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Thanks for your enthusiasm, but we do not have separate articles for just the downtown areas of towns of 19,000 on this site. Your help in merging all content from the Culpeper/Downtown article you started to Culpeper would be much appreciated and make it easier to turn the district article into a redirect.

And in the future, before you unilaterally create any more district articles: the procedure on this site is to propose a comprehensive districting scheme on the talk page of the city article that you believe is overwhelmingly long, listing all proposed district articles and specifying their boundaries and the approximate number of listings in each one. Thanks again.

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Ikan Kekek (talk) 13:40, 25 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hey! I appreciate the response. I understand districting usually applies to larger cities, but I believe Downtown Culpeper has a distinct enough identity due to its historic district status, pedestrian-friendly core, tourism draw, and listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

Would it be reasonable to keep it as a sectioned-out travel topic or attraction-based guide rather than a district page? Just want to see if there's room for flexibility here before I go ahead with merging. Waypoint47 (talk) 14:04, 25 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

There is very little content in the Culpeper article, so why does it make sense to have a separate article for just its downtown? The fact of its being a historic district should be noted in the Culpeper article, but segregating all information about it in a separate section doesn't make sense because that would mean keeping a bunch of restaurants and shops out of Culpeper#Eat and Culpeper#Buy and a bunch of individual sights out of Culpeper#See. You can have a look at Kingston (New York) for an example of how to deal with historic districts. Ikan Kekek (talk) 14:39, 25 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

I completed the redirect. If you need to copy the pagebanner from the Culpeper/Downtown redirect page to Culpeper, you can see it in hidden text in edit mode. Thanks! Let us know if you have any questions.

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Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:52, 26 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Here's something you can very much help with: if you read Talk:Culpeper#Districtification and look at Wikivoyage:Banner Expedition#Image size, you'll see that neither the current pagebanner for Culpeper nor the image file that was used as a pagebanner on the Culpeper/Downtown page is a proper banner. Could you crop both to suitable dimensions as suggested at Wikivoyage:Banner Expedition#Cropping banners at Commons using CropTool, so that we can consider which one to use in the Culpeper article? That would be great! Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:58, 26 June 2025 (UTC)Reply