Talk:Sterling, Virginia

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Citation Needed
I'm not sure how to do edits on citations. There is a "citation needed" where it mentions that Sterling was a whites-only community. Here is its source:

http://www.loudounhistory.org/history/sterling-park-beginnngs-1961.htm

Can someone add that and remove this comment? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.241.66.227 (talk) 16:34, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

Fixed it. The whole section is taken almost verbatim from the loudounhistory.org source, needs to be rewritten.Fishlandia (talk) 14:06, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

need RS for Greater Sterling designation by USPS
As used in a recent edit, the term Greater Sterling requires a reliable source indicating that USPS designates a given geographic area by that name. TEDickey (talk) 20:40, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

See OP post. Caradhras Aiguo ( leave language ) 23:11, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I think the text of the edit makes it clear that the USPS identifies a much larger area as “Sterling”, which flows into common usage because of that. “Greater Sterling” isn’t a common term, just convenient for distinguishing between what the public thinks of as “Sterling” (which is based on mailing addresses) versus what the Census Bureau considers to be “Sterling”. Whatever the preferred wording might be, I feel this is a distinction which absolutely must be made. Famartin (talk) 23:36, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

But you're attributing it to a specific, well-known entity. Time to read reliable sources guidance, it seems TEDickey (talk) 23:47, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Seems that replacing "Greater Sterling" with "Sterling postal" maintains the distinction between CDP and Postal regions while avoiding the suggestion that "Greater Sterling" is a postal area. Jcurious (talk) 22:26, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

That's only part of the edit. The text states that Herndon is the preferred address per authority of USPS: "A much wider region has a preferred mailing address of Sterling, Virginia per the United States Post Office." There's not much that's reusable in the edit. TEDickey (talk) 01:36, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

USPS has a page for lookup by zip-code, and advises there "For more rapid delivery, please use the recommended or recognized city names whenever possible for this ZIP Code" which may be misconstrued as preferred (though if you consult a dictionary they're not synonyms). What it's telling you is that for unincorporated areas where there's no post office, they recommend routing through the post office which serves that area, but that when it has a generally recognized name, they'll deliver it anyway using the recognized name(s). There are a lot of areas for which this advice applies, and USPS (lacking a reliable source giving USPS viewpoint which others can read) relationship with the term Greater Herndon appears to be unsourced, hence not encyclopedic. TEDickey (talk) 02:30, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Koppen Climate "winter" weather classification is incorrect for Northern Virginia (Incorrect for many other regions too)
The Koppen Climate classification describes Northern Virginia winters as "mild to cool". This is incorrect. A large percentage of winter days are quite cold, a large percentage are "cool" and only a small percentage are mild. The KCC is correct for summer weather in this area.

There have been many complaints made about the Koppen Climate classification being incorrect for many regions-- see it's Wikipedia article Talk Page. This article should use NOAA weather data instead. It is much more accurate for Northern Virginia. The area does have hot sub-tropical summers, but in the winter Mid-Atlantic, not southern, weather patterns take over. Cool to cold is the rule.

I suggest that the article use NOAA data and drop the incorrect Koppen Climate classification. NOTE: The KCC has complaints about it in many regions as being innacurate. It is a very old system and depending on the KCC described region, can be innacuate for at least some seasons.

 Chesapeake77 >>> ♥ Truth  14:33, 15 June 2022 (UTC)