Talk:Nutbush, Memphis

Superfluous and wrong information
Removed the following from the article:

''...the heart of ButBush is Grey rd Bayliss Longfellow, Salem Wells Station down to Wales St and other surrounding streets. Nut Bush has also now been known to harbor Latin Kings a street name for a gang of latin personell it also has Crips Vice Lords G.D's and N.H.C Neighborhood Crips but police have opened up new possibillities for the area and surrounding communities to get the heat off the street and make them safer i lived there it can be considered the ghetto or halfhood.''

1) The article describes the outer borders in the north, south, west and east already. There is no need to mention all the major streets that are inside the boundaries.

2) Gang related material is not sourced. Usually I do not remove unsourced material from articles but in this case I do because it is based on street knowledge, mentioning "street names" of gangs. This does not establish enough notability. Street knowledge is encyclopedic only in rare cases.

3) The information whether the area is considered a ghetto or halfhood should be founded by reliable sources. "... i (sic!) lived there ..." is not a reliable source.

If you are of a different opinion about the information in question please discuss it here. Do not move the material back to the article without consensus about it.

Restored the article to the last version by User:Pjj4000 as of May, 10th 2007

doxTxob \ talk 19:16, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Unfounded information about the racial makeup/Vandalism
Besides unfounded material about "notorious" street gangs, I have removed a statement from the article that reads "Nutbush is a predominately Latino community broke into several individual blocks." (sic!).

Lots of people are moving out of a lot of neighborhoods and others are moving in, some of these "others" are white, others are black, again others are hispanic or of any other race. According to city-data.com (http://www.city-data.com/city/Memphis-Tennessee.html), the percentage of hispanic people in Memphis is 3% altogether and cerainly not all of them populate Nutbush. I live in Memphis and certainly I have seen hispanic looking people all over town, yes, and in Nutbush, too. But observations of this kind do not establish a fact. So to stay in the article this statement needs demographic, statistical, verifyable proof (as well as proper formulation).

doxTxob \ talk 23:34, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Geography description problem
The "geogpaphy" section describes the neighborhood as "bordered by the CSX railroad to the north; Graham Street to the east; Bayliss Ave to the south, and North Highland Street to the west." As this marked-up screen capture of a map shows, North Highland Street ends at a point south of where Bayliss Ave is, and then resumes at a point north of the railroad. So it could not realistically form the western border of the neighborhood: http://i.imgur.com/TFfhw.jpg

Also, the footnote link in that section takes you to a map location that is far to the east of Nutbush, in the more affluent Rock Creek Parkway area just south of the Wolfchase Galleria Mall. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.65.57.54 (talk) 13:49, 6 June 2012 (UTC)