Talk:Chinatown, Oakland, California

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	To-do list for Chinatown, Oakland, California:	edit - history - watch - refresh
	Get pictures 8th & Webster scramble crosswalk on a busy weekend Chinese Garden Park morning Tai Chi at BART Lincoln Playground junk boat play structure Pac Renaissance archway on 9th Pac Renaissance fountain with Asian Library and Oakland Asian Cultural Center New Year dragon and firecrackers Chinatown landmarks etc etc street scene of busy crowds Streetfest Clean up. Change links in the article sections and replaced with text/prose. History section - Expand each of the different ethnic group history. Map - Draft map of Oakland Chinatown. Research resources - file cabinet at Asian Branch Library Oakland History Room, 3rd fl, Main Library  ??photos at Cesar Chavez Branch? Asian Youth Services Committee Be bold!

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Contents 1 Naming convention 2 Links in article 3 WP:NOT a directory 4 Picture and infobox

[edit] Naming convention

Following naming conventions for neighborhoods of cities, shouldn't this be moved to Chinatown, Oakland, California? Meelar (talk) 16:18, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

What Naming convention for neighborhoods? There are no special naming conventions for cities, unless multiple cities with the same name exist. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (city names). Also, there are not that many Chinatowns in the world for there to be any confusion. See a list of existing articles at Category:Chinatowns Petersam 22:03, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

OK. It's just that other neighborhood articles I've seen for U.S. cities have been at [[Neighborhood name, City name, state name]]; I mistakenly assumed that was the convention. Best, Meelar (talk) 20:14, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Links in article

Note: Please do not delete the standalone links in the article. They are placeholders and will be expanded into text/prose soon, hopefully by the end of summer. thanks Petersam 23:58, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WP:NOT a directory

This article as it reads right now (Aug 20th) reads very much like a directory. I'm going to go through and see what I can do to clean up the page, which may include deleting some links. Older versions with the links will be found in the page history. --Daniel Olsen 04:55, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Note: when removing material, I will move it to User:Daniel Olsen/Chinatown Cleanup. --Daniel Olsen 04:59, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture and infobox

Which should be on top, the picture or the infobox with the map? I personally think that that a picture to associate the topic with with which to associate the topic is more useful to more people than a map. I'm changing it to have the picture on top for now, but I'm open to hearing arguments for the other side. --Daniel Olsen 05:37, 25 August 2006 (UTC)