the challenge in portaying an accurate representation Bushwick is in balancing the neighborhoods obvious upside along with its obvious downside. A key will be in using autentic source presenting the area in an unbiased light.

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I appreciate your contributions to the Bushwick, Brooklyn article. You brought attention to its history, after which I got interested in and tried to elaborate on. And I saw you edited East Williamsburg, Brooklyn as well.

I know you're getting used to the hang of Wikipedia. But you also have to look at the tone and presentation of the other neighborhood articles. Mentioning the main commercial district is OK, but types of stores are not usually discussed. Also, if a book as a whole is used as a reference, like James Goodman's Blackout, you can just cite the book (see Wikipedia:Citing sources); page numbers are unnecessary. These are only two of the clues I'll give you for now.

But don't let these things discourage you from contributing. Just keep in mind the style of writing in the encyclopedia. And as long as your edits are verifiable, you don't do original research, and you write in a neutral point of view, you'll be fine. Tinlinkin 06:34, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Next time, if you want to reply to me (or to any other user), you leave a message at my talk page (at User talk:Tinlinkin). You can also access it by clicking on my username, click on my discussion page, and click on the + button on top to add a message.

I've never uploaded any images. But you can read Wikipedia:Uploading images and also see the Upload file link on the left navigation bar.

I will also say that I can't qualify your claim of the "valley of the projects." I don't find the term on Google, and there's 1 unrelated entry in Yahoo. Also, please don't introuduce speculation (see WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a crystal ball), as with your statement, "building like these with average rents of $325 per month ensure that East Williamsburg may well continue to remain an impovershed and blighted area." The statement also assumes that since the rents are so cheap, those tenants must be poor or disadvantaged with no chance of advancement, which is not a neutral POV. Tinlinkin 10:37, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Bushwick, Brooklyn:

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I think you are over-subsectioning the article. While your titles are descriptive, a good section will have several good-sized paragraphs before subsectioning is required. See Harlem for a nice example of the use of sections. Also see the format of other substantial articles, like Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince where the plot is not divided into sections, or Miami, Florida where there is a substantial history section and a more detailed History of Miami, Florida that warrants its creation (that is a featured article, amongst the highest quality articles in Wikipedia). The Bushwick article is not like Harlem or Miami at this moment, so I suggest you remove the subsections of the history for now, and revert to the format that I had in this edit.

East Williamsburg, Brooklyn:

What is your rationale for using {{fact}}? Are you disputing the statements in the article? Do you need me to provide sources for those statements? See Template:Fact before you give me your answer. I use the template whenever I see a statement that I cannot qualify (by myself or with other sources) and I am an expert (or at least know enough) on the subject. For myself, I raised the flag to question whether it is Graham Avenue (or as you prefer, Avenue of Puerto Rico) or Bushwick Avenue that residents within East Williamsburg separate calling themselves Williamsburgians or Bushwickians.
- When I saw the reappearance of {{fact}}, I felt that you are questioning a lot of the claims in the article. I will tone down the "gentrification" claim by saying it is proceeding slowly and I will agree with the template to use for the statement of rising rent prices, because at least I cannot confirm that. But I will keep the tone of changing demographics. They will not be confirmed until at least the 2010 Census, but in what I read, I feel it.
- Search for "East Williamsburg" in the New York Times and there are quite a number of results and interesting articles for it.
I could care less whether the Morgan Av./McKibbin St. area calls itself Bushwick or East williamsburg. But the fact that there is contradictory evidence amongst residents of that area warrants a discussion of East Williamsburg that's separate from Bushwick. Besides, I treat this area as concurrent with both names; there is no one name over the other. Therefore, I reject the argument that the area east of Bushwick Avenue should only be called Bushwick instead of East Williamsburg and Bushwick. However, I do state Flushing Avenue as the separation between the two neighborhoods because of community board and police precinct boundaries, and geographic differences with the grid plans on either side of the street.

Without revealing too much about myself, I live in Wyckoff Heights, a section of Bushwick near Wyckoff Heights Hospital near the Queens border. I've lived there and in Ridgewood almost all my life. I didn't want to get involved in this B/EW debate, but since no one has raised it, I decided to do something to address it. I hope to hear what you think. Tinlinkin 10:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I don't have time to respond as fully as I'd like, but I'll get to some points. First, I posted a message at Talk:Williamsburg, Brooklyn to try to get more people to see the East Williamsburg article and review it.

Secondly, I sympathize with you, by your admission of your age, as I would almost be in the same boat. But if you think that East Williamsburg (henceforth as EW) will gentrify faster on account of Wikipedia, I think that's ridiculous. Bushwick itself is getting the same attention as EW in regards to artists, hipsters, and people like you and myself. But the broader picture is that in NYC, regardless of any gentrification issues, it's perfectly acceptable to have some communities be part of larger communities, and to have overlaps.

Finally, I have spent considerable time in Barnes & Noble researching references to EW. Many maps and books don't mention the name, and that's understandable. But in other sources I found the name as I expected, within the boundaries as I say in the Williamsburg talk page. Also, in the neighborhood map in my nearest station, DeKalb Avenue L station, the name East Williamsburg appears in the Morgan Avenue area (and as it so happens it is in the map of Bushwick). So I think there's no doubt that the name exists, and I say keep the article as it is for now.

A final note: I'd still appreciate it if you can write the captions for the pictures you uploaded for Bushwick. Thanks. Tinlinkin 10:15, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I noticed that you added "As Bushwick further gentrifies this group will be pushed to the side." to the Commmunity Organizing section of Bushwick. I may be mistaken, but to my understanding, this would be considered original research. Is this true? or did you get this from some source? ArtsyNani 02:18, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Although the previous statement is not cited (as plenty of the article isn't), it refers to past and current initiatives that can be cited if the time is taken to look it up. Your statement is completely your opinion. If however, you would like to make a statement about gentrifications effect on the demographics of a neighborhood in general, then perhaps it can be better phrased. Maybe something like ... "current trends with gentrification, have be shown to cause the demographics of areas to change and as a result community organizing becomes more difficult" ... just a suggestion ... what do you think? ArtsyNani

Bushwick AGAIN

So I guess this is your user page. Next time sign your posts, in regards to the talk page of Bushwick. So you may think I am a blanquito and promote whats been going on of late in my neighborhood, but you got it twisted. I'm born and raised in Bushwick and have lived there my almost my entire life. So additions that I make to the article have nothing to do with hipster or gentrification or whatever you want to call it. Put simply this is wikipedia, not your pet project. There are guidelines and standards to be met. I've already told you about WP:OWN and WP:LEAD, but you probably haven't looked at them. You apparently did see WP:3RR yet still chose to revert. Also I'm not the only person to object to your fanciful ideas, as per your talk page and the article talk page. Well I do hope you mature. Like they say; if you love it let it go (that's in reference to the article). Also what assertions are you referring to?

"its a reversion war, and if it escalates, guess what! I'm coming with a nightlife, a census 2010, and restaurants section, and mad pictures of white women walking around the neighborhood at night. You have 2 days to find facts for your assertions"

And after rereading your comment on the talk page I can't even imagine what spews out of your mouth, if when writing these are the things you type. Good luck to you, you'll need it.--El Mayimbe (talk) 05:04, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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