Talk:Tarzana, Los Angeles

message: I didn't look through all the versions but in James Loewen's book he identifies Tarzana as a Sundown town.  This information helps explain the current racial demographics in the city, and ought to be included in the article.--Rockero 17:07, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd bet it was a restrictive covenant town as much as a Sundown town. jengod 19:17, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Almost 7 years later; turns out you were both right.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 21:48, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Sundown town

message: The hair salon where, on February 16th 2007, Britney Spears infamously shaved her head is located in Tarzana.
WTF is this doing in an encyclopedia? Brain dead trivia. 100% Wikiality.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.211.24 (talk) 16:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tabloid Crap

message: The question I expected to find the answer to here is about the name? Who chose the name, apparently after Tarzan? --CodeGeneratR (talk) 04:45, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: http://www.snopes.com/lost/tarzan.asp Koro Neil (talk) 09:06, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: The unanswered question

message: I propose that if the person's wikipedia article doesn't say anything about tarzana and there is no independent source that says they live in tarzana that they be removed.  it's just a neighborhood; people move in and out all the time.  I will do this soon if no one objects.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 16:50, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  notable residents inclusion criteria 

message: My problems with this sentence is that assumes without a source that the Jewish community in Tarzana supports the Hebrew language bookstore.  Non-Jews read Hebrew too and almost certainly shop at the store.  Also there are Jews all over Los Angeles who almost certainly support the store as well.  Tarzana has under 30,000 people in it.  Even supposing that all of them were Jewish, it's almost certainly not enough to support a Hebrew bookstore, otherwise we'd see one in every city with 30,000 Jews.  If this is the case, why is this only the second one?  Anyway, it makes no sense to me, so I'm bringing it up here.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 14:31, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious tag regarding Hebrew language bookstore 

message: I'm kind of turned off by citations in the lead (see WP:LEADCITE for MOS opinion on this).  On the other hand, GeorgeLouis's rewrite of the lead got changed by an IP who obviously didn't know what the standards for inclusion are, so possibly a cite, which GeorgeLouis put in after I reverted the IP's reversion, would have stopped the IP from removing the material.  On the third hand, citations in the lead scream "edit wars" to me (probably from my having wasted so much time editing articles on the Middle East).  Thoughts on removing the cite from the lead and relying on WP:LEADCITE to keep the phrase intact?  This is mostly an aesthetic issue for me, and not one I'm strongly fixed on. — alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 16:54, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't like them either. Revert if you want, with a nice, friendly Edit Summary. Or leave it there and see who else is unhappy. GeorgeLouis (talk) 17:38, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation in the lead 

message: " is a predominantly white, highly educated, affluent district" are you kidding me? This is unacceptable. Please keep the racism and bigoted descriptions to your self.
:That's not very nice. GeorgeLouis (talk) 04:30, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bigotry 

message: What does anyone think about the use of the word "affluent" to describe Tarzana?  It seems both wrong and silly to me.  I know the LAT has the median income higher than average, but really, "affluent" is like Bel Air or Beverly Glen or something, not Tarzana.  Thoughts?— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 22:30, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I've taken it out before -- as well as the other unnecessary characterizations in the lede -- but someone else put it back. But a good question is, do we characterize other towns and neighborhoods in this fashion if they are not particularly exceptional in this regard? For example the lede also used to mention Tarzana's ethnic majority ("70% white"), as well as its degree of education, but what is that in context with the rest of the Valley? Or the rest of LA? Why not just let the reader continue on to the demographic descriptions below? But -- what do other articles say? --jpgordon::==( o ) 00:09, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know, I noticed that "white" part was gone, and that's good.  I agree with letting the reader continue down to the demographics.  Many of the other Valley neighborhoods start with the same sentence we have here now, but others seem to have accumulated a lot of weird descriptors.  E.g. Reseda was said to be "highly diverse" and to "have a lot of residents born outside of the US" because of something the LAT said about it, but looking at the demographics it's obviously not highly diverse in relation to the rest of LA.  I took it out of there and I guess we'll see what happens.  I will say that 70% white is high for neighborhoods of LA in the Valley.  It may be that the whiteness would be important in the lead if there were some sourced material discussing it in the article, but there's not, other than the part about how it was founded with restrictive covenants, which hardly seems weighty enough to go in the lead these days.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 00:26, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: This neighborhood is distinctly different from other nabes in L.A., and the description is from a good source. It really sums up what Tarzana is like, compared to the rest of the city. GeorgeLouis (talk) 03:27, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Affluent in lead 

message: A lot of erroneous or irrelevant information has popped up on this page over the years (that Snopes hoax continues to circulate around the internet).
Author Edgar Rice Burroughs, who purchased Harrison Gray Otis's ranch, and whose efforts led to the founding of Tarzana, kept diligent business records. His life has been extensively biographied, most definitively by Irwin Porges in the 820-page "Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan" (Brigham Young University Press, 1975), and more recently by Scott Tracy Griffin, in "Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration" (Titan Books, 2012). There is a wealth of information in these books on the town's history that can be incorporated into the text here. I may get around to it eventually, but if others want to take a crack at it, please do so. It's a shame that there is so little of the town's rich history here.
Carolann Wright (talk) 05:07, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your messages. I hope you keep on correcting the content on the page. Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 18:11, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Refer to Burroughs' biographers, please! 

message: *Eric Braunn, Iron Butterfly guitarist
*Neil Diamond
*John Sebastian
These three musicians all owned one after another the same house on Caritina Drive; I knew this as a teenager because I lived down the street from them, and it was local lore. But the only confirmation I've been able to find so far is this really unusable source. I'd love it if someone could find something usable. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇  01:16, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help me find some sources for these Tarzana residents, please! 

message: I have never edited Wikipedia and don't want to mess it up, but if someone could add Benny "The Jet" Urquidez to the list of notable people from Tarzana, that would be awesome. He is one of the greatest martial artists alive, with only one defeat in his 27-year career (and even that one wasn't totally clear, depending on who you ask). I feel that leaving him off this list is an injustice. Here's his article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Urquidez
Thanks! 67.177.175.51 (talk) 03:13, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone add Benny Urquidez to the list of notable people?