Talk:Yardie

message: I'd read somewhere that the term "Yardie" originally referred to an inhabitant of a slum neighborhood in
Kingston known as "Yard".
To be more precise, the neighborhood is known as "Government Yards", and often referred to by its inhabitants as "Yard". It has often been mentioned in reggae songs.
This article needs attention. The early part of it seems to disagree with the rest of the article. I fixed the TeX style quotes that were italicising the ends of the paragraphs but this is not my area of expertise so I can't really fix it.Furby100 21:09, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: As a user identified above, most of the article comes from a piece written by Roy A. C. Ramm, Detective Chief Superintendent, International and Organized Crime Branch, Scotland Yard. Apologies to the Chief, but his material is woefully inaccurate. I have altered the introduction, however I am also lacking sources -  I just happen to know that my new introduction is true. There is a problem here - checking the net for sources does not suffice, I've just found a load garbage or nonsense. Unsure how to proceed.--Zleitzen 06:15, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
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message: In the book London Calling by Sukhdev Sandhu, there are references made to Yardies going to the USA in order to partake in organised crime, as border controls to USA are too restrictive they stop off in the UK and get a UK passport. Perhaps this is an area, that could be included in the article?
Yardies in the USA are known as Posses  -the term Yardie in a UK sense is from Jamaicans referring to their homeland as "Back a Yard", and in black British youth culture slang for a persons home is "yard" through the influence of patois/jamaican language.
The media in the late 80s-early 2000's became obsessed with calling any black gun or gang related crime as "yardie" related when in fact most of that they were reporting was British born blacks. The hotspots for west Indian/Jamaican gun crime in London were Hackney, Lambeth, Tottenham, Harlesden/Brent - although much of the gang and gun crime focus in these areas is in relation to British youths and including black, white, Asian, African, west Indian, Sri Lankan, Turkish etc.. communities.
I suggest the article be used for the definition of Yardie as both a residential area of sorts in jamaica, its usage in Britain for residence, homeland and slang and reference to its use in the media in co-ordination to gun crime should revert the reader to Jamaican Posse page. Yardie in British press is no different to Jamaican Posse just that one is American and One British.
OSGSSS (talk) 18:33, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yardies in the USA? 

message: In the introduction it says "Trenchtown was originally built as a housing project following devastation caused by Hurricane Charlie", but clicking on the link leads to a disambiguation page with 8 or 9 hurricanes. It would be helpful to disambiguate the link in the article, because knowing which hurricane is referred to would give an approximate date for the introduction of the term. I can't do it because I don't know which hurricane it was. Can someone help?
Rbraunwa 01:26, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! It was 1951.--Zleitzen 02:30, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hurricane Charlie 

message: For a lengthy study of Yardie history and culture (including details of many specific events across many countries), see Geoff Small's "Ruthless: The Global Rise of the Yardies" Warner Books, 1995. Would this do for the "missing citation" requested in the current text? The book certainly addresses the issue under discussion (= shooting with little, indeed sometimes no, provocation) and describes in some detail several instances where this has happened, but does the citation have to include the page number, or would citing the whole book do?
Mike.stannett (talk) 03:28, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Global Background / Missing Citation 

message: A Jamican gang called 'Yardies' is a big part of the video game Grand Theft Auto III. Lots42 (talk) 13:20, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grand Theft Auto 

message: Yardies are the name of the gang. If not, why would there be articles such as this? Dat GuyTalkContribs 05:25, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yardies