Talk:Goat Rock Beach

As this one is up for VGA, lets play devils advocate shall we?

It is a sand beach. How is a sand beach different from other beaches? If we need to say sand beach, we must have some definition of the other types of beaches which aren't sand beaches somewhere.

I have changed this to normal old, regular beach. Thamusemeantfan 01:47, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

What exactly is this Somona county you speak off.. it seems to be a part of California, (hence the Somona County, California thing) but the reference dies there. -- link to main article on Somona county

I created an article for Sonoma County and added a link. Thamusemeantfan 01:47, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

"In the northern part of the beach, the mouth of the Russian River is located".. ok, 1. what is the Russian river? It is a river in Russia? Does Russia have one official river which oddly happens to be in California (in the currently unknown county that is Somona?) 2. grammar layout could be better. Just shifting the halves of the sentence could correct it.

I linked it. Voila: Russian River. Thamusemeantfan 01:54, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

"In the southern part of the beach, Goat Rock, which the beach is named after, is located." That is just awkward grammar. Factually correct, but really hard to wrap your head around the layout of the wording.

I agree, that was very bad grammar on my part. Now fixed. Thamusemeantfan 01:56, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Paragraph 2 has two sentences. One of these talks about something called "wading and surfing". There is no link/definition to what these are but it seems they are done with several different types of wildlife.

I changed wading to swimming and linked both words. Thamusemeantfan 02:00, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Geography

Apparently this area loses lots of marines each year. This somehow leads to a loss of land as well. (I'm guessing the loss of defence?) It seems some rocks are found here from some complex a guy named Francis had during an earthquake. This might have had something to do with two plates being smashed together 30+ million years ago (Did this guy Francis bang plates together and get a complex? and why did he names his plates North America and Farallon?)

Ok. I fixed this with more links and simplified wording.

What exactly is "Chert"?

What exactly is the pop culture reference to "We have no idea how it got it's name." It there a list of movies and TV series out there with have brought up the point we do not know where this name came from? Is it an on-running joke in some book I haven't read yet? The goonies scene is certainly pop culture, but its naming seems more history than pop culture. I am also uncertain about a vote in something named Metroactive as I have no idea if this is a webpage, magazine, or a poster board at the local coffee shop.

To be a very good article, one must be as unambiguous and well informing as possible. An article meeting these standards should not be creating more questions than it answers. Looking at this list, this article is leaving a lot of open doors for more information (or clarification of information) to be included. -- Creol(talk) 07:48, 28 November 2007 (UTC)