Template talk:Hollywood Walk of Fame

User:pnerger I would like to propose a change to the template to rely on a different site, specifically hwof.com rather than the site run by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. My reasons for this are simple. There are problems with the Chamber's site in that it is terribly out of date and inaccurate. The addresses are inaccurate with many simply in the wrong location. Further, it relies on Street Addresses which are not very accurate and which results in duplication as there are often several stars at a given address. The result is that it creates problems with the back links. For instance, the page Bob Thomas (reporter) links to the Chamber using the template but results in the entry for Billy Bob Thorton. Yes, the Bob Thomas star is in the same vicinity but the chamber locations are ambiguous and will result in lots of similar results. The HWOF.com site on the other hand, was mapped by hand and have references based upon the 3 foot squares that the sidewalk is composed of. Further, there is a unique coordinate for. Additionally, it would be possible to get a dump of all 2,099 current stars on the Walk of Fame from HWOF.COM (which is a larger and more complete set than the Chamber as they have lost some) and this would ensure that every entry in Wikipedia that also has a star on the Walk of Fame has that reference. My view is that this would be a very good way to improve both the completeness as well as quality of Wikipedia which I believe is the end goal. Pnerger (talk) 21:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC)