Talk:Cape Peninsula

Where do you draw the line

Swept in from pub:

While adding internal links to some dive sites, I found that a number of links which I had not expected to work, did. A bit of investigation shows that the whole Cape Peninsula appears to be excessively subdivided. The problem appears to be with what constitutes a city. Officially Cape Town is the only city on the Cape Peninsula, but there are destinations splitting it up as small as Boulders, which is a beach (attraction?) in Seaforth, a suburb of Simon's Town, which though it was historically a town with it's own municipality, has been a suburb of Cape Town for decades. Cape Town is certainly large enough and spread out enough to justify districtification, but it seems to have been broken up too much. Many of the current suburbs would be big enough to stand alone except for them being parts of the mother city. I dont have the experience, the time, or the interest to deal with this, as I am already extremely busy with my core interest of dive guides, but I can have a go at tagging articles for merging once I know how best to deal with them.

• Atlantic Seaboard is either a district of Cape Town or a sub region of the Cape Peninsula, but either way, all the "cities" in it are suburbs of Cape Town.
• Somerset West, Strand and Gordon's Bay are also officially part of Cape Town, as the same bureaucracy administrates them all (Cape Town City Council). Should they be considered districts of Cape Town?
• The issue is complicated by the Table Mountain National Park, which is also on the Cape Peninsula, and can reasonably be a destination as you can sleep there. Parts of Cape Town are separated from each other by bits of park.Its a can of worms, but will have to be dealt with some time.

Cheers, (WT-en) Pbsouthwood 01:25, 20 October 2009 (EDT)

Hmmm, I'm at loss here, many of these towns (especially in False Bay) are quite extensive, and merging them would require a fair bit of sorting as well as deleting unattractive hotels and restaurants of little or no interest to travellers (else there would be way to many). If anything it should me merged into either a False Bay or a Cape Peninsular and False Bay guide, with the amount of content, merging it in with Cape Town is infeasible. --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) ^Talk 11:57, 20 October 2009 (EDT)

The point I was trying to make is that Cape Town is a large city, made up of a large group of contiguous suburbs, and a scattering of disconnected suburbs. The disconnected suburbs are sometimes in small connected groups, and as the city grows, more and more of these disconnects are becoming connected. There are several possible ways of dealing with this connectivity or lack thereof, and the manual of style and definitions for regions do not provide much useful guidance.

1. All suburbs of a city which is officially under one management are considered to be sub-article districts of the city. In this case Simon's Town, Hout Bay, Fish Hoek, Noordhoek, Scarborough, Somerset West, Gordon's Bay etc would be districts, not independant cities, as would City bowl, Waterfront, Observatory, Tamboerskloof, Bellville, Parow etc
2. All contiguous suburbs would be considered parts of the city, grouped into convenient districts, such as Northern suburbs, Southern suburbs, Helderberg, Tygerberg etc as commonly used by the locals, and the disconnects would be separate cities.
3. The status quo, in which there is no apparent pattern, and neighbourhoods within suburbs have their own independant articles, such as Boulders, which is a small area in Simon's Town, which is part of a group with Glencairn and Dido Valley, which is administratively part of the Southern Suburbs district of Cape Town

To complicate matters a bit, Simon's Town, as an example, would be in the False Bay region, and also in the Cape Peninsula region, while Hout Bay is in Atlantic Seaboard and Cape Peninsula, while Strand and Gordon's Bay are both in False Bay and Helderberg, and all of them are in Cape Town. Its a can of worms. (WT-en) Pbsouthwood 13:25, 20 October 2009 (EDT)

Cape Town Adventure Sports

Discover the adventurer in you.Try these adventure sports in Cape Town.

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Get close and personal with sharks while shark cage diving.

Get the best views of this paradise while abseiling from the Table mountain with just a rope.

Feel the dead calm of the oceans and mesmerize yourself with the wonderful underwater world while scuba diving in Cape Town.

There are so many adventure sports to go for in this paradise! (WT-en) Reply2suchi 01:18, 13 June 2011 (EDT)* <do name="Adventure Sports" alt="Adventure sports cape town,extreme sports cape town" address="cape town" directions="" phone="" email="" fax="" url="" hours="" price=""></do>

If anywhere, this listing should be at Cape Town. There should be no specific listings in a region article. And then its inclusion would be subject to normal WT guidelines on touting etc. In its current tacky advertisement format, and being loaded as it is with words designed purely for SEO purposes (waste of time as all WT links are marked as "rel no follow"), it would simply be deleted wherever it was placed. See also welcome business owners. --(WT-en) Burmesedays 01:29, 13 June 2011 (EDT)

Banner image

present

New banner from Wiki Loves Monuments

Capetown

There is a nice new banner image uploaded during Wiki Loves Monuments. I would propose to use it in this article or in the Capetown one. I know that surfing is a major activity in this region, but it is also popular elsewhere, so the present banner may not be very specific. Moreover, it is also used in Blaauwberg_Coast.

What do you think? --Alexander (talk) 20:11, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

It seems simplest to substitute the 2nd banner on this page and leave the Cape Town banner as is. The currently-used banner here might be an improvement in the Surfing article, although that isn't much of an article. Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:00, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

In my opinion, a difficult one. #3 is a better example of the city itself, but #2 is dramatic and I slightly prefer it. I think the article with the most views should get #2, because we should show our best banners on the highest-profile articles, if possible. --Comment by Selfie City (talk | contributions) 04:32, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Somehow, I glossed over the banner here already being used in Blaauwberg Coast, so strike my suggestion about the Surfing article. Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:11, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

I see, so #1 is already in use. --Comment by Selfie City (talk | contributions) 23:28, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Added #2 to this article for now. --Alexander (talk) 17:32, 29 November 2018 (UTC)