Talk:Hôtel de Ville, Paris

Garbled chronology
Quoth the article:


 * The original Hôtel de Ville ... was burnt by the local population during the Paris Commune of 1871. The current building was designed by the architects Théodore Ballu and Pierre Deperthes, and replaced the earlier Hôtel de Ville on the same site. The building has been the scene of a number of notable events, including the declaration of the French Third Republic...

The way the article is structured now seems to imply that the current building saw the declaration of the 3rd Republic -- but such a declaration would have happened in 1870, before the original was burned down. Something ain't right... --Jfruh 03:47, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The 3rd Republic was declared in the building before the fire of 1871. Yet the stone shell of the pre-1871 Hôtel de Ville is still used in the current Hôtel de Ville, so it's essentially the same building, heavily restored and refurbished, that's why it makes sense to say that the Hôtel de Ville saw the declaration of the 3rd Repulic. Hardouin 12:29, 13 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Well then "replaced" and "rebuilt entirely" are poor choices of words - I'll rewrite. --Jfruh 15:31, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Advertizement-like language
The section "Nearby places" is written as such;
 * "The northern (left) side of the building is located on the Rue de Rivoli. The nearby Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville (BHV) is a department store named after the Hôtel de Ville. The closest church of Hôtel de Ville is the St-Gervais-et-St-Protais Church."

While I see nothing wrong with the first sentence, the references to a church and a department store, with links to their own pages, seems not to meet Wikipedia's standards, and may be mistaken for advertisement, bassed on its current language. See WP:NOTDIRECTORY, WP:NOTPROMOTION. For this reason, I have tagged this section as having advertisement- or dirrectory-like language. If you dissagree, please free to reply and delete it. Otherwise, I beleive the section had ought to be rewriten, with a less-promotional tone. ''--M. Schneider'' [Schneider anc]  (talk • contribs) 06:48, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

The BHV reference is irrelevant but not worded like an advertisement. The section is of little merit but is not inappropriately worded. Theelephantsays (talk) 18:26, 31 March 2011 (UTC)