Here are a few notes I have if I ever have time to give this page a refresh.

• Lede - some boring wiki-facts snuck into paragraph 2. Move to understand history section
• Districts - We should go either all in or all out with Cambridge, Somerville and Brookline. IMHO the parent article (Greater Boston) covers too much ground to leave these 3 articles out of the Boston page. This arrangement goes outside political lines, but helps the traveller I think.
• History - as noted above chop to 4-5 paragraphs. Native Am, pilgrim, revolutionary, transcendental (maybe), and modern. Half short twice strong.
• Climate - fine
• Read & Watch - combine and chop to 9.
• Smoking - whatever
• Visitor info - clean up and move within understand for consistency.
• By plane - move more content to the Logan page, keep just the essentials here.
• Other airports - rm, already captured in New England, Eastern mass, etc. Or at least greatly reduce if people feel strongly.
• Private aviation - mv to eastern mass since that's the area this seems to cover
• by train/bus/car - fine but long. see if any fluff can be removed/tightened.
• by public transit - I would love to turn this into Public Transit in Eastern Massachusetts but I don't have time and I doubt anyone else will so I guess this section is fine. (It's way way too long for me tho...)
• other get around sections - mostly fine. Probably needs general clean up and should proseify any bulleted lists.
• See - pretty good
• Do - music and performing arts dated, many covid closures. Sports, getting very long, should chop a paragraph or two. Just mention big rivalries and omit player names as these go out of date too quickly.
• Learn - generally this is supposed to be for like cooking classes and such (as I understand it), but in the case of Boston (huge college town) I think this works in this instance.
• Work - Same as learn, but maybe lose a paragraph somehow? Not that important
• Buy - fine, but see brookbridgeville in/out comment from districts section
• Eat - needs updates. Many closures and I used some of this on the New England page where it works better.
• Drink - many closures, etc.
• Sleep - fine
• Stay safe - hate these sections, I'd chop it way way back
• Cope - probably a lot here is out of date. Assuming we still care about consulates. Are radio/tv stations still important to anyone? What else goes here? Internet access?
• Go next - would love to put these back in order of closest to furthest by travel time. But I get that people like to see things split out by state. Generally these are fine.

ButteBag (talk) 15:25, 24 April 2023 (UTC)Reply