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Maybe add to the neighborhoods? something about north, west, and east camb? a side note: should CPSD have its own page? or maybe one about the high school if i ever get around to editing the full history? or would that not be worth making a page? -- mysekurity 03:49, 25 May 2005 (UTC) Maybe. Between the neighborhoods of east cambridge and port aka area 4 there is a neighborhood known as mid block whitch is a very diverse nighborhood.
Corrected a number of inaccurate and misleading statements in the cycling section. "bicycles are considered vehicles in Cambridge" is misleading as the vehicle classification is under MA law and the Uniform Vehicle Code, plus fifty years of common law before that, in no way unique to Cambridge. Sidewalk riding is permitted outside of business districts (again, this is MA law, but the cities and towns define the districts). All vehicles are required to share the road with all other vehicles everywhere. See MassBike. jnik 05:33, 5 February 2005 (UTC)
Removed "The English town, Cambridge, is named after the bridge that crosses the river Cam." Surprisingly, this is incorrect - the town was called Cambridge before the river became known as the Cam. Enchanter
Wikipedia's own article on Cambridge has a correct account. Gdr 20:42:41, 2005-09-06 (UTC)
It'd be good to include Davis Square in the mix. If anything, this seems a more vibrant area than, say, Porter. But I'm a new resident of the area, and don't know much, yet, so I'm not feeling qualified to actually edit the article. Still, Davis has: a movie theatre (Somerville), lots of funky restaurants, Jimmy Tingle's comedy club, a pretty good used bookstore, what appears to be a great music club (but I don't recall the name, and haven't visited, yet), a thrift shop, bars, and an actual outside square with benches, musicians, etc. It's also a T stop on the red line.
Technically, Davis square may be in Somerville, but it all seems like Cambridge, to me, and I think the distinction is rather artificial.
Agree w/ AJD- Davis is the jewel of SOMERVILLE, not Cambridge. This would never, nor should it, be considered a Cambridge Square. I mean, if your going to say "it all seems like Cambridge to me" you may as well say "it's all Boston". The thing about living in this area is the neighborhood radii may be small, but they are definite.
Disagreement for what actually constitutes "Kendall Square." While the MBTA's Kendall Square is indeed near the intersection of Main, Broadway, and Third, it seems as though Kendall Square proper is at the intersection of Broadway and Hampshire, as this is where the address 1 Kendall Square is and, geographically, is consistent with the hub-and-spoke layout of Cambridge's streets. Main-Broadway-Third leads to no other squares directly, while Hampshire-Broadway leads to Harvard Sq. and Inman Sq. -- 24.61.14.239 04:21, 6 July 2005
Kendall Square truly is along Main St. where the Kendall/MIT T station is. "One Kendall Square" is several blocks away and is truly a misnomer. The cynical assumption is that the developers of the One Kendall Square disreputably obtained a "vanity address" making it sound like they were right in Kendall Square proper. The real explanation is a bit more complicated: at the time that One Kendall Square was being developed, some other developers of a bunch of big buildings in Kendall Square ("Cambridge Center") were trying to get the old name "Kendall Square" erased, to be replaced with "Cambridge Center". The One Kendall Square developers (so the story goes) were nobly trying to preserve the Kendall Square name. But then the renaming of Kendall Square to Cambridge Center didn't stick (and a good thing it didn't), meaning that One Kendall Square remains confusingly out of place. Steve Summit ( talk) 05:29, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
I saw that the main article has been designated two different types of stub. This makes little sense to me, as their is already quite a bit of information here. This article is substantially larger and more detailed than your typical stubs, so I believe the stub designators should be removed. Before I did this, however, I wanted to raise the issue with other WikiCantabrians. What do you all think? Friejose 21:25, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
City Hall is the right image to open the article with, but the picture here now:
is shot over the rooftops evidently from several blocks away, showing only the top part of the building, where it tends to get lost among the other rooftops and skyline behind. Here's a snapshot I took today which I think shows the building off better:
If people agree, I'll go back and take a more carefully composed shot from the same angle another day. Steve Summit ( talk) 05:55, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
The word "square" means an open area or plaza at the intersection of multiple paths or roads. It may seem confusing in the Boston area, but they exist the world over: Times Square, Trafalgar Square, Red Square, Tiananmen Square, and even the zócalos in Mexican cities -- and they aren't different (except in scale and whether traffic is allowed in some cases) from those in Boston -- and certainly don't come from dragging lumber down the road. In Cambridge, many of the squares didn't exist until turnpikes had been put through -- including Porter and Kendall Squares. And, many of the squares have had various traffic islands and signals added to make them less confusing. (Just ask anyone about Davis Sq., Somerville in the 1960's!)
