Talk:Davis Square

message: Do you prefer Davis Square as a blue collar area where lottery scratch cards can litter the ground or as a gentrified hip area with new stores and restaurants? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.31.111.43 (talk • contribs) .
: Davis is now "Walking Distance" to Harvard? It's a ways down the road (two T -stops). I consider myself an ambitious pedestrian, but I would prefer not to make that trip. Maybe replace with "easy biking distance", or "convenient to"? --Cosmo the third 19:42, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yeah folks, Davis Square being within walking distance to Harvard is quite an exaggeration.  However, since I am not part of the Harvard Community myself (only part of the Medford community), I really can't quite comment that Davis Square is close to "parts of" Harvard University.  Is any outlying part of Harvard University within, say, one mile of Davis Square?  If no one can confirm or deny this statement, I will remove the Harvard reference in time.  It sounds like a false advertisement to link Davis Square to the Harvard community and its Ivy League reputation, but Davis Square is much more part of the Tufts community than Harvard. Midtempo-abg (talk) 21:18, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Removed the part that said Davis Square is within walking distance of Harvard University. Midtempo-abg (talk) 20:52, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Harvard

message: Why would any non-homeless person prefer the old Davis Square?  Anyone that does, is just frustrated that they don't have the means to afford living there anymore.  Is it really necessary to include an isolated incident of spray painting "kill a yuppie".  The person was caught by the police and will be punished....end of story.  I think there's much more to Davis Square than some vandal kid who doesn't like yuppies, and it doesn't deserve that much space on this wiki page.  It should be deleted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.96.184.142 (talk • contribs) 
:I agree. Not quite walking distance. I've done it, but I didn't really enjoy it.
--Beneeball 22:55, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graffiti at Davis Square 

message: I would add that there are multiple links that are currently not pointing to anything... 503 error on one, 'page not found' error on number 2.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.116.153 (talk) 07:54, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: See WP:BADLINK for how to handle these.  — Lentower (talk) 14:00, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Dead links?

message: :A growing LGBT presence is evidenced by a smattering of rainbow flags on neighborhood churches and homes.
Why is a citation needed for this? I can walk down my street and take photos of 3 or 4 churches and provide photographic evidence. But is that really necessary?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.96.177.86 (talk) 02:15, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There's nothing wrong with using your own photos (from WP:NOR: "Original images created by a Wikipedia editor are not, as a class, considered original research – as long as they do not illustrate or introduce unpublished ideas or arguments") but as mentioned there, you can't be the first person to introduce the argument. You would still need a reliable third-party source to mention the LGBT population. If there isn't one, it can't go in: that's Wikipedia's long-established (if sometimes annoying) policy that the threshold for inclusion is verifiability, not truth. "Everyone knows" isn't good enough. 81.159.58.45 (talk) 19:32, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation Needed on Rainbow Flags 

message: :The cobblestone square now attracts families which congregate outside the ice cream parlor JP Licks in the summer to listen to musicians and people-watch.
Um, that's red brick, not cobblestone.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.96.177.86 (talk) 02:17, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cobblestones? 

message: The direction of one of the streets in incorrect in the image of the square.  Day St is one way towards the Square, not away from it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.57.140.195 (talk) 21:29, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, a "street" used only by incoming buses is incorrectly marked as a two-way street.  Maybe this map should be removed until it can be replaced with a correct one.  12.45.255.66 (talk) 20:26, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Street Direction on image 

message: When was the square created?  In :File:Middlesex Canal (Massachusetts) map, 1852.jpg it looks like by 1852 what is now Elm Street connected directly to what is now College Ave with no cross streets at what is now Davis Square.  How did the neighborhood develop over time? -- Beland (talk) 05:47, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: History

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