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Over the past 6 months, an issue has surfaced regarding the naming of communities in the United States. Whether the community is a district, or within a city, it seems that many communities of various natures have seen turmoil in regard to how they should be named. In the case of some of these communities, users actions have resulted in 3rr's and other warrings including personally attacking other users.1 Some of these pages have been protected for long periods of time as well due to the unsettling disturbances by the feuding parties, 2 and move warrings of various intensities. This page is set up to gain community consensus for one convention that will hopefully add a new rule so that all United States communities will follow one naming practice, and end the feuding.
A Community may refer to
- ex. Anaheim Hills in Anaheim, California
- A neighborhood within a city
- ex. Ballard in Seattle, Washington
- A master planned community within a city
- ex. Sharpstown in Houston, Texas
- ex. Silver Lake in Los Angeles, California
- An area reference (eg. Downtown) within a city
- ex. Downtown Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia
- A city subdivision or planning area
- ex. Eagle River in Anchorage, Alaska
- ex. Bayside in New York, New York
- ex. The Bronx in New York, New York
The problem of the situation is that a clearly defined rule for naming a community is missing in the Wikipedia Guidelines and Naming Conventions, which is what this collaboration is set up in an effort to solve. There is a major flaw in the rules regarding policy, which has created major conflict on these community pages.
- 1)The Convention states that communities within cities should be named (community, city, state)
- 2)The Wikipedia rules state that an article should be named in the simplest form, or the most recognizable by the primary readers, which would favor the (community) or (community, state) convention.
Since these rules contradict eachother, the community consensus that works well on Wikipedia is turning in to one large community brawl that will not end unless a solution, and a clearly defined naming rule is added.
In an effort to bring peace to the community articles, this straw poll has been set up to allow all readers and editors with an opinion on the matter to vote before the deadline, which would be in effort to end the community naming issue that has brought many community pages to a screeching halt in regards to positive contribution.
There are four voting choices listed as follows. Please choose one, and sign your name. It is asked that you not vote under multiple accounts, and that you sign your name using the tildes for easy identification. The straw poll will close Monday, September 18th, 2006 at 23:59 Wikipedia time. Please abide by this set time limit, for your vote will likely not count after the fact.
| Choice One | Communities shall be named using the (community, city, state) format. It does follow the current convention for naming communities, but breaks the principal Wikipedia naming rule of creating simplicity. |
| Choice Two | Communities shall be named using the (community, state) format. It does not follow the current naming convention, but does provide a compromise between the goal for simplicity and convention. Communities under this choice may also use (community, city) if the name is the same as another name in the state. |
| Choice Three | Communities shall be named using the (community) format. It does not follow the current convention of naming communities, but does follow the naming principle that all articles on Wikipedia must use, which is simplicity. Communities under this choice may also use (community, city) if the name is the same as another name in the state. |
| Choice Four | Communities shall be named using the (community, state) format if, and only if, a community council represents the community, whether recognized by the city or not. This would include community coalitions, and councils, but would exclude homeowners associations. Communities lacking a provable community council/coalition must be named (community, city, state) for they lack any governmental body whatsoever. This provides a solution for simplicity, and proper identification for communities. Communities under this choice may also use (community, city) if the name is the same as another name in the state. |