Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cleveland/Neighborhoods taskforce

We need some Photos!

The project needs a creative soul who not only has access to a camera, but has the ablity to go out and get some good shots to upload for the various neighborhood pages. See the Laundry List on the WikiProject Cleveland main page for those particularly lacking... and incidentally, I don't think a single picture on the St. Clair-Superior article that is of a building actually in that neighborhood.Ryecatcher773 (talk) 04:35, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

This has been fixed. There are now a good sampling of images of the neighborhood on Commons, and more to be added in the next few days. - Tim1965 (talk) 03:33, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Articles, articles and articles...

The following neighborhoods still need articles in concordance with the SPAs (Statistical Planning Areas) listed below:

• Bellaire–Puritas
• Buckeye–Woodhill
• Central
• Clark–Fulton
• Cudell
• Cuyahoga Valley
• Edgewater
• Euclid–Green
• Fairfax
• Goodrich–Kirtland Park
• Hopkins
• Jefferson
• Kinsman
• Lee–Miles
• Mount Pleasant
• Stockyards
• Union–Miles Park
• West Boulevard

Basically, what we need for these are starting points. Click on one of the uncreated-articles listed above, and build what you can even if it's just a stub to start off. We will flesh them out accordingly (e.g. I have bookmarks for all the census data needed for infoboxes and whatnot). Adding pictures would be a plus. While it might not be the greatest time of year to go out and shoot snapshots, it most certainly is the perfect weather for sitting in and writing articles ;). As you create an article on the list, come back here and strike-through the article name (like this: Brooklyn Centre ) so we can mark it as done. Thanks Ryecatcher773 (talk) 03:05, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Neghborhood boundaries

The city seems to have established planning areas in 1957 or so, using existing colloquial neighborhood names for them. In 2000, the city radically altered the boundaries and names to reflect four decades of change. They changed them again in 2014, based on 2010 census data. So, here's the issue: The current neighborhood template appears to be based on the 2000 names and boundaries for city statistical planning areas.

1. Should city statistical planning areas be used for neighborhood names? Should other criteria, such as colloquial names and boundaries, be used instead? What other criteria other than colloquial could be used?
2. How often should the template be updated? Is it the city's intent to change these names and boundaries after every census? Should this WikiProject do the same?
3. If statistical planning areas are used as the defining criteria, how should changes in articles be handled? For example: After 2014, the city no longer recognized separate North Broadway, South Broadway, and Industrial Valley areas. This would require a contributor to merge the two Broadway articles into a single one (no easy task). Moreover, the new article would need to be reviewed because the new Broadway-Slavic Village SPA lost some territory to the new Cuyahoga Valley SPA—stripping out some of the area's industrial history. Potentially, WikiProject members would be faced with this task every few years, as the city adjusts its SPA names and boundaries. That's a hell of a lot of work for a small WikiProject.
4. How should changes in other articles be handled? For example, if the Downtown SPA boundaries are altered, Wikipedia contributors would need to police every article which links to it, to ensure that the article's reference to Downtown is still accurate. (I presume it would be common to have to edit an article, so that, for example, the phrase "XYZ Building, once part of the Downtown neighborhood, was placed in the Central neighborhood in 2010, and in the Goodrich-Kirtland Park neighborhood in 2014...") How can the WikiProject work to coordinate or handle such changes?

There may be other issues, but those are the ones which come to mind. - Tim1965 (talk) 17:11, 27 July 2017 (UTC)