Talk:Los Angeles

Mediterranean climate???

According that climate chart we should define LA climate a semiarid/subtropical climate. Surely not mediterranean. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.10.235.128 (talk) 01:52, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

I learned at UCLA in the 1950s that Los Angeles had a subtropical climate. In fact, there was a department of subtropical horticulture there in that era. GeorgeLouis (talk) 15:28, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Los Angeles is a Mediterranean climate zone, due to the ocean inversion layer offshore. A Med climate zone is a subtropical climate zone, FYI.

"The dry summer subtropical climate is found on the west side of subtropical continents and on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The largest area of dry summer subtropical climate is on the border lands of the Mediterranean. For Americans especially, the lure of "sunny" coastal central and southern California's dry summer subtropical climate is a draw for tourism and habitation. Mediterranean climate is also found in the Cape Town area of South Africa, central Chile, and southwestern Australia."

http://www4.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/climate_systems/mediterranean.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.189.109.53 (talk) 20:28, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

"Temperatures are subject to substantial daily swings; in inland areas the difference between the average daily low and the average daily high is over 30 °F (−1 °C)."

While it is true that an absolute temperature of 30 °F equals -1 °C (approximately), since this is talking about temperature differences, not actual temperatures, the Celsius figure should be 17 °F, unless I've missed something.

To give another example, a temperature of 100 °C equals 212 °F, but the difference between the melting and boiling points of water is 100 °C / 180 °F. 82.10.225.43 (talk) 17:18, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Nickname

Wouldn't Tinseltown be another nickname for L.A? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.8.59.86 (talk) 03:21, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

The Mayor of Los Angeles

As of July 1, 2013, the Mayor of Los Angeles is Eric Garcetti. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.149.63.161 (talk) 21:51, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

The mayor of Los Angeles is Eric Garcetti. Snishiya (talk) 13:40, 28 October 2013 (UTC)snishiya

The current mayor is Eric Garcetti. Snishiya (talk) 13:46, 28 October 2013 (UTC)snishiya <Government Los Angeles>

LA Never Part of So-Called "California Republic"

The history box on this page states that LA was part of the California Republic in 1846. There was never any such country.

There was a group of people in Sonoma county who proclaimed a California Republic in 1846, and who formed a provisional government there. That "government" only existed for two months before it folded, when they discovered the United States had declared war on Mexico; and it never exercised any jurisdiction outside of the Sonoma-Napa counties area It certainly did not include Los Angeles, or anything south of the Sacramento River Delta.

The provincial government of California at the capital city of Monterey continued to function without any impairment during the period that the bogus "California Republic" tried to get its own revolution started

This sort of romantic political fiction has no place in an encyclopaedia and should be removed.

69.181.62.103 (talk) 04:23, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Please refer to published accounts rather than asserting facts on your own authority. Let's hew to what the literature says. Binksternet (talk) 04:43, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Edit request, 31 October 2013

"The metropolitan area is home to the headquarters of many companies who moved outside of the city of Los Angeles to escape its high taxes and high crime rate while keeping the benefits of remaining in close proximity. For example, Los Angeles charges a gross receipts tax based on a percentage of business revenue, while many neighboring cities charge only small flat fees." I checked the source and nowhere was there any mention of headquarters moving outside of the city of Los Angeles due to high crime and tax rates. Please delete this part. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.117.252.112 (talk) 13:14, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

 Done. In fact, the word "crime" doesn't appear anywhere in the source. Thanks. --Stfg (talk) 17:00, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Can you also point out to me where this is mentioned "The metropolitan area is home to the headquarters of many companies who moved outside of the city of Los Angeles to escape its high taxes while keeping the benefits of remaining in close proximity." in the source? I can't seem to find it.178.117.252.112 (talk) 07:07, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

That's going to be harder to find, because it will be a paraphrase. The source is 169 pages long and I'm not going to read it, but I've tagged the statement with {{Page needed}}. Give it at least a few weeks, and it can be deleted if nobody has come up with the goods. --Stfg (talk) 18:12, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

I searched the document on several keywords "flee" "escape" "high taxes" "avoid", and nothing was found at all related to this, some of the words are not even present. This is nothing more than an ideological smear-campaign. It's pretty obvious.178.117.252.112 (talk) 23:03, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

I would try to assume good faith if I were you. OK, I've skimmed the source, and having found pp 65–66, it seems to me that the text needs strengthening rather than removing. For the moment, I'm not prepared to pre-empt other editors' input. --Stfg (talk) 23:32, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

This is just original research. Nothing at all is said about leaving, fleeing or escaping the city of LA due to high taxes! The ONLY thing the source says is that there is a certain discontentment with LA taxes coming from the business community. 178.117.252.112 (talk) 00:22, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done. I think it was probably poor citation rather than original research, actually. I was going to rewrite the paragraph to summarise pp 65–66, when I noticed that the date of the source is January 14, 2004. That's much too old to justify statements about the current tax regime, so I've deleted the whole paragraph. In fact, the citation just deleted gives a document date of 1997, so the citation may have been to an older report. I don't know, but no matter. Now, since we're battling original research, how about some sources for that huge list of companies in LA in the previous paragraph? --Stfg (talk) 14:30, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

"Epicenter" of the film industry?

So LA is the point on the earth's surface directly above the film industry? That would explain a lot, I suppose. Would have fixed it but the page was locked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.134.190.166 (talk) 15:56, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

I think it's rather a nice metaphor, myself, but it can be changed if you have a better suggestion. What do you suggest? --Stfg (talk) 18:16, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 20 November 2013

Can somebody add to this article that Los Angeles was ranked as having the 3rd best startup ecosystem, just behind Silicon Valley & Tel Aviv, according to the Startup Ecosystem Report (2012, techcrunch). Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/20/startup-genome-ranks-the-worlds-top-startup-ecosystems-silicon-valley-tel-aviv-l-a-lead-the-way/

I think it's pretty relevant.178.117.252.112 (talk) 07:08, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Thanks, Celestra (talk) 19:31, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Climate figures

Some recent vandalism, maybe some old. Dougweller (talk) 16:26, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 January 2014

61st[1] World Tzicul (talk) 10:52, 12 January 2014 (UTC)