Talk:Chelsea (Massachusetts)

Merge proposal

 * per nom. -- SHB2000  (talk &#124; contribs &#124; meta) 10:13, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
 * this article exists to support a listing for a mall. More useful as a merged article. Ground Zero (talk) 15:15, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I tend to oppose per Chelsea, Massachusetts. And this is no tiny town. I'm sure User:ButteBag and maybe some other Boston-area users will add more content if we are a bit patient. That said, since he added the merge tags, I would like to hear him out. Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:48, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah, as you say @Ikan Kekek, there could be a lot of content for this page. It's about the same size as Everett. I was thinking it might be more helpful for the traveller to have these combined, a-la Boston/Back Bay-Beacon Hill, two large and distinct neighborhoods. Both have many shared Get in - Get around features, and the understand sections could similarly capture the differences between them.
 * Zooming out from this one particular merge, I was hoping to reduce "choice paralysis" in some of these regions. This is one instance where I would combine these two and no more. Others I'd prefer to combine for now, while making it as easy as possible for future editors to expand and split back out into seperate pages eventually.
 * That said, I fully respect this opinion is not going to be shared by all. It's not my website lol! Thank you! ButteBag (talk) 12:43, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I think we should defer to ButteBag as a local expert. But I do want to address Ikan Kekek's comment that "maybe some other Boston-area users will add more content if we are a bit patient". This article was created in 2004. For 18 years, we have not served readers as well as we could have by tucking away what information we have on Chelsea in a stub article. We would have served readers better by combining it with other nearby place(s), and then branching off the Chelsea article when we had enough content for this place.
 * Mergers do not destroy content. They present the information in a more accessible way. Ground Zero (talk) 12:50, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify, I am by no means an expert. I think I've been to Chelsea like maybe 3 times in my life. None memorable. My general goal is to try my hand at improving a few region articles. But to do that you gotta start at the bottom tier articles, and if the foundation is shaky... (you gotta patch it) ButteBag (talk) 00:59, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I was hoping you might work on this article, but given that that's not a priority at the moment, I won't oppose merging for now. Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:35, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅, thanks! ButteBag (talk) 15:40, 1 December 2022 (UTC)