Talk:Scampia

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"Scampia is a ghetto like no other, it makes ghettos in the USA look tame and safe!". POV. utcursch | talk 12:02, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

"It is not a ghetto, It is a slaughterhouse.".POV. jonaspv, June, 2008 —Preceding comment was added at 01:54, 15 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Isn't it technically a slum and not a ghetto? Ghetto technically implies that an ethnic or racial minority group is concentrated there, whereas I think Scampia is mostly ethnic Italians. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.81.75.121 (talk) 19:30, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Merge
The article Vele di Scampia should be merged into the Scampia article. The overlap is obvious and Vele di Scampia is a nonsensical title for an English language encyclopedia. Moreover, the Vele di Scampia article is a very poor translation of the original Italian one. - DonCalo (talk) 14:19, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Agree and done. -- P 1 9 9 ✉ 16:33, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I did heavy copy editing of this entire article. I agree it was "a very poor translation of the original Italian." I hope it reads better now. Nick Beeson (talk) 20:03, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Populations of the Vele structures
The population counts (up to 70,000 at the peak, 40,000 squatting in the remaining 4 strcutures) are fairly obviously wrong. While there is a citation, a few minutes on google's satellite view of the area shows that these buildings simply are not that large. They're big, but not 10,000 squatters each big. My rough estimation suggested something like 1 million square feet for each of the larger structures (of which 3 remain), which comes out to 100 square feet per squatter. Where the heck are all these people in the pictures? These buildings are largely abandoned, and the overall look of the pictures suggests 100s of squatters, maybe low thousands.

What is the appropriate course forward here? Amolitor99 (talk) 15:14, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Needs Serious Editing
Just to mention it, the article is riddled with errors of grammar and syntax, presumably having been written by a non-native speaker of English. The article needs to be revised to meet Wikipedia's standard for formal written English. I'm not Wiki-savvy enough to know how to add a tag to the article, however. I might make the corrections myself, time allowing. Mpaniello (talk) 12:40, 31 May 2021 (UTC)