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article split - notable people?

Hi, with almost 100 notables, is it time to have a separate list article? Coolabahapple (talk) 03:25, 15 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've split and added to the Palo Alto template. I suspect the only people who should be listed in this article should be those who can be included in the running text. --Erp (talk) 03:22, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
thanks. Coolabahapple (talk) 13:03, 2 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Bike Arc

The references to Bike Arc are shameless advertisement for a minor and largely unsuccessful product. Hundreds of important and historically significant items originated in Palo Alto, and they are (properly) not mentioned in this article about a municipality. The reference and photographs should be deleted. Jds13 (talk) 23:24, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Highest point

I would guess that the highest point in Palo Alto would be Black Mountain at 2,812 ft (857 m) but does anyone have a good reference for this? There also seems to be a story about how the land got annexed by Palo Alto but the reference isn't as reliable as I would like (https://theland.wikispaces.com/ though backed up by the legal documents https://www.leagle.com/decision/19821043136CalApp3d907_1964/ELDRIDGE%20v.%20BURNS). --Erp (talk) 03:03, 16 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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California historic landmarks in Palo Alto

Acquired from "California registry".; some of this could be researched and incorporated into the article.

  • NO. 524 SITE OF JUANA BRIONES DE MIRANDA HOME ON RANCHO LA PURÍSIMA CONCEPCIÓN
  • NO. 836 PIONEER ELECTRONICS RESEARCH LABORATORY
  • NO. 857 JOHN ADAMS SQUIRE HOUSE
  • NO. 895 HOSTESS HOUSE (already mentioned in article)
  • NO. 969 HOME SITE OF SARAH WALLIS
  • NO. 976 BIRTHPLACE OF SILICON VALLEY (Packard Garage, already mentioned in article)
  • NO. 1000 SITE OF INVENTION OF THE FIRST COMMERCIALLY PRACTICABLE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

Also

  • PALO ALTO SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD DEPOT (covered in the Palo Alto station article)

The National Registry has though most don't seem important enough to include

Any other sources to mine? --Erp (talk) 05:32, 11 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Palo Alto Networks

How about Palo Alto Networks? Why nothing about it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.192.161.196 (talk) 21:29, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Foothills Park

I've started a draft article on Foothills Park. Could do with some pictures and some more info.--Erp (talk) 01:34, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Foothills Park, Palo Alto article is now official but still lacks pictures. --Erp (talk) 01:15, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal: Update the climate table to include more data (calculate more attributes and include more years in base data)

The current climate table includes three attributes: average high and low temperature and average precipitation. The current table uses data from 1981-2010 as the basis for the presented values.

I'd like to update this table along two dimensions: add four additional attributes (record high, average record high, average record low, record low) and use a larger data set (spans more years, 1953-2017) to calculate the values.

Here's the proposed new table:

Climate data for Palo Alto, California (1953-2017)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °F (°C) 75
(24) 		84
(29) 		85
(29) 		98
(37) 		100
(38) 		107
(42) 		105
(41) 		101
(38) 		105
(41) 		100
(38) 		89
(32) 		75
(24) 		107
(42)
Mean maximum °F (°C) 66.5
(19.2) 		71.5
(21.9) 		76.3
(24.6) 		83.3
(28.5) 		88.7
(31.5) 		94.4
(34.7) 		92.7
(33.7) 		91.4
(33.0) 		92.8
(33.8) 		87.4
(30.8) 		75.3
(24.1) 		66.8
(19.3) 		98.1
(36.7)
Mean daily maximum °F (°C) 57.3
(14.1) 		61.2
(16.2) 		64.6
(18.1) 		68.6
(20.3) 		73.2
(22.9) 		77.5
(25.3) 		78.5
(25.8) 		78.4
(25.8) 		78.5
(25.8) 		73.3
(22.9) 		64.2
(17.9) 		57.8
(14.3) 		69.4
(20.8)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C) 38.5
(3.6) 		41.4
(5.2) 		43.2
(6.2) 		44.9
(7.2) 		48.8
(9.3) 		52.6
(11.4) 		55.0
(12.8) 		54.9
(12.7) 		52.8
(11.6) 		48.2
(9.0) 		42.7
(5.9) 		38.3
(3.5) 		46.7
(8.2)
Mean minimum °F (°C) 29.2
(−1.6) 		32.2
(0.1) 		34.3
(1.3) 		37.2
(2.9) 		41.0
(5.0) 		45.3
(7.4) 		47.6
(8.7) 		48.8
(9.3) 		45.5
(7.5) 		39.1
(3.9) 		32.6
(0.3) 		28.6
(−1.9) 		26.0
(−3.3)
Record low °F (°C) 21
(−6) 		20
(−7) 		22
(−6) 		31
(−1) 		33
(1) 		32
(0) 		15
(−9) 		30
(−1) 		37
(3) 		−3
(−19) 		15
(−9) 		4
(−16) 		−3
(−19)
Average precipitation inches (mm) 2.9
(74) 		2.8
(71) 		2.2
(56) 		1.0
(25) 		0.3
(7.6) 		0.1
(2.5) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.0
(0.0) 		0.2
(5.1) 		0.7
(18) 		1.6
(41) 		2.6
(66) 		14.0
(360)
Source: "Daily Summaries Station Details (for station USC00046646)". National Centers for Environmental Information. Retrieved 2020-09-27.

Please let me know your thoughts-- thanks. Absent advice to the contrary, I'll replace the existing table in about a month. Count3r (talk) 22:59, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think this could be confusing between average record high and average high (same for lows). More useful might be to indicate what year the record high/low for each month was recorded. --Erp (talk) 05:25, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Agree that the difference is subtle-- if it were me I'd work on the language in the first column. But this is an issue with the Weather Box template, which is where the language is defined. For purposes of this article the choice is to include/exclude those rows. My preference is to include them (I guess obviously since I did :) ). Certainly other pages (see, for example, San Francisco, Los Angeles or New York City) have included them. Thanks-- Count3r (talk) 17:05, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Installed the above table earlier today. Next step is to update the prose above it to accurately reflect the new data-- for example the prose and table now disagree on the average annual rainfall. Count3r (talk) 23:56, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Economy section, list of companies

I've added a see also to the List: Category:Companies based in Palo Alto, California which means we can delete the bulleted list in the article. Companies mentioned in the article should include a description of why they are important vis a vis Palo Alto (e.g., the largest employer boxes or significance in the history section). We may want to set up a category of former companies based in Palo Alto, California --Erp (talk) 13:58, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've set up Category:Non-profit organizations based in Palo Alto, California and Category:Companies formerly based in Palo Alto, California to make it a bit easier to organize things. --Erp (talk) 14:44, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

History of Housing in Palo Alto

I have removed two paragraphs with misinformation related to blockbusting and redlining due to both citations (websites) not existing.

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