Talk:Pinelands, Cape Town
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[edit] "Local celebrities"
Is this section really encyclopaedic? I mean, does anyone outside of Pinelands actually care? If, perhaps, this section were to discuss famous people who live in Pinelands (where by "famous" I mean famous outside of Pinelands - e.g. Patricia de Lille), it would make sense. Otherwise, I say remove it. - htonl 11:38, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah I agree. ► Adriaan90 ( Talk ♥ Contribs ) ♪♫ 12:30, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- Although, would anyone outside of Pinelands actually care about reading about Pinelands anyway? In my experience the only people who would read this page either live in Pinelands or are about to move to Pinelands, in which case it is relevant. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 196.44.16.10 (talk • contribs).
- I think they would, the article's history section speaks for itself as being an important area of Cape Town, and it would be of interest to those who are into Garden Cities =P - Phorque 20:42, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, ok, I get it now. This entry was actually written FOR people outside of Pinelands. You see, as someone who lives in Pinelands, I guess I view it differently. I also realzie that wikipedia couldn't ever have something that isn't even remotely humourous, because, well, its an encyclopedia. All I can ask is that you look here: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=98234967 because this is what the young-adult generation of Pinelands are proud of rather then the boring Garden City aspect of it. Blanketman is a LEGEND and anyone visiting Pinelands can (and will) see him there. At very least, can you not include a link to this profile? Because, although it is dangerously borderlining funny, it is what the people of P-lands care about.
- Oh, and this is not shameless self promotion either, this is not my profile, I dont have a myspace account, although Id love to meet the person who made it cos it shows how much we love where we live and what we find important. Forgive my rambling and my lack of id.
- I think they would, the article's history section speaks for itself as being an important area of Cape Town, and it would be of interest to those who are into Garden Cities =P - Phorque 20:42, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- Although, would anyone outside of Pinelands actually care about reading about Pinelands anyway? In my experience the only people who would read this page either live in Pinelands or are about to move to Pinelands, in which case it is relevant. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 196.44.16.10 (talk • contribs).
[edit] Demographic info sources
For the commented-out demographic info, the only useful source I can think of is the census data for ward 53 - which includes Pinelands, but also Thornton, Ndabeni, Maitland Garden Village, half of Epping Industria and a bit of Langa. That data supports the mainly-white-English assertion and, I suppose, the smaller-numbers-of-Afrikaners assertion. However, the non-whites-in-extreme-minority and fair-amount-of-Dutch-people assertions would need some other source for verification. - htonl 01:19, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
