Talk:Finsbury Park (area)

Copyright?

This page sounds a lot like http://www.ludlowthompson.com/area_guides_Finsbury-Park/Finsbury-Park-252.htm Is that allowed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.198.167.254 (talk) 12:10, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Umm........what makes you think someone copied Ludlow Thompson? I wonder if perhaps the copying might just possibly have been the other way round? :o) hjuk (talk) 07:46, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Photo Mission

I live just round the corner from Finsbury Park, so I can take some photos... what would you say are the main sights... Candidates include:

• The Mosque
• The front of Finsbury Park station and the Arsenal Shop
• Gateway to the park

Umm... 'sights' is maybe a bit optimistic. I can't think of anything outside the park itself that I would want to look at twice. As for the park itself, a shot of the main path that runs parallel to Seven Sisters Road (preferably on a Sunday afternoon when there are football matches going on), might give a nice flavour of the park's atmosphere. Another idea would be to stand somewhere on the incline to the west of that main path and get a panorama of the front of the park with the busy road and housing estates in the distance. I don't have a camera otherwise I'd have a go at it myself. Good luck, anyway. R Lowry 17:57, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps a picture of the new river, running through the park. The mozaics in the station are also perhaps worth a picture. Francis Davey 1 July 2005 17:10 (UTC)

Opening Paragraph

I think the inclusion of this sentence is a bit weird within the context: "Persons attending weddings at Finsbury Registry Office (also known as Islington Registry Office), need to be wary of this common confusion: the registry office is in Finsbury, not Finsbury Park". It's seems very particular, seems awkward within the flow of the article (before any information about the general character of the area is made,) plus the general point is made by the preceeding sentence; surely there are loads of ways you could illustrate this possiblity. Is there any need for it at all? 3tmx 18:08, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Separating the Park Page from the Local Area Page

Most of the major london open spaces have their own page. It avoids confusion. I propse separating the Park entry from the local area entry. Any comments? hjuk 17:53, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Following some comments on Talk London page and no commenst here - executed today hjuk 10:33, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Terrorist Mosque in Finsbury Park

- Transferred from Finsbury Park article-

Page 39 of Walter Laqueur's "The Last Days of Europe" reports that there is a mosque in Finsbury Park that has a reputation for a large amount of terrorist recruitment. Can someone more familiar with this integrate it into the article? - MSTCrow 01:19, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

As per disambig note at the top of the article, this is an article about the park NOT the urban area in which the mosque is located. For the article on the urban area go to Finsbury Park, London hjuk 06:04, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Also, see BBC News Article on Abu Hamza hjuk 06:22, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Requested move 5 September 2018

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Sheldybett (talk) 14:46, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

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• Finsbury Park, London → Finsbury Park (district)
• Old Trafford, Greater Manchester → Old Trafford (district)

– For the same reasons as Talk:Corfe Castle (village)#Requested move 12 April 2014 and Talk:Windermere, Cumbria (town)#Requested move 16 January 2016. There was some discussion on Commons with Nilfanion where it was suggest to use "district" instead of "suburb" for Finsbury Park (there is no Commons category for Old Trafford). The current titles violate WP:PRECISE as the base name articles Finsbury Park and Old Trafford are also located in London and Greater Manchester. The old titles Finsbury Park, London and Old Trafford, Greater Manchester should redirect to the base name after the links have been cleaned up. Crouch, Swale (talk) 07:29, 5 September 2018 (UTC)--Relisting. Galobtter (pingó mió) 16:02, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Naturally both the park and the football stadium are also in London and Greater Manchester respectively. Completely ambiguous. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:14, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Support in principle but not about precise proposed solution - My first reaction was that whereas 'district' might be commonly used for a part of a city in the US, it isn't in the UK. Both the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries suggest that district is used in UK for this sort of meaning, but only in certain circumstances, e.g. Cambbridge says "an area of a country or town that has fixed borders that are used for official purposes, or that has a particular feature that makes it different". That sounds about right to me and it means 'district' doesn't work for anything as ill-defined as a UK city neighbourhood. I think for the UK, neighbourhood would be better. HughJLF (talk) 15:45, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
    • As a Brit, I'd say that "neighbourhood" sounds far more American than "district" does. I don't think I've ever seen an area of a British city seriously referred to as a neighbourhood. "District" or "area" are the usual British terms. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:30, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
      • Also a Brit, and we'll clearly have to agree to disagree on 'neighbourhood'. But just enter the term into Google and you might get a different perspective. See also what Wikipeidia has to say on the term Neighbourhood. 'District' is certainly used in the UK but in a way I previously outlined. By way of contrast with the last reference, look at how Wikipedia defines District. London neighbourhoods are far too poorly defined to be considered as districts and they rarely correspond with administrative areas. As it happens, Finsbury Park is an extreme example of that dissonance. From the town centre outwards, it is split between the London Boroughs of Islington, Haringey and Hackney and between four parliamentary constituencies. Administratively, it is only unified by the postal district. By the way, as a Londoner - who lives within spitting distance of Finsbury Park - I've never heard an area of London referred to as a district. As Wikipedians, ought we not take an evidence-based approach. I've suggested the Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries as sources and have linked to two Wikipedia articles. I'm very open to being proved wrong, but I'd love to see some evidence to get me there. HughJLF (talk) 12:52, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
        • What about the suggestion of using "suburb", though I'd expect that for Old Trafford that could be disputed, given that its not within the metropolitan borough of Manchester. Crouch, Swale (talk) 13:11, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
          • Or "area", which is probably the commonest term. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:12, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
            • 'Suburb' tends to refer to an area beyond the inner city. In north London Finsbury Park is inner city within every reputable definition of the term. Even Haringey is now pretty solidly classed as inner city. I don't think you'll find anyone living in or around N4 thinking of Finsbury Park as a suburb either. 'Area' would work if folks don't like neighbourhood.HughJLF (talk) 13:23, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
              • BUT, I've just noticed that in the London Borough infobox that appears at the bottom of every London article (whatever it's properly called), the term 'District' is used. So whilst I stand by what I previously said, it would at least be consistent to use the term 'District' in the title of the renamed article. As a consequence, opposition to the term withdrawn. HughJLF (talk) 13:34, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
• Strong oppose "district" per HughJLF, but support the moves in principle. Our article is at Areas of London so probably something like "Finsbury Park (area)" would work best. A district is a bottom-level local authority, which in London means the boroughs, e.g. London Borough of Islington. Using the term to mean areas of London is confusing, and not generally found in sources.  — Amakuru (talk) 12:17, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
  • As per my comment above, ought not those infobox templates be changed then? For example:

HughJLF (talk) 12:21, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

• Yes, I think so. And the categories as well, and prose within individual articles which speaks of "districts". There's a fair big of work there though, and not sure how many feathers it would ruffle. I think a lot of these things were created about 10 or 15 years ago, and probably made sense to the person or people creating them, but I Googled this a while back and couldn't find anything very much to support the usage in 3rd party reliable sources. Which, coupled with the fact that "district" really is used as a catch-all for every borough/city/district/unitary authority in the country, means I strongly support changing the terminology across the board.  — Amakuru (talk) 12:24, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

• I wonder if they were modelled after a US version. Any road up, I've started a discussion on the london template talk page should anyone want to chip in for or agin. HughJLF (talk) 12:32, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

• Yes most of them were created by 213.253.40.220 (talk · contribs) in 2002, notice that Finsbury Park, London, England redirects to the park its self, just like we have a park at Hyde Park, London, though there has been debate that that should be at the base name and there is no settlement with that name. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:44, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

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