Template talk:Manhattan
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Please don't add empty links. Make a stub then add it to the template. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk • contribs).
- I too agree and responded as such to the next message from the unregisted user who left the following on my user talk page. Doc 23:56, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Manhattan Lower West Side
Hello, I am sorry to bother you, but I thought I should explain my recent editing of the Manhattan template. I have been linking articles about New York City neighborhoods to both their boroughs and their corresponding templates. The overwhelming vast majority of these have been pages that already existed. Although some were simply stubs, many of those have been dramatically expanded simply because someone noticed that they had been added to the template and decided to put more text in about them in the customary Wiki manner. I have chosen to add a few undefined neighborhoods to the templates because I believed that their absence were gross omissions, including the Lower West Side. Although I work as a engineer, I admit to not being handy with Wiki and assume you are more knowledgable than me about both its writing system and New York City. Therefore, as I have learned from your Wiki user page that you have made significant contributions to articles here, I hope you might be inspired to create a spanking new Lower West Side page by the following links.
http://www.bluejake.com/archives/2004/04/19/lower_west_side.php
http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4506
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/realestate/neighborhoods/features/2059/
http://www.boston.com/travel/getaways/newyork/gallery/west_side_neighborhoods/
http://www.cityshuffle.com/products/westside.html
http://www.culturebot.org/archives/2005/01/31/LowerWestSideFilmFestival.php
http://www.mcny.org/collections/abbott/lwspage.htm
http://www.geoffreystevens.com/new-york-nyc/Lowewestlist.htm
http://newdeal.feri.org/library/c82a.htm
http://www.citidex.com/7616.htm
These sources and others should help prove that the Lower West Side of Manhattan does in fact exist either as a neighborhood in its own right or as a collection of them (like the South Bronx or the Rockaways). As someone who lived in New York City for several years, I believe the Lower West Side is part of the social fabric and not just the latest neighborhood rebranding. Personally, I have heard of people using the term mockingly but have encountered it more lately in causal conversation without derision. So you know, I attended St. John's University (before I dropped out), lived in Brooklyn while trying to be a musician (before I stopped dropping out), and now commute to Manhattan from Connecticut (after I stopped dropping out and got an education). I have always been enchanted by the Five Boroughs and would live there if my family could could afford it. Please feel free to contact me on here regarding this matter or others that you desire. I hope this will be of some help to you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 167.206.190.114 (talk • contribs) 18:37, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
- The above message was left on my personal user talk page and I don't really have time to investigate further at the moment, so I thought that I'd throw it open here as I responded to this person on my talk page. Doc 23:58, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
