User talk:Seattle Central Area Legacy

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Mass changes to wikitext
I see that you're very interested in the Seattle neighborhood known as the Central Area or Central District, particularly with respect to which of those two names we use in articles. While there may be some merit to some of the changes you want to make, I'd like to point out a couple things. First of all, when a topic is known by several names, Wikipedia tries to use the name found in a majority of reliable sources. So even though the official name of the neighborhood is "Central Area Neighborhood District", Wikipedia tends to use "Central District", as this name is better known. You can read a little more about this guideline WP:COMMONNAME, Official names and Naming conventions (geographic names).

Second, when you make mass search-and-replace changes to an article, it can break images, links and other Wikipedia features. For example, there is no page available at Central Area, Seattle, so changing the text of a link to Central District, Seattle breaks the site. Since your edits broke page features in this way, I've reverted them for now. Your changes are archived in the page history, so that the community can review them.

When there's a dispute about names, the usual way forward is to include a section in the article describing the different names and their histories, then use the most common, recognizable name throughout the various articles where the topic is mentioned. As far as I know, we have yet to have a substantive discussion on Wikipedia about whether Area or Central should be used, so this might be a good time to initiate a new discussion via the requested moves process. If there's anything I can do to assist this, please let me know, either by responding below or leaving a note on my talk page. Best, Ibadibam (talk) 21:32, 18 October 2016 (UTC)


 * In the meantime, I've made a change to the lead paragraph of Central District, Seattle to include the information you want to change. You can review the change I made . Ibadibam (talk) 21:36, 18 October 2016 (UTC)