Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas/Dallas–Fort Worth task force/General

WikiProject Dallas-Fort Worth
a community collaboration about the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas (USA)
Started 16 May 2006

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Community Naming Conventions

various, Dallas -> various, Dallas, Texas
Per the standard naming conventions, communities within Dallas, such as Pleasant Grove, Dallas, Texas should be named in exactly that manner. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 20:11, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for your interest in the project. The naming of neighborhoods in Dallas has always followed an easy principal outlined from The Manual of Style's naming conventions section:

“ Use common names of persons and things

Convention: Use the most common name of a person or thing that does not conflict with the names of other people or things.
Rationale and specifics: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names)

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Specific information on place naming conventions can be found at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places) and at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (settlements). However, the current consensus on the matter of naming of communities and neighborhoods is per location.

When I first started working with Dallas articles, I moved Deep Ellum to Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas trying to do the exact same thing. It was shot down, much to my disdain at first, but later I realized the logic. If there are multiple things with the same name, we just use a disambiguation page. As you can see from the list of neighborhoods, the standard for Dallas neighborhoods is as follows:

Neighborhood name if there are no other articles with the same name

Neighborhood name, Dallas if there is another article with the same name. As with all disambiguation pages, take into account the importance of the articles there and decide if there is a dominant one. If so, (like Dallas), it should just have a link up top for disambiguation. If a dominant article cannot be decided, a disambiguation page should be created and the articles should be moved accordingly.

Are you interested in working with us here at the project or are you doing administrative work across projects? drumguy8800 C T 20:38, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Just administrative work. There's a (bad; i.e., somewhat misguided) WP:RfD which relates to one of the communities, and both the (informal) US communities guidelines and the formal California communities guidelines use the double-qualified names for communities within a city, such as Hollywood, Anaheim Hills, and La Jolla. But if Dallas takes a different stance, that's acceptable. May I suggest that the project create redirects from [[Community_Name, Dallas, Texas]] to [[Community_Name, Dallas]] so that those expecting the doubly-qualified names will still see the appropriate article? — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 21:11, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Notice of availability

I am currently a 1L at SMU Law, and I am very interested in assisting the project in anyway I can. I have very little editing experience with respect to Wikipedia. However, I have used Wikipedia for a number of years and am fairly familiar with its policies and guidelines. Once again, I'm ready and willing to help with the project! — SMULAW09 | (talk) 21:22, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Frisco Sports

There is a problem in the Sports section of the article on Frisco, Texas. There is an absence of space after some (and perhaps all) of the hyperlinks in this section. I tried to add the space manually, but I was unable to do so. Could someone fix this section?

And do people in Frisco call it Frisco? Or San Francisco? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonxwood (talk • contribs) 19:39, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Frisco Sports

There is a problem in the Sports section of the article on Frisco, Texas. There is an absence of space after some (and perhaps all) of the hyperlinks in this section. I tried to add the space manually, but I was unable to do so. Could someone fix this section?

And do people in Frisco call it Frisco? Or San Francisco? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonxwood (talk • contribs) 19:40, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

irving Texas

You have not listed Irving's sister cities. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.142.98.214 (talk) 16:33, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

irving Texas

You have not listed Irving's sister cities.187.142.98.214 (talk) 16:35, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Westlake Average Income

Westlake Average Income

This portion of the Westlake Article is grossly underrated. If any of you have been there, the lack of a house below 7,000 square feet shows that the Average income is 74,000 is very off, please correct this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.15.127.253 (talk) 00:57, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

George W. Bush as "Notable" Dallasite

It is my opinion that George W. Bush doesn't have any reason for being listed as a notable person from Dallas, unless I have misunderstood this section. My understanding was that this section is meant to be a list of people that were born or at least grew up in Dallas -- possibly a stretch might be if the person made his name and or business in Dallas (for instance I could understand why Tom Benson might end up on the notable people on San Antonio's page). Bush's only ties to Dallas are that A) he is a current resident since 2009, and B) his previous stake in the Texas Rangers ball club.

Born -- New Haven, Ct. Raised -- Midland, Tx. (roughly 350 mi, far enough to be 2 or 3 states over in some states) and Houston, Tx.

So, again, unless the Notable section is meant to be a listing of anyone born, raised, or currently living in Dallas, Tx., it seems to me that it is incorrect to list George W. Bush. I would have simply made an edit to the page, but I have to assume that I am missing something as this otherwise makes no sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.83.16.131 (talk) 02:51, 1 January 2013 (UTC)