Talk:Tysons, Virginia

message: Any wikipedia entry on Tyson's Corner needs to talk about the hellish traffic!
:If you can do it in conformity with WP:V, WP:NPOV, and WP:OR, then be bold and add it.  Doctor Whom 17:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I just stumbled across this page randomly, but it appears to be a real labor of love by someone. I think it deserves some more attention. With a little work it could be a truly great page! I've requested assessment by   Wikipedia:WikiProject_Virginia. Let's see what happens! Sjb0926 (talk) 14:13, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested assessment by wikiproject:Virginia 

message: The article currently makes this statement: "Every weekday, Tysons Corner draws 55,000 shoppers from around the region. In comparison, Washington, D.C. draws 15 million visitors annually, or the equivalent of 62,500 per weekday."
I don't think this is actually a valid comparison. The number of people who come from around the area to shop at Tyson's is different from the number of people who come from outside the region to visit as tourists. Over 400,000 people come into the District every day, but they're not counted as "tourists". If there isn't any objection, I'm going to remove what I believe to be a false comparison. Best, epicAdam(talk) 16:41, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shoppers vs. Tourist Numbers 

message: Tysons as an urban center is older than 30 years, which makes classifying it as an edge city WP:OR Tedickey (talk) 12:04, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Interestingly enough, Tysons is listed at the Edge city page, and edge city is listed in the sentence above with a source. Perhaps "commercial area" might best describe Tysons in a more clear way. --Fiftytwo thirty (talk) 13:56, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Something like that.  Describing Tysons as an edge city is like continuing to refer to someone as a "boy wonder" when he's in his mid-thirties Tedickey (talk) 14:11, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

text: You could say that XX author called it an edge city, but part of the reason has long expired, and "calls" is a misuse of tense. TEDickey (talk) 20:43, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

text: Your sentence beginning "This congruence" is unclear - Tyson's has evolved beyond the given definition, and WP:OR-style amendments to the definition don't address the fact that they're unsourced TEDickey (talk) 23:07, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edge city 

message: I am attempting to edit the wikipedia page (and creating a redirect all together) as the new term for "Tysons Corner" should be "Tysons" also known as "Tysons Corner" and not the other way around. This is being promoted by both Fairfax County, USPS, and the Tysons Partnership which acts an amalgam of land owners in Tysons. It is also the common nomenclature of Northern Virginia to refer to the area as Tysons, and the mall as Tysons Corner or Tysons Corner Center. Also it would be good if the title heading itself could change to Tysons, Virginia and have the Tysons Corner, Virginia redirect accordingly.
TysonsVA (talk) 21:17, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The relevant guideline here is WP:COMMONNAME, and although the area is marketed as simply "Tysons", local media outlets (WaPo, Washingtonian, network affiliates, WTOP) all refer to the area as "Tysons Corner". And a name that's more commonly used by sources  are preferred over "official" ones, especially since Tysons is a CDP and not an actual municipality. It might be a discussion worth having down the line, but right now, I don't see a reason for change.Mosmof (talk) 01:53, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

text: Wikipedia is not a promotional tool or an advertising site.  Titles and content should reflect usage in a range of reliable sources.  The last article link you provide states that the name "game" is far from settled and it's not up to Wikipedia to play in said game.  —  AjaxSmack  02:12, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, that article seems to tip the scale in favor of keeping "Corner" in the name, at least for now. If there's a renewed push to shorten the name, then it seems to indicate that "Tysons Corner" is still the WP:COMMONNAME. Mosmof (talk) 03:22, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: As I understand it, this place is not an official administrative or governmental unit (city, town, township, village, parish, whatever they call municipal units in Virginia), so I don't understand how it can have an "official name". (A CDP is just a designation of convenience for census-taking.) What am I missing? --Macrakis (talk) 04:04, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: A good point of reference might be Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. The New York City government has designated the neighborhood "Special Clinton District" and developers/realtors have tried to make the "Clinton" name happen for the neighborhood. But neighborhoods aren't official municipalities, so even with the urging of the local government and businesses, the Hell's Kitchen name remains. Mosmof (talk) 05:18, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know if it matters, but on Google Maps Hell's Kitchen and Tysons are used, not Special Clinton District or Tysons Corner. Old Guard (talk) 23:16, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming

message: I don't normally work articles for places but does the U.S. Census Bureau changing the name of a place denote a change in article name? See here.--NortyNort  (Holla) 19:21, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The U.S. Census Bureau has names for CDPs which may/may not relate to how organizations name themselves.  Terming it as "officially renaming" misleads the reader (and the existing source for this was more than adequate). TEDickey (talk) 01:36, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name change? 

message: In the history section, we read that William Tyson purchased a tract of land and served as postmaster 1854 to 1866. In the next paragraph, we have Mr Tyson operating a fruit stand "as recently as the 1950s." Not sure what to make of that.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8A0:65A1:900:1EA8:B6A0:9B6B:9E0B (talk) 18:41, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mr Tyson 

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