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I feel like this title should be removed, since "Southland" refers to anywhere south of San Francisco, not just Greater LA (Source:
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1993/aug/26/straight-what-la-times-means-southland/). However, when I tried to change that, I received a vandalism warning from the user coolcaesar (who appears to not be an admin, so I'm not sure why he is giving warnings). s it ok with the community if I make this edit?
72.134.116.163 (
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You are correct. The "Southland" often refers to a larger area than Greater Los Angeles. The cited source, Los Angeles Times, does not support the Southland as a synonym for Greater Los Angeles. The cited article doesn't even establish whether its headline containing "Southland" refers to Southern California or just the three counties of L.A., Orange and Riverside, since both of those groupings are discussed in the article. It's pretty much a throwaway headline, explaining nothing.
The 1985 book California for Beginners: The Relocation Guide: How to Get the Best of California (
ISBN9780915093007) says on page 76 that the Southland may refer to the metrolpolitan L.A. area, which it presents as a minority view, but more widely the Southland refers to the six counties of Southern California.
I agree with removal, or better yet removal from the first sentence and added explanation down in the article body.
Binksternet (
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California historian
Kevin Starr in his 1986 book Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era (
ISBN9780199923267) uses the term Southland to refer to Southern California, certainly including
Mount Rubidoux in Riverside. The term Southland occurs in this context on pages 87 and 120.
Binksternet (
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If this page is about the "Greater Los Angeles", which is not the same as the "Los Angeles Metro Area," then why is there so much information about only the "LA Metro Area"?
Greater L.A. = L.A. Metro + Inland Empire + Ventura County
L.A. Metro = L.A. and Orange Counties
Los Angeles metropolitan area re-directs to this page. There should be two distinct Wiki pages.
DavidESPN (
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consensus. Flag icons should only be inserted in infoboxes in those cases where they convey information in addition to the text. They could be unnecessarily distracting and might give undue prominence to one field among many. They pop us faster than they can be removed.
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Other major cities
What is the definition of "major cities"? The list seems rather too long to me. We could use a population of 200,000.
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