Talk:Anchorage, Alaska/to do
Help is needed with the following in order to improve not only this article, but the overall encyclopedic coverage of Anchorage:
- General
- Update population estimate data on a yearly basis. The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development publishes new numbers every year, accessible from this webpage.
- Compare current state of the article to "Information on Anchorage" from the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce (and similiar works) to address any lingering plagiarism (see this write-up for details).
- Expand Government section (the section can be renamed Government and politics).
- The Roads subsection of the Transportation section contains excessive details about a few major roads which already have their own articles. Consider moving those details to those articles and rewriting the subsection to reflect a more generalized overview of Anchorage's road system.
- Rewrite Bears in Anchorage, Alaska as Wildlife in Anchorage, Alaska, as this topic would also benefit from being covered in a more generalized context as opposed to a POV fork.
- History of Anchorage, Alaska needs expanding, along with pictures of Anchorage in the early days and today.
- Consider merging the following: Anchorage Football Stadium, Ben Boeke Ice Rink and Mulcahy Stadium into one article, Chester Creek Sports Complex (which includes Sullivan Arena, though that should remain a separate article).
- Biographies
- Create biographies on key officials in early Anchorage history who didn't serve as mayor, such as Andrew Christensen and Otto Ohlson.
- Create biographies on the pre-unification borough mayors of Anchorage: John Asplund, Lee B. Jordan and Jack Roderick.
- James Gottstein, Perry Green and Charles Wohlforth dwell nearly exclusively on how the subjects are viewed by the world at large. All of these individuals are also notable for their accomplishments in Anchorage. Please consider expanding these articles to include this information.
- Alaska Sports Hall of Fame, Alaska Women's Hall of Fame and List of Alaskan Hall of Fame pilots contain many redlinks and other entries of notable individuals associated with Anchorage who lack articles at present
- Cleanup
- Alaska Dispatch News and KTUU-TV give undue weight to their current owners, at the expense of providing balanced coverage of those entity's lengthy histories.
- List of neighborhoods of Anchorage, Alaska is badly in need of cleanup/expansion/updating.
- List of tallest buildings in Anchorage was largely created from data found on emporis.com, which in some cases contradicts other sources in important matters such as building heights.
- New articles
- Major districts/neighborhoods and historically separate communities lacking their own article, such as Basher (or Stuckagain Heights), Bird, Fairview, Glen Alps, the Hillside, Midtown, Mountain View, Muldoon, Peters Creek and U-Med, plus any others.
- Alaska Heritage Museum (founded as an adjunct of National Bank of Alaska by Elmer E. Rasmuson, can also be sufficiently explained in either of those articles rather than created as a standalone article)
- Alaska Museum of Natural History
- Alaska Regional Hospital (blue link is a {{R without mention}} to Hospital Corporation of America, which isn't necessarily helpful as the hospital has had many owners throughout its history)
- Anchorage Assembly (see this article for reference)
- Anchorage Baptist Temple and Anchorage Christian Schools
- Anchorage Fire Department Museum
- Anchorage Municipal Light & Power
- Anchorage Public Library (Draft:Anchorage Public Library was submitted with numerous issues, which were never addressed, and was deleted in December 2014)
- Anchorage Ski Club (parent of Alpenglow at Arctic Valley with indications of independent notability, but can also redirect to that article)
- Anchorage Sports Arena (went defunct ca. 1980, but was an important venue prior to the construction of the Egan Center and Sullivan Arena)
- Anchorage Telephone Utility (also defunct, but can't be adequately explained in existing articles on successor entities due to its own history)
- Atwood Foundation
- Campbell Airstrip
Campbell Creek, including greenbelt and trail system as well as Campbell LakeChester Creek, including greenbelt and trail system, Valley of the Moon Park and Westchester Lagoon- Chilkoot Charlie's
- Chugach Electric Association
- Earthquake Park
- Enstar Natural Gas
- Far North Bicentennial Park
- International Ice Carving Competition
- Lake Spenard
- Mount Alyeska
- Northway Mall
- Point Campbell Military Reservation (established 1921, most of the reservation's area is now Kincaid Park, so it could be explained in that article)
- Rasmuson Foundation (the note accompanying Heritage Library Museum notwithstanding, there is a lot more evidence of independent notability in this case)
- Russian Orthodox Museum
- Sunrise Bakery
- Town Square Park (Anchorage, Alaska)
- University Center (defunct shopping mall and major destination 1970s–1990s — as a part of Wally Hickel's real estate empire, could also be explained in that article)
- Wildlife Education Center (at JBER, formerly the Elmendorf Wildlife Museum — there is/was also a wildlife museum at Fort Rich, but it's unclear whether or not the two were merged)
- Wolf Song of Alaska
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