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Concerns about district list articles on London boroughs
I backtracked on taking 28 pages to AfD, but they would benefit from some oversight.
Every London borough has a "List of districts in X" article. Most of these pages were created by editor
Maurice45 on 29 July 2008, though some were created by the same editor earlier, and a handful were created by other editors (
MRSC,
Kbthompson,
SuzanneKn). Most of the pages are unreferenced lists. On 31 August 2019, editor
Reywas92 redirected four pages (
Merton,
Southwark,
Sutton,
Waltham Forest,
Wandsworth) to their respective borough entries.
"Districts" is an ambiguous and imprecise term that will inevitably inspire
WP:OR, as has happened on a few of these pages (see, for example,
Barking and Dagenham,
Hillingdon,
Lewisham), where editors have taken it upon themselves to subdivide these localities by combinations of streets, some of which are unlikely to pass
WP:NGEOGRAPHY. There are evidently very many settlements within individual boroughs that merit standalone articles separate to the electoral wards of these boroughs, but these settlements are either already listed in their parent borough articles, or can feasibly be merged there in Geography or Districts headings, where there is more likely to be oversight against original research.
IgnatiusofLondon (
talk) 14:00, 8 February 2024 (UTC)reply
I see a couple of them have leads that say "list of places" or "list of areas". Whether they are districts, towns, suburbs, areas, or neighborhoods, it looks like most if not all of these should be merged or redirected to the main borough articles without need for separate context- and source-free bullet point lists.
Reywas92Talk 16:02, 8 February 2024 (UTC)reply
I don't understand why electoral wards are not geographically significant. They are the subjects of just one of the section of the page called 'Lists of districts in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham' which I added substantially to. As far as I can see information on these wards is not available on Wikipedia now that "my" page has been hidden away.
As to the other sections of the article that I wrote, added to or clarified, I am dismayed that all that work should have been lost.
There was *one* section in the article which contained an unsourced list of districts. I added to this as it had several districts missing. This section would seem to be unnecessary given the article 'List of areas of London'.
82.45.172.71 (
talk) 16:26, 9 March 2024 (UTC)reply
There's definitely scope to redistribute some of this information (
link to revision), and you shouldn't consider it as "lost". Looking at the sections of the article, and this is only my opinion, here are some places where the content could be merged into:
Citizen's Alliance Network Nieghbourhoods, BT telephone exchange areas, Nextdoor neighbourhoods, Controlled car parking zones, Becontree estate numbered sections, BD collective/primary care network localities → this probably is unencyclopaedic content not suitable for Wikipedia; unless you can show
significant coverage by secondary sources demonstrating their significance.
We have to remember why readers are here on Wikipedia, and in my view, we're doing a disservice if we're trying to keep up-to-date with all the various different "official" or "commercial" subcategorisations of districts. All too often, editors work on these articles then, for one reason or another, abandon them, leaving them to contain outdated and false information. Readers are better off looking at Nextdoor, Ringgo, or BT's directories for this kind of information (see also
WP:NOTDIRECTORY). You can read
Wikipedia:Alternative outlets for other places that could host this information and the hard work you've put into making this article. On another note, the article also contained some editorialisation, e.g. the comment the omission of Upney - an old place name and the name of a London Underground station - from this list is noteworthy (unsourced), and much of the article was not
reliably sourced. This content is liable to be challenged and removed, and sources should be found to support the article's claims before it is merged into other articles.
IgnatiusofLondon (
talk) 17:02, 9 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Cannons (house) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the
reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.
~~ AirshipJungleman29 (
talk) 02:47, 3 March 2024 (UTC)reply