to the page of the county or the city itself. However, I am going through an entire book (as well as, eventually, the subsequent volumes in the series) and including all the individuals who have separate entries in those books on the lists in which they belong. Badbilltucker 19:30, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like they decided not to delete the SF page. I guess we can consider this page safe too. I'll try to add annotations to improve it. Lagringa 05:45, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Work to be Done

Here are a couple directions I'd like to see this page move in:

Include claim to fame, like in List of people from Boston
Sync up with Category:People_from_Oakland,_California

Let this serve as a reference for things I'd like to work on when I have more time. Please feel free to go ahead and make any of these changes yourself. --Andy M. 06:50, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Burials

Some of the names here are connected by reliable source only to their being buried in oakland. I dont think that counts as being "from" oakland.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 17:11, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Some of those may have lived in Oakland, and some may not have. I agree the latter group should be removed. Binksternet (talk) 17:13, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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New entry

Per note up top, references for Tina Susman include the New York Times, L.A. Times, and C-Span--A21sauce (talk) 22:42, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Adding New Person

Think this person should be added? http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Dong_Kingman

DZL (talk) 21:00, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sonny Barger founded the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels, but not the whole club.

The San Bernardino chapter predates Oakland's by about nine years, and they are still active.

Also: while he has been a convicted criminal and a leader of the MC, he's also an author. Would it be better to list him under the Authors category? Pithecanthropus4152 (talk) 01:51, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Entertainment

Tom hanks is listed twice Flazblat (talk) 01:56, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Flazblat: I've removed the duplicate. You could have removed it yourself of course :) Next time, be bold and just do it :) Welcome to Wikipedia! --Hammersoft (talk) 03:47, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You know, for years Ive jumped down a rabbit hole of wiki pages literally daily, and have found mistakes like that in the past. For someone reason the tom hanks one got to me and

made an account just so i could let someone know. Checked today and saw it was corrected lol thank you. I didn’t know just making an account gave me such power! I will use it on the next one :) Flazblat (talk) 23:21, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]