Talk:Flagstaff, Hamilton

There's a page for an alleged suburb of Hamilton named St Petersburg. This appears to be the central-western part of Flagstaff, centred around Petersburg Drive. In the article, none of the references used actually mention a suburb by the name of St Petersburg (or even Petersburg).

NZ Post considers addresses in the area to only be Flagstaff. The Hamilton City Council has no mention of "St Petersburg" on its website. The New Zealand Gazetteer does not list St Petersburg as an unofficial Hamilton suburb name. And I've not even been able to find any informal mentions of it online.

I don't know how that page came to be created but all I can think is that St Petersburg is a casual nickname for the area around Petersburg Drive but isn't in common use.

Therefore, it seems better to merge the St Petersburg, New Zealand page with the Flagstaff page.

Robyn2000 (talk) 23:41, 23 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

In reply to your 2023 proposal I answered on that talk page - Probably not, but there are several similar articles about Hamilton suburbs. I asked why we have the current list, but no conclusion was reached. Johnragla (talk) 02:38, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Rather than dealing with them on a piecemeal basis, can we agree on what should be done to rationalise the Hamilton suburb articles?

Johnragla (talk) 02:48, 24 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

I would be happy to see St Petersburg merged to Flagstaff. Any rationalisation of Hamilton suburb articles should be at least considerate of census areas, and the new SA3 areas help to group smaller suburbs together. The SA3 area for Flagstaff includes St Petersburg, Woodridge and Magellan Heights/Rise, and I think one article ie Flagstaff should cover this whole area.-Gadfium (talk) 08:40, 24 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Support regardless of notability there is not one secondary source in the article and not much to say about it. I'm not really sure what you would include if merged. Traumnovelle (talk) 04:22, 25 November 2024 (UTC)Reply