Talk:West End, Boston

message: The African Meeting House and Smith School are both on Beacon Hill; Smith Court is just off Joy Street.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.117.63 (talk) 08:54, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I just added a more info.  There are a few things I think would really add to the page.  
*Historical photos of the west end before renewal, 
*map of the street layout before renewal, 
*Statistical info on the current demographics of the west end: who lives there, what types of businesses are there, etc.  
*Important people from the west end: I've already added info about Lomasney.  Leonard Nimoy is from the West end but I don't have a good citation for it.  Anyone else?
I was unable to find pictures specifically of the old West End on Wiki.  There are some maps of the street layout of all of old Boston, but nothing specific to the West End.  I think it would be great to have some before and after pictures of the neighborhood as a whole. There are some great ones in the books listed as sources (almost all of which can be found at the Boston Public Library).  I'm sure there are at least some good ones with expired copyrights.  Nayone with a scanner want to give it a go?Sbacle 22:15, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Improving the page

message: Recently, the "Boston's West End as of 2009 (photo by Satoru Murata)" description was changed because photo attributions are to appear on the photo page itself, but I don't see that information on a photo page.  How can that attribution data (to a living photographer of note) be added to the proper location in Wikipedia? MaynardClark (talk) 20:09, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know how someone found that the photo is by "Satoru Murata" because it's not stated on the original Flickr page. It seems to be unverifiable, and therefore not important to state anywhere on Wikipedia. Although I could edit the image description page :File:2009 WestEnd Boston 3495477357.jpg to include that author name.--ɱ (talk) 20:35, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo Attribution

message: @Sbacle suggested adding a "Notable residents" section. I'd like to second that. Here are a few people to start with. (SNIPPED)
I'll just leave this info here in case someone wants to add a section with some or all of these people. Some of them may have lived in what is now considered part of Beacon Hill, since there's some overlap. The African Meeting House, for example, is mentioned in this article, but in the article about it, there's no mention of the West End. The author of this book mentions that a lot of black Bostonians moved from the North End to "the West End on the north side of Beacon Hill". He then lists some people who lived on Belknap Street (now Joy St., the same street as the African Meeting House), including Samuel Snowden, whose WP bio says he lived in Beacon Hill. Thomas Paul lived on George Street, which is included in both the 1769 West End map and the 1842 map of Beacon Hill. Whatever. Rosekelleher (talk) 20:57, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable residents 

message: Some recent edits suggest there's some confusion about the status of the West End. It still exists but in a different form, right? So should the lead paragraph say it "was" or "is" a neighborhood? --MopTop (talk) 06:57, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was/Is 

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message: I am split on whether to remove this image. On one hand, this is a great photo with a strong overhead view of the city. On the other, when looking at the attribution, I confirmed this is a photo of a model Boston (the macro style betrays this as well). Would this fall outside the scope of depicting the West End? Snaans (talk) 17:57, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Take a look at Miniature faking, this is what the photographer did. They even have several albums dedicated to their use of a tilt shift lens to achieve that effect. Despite that this image actually -does- depict the West End, it's such a distracting photography gimmick on par with b&w or HDR that I think it warrants removal. ɱ (talk) 03:44, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding the second-to-last photo: West_End_and_Charles_MGH_station_from_Prudential_Tower,_April_2009.jpg