Talk:Anaheim–Santa Ana edge city

Notability
In its current form, I question whether this meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline: "a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". There are currently only four citations, and only the Los Angeles Times article is the only independent reliable source that addresses the topic directly. Obviously, a citation to Garreau's work itself is a primary source, and the last two citations do not address the topic of edge cities. Just because it is in Garreau's work does not necessarily justify a separate stand-alone article. And "Anaheim–Santa Ana edge city" appears to be a neologism, not a WP:COMMONAME used by the residents of the area. Zzyzx11 (talk) 21:35, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Zzyzx11, I added three additional sources referring to the Anaheim–Santa Ana edge city; granted, there is no consistency in the name to which it's referred, therefore I chose the name that Garreau used on his map as it's the most compact. Keizers (talk) 11:38, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Any other sources besides the LA Times? I do not think the meaning of "significant coverage" on the WP:GNG guideline is from just one or two publications. Otherwise, it just looks like you created this article solely to promote an idea by Garreau (and the LA Times's articles) that not a whole lot of people really share, observe or opine about. This is unlike the South Coast Metro article, which had existed for several years prior to your recent attempt to rename it to Garreau's "South Coast Plaza–John Wayne Airport edge city" name. Zzyzx11 (talk) 22:33, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Zzyzx11, perhaps, exactly as it is, you are right. Other sources do not talk about the Anaheim/Santa Ana edge city in particular. The idea stemmed from passages in the Orange County, California and Greater Los Angeles articles, where it is attempted to describe the commercial "centers" of Orange County, which are of course edge cities, or whatever you wish to call very large concentrations of commercial/retail/academic activity in an environment that is otherwise of suburban density. For Central Orange County (Anaheim/Santa Ana) There *is* a contiguous area of development which overlaps the city limits of 4 cities, and Garreau defined it, and the LA Times echoed that idea: the Anaheim–Santa Ana edge city. So it seemed logical to me to create an article about that phenomenon, and simply use that title, so that it could be referred to from the parent articles Orange County and Greater LA. What would happen if we delete the article for lack of notability? The content itself is very relevant and needs to be in the those two parent articles (Orange County and Greater LA) under "Economy" and/or "Geography". The text will be too long and I will need to break it out and what you will get is an article titled something like "Commercial areas in Central Orange County, California". I am not so sure that is as expedient. The concept of "edge cities" can be found in just about any urbanism textbook whereas "commercial area" is far less precise. It is not a wish to "promote Garreau" but rather using a handy and widely accepted term because it is shorter and common. Keizers (talk) 00:50, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * If this article is deleted, what I see is that the gist of the lead introduction section be merged into Orange County, California, most likely the economy section. And I would expect that something would develop similar to Greater Los Angeles, having a list of business districts and edge cities in Orange County. As for the rest of this article, it just seems like you took Garreau's boundaries and then made a list of all entertainment and cultural, shopping, health care, transportation, etc. within those borders. My issue again is that the concept of a specific edge city in that particular area is not a widely held view by residents, government officials and others. The concept of "edge cities" may be significant, but Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information that needs to have separate articles for each and every edge city that is not widely observed, or has little independent coverage. However, everybody knows where Central Orange County is. But what I also foresee instead of a separate Central Orange County article is that someone would add something like Los Angeles County, California or Contra Costa County, California, listing the regions of Orange County, and doing something similar like Contra Costa County, California and subdivide what is in each region. Zzyzx11 (talk) 04:59, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Good points, I just did that in the Orange County, California and will redirect this article to it Keizers (talk) 16:11, 3 July 2019 (UTC)