Talk:Riverside and Avondale

Merge
This article is the result of merging four previous articles: Riverside, Jacksonville, Avondale (Jacksonville), Five Points (Jacksonville), and King Street District. The merges were completed with the following edits: However, the article was written in my user space and incorporates relatively little text from the previous articles. I felt that the topics could be better covered under a single article for the neighborhood(s), as most sources treat Riverside and Avondale together, and there's no good way to do this on Wikipedia without a joint article.--Cúchullain t/ c 04:05, 3 March 2013 (UTC)


 * A possible issue has arisen stemming from the latest edits to the Riverside, Jacksonville and Avondale, Jacksonville pages. By combining these articles the fact that these communities exist under separate entries into the National Register of Historic Places is lost. It may even be the more important thing to take away from these articles. Also, The blue badge is rarely not shown on a page where the designation exist. Example: — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mathew105601 (talk • contribs)


 * I considered that, but the fact is, the sources usually refer to Riverside and Avondale together. Jacksonville's Architectural Heritage has them under one entry for "Riverside and Avondale", while the Wayne Wood article is titled "Riverside-Avondale: The Great American Neighborhood". The Insider's Guide discusses them together and this is pretty typical of such books. Though the NHRP lists them as two districts (at least), there's only one preservation society for both (Riverside Avondale Preservation) and the city treats the districts as one unit. With the articles separate, there was no good way to discuss them together, as our sources do; now that we have an article for both, the separate articles are redundant.
 * As for the NHRP infoboxes, there's no reason they can't both be included in the appropriate section here, I just couldn't figure out how to format them right. If it's really so important, we can also add a bit more on the districts to the text as well. Alternately, we could re-create articles specifically on the districts, rather than the neighborhoods, though again I think that's just duplication.--Cúchullain t/ c 23:43, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

I still question this choice. I understand that there is an organization which has married the two names, but I am a ten year resident and from what I can tell the two neighborhoods in practice are understood as two separate places. I don't really feel like going through the hassle of bifurcating this page myself, but for the record it should be split. Mathew105601 (talk) 01:55, 22 March 2018 (UTC)