Talk:Garment District, Manhattan

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Two problems with this article. It reads like a tourist brochure. Perhaps because large pieces were copied from the NYC visitors guide, the first article in the reference list. Second, its blatantly POV in pieces: "The mob helped bump off a once vibrant industry." I cleanup up some, but a lot more work needs to be done. It should be possible to write about a neighborhood in an objective, original neutral point-of-view manner. Crunch 02:09, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Crunch, although I appreciate your comments and edits (and if you have more pls help make the article better), it is not fair to say "large pieces were copied from the NYC visitors guide" when in fact only one sentence was borrowed from that source. No doubt the article can be improved, but quite a bit of work did go into getting it this far - as can be seen from the list of references. Have a look at what the page looked like previously. Also, there are many sources for the mob's influence on this neighborhood, but I accept that perhaps that section could be written in a more neutral tone. Thanks. -- San 15:38, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Fair enough, San. My main concern is with the POV-ness of the article, not that it's copied from the tourist brochure. For example:

1. "From the industry's most famous designers to its most promising entrepreneurs, fashion makers locate their businesses here, taking advantage of the city's unlimited creative resources." (hyperbole)
2. "the United Hebrew Trades union asked Lepke Buchalter and his Jewish and Italian gangster friends..." (friend used incorrectly)
3. "Factories and showrooms are increasingly becoming condos and Starbucks." ("condos and Starbucks" used to generalize in a way to mean, perhaps "high value real estate and chain retail." And, then, if that's the case, please explain the significane of that in the context of the article)

These are just some examples. Crunch 16:29, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I chanced upon this article researching functional zoning; I was about to propose the alteration of exactly the same phrases you've suggested. I was most alarmed by just how much it read like an advertisement.

My support on fixing it.

84.71.176.109 (talk) 19:36, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This article also has sections copied directly from another referenced website, http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_1_how_to_run.html

Nbryant 14:47, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I added the web directory of www.garmentcenteronline.com in the links section and somehow it got removed. I want to appeal this decision since the web directory contains listings of businesses located in the NYC Garment District. Another source of businesses, Fashion Center link is available. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.100.172.23 (talk) 20:02, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, removed those. See

WP:SPAM. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 21:24, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply

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• Added archive https://web.archive.org/20091101131254/http://www.fashioncenter.com:80/about/contact-us/kiosk/ to http://www.fashioncenter.com/about/contact-us/kiosk/
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/20090720112402/http://www.fashioncenter.com:80/fashion-industry/fashion-attractions/the-walk-of-fame/ to http://www.fashioncenter.com/fashion-industry/fashion-attractions/the-walk-of-fame/

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