Are there any objections to my changing that section? BCorr| Брайен 02:32, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
I removed "For a few weeks, intercity buses to New York stopped near Harvard Square, but Cambridge forced them to cease service (despite Cambridge's lack of legal authority to regulate intercity transportation)." There is not source for this. It renders a questionable legal opinion and it does not seem appropriate to the article. There are a lot of people in Cambridge with gripes. This is not the venue to air them. -- agr 19:52, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
In the article, it's stated that only the red line serves cambridge and somerville. Actually the Lechmere stop of the Green line is in Cambridge. [2] Jacobeisenstein 19:06, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
This section just gets longer and longer. For just about any city (and especially one the size of Cambridge that also has two large and well-known universities), the list of "notable" people associated with it is just about endless. I don't really see this being a positive contribution to the article. At the least, I would suggest moving this section to its own article. (This would be consistent with how it is handled with Philadelphia for example.) Ghaff 12:39, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
The Newton, MA article has a "Notable residents" section; shouldn't Cambridge? F.N. Wombat 18:12, 12 August 2007 (UTC)F.N. Wombat
The article list elevation as 510 feet. That is an order of magnitude too high. Does anyone know what the basis for elevation is supposed to be? City hall? Highest natural point? Average? I'm changing it to 40 feet for now, per http://sipb-server-1.mit.edu/geo?location=cambridge. -- agr 11:37, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
My mother thinks perhaps Danahey Park where they threw the dirt from the Harvard-Alewife Red Line Extension could be the 510 ft. elevation point.
In terms of low-point.... If you remember the huge flooding problems during the 80's along Memorial drive (mainly before those nice new waterlocks that could be closed at high/ tied in back of the Fleet Center) I would have to say Cambridge's low point could be Sea level (e.g. the shores of the charles river.) CaribDigita 02:35, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
The police maps I added show a "Bay Square" business district between Harvard and Central. Can anyone describe this in more detail or locate it more precisely? -- Beland 02:39, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
This reference describes what it is: http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/cpd/reports/2002/second%20quarter%20report/adobefiles/b6.pdf. Basically a couple blocks of buildings on and near Mass Ave. However, I've walked the Central to Harvard Square stretch literally hundreds of times over the course of decades, and I've never seen or heard the term used. So it's really not a Cambridge district in the manner of most of the others listed in the article. This Cambridge Police website ( http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/cpd/reports/2002/second%20quarter%20report/) lists all the divisions that they use. They correspond to generally-recognized areas to a certain degree, but they're primarily intended to divide the city into logical divisions from a police/crime perspective. Ghaff 21:01, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
P.S. Here's a photo and the property information of that building at the city assessor's website. ( 950 Mass. Ave. I can see from that photo the sign about it being a "Square" directly next to the bus stop sign on the right hand half of the page. I can't remember what was on that site before they built that building. I remember it being a hole in the ground for a while... I think it was a grassy field for a while prior (??? ) with big grates leading down to the Red Line subway below. From the photo, you can see the big red sign with the "F" in the middle of the screen showing the emergency fire department hatch to the subway now.
CaribDigita ( talk) 07:16, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
I've seen the sign as well. In general, my inclination in the main article would be to show restraint in proliferating the names of squares and neighborhoods that aren't in widespread use. After all, Cambridge has lots of "squares" that basically consist of a sign at a street intersection. And, like many cities, there are doubtless lots of mini-neighborhoods identified by various rarely-used colloquial names. And I would tend to put "Bay Square" in that category. ghaff ( talk) 14:31, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
The city has a rather small and oddly shaped geographic footprint. Why were the outlying areas split into separate municipalities? How was the border with Charlestown/Somerville determined, and why is it where it is? It seems rather odd that the center of the settlement (Harvard Square) would be so close to its frontier. Looking at wardmaps.com, it seems part of the eastern border was determined by the Miller's River (which I'm not sure exists anymore). I wonder if this used to go farther inland. Perhaps a full-size older map would be helpful in illustrating this once it is researched. -- Beland 23:29, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Somerville was originally part of Charlestown and, as you say, the Miller's River was apparently part of the boundary between Cambridge and Charlestown. At the time, this boundary was in essentially a rural area between Charlestown and (what would be later named) Cambridge. My understanding is that some of the odd jogs in the straight part of the boundary relate to the construction of Beacon St. and other adjustments related to putting properties on one side of the border or another. See e.g. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/12/26/living_on_the_line/
ghaff ( talk) 14:54, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
I thought I heard at some point that where the Fitchburg Line is now was a filled-in stream or riverbed? I wonder where it would be possible to verify that now? CaribDigita ( talk) 23:31, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
What is now the Fitchburg line looks like it followed and partially ran above a section of the aforementioned Miller's River which was largely filled in over time. Here's some background on it. http://cctvcambridge.org/node/4719 ghaff ( talk) 14:12, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
It looks like I had heard right at least partly.
