Talk:Area codes 305, 786, and 645

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I'm not doing anything but making it look like all the other area code articles. In every other NANP area code article, the N/S/E/W boxes only have the numbers, not the locations of those numbers. See Area code 954 and Area code 561. Even before I touched them, they only said "242", not "242 in the Bahamas". Zurqoxn (talk) 20:23, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

This article has had "242 in the Bahamas" since December 2005. Your changing "in the Bahamas" to "Atlantic Ocean" in this article, and adding "Atlantic Ocean" to the other articles, is in error. Area code 242 is assigned to the Bahamas, not to the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean does not have an area code. I have to conclude that your assigning "Atlantic Ocean" to Area Code 242 is original research. Please stop violating this policy. -- Donald Albury 20:55, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I see where the confusion is coming from. I'm not saying the ocean has an area code, I'm saying it's east of 305/786. I think that every area code that borders an ocean should say so in the box, and have been adding the oceans to the boxes that don't have them yet, that's all. Zurqoxn (talk) 13:20, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Please don't. I fund that very confusing. -- Donald Albury 21:40, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

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Mr. 305 / Mr. Worldwide / Pitbull

Seems pop culture enough to include 123.108.171.178 (talk) 09:13, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

I really do not like "cultural references" in articles about area codes, but at a minimum you will need a good reliable source explaining the significance of the reference (i.e., don't use a source that just mentions the nickname without any context). - Donald Albury 13:38, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, I'm the person that put back the Pitbull information, which you referred to as "overpromotion" on the history page.

While I have no issue with your edits, I wanted to let you know the reason I put in multiple references, and what possibly seemed like "overpromotion" to you by mentioning he was a multi-platinum artist, was exactly because I noticed this very comment from you on the talk page. You seem to be some kind of admin or someone who polices South Florida-related articles and so I was concerned about putting in anything about Pitbull without making it painstakingly obvious why it's in there, because the comment I'm replying to made it clear you're not a big fan of these sort of entries for whatever reason. I'm not even a big Pitbull or rap fan (I very rarely listen to the genre), but even with that he's probably done more than anyone in pop culture recently to make the 305 area code well-known outside of South Florida.

Per your previous comments, I wanted to make it clear 1. the guy is really famous, and provided the multi-platinum source from RIAA as a citation, 2. that he was in fact born and raised in Miami proper with a citation, 3. and that he frequently mentions the "305" thing in his music, with multiple examples. I put in the record label fact, also with a source, to punctuate all of this. I understand you wanted the significance of the reference to Pitbull explained, so that's all I was trying to do.

Earlier on, a different user had an entry on Pitbull similar to what you changed it to, and some other user (not you) removed it for lack of citations, even though it DID have one citation, which your version of the entry now has.

Again, no issue with the edits you made. Just thought you should be aware of why I wrote the entry the way I did. I certainly was not trying to promote Pitbull in any way, just to provide sources for what I wrote as apparently having merely one source was a problem in the past, for reasons that frankly baffle me - and the fact about Pitbull does deserve to be in this article if we're going to have a pop culture section at all. It would be extraordinarily silly to have a pop culture section and not mention an extremely famous musician who calls out the area code on a near-constant basis in his music. 71.217.73.118 (talk) 19:14, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

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