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If the population is roughly 71,000, the black population is 20-something percent, and SS is "home to 40,000 Ethiopians," how do those numbers compute? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:155:8301:1F0:AD39:12A2:32DD:7FCD ( talk) 19:17, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
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When the entire portion of Montgomery County, Maryland using Silver Spring addresses is taken into account, the population can swell to over 250,000 people, comparable to mid-sized American cities such as Buffalo, New York and St. Paul, Minnesota. In the Washington-Baltimore region, Silver Spring is the third-largest community, behind the cities of Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C., and ahead of Arlington, Virginia and Alexandria, Virginia.
This is kind of an odd statement. If by "community" you mean CDP, than there are quite a few larger CDPs in the CSMA (starting with Columbia, of all places.) If it means "postal designation," then the Alexandria PD is certainly larger than Silver Spring, as it includes most of southern Fairfax County (22 zips, total.) Why the "larger-than-thou" factoid? -- Browncat 05:53, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
Alexandria has a set and rigid boundary and thus has a set population that is easily accounted for. Same for Washington DC and Baltimore. It would be "cheating" to include addresses outside of Alexandria proper in this count especially because that would require counting people in an entirely different municipality (Fairfax County in this case). I've never heard of anyone who claimed to live in Alexandria, but actually lived in Fairfax County.
All in all this means that if Silver Spring were incorporated to include all the people who claim to have Silver Spring addresses, it would be the third largest city behind Baltimore and Washington, DC. In fact, there's no need to even include all of those people to become the third largest city in the DC/Baltimore metro area since it would only require 130,000 of the almost 250,000 who have Silver Spring addresses (it would require 187,000 to beat out Arlington, which is a county, not a city). As it is now, Silver Spring is the largest community outside of DC and Baltimore.
A "transportation" section is due for Silver Spring. I personally know Silver Spring because of its easy access to the redline of the Washington metro.
The transportation section as currently written would lead a reader to think that all of Silver Spring was transit-oriented development (it's not), with the emphasis on Metrorail and the un-built Purple Line. I have attempted to remedy that by adding references to the InterCounty Connector. Cpzilliacus ( talk) 03:41, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
A native/resident of Silver Spring? As I recall she actually grew up in Takoma Park. -- Spyneyes 03:05, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
If the list continues to grow (for example, I think Jack Abramoff should be added), it will overshadow the rest of the article. Then it should go somewhere else - I've seen separate articles titled "List of ....", for example. (The other option would be to create a category.) John Broughton 12:51, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
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This article should mentioned the area in downtown Silver Spring that was covered with artificial grass. It had became a popular gathering place and was the location of some outdoor events. It was decided to remove the turf and build a skating rink in it's place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.164.202.130 ( talk • contribs)
There should be a section on crime, as a new resident here I am shocked at the number of stabbings and shootings. One of each happened in front of my place this week (within a 100 yards of my front door). I'll do a bit of research and put in some stats if no one objects. 209.190.248.102 07:10, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Question for the group: Is The Silver Spring Penguin suitable for inclusion in the external links section per WP:EL? Silverspring and I have had some back and forth about this, and it's a bit of a stalemate. I contend it's a blog (i.e. it goes off), while they contend it's a legitimate online news site. Thoughts? SchuminWeb ( Talk) 23:58, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Does The Silver Spring Penguin go against WP:EL as a blog, or is it a legitimate news site? 23:48, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
The Capital Beltway is (IMO) the "main street" of the region and of Silver Spring, yet no mention of it (until now) in the history section. Cpzilliacus ( talk) 03:41, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Please state logical and valid reasons for your continuous section blanking of the Silver Spring Economy Section. The section is a work in progress and will be added to overtime, you have no valid reason for removing it. All the information is factual, it even has a description and no dead links as you were refering to. Please refer me to the Wikipedia section that states a place article page cannot start off with the an area economy after the intro if at all possible. Again state a valid reason for your section blanking.
