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Islanders' home city location

In my opinion, the home city location for the Islanders should now be listed as Brooklyn. The Islanders' Contact Us page (seen here) lists the address for the Barclays Center as: 620 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217. I sincerely believe that all Wikipedia articles for all professional sports teams should list the address for a specific club based on the physical address of the club's home arena/stadium. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 19:46, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Brooklyn is the arena's ZIP code since Brooklyn's post office existed before Brooklyn was merged into New York City. But the Islanders and the Barclays Center are physically located in the City of New York, of which Brooklyn is a part. Brooklyn itself is not a city (not since 1898), so listing it as the home city would be inaccurate. We do not need to have specific boroughs and neighborhoods listed in very general sections like the infobox. That's taken care of in the body of the article. --JonRidinger (talk) 20:01, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Where's your proof? I have listed several sources as to why the home city location for the Islanders should be Brooklyn. Here's another source: the Barclays Center website. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 20:27, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City. We want to list the city, not a borough. GoodDay (talk) 20:32, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What I don't understand is this: why list the location for the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s Brooklyn Nets as Brooklyn, but list it as NYC for the Islanders? There should be an equal application for both clubs. I have a suggestion that might work: What if the location for both the Nets and Islanders is listed as: Brooklyn, New York, NY? I also suggest the location for the Knicks and Rangers be listed as Manhattan, New York, NY. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 20:42, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

you shouldn't bring the Nets into this discussion, the style guides of the two articles emanate from two different Wikiprojects. Also, the basketball template reads "location," not "city" as this one does, so it is reasonable they could be used differently in my opinion. Rikster2 (talk) 20:44, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nvm, I'm finally persuaded that the location in the infobox for both the Nets and Islanders' articles should be listed as NYC. As long as there's a mention that both clubs play home games at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn in the lead paragraph (which there is for both clubs currently), I'm satisfied. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 21:14, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lead paragraph

So after this NYC–Brooklyn battle something new was started. Lead paragraph always started like this. However, another user showed up and started stating that this is "correct". However, that editor doesn't go to Rangers' article and do the same there. – Sabbatino (talk) 21:16, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If it helps, I was the editor who changed the wording in the lead paragraph. I also did it for the New York Rangers article, to ensure that the wording in the articles for both New York City National Hockey League (NHL) teams was consistent with each other. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 05:35, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was referring to other editor who reverted back to your version, but since Rangers' article was updated, I'm fine with that. – Sabbatino (talk) 07:54, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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