Talk:Dogtown, Marin County, California

message: there's no reason to disinclude the nickname "The Dogtown" from the nickname parameter from the infobox. I think this is just vindictiveness by IL2BA regarding the debate on the Oakland, California article.CholgatalK! 23:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's this conclusion any reasonable person would come to, that a so-called nickname, "The Dogtown", for a place whose name is "Dogtown", isn't worth wasting even one byte over. Besides, it's historical and no longer in use. +ILike2BeAnonymous 23:40, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  nickname 

message: All right how about this. "is located in the San Andreas Rift, a valley created by the San Andreas Fault"CholgatalK! 00:56, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Compromise

message: *(1)HWY 1 vs. CA SR 1, I think it should be pipelinked and appear as Highway 1 in the article because no one calls it California State Route 1 and may be confusing.CholgatalK! 01:28, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are pretty well-established standards here (Wikipedia) for road nomenclature, and California State Route 1 is in line with them (even though it's true, as you point out, that nobody really uses that term In Real Life), so I guess we'd better use that standard. Otherwise, the big bad road-heads will come on over here and change it. (Believe me, there are full-on raging battles here over that sort of thing.) Regarding your second point, it's probably beyond the scope of this article to point out where the highway goes, although it might be OK to mention the next largest cities in either direction on Highway 1. +ILike2BeAnonymous 03:54, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Would you happen to know where that standard is located at? CA SR 1's article mentions Highway 1, I think those standardization purists wouldn't mind in this case, the road signs even say Highway 1 only the small shield looking signs on poles use the eloganted official name and in small writting. Its confusing to use long out of use terms, and i feel the pipelink solves the issue, maybe we could just wait and see if someone really cares that much to remove it then and argue with them about it at that point in time. You asked about the infobox saying city, i didn't realise at the time that it said city in the actual box, i thought it was just in the code for the box, i have noticed there is in fact a CDP box which is closer but, I have not run accross a box for not CDP unicorporated areas, but i'll look for one. I don't think its a big deal to leave it the way it is for now, as the article makes it very clear in the opening sentace what the place is and its a well sourced article. Maybe we could put the CDP box in the interim sinces its less incorrect. As for the next major community in either direction, okay that sounds good enough to me.CholgatalK! 23:37, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Look at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (U.S. state highways). It says clearly that "when linking to a state highway article, be sure to use the official name." Chris! my talk 23:45, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  HWY1 

message: i think that the user who added the politics section was right, who represents the town, and what legislative and congressional districts it lies in is commonly included in articles in addition to being useful date. i support it remains.Boomgaylove (talk) 04:04, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This section doesn't belong in the article at all. Regarding your comment that these sections are now in lots of city articles, that is because one determined editor basically spam-inserted them in a ton of articles. (I removed lots of them.) This information rightly belongs in parent articles, that is, articles on the region containing the city or town. They're redundant in city articles and, in the case of little bitty places like Dogtown, out of proportion. If you want to provide this information, look on the county (Marin County in this case) or regional level. +ILike2BeAnonymous (talk) 04:30, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  politics 

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