Talk:Auburn (Massachusetts)

Merge
This article was tagged for merging into Central Massachusetts, but that is a parent region, so the child region South County (Massachusetts) would be a better target. However, is that the right action? Wikipedia indicates that Auburn is a town of 16,000+, and it has several incoming links, so should it remain a standalone article? -- Ryan &bull; (talk) &bull; 22:39, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Oops, I meant to suggest Worcester (Massachusetts). Not sure how I did that.  Anyway, Auburn is a suburb of Worcester.  There is no difference between either side of the town line, it's just a straight line that was drawn hundreds of years ago.  The stuff listed is more useful in the Worcester article since it's basically just hotels and a mall that primarily serve Worcester.  Auburn is where most of Worcester's hotels are since the main Worcester exit off I-90 is technically in Auburn.  I didn't think it was unprecedented to combine suburbs with their city articles, hence I suggested a merge.  I could probably dig up a handful of local restaurants, but otherwise there isn't much to add.  Auburn is really just a neighborhood of the city that is technically its own town. I apologize for suggesting the wrong article to merge it with.Godsendlemiwinks (talk) 23:54, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I incorporated immediate suburbs into Rochester (New York), but I don't know how widely accepted the practice is. Most authors seem to prefer sticking with city boundaries for clarity, but there also seems to be wide agreement that exceptions are valid. Powers (talk) 00:08, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I performed the merge into Worcester (Massachusetts) before seeing the above comment. In the case of a 16,000 person town without a lot of amenities for travelers a merge into the parent city seemed like an acceptable solution.  My earlier concern was mostly related to the original suggestion of merging a city article into a region article. -- Ryan &bull; (talk) &bull; 00:11, 21 May 2015 (UTC)