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- Any help with this page, the locations in particular, will be appreciated. The locations here are from memory (had to fight myself not to put the Fort Payne location I went to so much as a kid on the list) and I will try to find the exact addresses, but if someone beats me to it, awesome.--Jared Johnson 14:23, 16 April 2012 (PDT)
- Thanks for the help, guys. I didn't realize that Cullman and Alabaster counted as part of the District, and great work helping me flesh out the locations. I wish I had the address of the Adamsville store. I know it's a Fred's and a SuperSaver or such supermarket. I'll look it up and see if I can get it fixed.--Jared Johnson 13:42, 17 April 2012 (PDT)
- Done. It wasn't especially hard, since for some reason, after the store was split in half, Fred's and SuperDollar both have the same address, and no suite number. Lucky for the postal service the town is small enough the carrier can distinguish them.--Jared Johnson 13:52, 17 April 2012 (PDT)
- Often retail businesses will omit the suite number when giving out their addresses to the public. I think the theory is customers just want to know how to get there, not send a letter, so just get them close enough to find the store's sign. --Lkseitz 06:55, 18 April 2012 (PDT)
- We've expanded the area covered as the years have passed, because the definition of the Birmingham District is a bit vague. Obviously, we concentrated on Jefferson County when we started, then started doing the surrounding counties (which is the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area minus Chilton County but plus Tuscaloosa County). Now we seem to cover the Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman Combined Statistical Area plus Tuscaloosa County. The further from Birmingham, however, the less detailed we become. That's my take, anyway. Dystopos may see it differently, and it's his baby. --Lkseitz 06:55, 18 April 2012 (PDT)
- Done. It wasn't especially hard, since for some reason, after the store was split in half, Fred's and SuperDollar both have the same address, and no suite number. Lucky for the postal service the town is small enough the carrier can distinguish them.--Jared Johnson 13:52, 17 April 2012 (PDT)
- Thanks for the help, guys. I didn't realize that Cullman and Alabaster counted as part of the District, and great work helping me flesh out the locations. I wish I had the address of the Adamsville store. I know it's a Fred's and a SuperSaver or such supermarket. I'll look it up and see if I can get it fixed.--Jared Johnson 13:42, 17 April 2012 (PDT)
- We don't have a hard-border for our scope. The "District" is our focus, the MSA is certainly all pertinent. Generally the level of detail diminishes with distance from downtown. I've let UA and AU get more detailed coverage because of their importance to Birmingham. Once we get that far away from the Heaviest Corner, though, I tend to give more weight to "interestingness" than anything else. --Dystopos 07:41, 18 April 2012 (PDT)
- That makes sense. Thanks for the heads-up.--Jared Johnson 15:08, 19 April 2012 (PDT)
- We don't have a hard-border for our scope. The "District" is our focus, the MSA is certainly all pertinent. Generally the level of detail diminishes with distance from downtown. I've let UA and AU get more detailed coverage because of their importance to Birmingham. Once we get that far away from the Heaviest Corner, though, I tend to give more weight to "interestingness" than anything else. --Dystopos 07:41, 18 April 2012 (PDT)