Talk:Neighborhoods of Tulsa, Oklahoma

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This article was created as a result of a discussion on the Template:Tk page of Tulsa, Oklahoma.--NMajdan•talk 17:58, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV: article reads like an advertisement

While not exactly an advertisement, this article is hardly NPOV. It's full of words like "upscale", "best", "acclaimed" etc. without ever mentioning any kind of source, or even just further explanation of what makes it good. This is a classic case of WP:PEA.

Getting back to "sounds like an ad", tons of businesses are mention and/or linked, which seems very spammy to me. If these businesses are actually noteworthy, prove it with a reliable source. Take, for example, the following sentence:

"Doubleshot Coffeehouse, Mercury Lounge, Rehab Lounge, Dalessandro's Restaurant, Pour House, Oscar's Gastro Pub and Vintage 1740 Wine Bar are popular destinations in SoBo."

Sorry, but that's unacceptable. I'm considering deleting the sentence, but then again, some of these may actually be notable - but how can I, or any reader, tell? Please source what's actually notable, and delete what's not. For that matter, I personally consider any link to a business an ad.

Unfortunately this isn't the only article with these problems, in fact, a lot of neighborhood descriptions are plagued by the similar problems of "local business plugging".

Remember, Wikipedia is not the yellow pages, nor a travel guide. 87.78.3.205 (talk) 17:44, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You should delete that sentence. In fact, the "districts" called "So Bo" and "Uptown" need to be deleted entirely. I have lived in Tulsa for 42 years, and there has never been an "uptown" here. Google "uptown Tulsa", and you'll find only this article, and one other page that seems to have copied from it. As for "So Bo", this is a very new attempt by one of the bars in that area to make the area sound more hip, like Deep Ellum in Dallas. In fact, not all of the bars/restaurants mentioned in your example sentence are even still in business. Roadhunter (talk) 12:57, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Neighborhood Definitions

I think this article would be far more useful if the boundaries of "districts" or neighborhoods were better defined and illustrated on a map of the city. Some of these names have sprung up in the last half-century and are not well-known except to current residents. Bruin2 (talk) 18:11, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]