Talk:West End, Vancouver

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Hi Skookum1. You're adding lots of great content, but citing your sources is equal in importance to the content itself if the article is to survive and be trusted, so I hope you don't mind me asking you about a couple of things in your last edit...

• I find the "Blue Blood Alley" story interesting. What's your source or where can I found out more about it?
• The previous article said, "Vancouverites define the West End as the residential area west of Burrard St. and south of Georgia St., both major thoroughfares." You've added, "The technical meaning of the term, however, refers to everything between Burrrard Street and Stanley Park, including north of Georgia." What's your source for that? I would be inclined to yield to the technical definitions of neighbourhoods defined by the City itself at [1] -- which the previous edit matches well.

I don't want to leave on a nitpicky tone, so thanks again for the contributions! --Ds13 19:31, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

"Blueblood alley" actually refers to Georgia Street, as cited at the city website and here. --Clapaucius 21:57, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Lacking further comment on the boundary question I had above, I've done what I believe to be an improvement in the wording and citing. --Ds13 20:10, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name

I removed this: "The West End, which gets its name from the West End School built in 1891...," and added "probably" and removed the date. I cited Morley, the only reference I found, because he notes that there was an East End School, Central School, and West End School. Daphne Marlatt and Carole Itter in Vancouver's East End claim that the East End (now Strathcona) was named after the school there, so I think it makes sense that the West End did as well (establishing the right and wrong side of the tracks, it seems..). Morley also says that there were 5 schools by 1890, including these 3 unimaginatively named ones, which is why I took out the date. I also know Strathcona was built in that year, so the original entry may have confused the two. But if anyone comes across a more confident source, feel free to update. I just wanted to get rid of the citation needed tag.Bobanny 07:02, 5 October 2006 (UTC)