Talk:Akron neighborhoods

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[edit] NPOV and citation issues

This article often reads like a brochure for Akron, and sorely lacks citations and references. I did what I could on a first pass for the first problem, though it could use more help. I was reticent to remove uncited info as that's currently the entire article, and there's some good, if unreferenced, information there. JDoorjam Talk 17:51, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I will try to speak for the article, since I did a lot of the work. Beyond demographics, most information came from a series on Akron's Neighborhoods by The Akron Beacon Journal. Since the source articles are more than a year old, Beacon stops achieving them. They are available via news bank, but that is not a free service. I will lookup and cite all I can, but will be unable to link them. --UltraSkuzzi 22:54, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
FYI, Newsbank is free via Oplin/Ohio Public Libraries and provides open-access URLs, which seem to stay active for an extended period of time. Frankly, though, if it's feasible I would start by copying over the data from the neighborhoods page on the city's website. --Rollingacres.org 13:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] porting tables/stats over from Akron neighborhood profiles

I'm tossing in the text - if someone can figure out how to port those over that would be helpful.

I've just been cut & pasting the text from the Google HTML cache of the city's PDFs. City Site or List of Google Cache of HTMLs

--Rollingacres.org 05:25, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

RA, could you qualify what you are trying to accomplish here? Most of the data in the Akron demographics page is already in the article. Do you want it organized similarly to how it is contained in the PDFs? --UltraSkuzzi 12:53, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Divide and Conquer?

Look at the index of this article it's huge! Perhaps we need to create quadrants (eg. West Side, North Side, Central) to subdivide areas. I would look at High School Districts in Akron, they often cover more then one neighborhood. --UltraSkuzzi 01:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

A Proposal
  • West Side: Fairlawn Heights, Wallhaven, Northwest Akron, Highland Square, West Akron, Lane-Wooster
  • North Side: Meriman Valley, North Side (distrct), North Hill, Chapel Hill, Elizibeth Park Valley
  • Central: Downtown, University of Akron (University Park, Spicertown), Middlebury
  • South Side: Rolling Acres, Kenmore, Firestone Park, South Akron, Summit Lake
  • East Side: East Akron, Goodyear Heights, Ellet

más o menos --UltraSkuzzi 02:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)


That's possible. Or you could just run them off as individual articles, or at least individualize the ones most likely to sprawl on (i.e. Highland Square, North Hill) and keep the others in a chunk (Lane-Wooster, Fairlawn Heights). Or not, your idea sounds good. I dunno - you're the one with the newspaper article.  ;)


Do you know how other city articles on here have done it? Rollingacres.org 12:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

In Cleveland's case, there is a category called Cleveland Neighborhoods. I am in favor of that, but the wording of each section would have to be changed to be freestanding articles, and I'm not sure there is enough content for each one. Some ambiguous areas like "East Akron" and "South Akron" may never have lengthy separate articles. Also, some areas overlap. University Park is really University of Akron, Middlebury and Spicertown. Spicertown is not even recognized as an official neighborhood yet it has its own website and university students call it that; what I am saying is that the CoA's website should only be used as a guideline. I'll suggest doing some renaming when I have time.--UltraSkuzzi 21:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC)