Draft talk:New Columbia (Portland, Oregon)

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Should the article title use parentheses or commas for disambiguation?

@Valfontis: I was wondering if you could provide some input on this question. WP:ATDAB states that commas are often used to disambiguate a place that belongs to a higher level administrative division, and WP:PLACEDAB states that parentheses are normally used to disambiguate natural features. New Columbia is in a bit of a grey area, in my view—it's not a natural feature per se, but it's also not a true "administrative division" of the Portsmouth neighborhood in which it is located. I'm more inclined to use parentheses, because commas might imply that New Columbia is a neighborhood in its own right. Do you have any guidance here? Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 17:11, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

After looking through Category:Public housing in the United States, I think there is some precedent for using parenthetical disambiguation for housing complexes and housing developments. Some examples are Marina Village (Bridgeport, Connecticut), Washington Village (Norwalk, Connecticut), Clayton Homes (Houston), and Liberty Square (Miami). Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 15:52, 9 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Lord Bolingbroke: Sorry I wasn't around--it looks like you answered your own question. So I was trying to do some clean up on WikiProject Oregon tags and I'm not quite sure what to do with this page. Do you think it's a useful archive? Perhaps we could move it to userspace in case you want to use any of it to improve the article? I was thinking of trying to merge it but since you redirected rather than moving your version of the article. I don't know, I'm crap at merging anyway. What do you think? Valfontis (talk) 02:27, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

Gayle Epp (1996). "Emerging Strategies for Revitalizing Public Housing Communities". Housing Policy Debate. 7 (3): 563–88.
Sue Arbuthnot; Richard Wilhelm (2009). Imagining Home: Stories of Columbia Villa (film). Portland, Ore.: Hare in the Gate Productions. OCLC 1003289391.
"RAHS School Locations". Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center. Retrieved 2019-05-30. – New Columbia Campus of Rosemary Anderson High School
From Roses to Rivets: Being an Account of the Housing Authority of Portland, Oregon. Portland, Ore.: Housing Authority of Portland. 1946. OCLC 9933882.

Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 03:29, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Lord Bolingbroke, Perhaps this article is not entirely complete, but I hope you'll consider moving into the main space soon! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:25, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, this has been languishing in draftspace for far too long. There are still some sentence fragments and choppy paragraphs in the history section that I added as placeholder text, so I don't feel comfortable moving into mainspace just yet. I'll try to head over to Central Library some time this week and get the history section fleshed out. I want to take a look at the From Roses to Rivets book, which is in the closed stacks, and take another look at the Oregonian articles I've cited. Some of the information on Columbia Villa's early history is a bit vague, so I want to make sure everything is cited very carefully. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 17:07, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]