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What is wrong with this page it seems to cut off at Turkey

Appears that someone has deleted half the page? RedZeppelins (talk) 11:47, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Where do you expect it to end? CMD (talk) 12:20, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Hat note - Miami

The hat note at the top of the article links to a list of CBDs and specifically to the Miami CBD. Of all the articles listed in the list of CBDs why would Miami's specifically be so important on its own that we think people will be searching for that one especially when typing "Central Business District" above all others? Is there a reason I am not aware of? Even if we presume it's because its name is Central Business District and others have different names like Down Town..... A very quick look through the list shows several others, including some international capital cities, have articles named Central Business District, like Sudirman, Buenos Aires, Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Bangalore, Windhoek, Johannesburg. It seems odd to give special treatment to Miami. I am removing it from the hat note, if I have missed something and there's a reason it should be there, please discus and let me know.  Carlwev  06:26, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Geography

Settlement lnvestigation project 105.244.194.230 (talk) 15:55, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Settlement lnvestigation project 105.244.194.230 (talk) 15:56, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

usage of the term

People don't usually refer to their city centres as CBDs. The exception is Australia, where it is very common to use a CBD as a reference point: "this restaurant is only three minutes by car from the CBD." Such as phrase feels very unidiomatic in, say, the US or the UK.

Please discuss the worldwide usage of the article topic. As is, the viewer isn't informed of the difference between it as academic term (regular people don't use it; i.e. the US) and a common-place term (Australian major cities). 84.217.39.2 (talk) 12:46, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

No mention of the UK

why is the UK not mentioned here?! RyanPLB (talk) 19:49, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Because CBDs in the United Kingdom (especially outside of London) are so unimportant that there is very little published scholarly literature about them. On 17 June 2020, User:Yamaguchi先生 purged numerous sections of the article that lacked citations to sources, including the entire United Kingdom section. Under core policies like WP:V, WP:NPOV, and WP:NOR, assertions in WP articles should be supported by citations to sources.

Four years have passed and no one has bothered to restore the section since. It looks like the underlying issue is that no one cares about UK CBDs. For example, there have been several articles in The Economist about UK urban decay. Therefore, no one has invested the time and energy to dig up citations for the handful of published sources available.

In contrast, US downtowns have been the subject of several books, which is why that article is mostly supported by citations to sources. --Coolcaesar (talk) 01:26, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Let me start by saying that there's something wrong with an article when a hotel complex in the edge of Chechnya gets a mention while globalised economies like the US and UK don't even get their own section.

London is considered the second-largest global financial centre in the world, mainly distributed across the City of London and Canary Wharf. Even if the rest of the UK did not have any other relevant CBDs, just the fact that the megacity is contained within this country should already make its own section a third of the article's length. Justifying what seems a personal and unilateral decision by saying that "it looks like [...] no one cares about UK CBDs" is not only gravely ignorant, but also goes against the same Wikipedia principles that you mention.

I'm unsure of what sort of reliable sources that prove the existence of CBDs in the UK you need; this is comparable to asking for scholarly literature that proves the Bay Area as a major tech startup hub. One thing's for sure, no matter your expectations of British urban decay, I don't think a late-night walk around the square mile would disappoint. Viktaur (talk) 01:23, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

I cannot understand how London is not mentioned even once in the entire article. Why is this the case? Viktaur (talk) 00:47, 1 November 2024 (UTC)