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Contents 1 Rancho Jurupa 2 Edit war about crime stats 3 March 5. 2007 edit about vandalism (most recent) 4 Crime section edit 5 May 23, 2007 Earthquake 6 "Notable" natives 7 Fair use rationale for Image:Us-ca-rv-flag.gif 8 View from Mount Rubidoux 9 Frederick Law Olmsted 10 Fair use rationale for Image:City-of-riverside.jpg

[edit] Rancho Jurupa

Does anyone have any good sources for Rancho Jurupa? Ronbo76 02:50, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

see also Benjamin Davis Wilson, Mira Loma, California, Juan Bandini, Big Bear Lake (Native American connection). Ronbo76 05:38, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit war about crime stats

It appears the edit war is on about this issue. We need consensus. Crime is a fact and if documented properly should be present in the article (IMHO). Ronbo76 05:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I think the current section is too long, and should not be titled 'Gangs and Crime' every major city has gangs, and it just makes it look like it is a huge problem with Riverside. College Watch 19:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

It could stand some editing down, and paraphrasing. Right now, a major portion of it consists of direct quotes from the two cited references, except that the numbers have been inflated, apparently arbitrarily. --Takwish 19:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] March 5. 2007 edit about vandalism (most recent)

This should be looked at because it comes from a user with a non-reliable track record for article input. Ronbo76 07:36, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Crime section edit

Today's edit deleted cited portions. It was replaced with a citation that does not work as of this post. If subtle citation cannot be found in reasonable time, recommend revert. Ronbo76 15:19, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I reverted and cleaned up the section. The citation was actually existing, but still broken. I fixed it. The earlier section may have been deleted because it was copied verbatim from the references. I also reworded everything to avoid copyright infringement. Brien Clark^Talk 05:01, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] May 23, 2007 Earthquake

These two earthquakes (3.8 and 3.9, ocurring 5 minutes apart) were centered 2 miles southeast of Devore. They didn't belong here, thanks for removing. Referenced here and here. —Brien Clark^Talk 16:29, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Notable" natives

Can I get a consensus on deleting all red links? If they are notable, they should be in WP. We currently have three porn stars in there that I am pretty sure are fake. Let me know.  DangerousNerd  talk 02:07, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Took it into my own hands. Erased all red-links with no wikified description. Red-links that were related to something in WP were bolded.  DangerousNerd  talk 20:49, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Us-ca-rv-flag.gif

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BetacommandBot 11:15, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] View from Mount Rubidoux

I have uploaded a picture from Mount Rubidoux right below a similar one taken in 2004. It looks better to me, but I'll leave it to others to edit. Qwerty510 00:12, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Frederick Law Olmsted

I find it intriguing that Olmsted is listed as the planner for Fairmont Park. I know he was the city planner for the city of Riverside in Illinois and another park named Fairmont (not in Riv. Ca). However, in my preliminary searches for evidence to verify that he was in fact the planner of Fairmont Park, I have yet to find hard evidence. Can anyone help? Is there a plaque in the park that gives Olmsted credit? Any books that my clarify this? I look forward to hearing from anyone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Suburbanism (talk • contribs) 19:43, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

The park's name is spelled Fairmount Park. You'll probably turn up ample citations by searching with the correct spelling. Although I didn't have time to pull out any books, I noticed that the city's website cites it (and the appropriate Wikipedia article!) on this park page: http://www.riversideca.gov/park_rec/facilities.asp I hope this helps, at least a little. Lenge001 (talk) 03:44, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:City-of-riverside.jpg

Image:City-of-riverside.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)