Talk:Willow Glen, San Jose

message: The coordinates need the following fixes:
* 37° 18' 13.02" N, 121° 53' 50.36" W
The coordinates presently shown are near the extreme eastern edge of what might, arguably, be referred to as "Willow Glen". The proposed coordinates are at the intersection of Lincoln and Minnesota Avenues, much nearer the exact geographic center of the Willow Glen neighborhood, and really the heart of the neighborhood, where the Lincoln Avenue business district meets the elementary school which was founded in 1863
WillO'theGlen (talk) 21:17, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: — Original coords were bot–added, yours are much better, thanks. TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 20:09, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate error 

message: Update Neighborhood Boundaries
This map showing "Rough Willow Glen Boundary" is old and outdated.   Current-day standards should reflect the San Jose City "Greenprint" planning area boundaries.
See this link from the City of San Jose: http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/Home/View/44
As well as http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=3250
Ca.papavero (talk) 09:20, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way, while making statements that imply boundaries, this should reconsider statements like that under Public Transportation,  which says "Although no railway stations exist within Willow Glen, the area is served well by light rail stations on or near its border: Fruitdale, Race, Tamien, and Virginia."   When citing the Greenprint map, this would appear to be an incorrect statement, because these stations are indeed within the Willow Glen Planning Area, not outside.Ca.papavero (talk) 09:41, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maps/Boundaries 

message: Some of the sources or references in this article are seemingly less valid, reliable or relevant.  For example, many are tertiary in quality, if even that.  Some of the links are actually broken or no longer available or valid, etc.  The points being made in this article may well be valid; but, it's citation often leads to a website that is tertiary and doesn't make a primary or secondary source readily apparent.  Even if the links can eventually lead to the primary source, it should be cited within this Wikipedia article, without having to cause the reader to delve deeper along web links to find the original and more valid, reliable source.  For example, the article repeatedly cites "Willow Glen History, willow-glen.com" as a reference.   This Wikipedia article should more appropriately reference the second or primary source; as it even says at the website itself, "taken from 'The Willow Glen Neighborhood: Then and Now' by April Halberstadt."  So, why not go directly to Halberstadt's book?  Why not examine Halberstadt's book for more links; as well as find more books like her own?  Such books are still available via book retailers, many of them online or on the main streets of Willow Glen or greater San Jose.  You may even find these books at such places as the San Jose Public Library.  There's many books available and detailing Willow Glen's history, as well as that of the larger city and county.  You can even find information on early Willow Glen that relates to California State and U.S. federal history.Ca.papavero (talk) 10:26, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources/References: Types and Criticism 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: the geo section says that Willow Glen is mainly 95125 (though not all) and part of 95126. While the residents may consider most of 95125 and part of 95126 the "nicer part" and what they want to call Willow Glen, its actually contradictory with the WG planning map and the boundary map cited immediately below. For example citing the northern border near 280 would bring Willow Glen into 95128. The boundary map published by the planning committee clearly go into many zip codes of San Jose outside of those two zip codes, and covers the entire 95125. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Willow+Glen,+San+Jose,+CA/@37.2759269,-121.9197069,15z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x808e349fe9fcfa03:0x8a27b4690a4f5602!8m2!3d37.2944276!4d-121.9135599!16s%2Fm%2F027ncb4?entry=ttu
It kinda feels like the residents of WG simply want to cite the nice part as some exclusive city that it is not. Its San Jose. Sanjose1976 (talk) 10:23, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Google Maps firstly is not a good source for this, but anyways it uses the planning areas map of SJ as its source. The Willow Glen planning area is much larger and not coterminous with the actual neighborhood of Willow Glen. The boundaries used by the WGNA are much smaller. But either way, neighborhood boundaries are rarely codified and official, regardless of neighborhood associations or city planning areas. Cristiano Tomás (talk) 14:39, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geography section contradictory