Talk:Mountain House, California

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can we get a picture of the actual town?Cholga^talK! 01:24, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New York Times, 11/11/2008 - features Mountain House: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/business/11home.html?hp —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.80.226.125 (talk) 14:33, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This community was recently featured on the program "Une heure sur le Terre" on Télévision Radio-Canada as a part of a series on the economic meltdown in California. It looked pretty bleak. The report is available on the network's website (in French only), but interviews are conducted in English.--Larry G (talk) 03:13, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

About the appearance of flowery, adlike statements and future-predicting content in this article, and why I moved the page from "Future Mountain House Community" back to "Mountain House, California":

Mountain House is a place in existence today. It has houses, people, and things. It is not a "future community." Wikipedia does not talk about the "future," as what's in the future does not exist today. A major plan, something like legislation, that would affect the future may be notable enough to have a WP page. Community development plans are not notable in that way. Thousands of communities all over the place have such plans. They are usually not notable. And Mountain House's is only notable in the context of the "Mountain House, California" page that already exists. And even then, the Mountain House plan should not be treated as the "future," because the plan could change. It would suffice perfectly well to say that the plan calls for X number of houses, Y acres of commercial development, Z this and that, and spend a paragraph or two on the plan. Beyond that, the article needs to stay limited to a description of what is there right now and its history, and completely omit all this future nonsense that hasn't come true yet. This is to say nothing of the flagrant advertisement-like tone of much of the writing that's been appearing on this page. See WP:NOTCRYSTAL and WP:NOTADVERTISING -- this page is here neither for peering into the future nor for advertising this lovely place called Mountain House. Michael Patrick (talk) 18:39, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]