I found these links.
- (Quote) The northeast side of these dmlins drains directly into the Mystic River, which forms part of the city boundary with Medford; the hills to the southwest drained into Miller's (once 'Willis's) Creek, a vanished Charles River tributary, now largely traced by the route of the Fitchburg Railroad. Alewife Brook, tributary to the Mystic, marks the city's northwest boundary with Arlington. (end Quote)
- (Quote) The Watery History of Sacramento Field [ . . . ]
Isaac Bradford, who lives at 46 Sacramento Street, tells me that up to about 40 years ago on the spot where the springs are located was quite a pond several feet deep with a stream running from it across Sacramento Street down through the Palfrey estate across the Fitchburg railroad and emptying into Miller’s river. (end Quote)
CaribDigita ( talk) 17:40, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
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It would be neat to have maps that:
-- Beland 23:31, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
I have provisonally replaced the statement "The first legal same-sex civil marriage ceremonies in America were held at Cambridge's City Hall" with a narrower one that is easily verified, because so far I can't find a good source to verify the original wording. Now, the original statement may very well be true -- it's certainly likely, since Cambridge opened city hall at midnight May 17 to issue applications for marriage licenses, and the city clerk solemnized a same-sex marriage at 9:15 a.m. [3]. However, I cannot yet find a source verifying that the latter really was the first marriage of the day -- news accounts report couples with a waiver rushing many places to get married that morning. If anyone can, please add the source and restore the old text. -- WikkiTikkiTavi 05:41, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the 'Leftbank' 'PRC' 'Kremlin'comments- does anyone else think they should be removed or at least be made clear that no one in Cambridge refers to themselves that way? And certainly Harvard is not the leftist of the lefts in this town. If any body embodies the freemarket-capital-society-ethics of this country, it's Harvard. I think this paragraph is silly at best and should be clarified that this type of nickname is inflicted upon us by outsiders for having an independent spirit.
I think that is a great idea. I have a lot of books myself, and I will try to dig up some sources. I'm totally new to Wiki editing, so I made need some help (read: feel free to fix anything I messup :)....I know there's also zoning maps and stuff available for free download off the town site.
As a non Canterbrigian (did I get that right?), you might be interested to know that the section on "left bank" "Kremlin" really struck me as out of place. It was clearly conjecture either by a very proud local liberal or a very bitter conservative, either local or otherwise. Either way, it did not present a very objective view of the city. It's also quite hard to believe such an epicenter of power and elitist power production does much more than protect the status quo at all costs - especially being so close to the notoriously reticent Boston. - Douglas, 4/10/07
Including a map or two, as Image's, would eliminate most of the words in the descriptions of squares and neighborhoods, and convey the geographic information in a much clearer, shorter, interesting, and graphical way. It would also much more clearly convey information not in the descriptions, like where each square is in relation to each neighborhood, and each neigborhood to it's abutting neighborhood and cities. This is easily a case where a picture is worth a thousand words.
Does any one know of an adequete or two GFDLed map, or be capable of making one/two and "giving" it to Wikipedia and the world? Lentower 12:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I Created an article about the The Middle East (nightclub) and its notability is being questioned - Add your thoughts to the page. Cheers Markco1 23:32, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Is a huge subsection about the fire department really necessary? It also seems to me to be highly technical and better suited to an article about firefighting; a better mention of the fire department might be the unique older firehouses the city features. Cantabwarrior 18:23, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Hey everybody,
I live in Cambridgeport and was thinking the article might benefit from additional information about state and national government, namely, that Cambridge is part of the 8th MA Congressional district, represented by Mike Capuano, and is part of the 25th, 26th, and 29th state districts (Senate), represented by Alice Wolf, Timothy Toomey, and Rachel Kapreliean, respectively.
