Forum:Town districts and buildings

I think town districts such as Hoover Dam Downtown or The Pitt Downtown shouldn't have own articles but should rather be merged with the town articles. Splitting them up leaves both the town and district articles pretty bare-bones and causes quite a bit of repetition.

In my opinion, we should also consider merging articles for town buildings. They are usually fairly short and leave little room for expansion. I think buildings in a town should be merged into a single page (with some exceptions, of course) like e.g. "Megaton buildings". Opinions? -- Porter21 (talk) 20:48, March 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * I think this should be decided on a case by case basis, depending on how long a district article can become. Ausir(talk) 01:05, March 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Of course there are some special cases; I wouldn't suggest cramming all districts of Washington, DC into one article, for example. However, I think the general rule should be not to have separate articles for districts and make exceptions where needed, and not the other way round. We summarize multiple maps into one article for other locations (e.g. Evergreen Mills) but don't do it for towns, and there's little reason to make this exception from my point of view. What exactly are you supposed to list in most district articles which couldn't (or shouldn't rather) be added to the town article? -- Porter21 (talk) 14:20, March 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, in case of Van Buren ones at least there's often lots of information about each district from the design documents (not talking about the current state of the Hoover Dam Downtown article, though). Ausir(talk) 14:33, March 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I don't see much sense in making separate articles for each level of Maxson Bunker, Boulder Dome or the Reservation. I'd rather have one good, if long article about a location than having to go back and forth between multiple pages. And while I understand your point that the Hoover Dam Downtown article could be expanded, the vast majority of district articles ends up like that. Hub Downtown isn't much better; it doesn't have anything which couldn't be covered with a little expansion of the main Hub article. -- Porter21 (talk) 14:46, March 15, 2010 (UTC)

Leaving the buildings aside for a moment, I still think the town districts should only have separate articles if absolutely necessary. For example, compare the current Citadel article with this older version; I think the current one gives a far better impression of the location. At the time of the old revision, the A-Ring, B-Ring, Citadel Lab all had separate articles. Plus I still don't see the sense in having own articles for things like Shady Sands Brahmin Pen (no offense to whoever made it, he/she was simply following the current way of section distribution across articles). -- Porter21 (talk) 07:28, May 29, 2010 (UTC)