Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30384903-20150318215056

South Starling

East Starling

I'm just kind of confused as on those two pages, the infobox stated them as cities, yet some anons were quite persistent on adding the residents (former or not) of those two places as residents of Starling City (fyi, neiborhoods of those pages were also listed as neigorhoods of Starling City); I've tried removing them once but they were adding right back in so I kind of see it as a lost cause... But I'm still generally curious if those are districts of Starling or in fact separate cities.

I do not have a driver's license, but I have a California ID so I assume the information displayed is somewhat similar, and at least on my state ID, the adress only consists of building number, street name, town/city name, state abbreviation then lastly, ZIP code. Last I checked, that's also the standard way to write addresses if writing snail mails in the States, something specific like districts or neighborhoods won't be shown; however, on Tockman's driver's license (let's just ignore the fact the license fails to display the state), an additional information is shown (distrect), and most importantly, the place that is usually for the name of the city, shows East Starling, instead of Starling or Starling City. This part is what got me convinced that East Starling is in fact a different city, as I am near a living proof of a similar situation: South San Francisco is not a part of San Francisco city; it is a different city right on the south of SF, having different mayors and all.

I mean, I guess we can all just assume whoever was responsible for creating the text on the license messed up, like it's a technical error or something, but at the same time I would also like to have more faith in the professionals that they won't make some obvious junior mistakes... So I'm a bit torn on the situation. I know this probably sound like I'm nitpicking, but it's just a bit frustrating when stuff contradicts themselves where they should have been complementary... I feel that either change the usage of those two pages, making them not stating as cities, or remove the stuff on Starling City that don't belong there, and perhaps, have a written message on the top of the page that says something like "For cities with similar names, see East Starling and South Starling" hopefully to prevent some people on relentlessly adding in certain material.

I did not do the adjustment action myself and started a discussion instead, cuz

a) like I said, I did try doing one of the methods but it kept on being reverted back.

b) I fully admit my knowledge about stuff on Arrow is really not all that much (more of a fan of The Flash), so I'm really not sure if they are or aren't cities.

c) I would have take it to a talk page, but as it involves 3 different pages, I figured a discussion could do the same job.

So yeah, would like to hear your thoughts, but something constructive please? =] 