Got this info from http://www.mass.gov/legis/repdis03.htm. Let me know if anything is out of date or needs fixing.
If there are no objections, I'll make the changes tomorrow, Monday the 20th.
- Justin
Jreans 05:45, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
I just thought of some things which could-- be added about Cambridge. Cambridge has always had a weird history of trying to be self-sufficient has anyone else noticed this???? If you find a job in Cambridge, you could literally almost never need to leave the city.
CaribDigita 05:41, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
P.S. Factoid... Cambridge was one of the first cities in the U.S.A. to begin adding Fluoride to the drinking water to reduce dental cavities in children. CaribDigita 01:43, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
About, "that HUGE lake off of Route 128/95 in Waltham." Cambridge actually owns a lake out of the city (in Waltham)?-- 72.72.29.35 ( talk) 23:44, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
I thought I would post this link, some good facts about Cambridge, if I have time I will add them to the article within the next week or so.. Bronayur ( talk) 20:55, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
http://www.brandeis.edu/global/about_boston_cambridge.php
The section on public schools has conflicting information: The section on this page lists two public high schools, but the page for Cambridge Rindge and Latin says that it is the only public high school. One page or the other is incorrect. 140.247.241.221 ( talk) 18:20, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
BBN is also a high school. -- 72.72.98.149 ( talk) 04:11, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
The neighborhoods section seems to take the police division mapping of the city into "neighborhoods" as gospel. I think this is wrong-headed. This is division of the city for police purposes and does not correspond to what people would widely consider the neighborhoods of Cambridge (though some areas correspond better than others). For example I doubt you will find many people who consider their neighborhood to be "Area 4" or "Mid-Cambridge". Huron Village should be considered a full-on neighborhood and not merely a portion of "West Cambridge", which is not so much a neighborhood but a more general term used to refer vaguely to that side of town. Many of the neighborhoods are defined by the squares, and the statement to the contrary seem to be only an attempt to validate the artificial construct from the police map. This section needs a complete overhaul.-- Ericjs ( talk) 05:14, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I generally agree although I'm not sure of the the best way to fix. I don't see any authoritative source that break out Cambridge neighborhoods in a way that residents tend to think about them. I've never seen a map that breaks Cambridge into generally-accepted areas such as you see for Manhattan (and, to a lesser degree, Boston). As you say, residents often talk about neighborhoods in terms of square names. Some (but not others) of the listed neighborhoods seem to get used mostly where there isn't a prominent square nearby or the area otherwise has an historical or current unique character (such as Cambridgeport).
(For what it's worth, this site ( http://ma.citysquares.com/cambridge) lists the following as neighborhoods which maps pretty well to how I think most residents would think of the city: Central Square, Riverside, Cambridgeport, Inman Square, Kendall Square, MIT, Harvard Square, Agassiz, East Cambridge, Porter Square, Huron Village, North Cambridge, Strawberry Hill. But I don't know if people would regard this as an authoritative list.) ghaff ( talk) 14:15, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Before this develoves into an edit war, I am noting here that I am changing the "original name" of the city to "Newtowne" rather than "Newetowne", but leaving the second as an alternate, based on the following:
Thanks, BCorr| Брайен 23:05, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
Text below crossposted from User talk:Hertz1888 -- BCorr| Брайен 13:07, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
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Where in North Cambridge is Barry's Corner? It's mentioned in Tip O'Neill. -- Beland ( talk) 17:24, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
CaribDigita mentions in an edit summary: "According to figures by Cambridge city government, MIT reports to them 7,820 employees? But MIT says they have 11,500 on website? [11] what a conundrum."
I don't think it's a conundrum. Not all of MIT's employees are employed in Cambridge. MIT has facilities outside Cambridge, such as Lincoln Labs and WHOI. rspεεr ( talk) 07:21, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Has anyone come across any news articles about this? Or perhaps been to any hearings of the city council where someone in authority stated this??? According to that source (which I knew personally) they stated to me that Harvard and MIT were barred by the city council from being able to acquire anymore land in the city? Unfortunately, my source (which had worked with the city) has moved abroad. According to the same source, they also said Arlington was considering similar action on Harvard at the time? I came up with a few articles below highlighting some of the not-so-rosy relations between Harvard and local municipalities but nothing say an all out ban on buying more property in these areas...
