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Wilshire Center do not figure into the history of Koreatown, nor would most facts lend any weight to the current status or future development of Koreatown. When people talk of the 1992 LA Riots, I have never heard or read of the massive damage of the Wilshire Center during the riots. They speak of the massive damage suffered by Koreatown. When one looks at the gentrification of LA, I have never seen anyone cite Wilshire Center as the beginning and focal point of the transition. Koreatown is noted as the focal point of the city's gentrification. When the city council adopted the smart-growth vision, it was the mayor who said Koreatown will be made the model for the Los Angeles of the future, he didn't mention Wilshire Center at all. Of course some history of Wilshire Center is part of the Koreatown history, but simply redirecting pages or merging histories dilutes both Wilshire Center and Koreatown and strips them of their identity and culture.
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Wilshire Center, but what happens in them and around them today is Koreatown. I agree that it's important to discuss the historic neighborhood of Wilshire Center, but it seems confusing rather than helpful to have totally separate articles for them. That's why I think it would be better for Wilshire Center to be a section of the Koreatown article (with a redirect from just "Wilshire Center"), so we could talk about the history and the current activity without too much duplication of effort.
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Wilshire Center. And there are many who are working to make Wilshire Center a better place to live, work and shop. All one has to do is visit the Wilshire Center Business Improvement District web site at www.wilshirecenter.com to see some of the Wilshire Center story.
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Koreatown and Wilshire Center pages. Though Koreatown is a neighborhood inside the larger Wilshire Center, and both are a part of the Mid-Wilshire District, there is an obvious distinctness of the neighborhood, thus being labeled Koreatown. Many historical facts
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Wilshire, but rather that the cultural place-name "Wilshire Center" only applies now to Wilshire Blvd itself, and even then it is a part of Koreatown and not a distinct neighborhood. The buildings as physical objects may have been built when
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I think the articles should be merged. Other than the one reference in the
Wilshire Center article, I've never heard of anyone distinguishing the "two" neighborhoods in practice. In fact, the areas labeled as "Wilshire Center" in the eponymous article are all called "Koreatown" these days, and the
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Koreatown and Wilshire Center pages. The Wilshire Center is live and well. It is a place which has a rich history and a great future. There are many who call the area bounded by 3rd Street on the north, 8th Street on the south, Hoover Street on the
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Hampshire and possibly others. I would be open to including a more prominent link to "See also (Koreatown)" on the page, and vice versa, and a more prominent disclaimer that some residents (not all) refer to both as
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Wilshire Center as "Koreatown", they ARE distinct historically. Please only list buildings on the page that refers to the district in which they are located. I would rather see several notices on the "Koreatown" page saying "See Wilshire Center
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We have to think of why people would be using Knowledge (XXG). They aren't just potential residents. Some people WILL run into the term "Wilshire Center" in their historical researches and so we should retain a section for it. At minimum, it should have a) the historical information and b) an
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I would be willing to have you incorporate the entire "History of Wilshire Center" as a subhead on the Koreatown page, with the redirect, but that section would be quite long. I think it's also important to make clear that historically these were different areas. Do you want to take a stab at
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Wilshire Center no longer exists, except maybe as just the buildings that front Wilshire between Hoover and Wilton - a sub-neighborhood of Koreatown at this point despite its historical importance. I'd rather see Wilshire Center be a part of the Koreatown Page.
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Yes, I would enjoy doing that. As you can see, I'm a sporadic editor, but I'll do it soon (unless someone else does it first - I won't be offended). I'll have to research how to move/retain this page's history first.
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