Talk:Neighborhoods in Akron, Ohio

NPOV and citation issues
This article often reads like a brochure for Akron, and sorely lacks citations and references. I did what I could on a first pass for the first problem, though it could use more help. I was reticent to remove uncited info as that's currently the entire article, and there's some good, if unreferenced, information there. JDoorj a m Talk 17:51, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I will try to speak for the article, since I did a lot of the work. Beyond demographics, most information came from a series on Akron's Neighborhoods by The Akron Beacon Journal. Since the source articles are more than a year old, Beacon stops achieving them. They are available via news bank, but that is not a free service. I will lookup and cite all I can, but will be unable to link them. --UltraSkuzzi 22:54, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


 * FYI, Newsbank is free via Oplin/Ohio Public Libraries and provides open-access URLs, which seem to stay active for an extended period of time. Frankly, though, if it's feasible I would start by copying over the data from the neighborhoods page on the city's website. --Rollingacres.org 13:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to start making an attempt to add some inline citations, and perhaps give the article a little more color. This is my first wiki project, so feel free to give some guidance if you see I've missed something, formatted poorly, etc. DJC PDX (talk) 02:00, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

porting tables/stats over from Akron neighborhood profiles
I'm tossing in the text - if someone can figure out how to port those over that would be helpful.

I've just been cut & pasting the text from the Google HTML cache of the city's PDFs. City Site or List of Google Cache of HTMLs

--Rollingacres.org 05:25, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


 * RA, could you qualify what you are trying to accomplish here? Most of the data in the Akron demographics page is already in the article. Do you want it organized similarly to how it is contained in the PDFs? --UltraSkuzzi 12:53, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Divide and Conquer?
Look at the index of this article it's huge! Perhaps we need to create quadrants (eg. West Side, North Side, Central) to subdivide areas. I would look at High School Districts in Akron, they often cover more then one neighborhood. --UltraSkuzzi 01:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * A Proposal


 * West Side: Fairlawn Heights, Wallhaven, Northwest Akron, Highland Square, West Akron, Lane-Wooster
 * North Side: Meriman Valley, North Side (distrct), North Hill, Chapel Hill, Elizabeth Park Valley
 * Central: Downtown, University of Akron (University Park, Spicertown), Middlebury
 * South Side: Rolling Acres, Kenmore, Firestone Park, South Akron, Summit Lake
 * East Side: East Akron, Goodyear Heights, Ellet

más o menos --UltraSkuzzi 02:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

That's possible. Or you could just run them off as individual articles, or at least individualize the ones most likely to sprawl on (i.e. Highland Square, North Hill) and keep the others in a chunk (Lane-Wooster, Fairlawn Heights). Or not, your idea sounds good. I dunno - you're the one with the newspaper article. ;)

Do you know how other city articles on here have done it? Rollingacres.org 12:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * In Cleveland's case, there is a category called Cleveland Neighborhoods. I am in favor of that, but the wording of each section would have to be changed to be freestanding articles, and I'm not sure there is enough content for each one. Some ambiguous areas like "East Akron" and "South Akron" may never have lengthy separate articles. Also, some areas overlap. University Park is really University of Akron, Middlebury and Spicertown. Spicertown is not even recognized as an official neighborhood yet it has its own website and university students call it that; what I am saying is that the CoA's website should only be used as a guideline. I'll suggest doing some renaming when I have time.--UltraSkuzzi 21:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

spicertown and zip strip are two hamlets within University of Akron Zip Strip is across the street from unversity bouded by east exchange street to the north wolf leges parkway to the west and exstends for two blocks south and is bounded on south by wheeler and power streets and is bounded to the east by brown street marking the confluence of metro 17 south north with metro 2 south north routesmetro 17 heads south down brown street and metro 2 goes down east exchange to arlington road and interchanges with a few other routes then goes completely south to wallmart on border with green city and links to sarta there in walking 2 block walk distance passed commerical acess roads down arlinton. at the staples office supply store.

Spicer town on the other hand is a strip of land bounded by exchange to the north brown to the west and railroad tracks to the east and south to south street. marking the old boundary of portage township line. which the confluenced 76 and 77 free ways share.when you get to south street your in south inner akron. and not to far from leaving the C.B.D. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.51.212.6 (talk) 06:52, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV
I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
 * This template is not meant to be a permanent resident on any article. Remove this template whenever:
 * There is consensus on the talkpage or the NPOV Noticeboard that the issue has been resolved
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Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 00:18, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Updated Neighborhood Map
Since the City of Akron updated the neighborhood map in 2016, new neighborhoods and changes to old ones should be mentioned.

http://www.akronohio.gov/cms/site/c95aa0fb68bb58c8/index.html

City of Akron Updated Neighborhood Map: http://www.akronohio.gov/cms/Akron_Neighborhoods_Updated/neighborhoods_akron_2016_85x11mxd.pdf Updated Demographic Profiles for all neighborhoods: http://www.akronohio.gov/cms/Akron_neighborhood_profiles/akron_neighborhood_demographic_profiles_2016___update_1.pdf

Anton McClure (talk) 15:20, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

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