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Someone DELETE the paragraph in sports starting with "Vancouver has an adult obesity..." Obesity stats do not belong here ] (]) 23:52, 10 July 2021 (UTC) Someone DELETE the paragraph in sports starting with "Vancouver has an adult obesity..." Obesity stats do not belong here ] (]) 23:52, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

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Someone DELETE the paragraph in sports starting with "Vancouver has an adult obesity..." Obesity stats do not belong here Yahkgirl (talk) 23:52, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Montage too long

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Skyline of downtown VancouverSkyline of downtown Vancouver

The montage of this article -- while it may be aesthetically pleasing to some -- is far too long. This issue is especially true for mobile users, who make up more than half of our readers. The current infobox montage takes up almost the entire screen when reading on an iPhone with regular font and zoom. This causes the reader to have to scroll even further through the already long settlement infobox just to get to the text of the article.

I propose using only one image in the infobox. While this is a proposal that is unique and perhaps wouldn't suit other cities, it is evident that the first image of Vancouver's skyline, featuring the harbour in the foreground and the city's entire skyline in the background, is by far the most iconic and identifiable image of Vancouver in the current montage. The other images in the montage are quite distinctive in comparison, and would be far better served being moved to sections of the article specific to them.

There have been similar discussions at Talk:San Francisco over the years about the San Francisco infobox image. The consensus reached there was to only use one, iconic, and easily identifiable image, which is what I am proposing here (example on the right). — TrailBlzr (talk) 02:39, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

I strongly agree with this. Montages typically show things that only locals know, with no explanation of their significance, and with images too small to help the reader learn anything. (NOTE: I have said this in several other city articles. Not singling out Vancouver.) Unfortunately though, I'm not sure the single image is all that much better. It's a great pic, but all cities have skylines, many of them on water. I'm not a local (planning to visit later this year, hence my interest), so I don't know what to suggest. Could you perhaps get a shot with snow on the nearby mountains? HiLo48 (talk) 03:08, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
Seconded. A montage is nice, but not really needed in this article as unlike New York, which has more recognizable landmarks, Vancouver or San Francisco simply offer nothing of popular consciousness. Either way, a single image is best suited for this article. Lemonreader (talk) 08:23, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
It takes a lot of scrolling to get through all this content can it be simplified? Yahkgirl (talk) 22:08, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

BC place

Under the sports and recreation heading, the image and caption of BC place is outdated. It now has the retractable roof instead of the cloth dome which was prior to 2010. Nikolaih 18:52, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

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I want to change the picture from the skyline to a beautiful collage of the city's landmarks I made. I just want to enlighten people of the landmarks of the city. Thank you for your answer Geografreak (talk) 19:39, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

 Not done for now: If you have a picture in mind that meets our WP:Image Use Policy, feel free to link it here and reopen the request Cannolis (talk) 19:56, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
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