Talk:Callingwood, Edmonton

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Why One Article

I've decided to go with one article for the two neighbourhoods because I think that is the way Edmontonians tend to think of the area. I know a number of people who either live in, or have lived in, the Callingwood area and all of them would say they live or lived in Callingwood without qualifying it as either Callingwood North or Callingwood South. Hence, I expect most people looking for Callingwood would search on Callingwood. For the few who would look for either Callingwood North or Callingwood South, there are redirect pages to bring them to this page. Johntwrl 01:59, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Individual articles

The above section attempts to rationalize why one article is used in place of separate articles for two official neighbourhoods in Edmonton. Current and former residents of the area are not reliable sources, and a personal opinion of how one thinks Edmontonians tend to think of the area is speculative. Frankly, as a former urban planner for the City of Edmonton, it was my understanding that the "Callingwood area" referred to numerous neighbourhoods in west Edmonton south of Whitemud Drive and east of Anthony Henday Drive, not just "Callingwood North" and "Callingwood South". This may be wrong or right. I don't have any references to verify the actual boundaries of "Callingwood", but the point here is to suggest that Edmonton's general population may not actually think that "Callingwood" refers to only the two neighbourhoods that share that word in their official names.

Based on the above, and on the fact that all of Edmonton's other residential neighbourhoods have their own articles, I see no reason why these two official neighbourhoods should share an article. Like I did with Patricia Heights, Rio Terrace, and Quesnell Heights (see talk), I intend to transfer relevant content that is currently or can be readily referenced to articles specific to each official neighbourhood (Callingwood North, Edmonton and Callingwood South, Edmonton), and trim this down to a brief article that points to the individual articles. Perhaps this becomes a dab page listing the two neighbourhoods instead. Hwy43 (talk) 05:25, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]