Talk:Silver Hill, Albuquerque

Article cleanup
I am attempting to clean up this article by moving it to "Silver Hill (Albuquerque)", which is the more commonly accepted name for this neighborhood, and adding some sources. Camerafiend (talk) 00:11, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Actually, "Gold Street" is the more common name for this neighborhood, the "Silver Hills" are just south of Gold Street. Is it simply that if there's no recognized neighborhood association, the neighborhood doesn't exist?

Everyone who lives on that section of gold avenue calls it "gold street". People have been calling it "Gold Street" for years. Do nicknames for locations and their descriptions as being distinct from the areas around them have to be written up in a newspaper before we can post it on wikipedia? The Silver Hill Historic people don't do any community activities at all on Gold Street, Gold Street is effectively forgotten by them. Everything previously in the "Gold Street" article was accurate.

Please don't edit things you have no business editing. Thank you. Burqueno (talk) 17:28, 11 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I did have some pretty good reasons for moving the page:


 * 1. I could not find a single reliable source referring to this area as "Gold Street." And yes, articles do have to be based on reliable published sources: see WP:V, which reads in part "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth." The say-so of someone who lives there is not sufficient.


 * 2. The area described in the "Gold Street" article is within the boundaries claimed by the SHNA: "Yale on the east, Presbyterian Hospital on the west, St. Cyr and CNM on the south, and Central Avenue on the north." The City of Albuquerque GIS website also identifies this area as being within the SHNA boundaries.


 * Please don't presume malice on my part. The article as it stood looked like a deletion candidate as it was unsourced (and as far as I can tell, unsourceable). I was trying to preserve as much of the content as possible while bringing the article in line with Wikipedia policy. I am going to change your recreated "Gold Street" article back to a redirect. If you have reliable sources indicating that "Gold Street" is in fact a distinct neighborhood (and notable enough to warrant its own article), feel free to restore the article with added references. Camerafiend (talk) 23:55, 9 April 2011 (UTC)