I also see now Harvard has been buying and selling houses in my neighbourhood under their own Real Estate company??? ("Harvard University Realty")??? Well, I guess that is one way to bypass any say of the city. They can't block private companies from buying land. Just tax exempt schools. CaribDigita ( talk) 06:54, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm trying to canvass some opinions. Are buildings tall enough in Cambridge to have a "tallest buildings in Cambridge" article list? I'm thinking that Kendall Square area is certainly getting 'up there'. And also I'm seeing general information online that I think could be put to the test. MIT is claiming their Green building is the tallest building in Cambridge??? But I question that? I count roughly 16-17 windows on the façade??? (You can see the photo of it here )
CaribDigita ( talk) 03:17, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
The claim, on the WP Green Building page, was made by someone at MIT 10 years ago. Find a reputable source more recent than that that shows another building is taller. Lentower ( talk) 03:30, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
MIT builds many of it's buildings wth a larger story height to hold large research equipment, including the Green Building. Though it's true that the Meteorology Dept convinced the donor to pay to have the Green Building the tallest in Boston at the time. Meteorology wanted it's weather radars to have no obstructions. The MIT administration was opposed because of the added cost. They could have gotten a lot more floor space for the same dollars. They were also pretty sure that taller buildings would be built across the river in Boston soon - they were right. Lentower ( talk) 10:18, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
A list of tallest buildings in Cambridge is NOT notable by wikipedia standards. Lentower ( talk) 03:30, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
Are we disintegrating? According to Page 8 of the new "Greater Boston Yellowbook" phonebooks for 2010. Zip codes: 02138-02142, and 02238 are "Cambridge, Middlesex"; while 02163 is listed as "Cambridge, Suffolk". What gives? Are they mistaking the state senate districting areas (in place of actual county location)? Or perhaps there is a covert plan to have Cambridge join Suffolk county (at least piece by piece)?
CaribDigita ( talk) 19:25, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Under Economy of Cambridge it states Time Warner Cable's regional HQ for New England is in Cambridge??? Is there a source referring to something recent??? I thought many of those cable systems and infrastructure were swapped in the late 90s. Time Warner Cable was given some of AT&T's cities/towns in upstate New York, in exchange for TWC's Boston area systems. New York-based Cablevision gave Downtown-Boston to AT&T in exchange for networks elsewhere in New York too I thought. The current Time Warner Cable site says nothing about Cambridge. ( Locations) The closet thing to this that I can think of was back when MediaOne Express and Time Warner formed a joint "Roadrunner Broadband" service. The New England MediaOne and later Roadrunner website for New England was for a short time updated from the 88 Sherman Street office where they also maintained Hometownsports.com. After the AT&T Broadband buyout, AT&T no longer had a focus on local content and they devised a new structure between them and Time Warner. They terminated HometownSports.com and other team members at Sherman Street. From then on, all of the website updates for AT&T and Time Warner were transfered to somewhere in Virginia. AT&T's main NOC office for New England was up in Chelmsford, MA though. I don't know if it still is though. CaribDigita ( talk) 19:32, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Cambridge Massuchutes is home to Static noyze.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.216.40.76 ( talk) 16:46, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
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It would be interesting to have a map that showed the original shoreline vs. the current one, and when landfilled areas were added. -- Beland ( talk) 06:02, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
I am adding citation needed for the claim that "much of the Mt. Auburn cemetery lies in Watertown" because I know when on Mount Auburn St. the town line is just after the Shaws (after the
Watertown Branch Railroad tracks. Furthermore, to the south is the Winsor Belmont Hill Boathouse along the Charles. Again also (again) in Cambridge
[14] So those pretty well outline the western edge of Cambridge and much of Mt. Auburn is within that. I think from the Charles River Grove St.(?) is the boundary??? Anyway I'd be interested in seeing the source that claims much of Mt. Auburn is in Watertown given the split of Mt. Auburn/Belmont St. are town-line plus the boathouse along the Charles is also in Cambridge.
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"Since the disbanding of the New York City Community School Boards in 2002, Cambridge's Council is now unusual in being the only governing body in the United States to still use STV."
Is this true since Minneapolis adopted ranked choice voting in 2009? I believe they use single transferable vote for their park board and board of estimate and taxation. Are those not "governing bodies"? -- Banyan ( talk) 22:05, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
A little bit of amusement (for now, not sure what will happen if he's actually elected), but one "Roger Nicholson" has cooked up a plan whereby he claims if he's elected to Cambridge's City Council he plans to broach the idea of annexing the neighborhood of Davis Square in exchange for allowing Somerville to annex East Cambridge. This came to my mind today with another current City Councillor Mr. Leland Cheung sending me his first pre-election campaign email today. So I guess the election season is here. I've yet to hear of any individuals seeking Cambridge office with the expressed purpose of altering the city's long established boundaries.
