Template talk:DeKalb County, Georgia

Buford Highway Corridor
I created a link to my new article on the Buford Highway Corridor (i.e. Buford Hwy as a *place* and *community*, not just a road) under unincorporated places. If someone can find a new category for it, you are welcome to try. It is most certainly a place of importance in DeKalb and belongs here, but you can really discuss what category of "place" Buford Highway is.Keizers (talk) 16:24, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Is it a city? Is it a town?  Is it a census-designated place?  Is it an unincorporated community (a populated place)?  Is it a ghost town?  If the answer to all of these is no, then it doesn't belong here.  Nyttend (talk) 14:41, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry but where is it decided which categories of place can be listed here? Buford Highway (Corridor) is a community that is located partially in unincorporated DeKalb and partially within the city limits of Chamblee and Doraville. I don't understand why only communities that are entirely unincorporated can be listed here. I see that edge cities are also not listed here (e.g. Perimeter Edge City). To me, this is excluding two fundamentally important communities in the county based on political borders.Keizers (talk) 23:06, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Please observe the title of the template: it's municipalities and communities, not things like this. Political borders are what the reliable sources use, so we must go by them.  Nyttend (talk) 15:10, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The problem is how are you defining community? The only official political unit to define an unincorporated area is the census-designated place (CDP) otherwise it's just a general consensus that this is a "place". If you are going to take only CDPs then you have to throw away Brookhaven from this list, because it is not a CDP. In this sense Buford Highway Corridor in unincorporated DeKalb is most definitely community - it is the area on either side of the highway with many apartment complexes and tens of thousands of residents and which does not belong to any other community (except North Atlanta CDP).

Second, edge cities are also communities - many reliable academic sources would discuss them. They are a reality in a modern metropolitan area as a type of community/place. We should not be keeping to conventions from the encyclopedias of the 1970s.Keizers (talk) 19:02, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Additional source recognizing Buford Highway Corridor as a distinct community Creative Loafing, Metro Atlanta's most prominent newspaper reporting on local issues from a contemporary perpective.