Waveshi ( talk) 01:38, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
The following text w/ some corrections was proposed for a section towards the end of the article and got removed:
Silver Spring is a community of discrete neighborhoods, and some are even separate planning districts. These neighborhoods are of sufficient local interest to be worthy of note in an article about Silver Spring, but do not need their own pages. Only a few of these neighborhoods have their own pages: the ones that are not in the Silver Spring CDP. Those outlying places have their own pages because they're a CDP. They're all on the edge of Silver Spring "proper", according to the census bureau. E.g:
The following not-intrinsically-notable housing subdivisions (per Wikipedia:Run of the mill), but they complete the list of neighborhoods inside the Silver Spring CDP, since they are isolated jurisdictionally from their natural neighbors and included in Silver Spring by default:
The inner neighborhoods, despite being more populous, are all in a single CDP (Silver Spring) and don't have their own pages, like, say, Hillandale. Here's a justification for listing the following, here or on a separate page:
I am not proposing stub pages for these... They do deserve slight mention in a page about Silver Spring, however. If a section on neighborhoods is not needed, perhaps it should be put on a page, e.g: "Silver Spring, Maryland Neighborhoods". Most of these neighborhoods are as big or bigger than most CDPs in Maryland, do not need their own separate articles, but to be cited for the reason that Silver Spring is not a homogeneous area.
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I feel as though the
2010 Discovery Communications HQ hostage crisis is at least worth noting somewhere in the history section, considering all the other arguably trivial events that are discussed. After all, the DCI HQ is an icon of downtown Silver Spring and the hostage crisis was a "big deal" and got a considerable amount of media attention. Just a suggestion, though I suppose someone else would have to be willing to insert at least a short paragraph with a "see [this page]" link on it, as I'm no Wikipedia expert...
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being a lifelong citizen i remember most of the areas around the city place mall being in ruins (or empty abandoned shops if that is a preffered term)... the afi silver theater being one of the many abandoned buildings in the area of that section of downtown silver spring... or is there no mention because this article is meant to put silver spring in a good light instead of providing all historical facts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.34.93.71 ( talk) 17:53, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
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If the population is roughly 71,000, the black population is 20-something percent, and SS is "home to 40,000 Ethiopians," how do those numbers compute? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:155:8301:1F0:AD39:12A2:32DD:7FCD ( talk) 19:17, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
How to summit a ideal ?
Charliedfa ( talk) 21:35, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
When the entire portion of Montgomery County, Maryland using Silver Spring addresses is taken into account, the population can swell to over 250,000 people, comparable to mid-sized American cities such as Buffalo, New York and St. Paul, Minnesota. In the Washington-Baltimore region, Silver Spring is the third-largest community, behind the cities of Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C., and ahead of Arlington, Virginia and Alexandria, Virginia.
This is kind of an odd statement. If by "community" you mean CDP, than there are quite a few larger CDPs in the CSMA (starting with Columbia, of all places.) If it means "postal designation," then the Alexandria PD is certainly larger than Silver Spring, as it includes most of southern Fairfax County (22 zips, total.) Why the "larger-than-thou" factoid? -- Browncat 05:53, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
Alexandria has a set and rigid boundary and thus has a set population that is easily accounted for. Same for Washington DC and Baltimore. It would be "cheating" to include addresses outside of Alexandria proper in this count especially because that would require counting people in an entirely different municipality (Fairfax County in this case). I've never heard of anyone who claimed to live in Alexandria, but actually lived in Fairfax County.
All in all this means that if Silver Spring were incorporated to include all the people who claim to have Silver Spring addresses, it would be the third largest city behind Baltimore and Washington, DC. In fact, there's no need to even include all of those people to become the third largest city in the DC/Baltimore metro area since it would only require 130,000 of the almost 250,000 who have Silver Spring addresses (it would require 187,000 to beat out Arlington, which is a county, not a city). As it is now, Silver Spring is the largest community outside of DC and Baltimore.
A "transportation" section is due for Silver Spring. I personally know Silver Spring because of its easy access to the redline of the Washington metro.
