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Boise, Idaho was a Geography and places good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
August 26, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
November 17, 2012	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former good article nominee

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Climate[edit]

Surely it isn't cold enough to be a continental climate? It would be a cool semi-arid climate with a wide temperature range, but not truly continental.Disintegration1989 (talk) 09:49, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Library![edit]

The Boise Public Library system styles itself as "Library!" & that signage is a local landmark. The mayor himself admits as much (it took him a while to warm up to it, as he initially thought it silly), and there are citations. kencf0618 (talk) 02:23, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Geothermal[edit]

How about something about their geothermal heating:

begun in 1890
the largest in the nation, as of 2021

That deserves mention. MaynardClark (talk) 18:31, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Expand history section[edit]

This article desperately needs someone with a credible knowledge of the history of Boise to expand the “History” section beyond what it is now. While the “Early Years” subsection is commendable and thorough, apparently the only thing that has happened in Idaho’s capital city since 1871 is that non-Idahoans began mispronouncing the name of the city. Ntowle98 (talk) 21:51, 15 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. I've begun working on the history section. To date have added a few paragraphs about early growth in the 1860s and 1870s and hope to contribute further. At some point as the content takes shape appropriate headings will need to be devised as well. Ace Winfield (talk) 20:05, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am a historian and a Boise native and I have tried to edit the history section but my edits were deleted. I have never seen a wikipedia page with so many factual inaccuracies. It states that Boise is to the east of the Rockies when it is to the west. It states that the Jacob Astor expedition represented the first entry of white Europeans to the area, which is false. It has so many other factual errors that I am confused as to why they were not removed. I will attempt to edit the site again over the next week but the number of completely untrue statements on this Wikipedia page are stunning. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WestHistorian (talk • contribs) 05:51, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Urban area[edit]

I've deleted this old 2010 figure from the infobox. U.S. Census has not reported or updated urban populations since then (and has no plans to do so in the future). Thus, it's already 12 years old, any 2010 national ranking is irrelevant in 2022, and it's inaccurately labeled as "2020". All other WP city articles have removed these old urban area stats. Mason.Jones (talk) 17:09, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to clarify that the Census Bureau has published a 2020 version of it's urban and rural areas since this topic was added to Talk. See here It appears this has already been incorporated into the article. Jokojis (talk) 18:23, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]