Talk:Broadway (Seattle)

Requested move 22 June 2015

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The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 13:06, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

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Broadway, Seattle → Broadway (Seattle) – This article is about the street (which typically use parenthesis to disambiguate by city/region), not the neighborhood (which uses the current article name style). Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 05:49, 7 July 2015 (UTC) --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 19:57, 29 June 2015 (UTC) – SounderBruce 20:19, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

@SounderBruce: This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:47, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Comment: I think I agree with your reasoning. Broadway, Seattle currently reads as if it were a suburb. Why is this a contested request? FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 03:34, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

• Comment: Broadway Avenue currently redirects to Broadway Avenue (Saskatoon). Just saying. Sovereign/^Sentinel 09:08, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
  • We should probably disambiguate it. There's probably a few streets named Broadway Avenue and it should redirect to the Broadway disambiguation page. SounderBruce 13:16, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

• Comment: I was the one requested this move. Let me just say I did NOT realize that this was about a street, not a neighborhood. Part of my confusion is the fact that the page is categorized as Category:Neighborhoods in Seattle, Washington. Anyway, for what it is worth (since I was the one who requested the move in the first place) I support switching it back. I do think it should be clarified that this is a street, NOT a neighborhood. --Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 16:50, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
  • We all make mistakes every now and then, so don't worry about it. I think we need to split the Broadway neighborhood from this article or merge its content with the Capitol Hill article. SounderBruce 01:21, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

• Support per nom. —  AjaxSmack  03:46, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose. Too unclear as what the topic is, a place, a geographical feature? Instead, Broadway Avenue, Seattle, or Broadway Avenue (Seattle). Disagree mildly that the article is about a street, not a neighborhood, it is borderline and both. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:12, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
  • @SmokeyJoe:: The street is signed as Broadway (as in the street signs say Broadway, not Broadway Ave). The article should be split between the neighborhood (Broadway District, Seattle) and the street (which would be this article, since it extends out of the neighborhood. SounderBruce 00:16, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
  • Also, the naming conventions for streets is generally to use STREETNAME (CITY/LOCATION), without a comma (which is usually used for neighborhoods/place names). SounderBruce 00:17, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
    • As per Broadway,_Seattle#Culture, this is not simply a street article, but a neighborhood / downtown district. Regardless of street signs, from a larger context, the location is Broadway Avenue, Seattle. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:22, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
      • You can't disregard street signs when talking about a street. That section can easily be included in my proposed Broadway District article. SounderBruce 01:07, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
        • The skipping of obvious words on a street sign is not something to take definitively. If you move material to a new Broadway District article, that might be good, if there is really enough on the street itself to support an article. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:40, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
          • Most government agencies (Seattle DOT, Washington State DOT, King County Metro [the transit authority]) do not use the avenue suffix on Broadway, though it would technically count as one in the Seattle street naming system, so it's not all that appropriate to include Broadway Avenue even as an alternate name in the first place. I've been working on expanding this article in my sandbox and there's plenty of history to include that I haven't gotten to in my notes. Not to mention the transit and bike sections, which will be chock full of information when I'm done with it (and getting this article to GA). SounderBruce 02:25, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
• Comment — There should be a split. Broadway (Seattle) should be about the street and it should be titled and formatted according to the guidelines for street articles. Per the Seattle Neighborhood Index, a separate Broadway, Seattle article should be about the Broadway Neighborhood, which is one of the five that make up Capitol Hill, along with Madison Park, Stevens, Portage Bay and Montlake. If the Broadway Neighborhood article is too short, it should redirect and merge into a section of Capitol Hill, Seattle until there is enough content to justify spawning a separate article. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:19, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Broadway Avenue and Broadway Avenue East

When I lived there in the late 1980's we called it "Broadway Avenue" (and "Broadway Avenue East"). This article has no mention of the "Avenue" part giving only "Broadway" (and "Broadway East"). Did this change officially at some point? (Or has it always been this way and I am just losing my mind??) Thanks 74.76.180.38 (talk) 00:37, 14 June 2020 (UTC)