User talk:Nykhoten

New York City neighborhoods
Unfortunately for us, neighborhoods in New York City only have a sort of semi-official status, and their boundaries are not specifically set by the city, although the neighborhood map issued by the Department of City Planning shows in a general way the largest ones. Because of this, the definition of where neighborhoods begin and end is subject to a variety of forces, including the efforts of real estate concerns to promote certain areas, the use of neighborhood names in media news reports, and the everyday usage of people.

All of this means that we go through a process of consensus-building to determine what boundaries we are going to list, and we examine at lot of different sources to reach that consensus. A single newspaper article which indicates boundaries somewhat different than the ones we list is generally not going to be sufficient to change the boundaries in the articles, so you should avoid doing this. If you want to bring up the disparity on the article's talk page, so that editors can discuss it, that's fine. Consensus can change over time, and perhaps the new information will result in a new consensus. But please do not make changes of that sort in the article itself based on that kind of evidence.

Thanks, BMK (talk) 01:54, 15 May 2015 (UTC)