Talk:Louisville, Kentucky/to do
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- Top Priority: Fix all tagged issues.
- Compact article by moving content into existing sub-articles and creating new sub-articles, and also by removing any fluff
- Expand geography discussion (put deep details in Geography of Louisville, Kentucky):
- Talking about some of the suburbs would be nice. Many interesting, populous suburbs: Shively, Pleasure Ridge Park, Valley Station, Fairdale, Fern Creek, Jeffersontown, St. Matthews, Prospect, Anchorage, etc.
- Talk about the city's urban neighborhoods and their contribution to the city's development and current culture. (can also be discussed in Louisville neighborhoods)
- Discuss the city's flora and fauna.
- Expand culture discussion:
- Cover nightlife
- Cover "Local myths and legends". Cover things like Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Pope Lick Monster and the supposed invention of the cheeseburger in 1934, even though it was actually invented in Pasadena, California in the 1920s
- Improve the "Indie scene" section, with more references.
- Cover the growing bourbon industry/attractions in town.
- Maybe spin off a Culture of Louisville, Kentucky article.
- Expand economy discussion (put deep details in Economy of Louisville, Kentucky):
- Would like to read about the rapid growth in East Louisville/Oldham County.
- The jobs that are pouring into Bullitt County because of the expansion of the airport and Worldport.
- Cover the rapidly growing health care industry more extensively.
- Cover the city's contribution to the state's economy, and how much the city gets back from its state revenue contributions.
- List Louisville's firsts and special achievements in one spot, perhaps a sub-article. One resource for this: [1]
- Cover public libraries and other educational aspects beyond schools in the Education section
- Expand "Crime and public safety" section
- Cover bikeways and other cycling infrastructure in the Transportation section. The current Bikeways content in Transportation in Louisville, Kentucky also should be rewritten as it currently reads like a brochure. Once that is shaped up, some of its content could go here.
- Cover rankings of the city in various lists.
- Discuss Louisville Public Media in the Media section. Aspects of public radio in Louisville may be especially notable.
- Bring back discussion of pronunciation via an "Etymology and pronunciations" section, fully referenced, of course. Link to this section from the lead rather than showing pronunciations there, which looks rather clunky.
- Include more discussion on significant community organizations.
- Cover a bit of the dispute over the city's population rank, based on the "balance" rather than the consolidated total.
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