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Compare current state of the article to "Information on Anchorage" from the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce (and similiar works) to address any lingering plagiarism (see this write-up for details).
Expand Government section (the section can be renamed Government and politics).
The Roads subsection of the Transportation section contains excessive details about a few major roads which already have their own articles. Consider moving those details to those articles and rewriting the subsection to reflect a more generalized overview of Anchorage's road system.
James Gottstein, Perry Green and Charles Wohlforth dwell nearly exclusively on how the subjects are viewed by the world at large. All of these individuals are also notable for their accomplishments in Anchorage. Please consider expanding these articles to include this information.
Alaska Dispatch News and KTUU-TV give undue weight to their current owners, at the expense of providing balanced coverage of those entity's lengthy histories.
List of tallest buildings in Anchorage was largely created from data found on emporis.com, which in some cases contradicts other sources in important matters such as building heights.
Rasmuson Foundation (the note accompanying Heritage Library Museum notwithstanding, there is a lot more evidence of independent notability in this case)
University Center (defunct shopping mall and major destination 1970s–1990s — as a part of Wally Hickel's real estate empire, could also be explained in that article)
Wildlife Education Center (at JBER, formerly the Elmendorf Wildlife Museum — there is/was also a wildlife museum at Fort Rich, but it's unclear whether or not the two were merged)
The phrase "and has more people than all of Northern Canada and Greenland combined" might be interesting, but I don't see why such a comparison is needed in the lede. The lede is supposed to be a short summary of the most important points. I'd suggest removing it from there as an inappropriate tangent. (I have no objection to moving the phrase somewhere down in the article if context is appropriate.) -- Infrogmation (talk) 02:55, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As of December 27, 2024, the opening image of this page is of a place on the Kenai Peninsula, nowhere near Anchorage. Perhaps someone can find a public domain image of the city proper. 152.117.104.206 (talk) 17:33, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
level-5 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