CaribDigita ( talk) 17:02, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Sorry for not including a summary, I simply removed Kraców because below it was listed as inactive, so a double mention was confusing. Same with the relation with British Cambridge, to avoid an unecesary double mention. Thank you 69.126.10.106 ( talk) 00:54, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
I obtained a photo of the Cambridge Police Department from an old press release document outlining the city's intent to purchase the building (I believe it was.)
I wrote to the City Manager's office and was approved for the fore-mentioned image to be included on *that page* of Wikipedia (Non-commercial use). It is currently up for deletion. I know I only went through all the trouble of calling and emailing the city because I had great difficulty in getting that 5 story building into a single photo. I tried on three occasions. Does anyone in that area want to try and see if they have better luck than myself in taking a good photo? One that's as good as the current one up for deletion. Me personally, I can't see why a commercial entity would need a free use image of the Cambridge Police dept. building. CaribDigita ( talk) 18:20, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
The section states Haidian District of Beijing is active at first, then claims it is not. Which one is it, after all? GotR Talk 19:42, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello. I added a Notable people section to this article so I could list Charles K. Williams. I was surprised this section was not already in this article and hope I have not overlooked it. If I have inadvertently added the section as a duplicate please correct. Thank you-- BuzyBody ( talk) 02:21, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
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Previously, this page said that Cambridge was the 5th most dense city in the United States, citing, but not linking to, the US Census County and City Data Book:2000.
I located the source online and determined that it actually said that Cambridge is the [1]233rd most dense city in the United States.
While it would be better to update this to accurate, current data, the Census Bureau no longer publishes city density rankings.
I was a bit hasty. The "233" refers to populating ranking, not density. As the cited source does not include density ranking, I'm leaving the statement deleted. -- Stannenb ( talk) 02:08, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
I edited the Port/Area IV article recently to include some more background and context on the history of the neighborhood's name and current usage. I'm looking over the current neighborhoods section and have some questions. In short the "the Coast" and "Mid-Block" are used to define the Cambridgeport/Riverside and Wellington/Harrington areas - but it's generally only done by natives of Cambridge and neighborhood residents. The issues stems from the official planning districts (Areas 1 - 13), which were never intended to "name" or define neighborhoods. Places like Riverside and W/H are not "fake" names, but they aren't widely used either outside of discussions of the planning districts. Recent arrivals to Cambridge generally use them to a greater extent as the CDD districts are most likely the first glimpse of Cambridge "neighborhoods" that people see, hence the double names of many areas. I don't want "the Coast" of "Mid-Block" deleted, because they're both in common usage, but at the same time finding an official source for the "Mid-Block" in particular is difficult. I've always known the neighborhood as that, but I'm not an official source. I noticed there's a "citation needed" prompt, which brought about this post. I may add a bit to the Squares and Neighborhoods section in the near future, but just wanted to a) give fair warning and b) leave my name if anyone has any objections. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CantabTT ( talk • contribs) 12:30, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
I added the "Citations needed" flag, not so much for the names of the neighborhoods, but for much of the content. What caught my eye was Central Square, and the assertion about gentrification resulting from University Park, which was a long time ago. And Central Square doesn't really look gentrified. It's a much more complex situation, but, of course, my personal observations are not the stuff of Wikipedia entries. I'm going to work, myself, on finding better sourcing, but that's something that I expect to do over the course of months, not days. Stannenb ( talk) 05:27, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
The "History" section included the following sentence: "In 2005, a reassessment of residential property values resulted in a disproportionate number of houses owned by non-affluent people jumping in value relative to other houses, with hundreds having their property tax increased by over 100%; this forced many homeowners in Cambridge to move elsewhere" citing the four editions of the Cambridge Chronicle in October 2005. I've just read every mention of property tax in those editions and there's no mention of disproportionate property valuations, nor any mention of forcing homeowners to move. I've deleted the sentence. Stannenb ( talk) 02:36, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
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@ John from Idegon: It would have been nice if you'd read or contributed to the talk discussion cited in the es. I'll reproduce it here, from User talk:Magnolia677:
I found the table of Fire engine companies / locations to be useful and am sad to see it go. jhawkinson ( talk) 01:23, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
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