Talk:Little Buenos Aires

The neighborhood is question has been called North Beach/North Shore for years and is still called North Beach by the locals. While there are many residents from Argentina in the neighborhood NOBODY calls it Little Buenos Aires. There is no sense of being in Argentina when you visit the neighborhood, except for a couple of restaurants. This is just a marketing campaign to try to inject a little life in a dilapidated neighborhood--and yes, it's still scary to walk around there at night though it has gotten better.

If anything, it would be more appropriate to have a North Beach/North Shore page and mention that some people refer to it as "Little Buenos Aires" due to a large proportion of residents.

http://www.frommers.com/destinations/miami/0017020048.html Frommers calls it North Beach.

City of Miami Beach neighborhood map" http://www.miamibeachfl.gov/newcity/neighborhoods/neighborhood_maps.asp

http://www.gonorthbeach.com/Community/index.html

--Miami Beach native


 * There are published sources for Little Buenos Aires. Your observations of what people call the area are original reasearch. As Attribution says, "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is whether material is attributable to a reliable published source, not whether it is true." If you want to create an article for North Beach, Miami Beach, Florida, do so, using published reliable sources. You could mention "Little Buenos Aires" in that article, as you suggested, but leave Little Buenos Aires as a redirect, as it is likely, given the published sources, that readers would come to Wikipedia looking for information on it. -- Donald Albury 20:07, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

http://www.miamibeachfl.gov/NEWCITY/DEPTS/econdev/northbeach1.pdf

According to the city of Miami Beach "The Plan’s target area is generally known as North Beach. North Beach is the northernmost section of Miami Beach and encompasses the area of 63rd Street north to 87th Street and Biscayne Bay east to the Atlantic Ocean.

"Demographically speaking, the population within this area is culturally diverse and predominantly poor. While there are pockets of affluence within the target zone, the majority of the area is poor, ethnically and culturally diverse (though predominantly Hispanic), and reside in multi-unit rental housing."

A few scattered and incorrect sources aren't more reliable than the city of Miami Beach's official position.

--Miami Beach Native.

Both of the "published sources" use the name "Little Buenos Aires" in a way that makes it obvious that they are not talking about the name of the neighborhood, but are simply using a device to describe the influx of Argentineans to the neighborhood known as North Beach. That said, two sources do not a fact make, when there are likely hundreds of thousands of sources that show the neighborhood called North Beach.

--Another MB Native


 * There are published sources calling the area "Little Buenos Aires". I have no objection to saying that the more widely used name is "North Beach", but we should retain mention of the alternate use. If someone creates North Beach, Miami Beach, Florida (note there are already other articles at North Beach) with all those sources that you say are there, then Little Buenos Aires can be a redirect to it. -- Donald Albury 02:21, 27 February 2007 (UTC)