Talk:Gerrard Street, Toronto
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[edit] Proposed renaming
I propose to rename this article to 'Gerrard Street East (Little India), because it is not about the whole street. Comments? RayGates 21:18, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- I'd leave it alone, because it is a stub, and someone might come along and expand it to cover Chinatown East, etc. If the article gets renamed, we may end up someday with articles on both Gerrard East and Gerrard Street (Little India), which would just be overkill. Skeezix1000 21:40, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
I've expanded it so that it is more than just Little India, which at this point anyway, doesn't really have enough to warrant its own article. If the article gets too big later, it can be branched out. Ground Zero | t 21:53, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Renaming of this article
There have been two recent renamings of this article, first on 2006-05-09 by Ummit from Gerrard Street East to Gerrard Street (Toronto). The second on 2006-06-08 by Terence Ong to Gerrard Street, Toronto.
The comment on the first renaming suggested that 'East' is not properly part of the name of the street. That is not true. Look at a map, and you will see that East and West are included in the Street names. However, since the article now discusses both east and west, I can accept the argument that 'East' be removed from the article name, but would prefer that both full names be included in the article text. I suggest creating additional redirect pages Gerrard Street East, Toronto and Gerrard Street West, Toronto, and I will do so myself if there are no objections in the next few days.
The second renaming refers to correcting the naming style. I don't know if there is an accepted naming style for streets in Wikipedia, but Category:Toronto_streets uses more in the (Toronto) style than it does in the , Toronto style, so the appropriate name changes should be applied to each.
All the links to the former page names should be redirected to avoid multiple redirects. It would be good if those doing the renaming would also take responsibility for fixing the links. RayGates 00:05, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