The transportation section as currently written would lead a reader to think that all of Silver Spring was transit-oriented development (it's not), with the emphasis on Metrorail and the un-built Purple Line. I have attempted to remedy that by adding references to the InterCounty Connector. Cpzilliacus ( talk) 03:41, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
A native/resident of Silver Spring? As I recall she actually grew up in Takoma Park. -- Spyneyes 03:05, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
If the list continues to grow (for example, I think Jack Abramoff should be added), it will overshadow the rest of the article. Then it should go somewhere else - I've seen separate articles titled "List of ....", for example. (The other option would be to create a category.) John Broughton 12:51, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
FYI, the article, Thornton Friends School, has been nominated for deletion due to possible lack of notability; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thornton Friends School for the discussion. As an alternative to full deletion or retention, it's been suggested that the article might be somehow merged into this article or some other local article. -- A. B. 20:08, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
This article should mentioned the area in downtown Silver Spring that was covered with artificial grass. It had became a popular gathering place and was the location of some outdoor events. It was decided to remove the turf and build a skating rink in it's place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.164.202.130 ( talk • contribs)
There should be a section on crime, as a new resident here I am shocked at the number of stabbings and shootings. One of each happened in front of my place this week (within a 100 yards of my front door). I'll do a bit of research and put in some stats if no one objects. 209.190.248.102 07:10, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Question for the group: Is The Silver Spring Penguin suitable for inclusion in the external links section per WP:EL? Silverspring and I have had some back and forth about this, and it's a bit of a stalemate. I contend it's a blog (i.e. it goes off), while they contend it's a legitimate online news site. Thoughts? SchuminWeb ( Talk) 23:58, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Does The Silver Spring Penguin go against WP:EL as a blog, or is it a legitimate news site? 23:48, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
The Capital Beltway is (IMO) the "main street" of the region and of Silver Spring, yet no mention of it (until now) in the history section. Cpzilliacus ( talk) 03:41, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Please state logical and valid reasons for your continuous section blanking of the Silver Spring Economy Section. The section is a work in progress and will be added to overtime, you have no valid reason for removing it. All the information is factual, it even has a description and no dead links as you were refering to. Please refer me to the Wikipedia section that states a place article page cannot start off with the an area economy after the intro if at all possible. Again state a valid reason for your section blanking.
Waveshi ( talk) 01:38, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
The following text w/ some corrections was proposed for a section towards the end of the article and got removed:
Silver Spring is a community of discrete neighborhoods, and some are even separate planning districts. These neighborhoods are of sufficient local interest to be worthy of note in an article about Silver Spring, but do not need their own pages. Only a few of these neighborhoods have their own pages: the ones that are not in the Silver Spring CDP. Those outlying places have their own pages because they're a CDP. They're all on the edge of Silver Spring "proper", according to the census bureau. E.g:
The following not-intrinsically-notable housing subdivisions (per Wikipedia:Run of the mill), but they complete the list of neighborhoods inside the Silver Spring CDP, since they are isolated jurisdictionally from their natural neighbors and included in Silver Spring by default:
The inner neighborhoods, despite being more populous, are all in a single CDP (Silver Spring) and don't have their own pages, like, say, Hillandale. Here's a justification for listing the following, here or on a separate page:
I am not proposing stub pages for these... They do deserve slight mention in a page about Silver Spring, however. If a section on neighborhoods is not needed, perhaps it should be put on a page, e.g: "Silver Spring, Maryland Neighborhoods". Most of these neighborhoods are as big or bigger than most CDPs in Maryland, do not need their own separate articles, but to be cited for the reason that Silver Spring is not a homogeneous area.
Edited for clarity by
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10:54, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
I feel as though the
2010 Discovery Communications HQ hostage crisis is at least worth noting somewhere in the history section, considering all the other arguably trivial events that are discussed. After all, the DCI HQ is an icon of downtown Silver Spring and the hostage crisis was a "big deal" and got a considerable amount of media attention. Just a suggestion, though I suppose someone else would have to be willing to insert at least a short paragraph with a "see [this page]" link on it, as I'm no Wikipedia expert...
Thanks,
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02:02, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
being a lifelong citizen i remember most of the areas around the city place mall being in ruins (or empty abandoned shops if that is a preffered term)... the afi silver theater being one of the many abandoned buildings in the area of that section of downtown silver spring... or is there no mention because this article is meant to put silver spring in a good light instead of providing all historical facts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.34.93.71 ( talk) 17:53, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
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