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AdMo

Removed the claim added in this edit that "AdMo" is a common abbreviation for Adams Morgan. Searching, I can find one instance of "AdMo Heights", an apartment building in the Columbia Heights neighborhood north of Adams Morgan. Nothing pops up in The Washington Post and one instance in the Washington City Paper. DCist has a 2012 sarcastic usage of AdMo in an article about an attempt to brand the southern end of the neighborhood "SoMo". The Adams Morgan Business Improvement District is using ADMO as its logo. None of that adds up to "a common abbreviation". —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 15:56, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Somehow it is back. I have a feeling that someone from the BID is really trying to push their branding through this wiki page.

Note that the fully written out "Adams Morgan" is a result of the neighborhood's historically notable desegregation. A group of commercial entities wanting to rebrand the city's history and erase the significance of the neighborhood's name is not sufficient enough to claim that it's "sometimes locally called" AdMo. And in 2025, for every "AdMo" BID banner on a lamppost in Adams Morgan, look around for a "This is not New York" sticker plastered on by a passerby, alluding to the fact that our neighborhoods in DC do not need to rebranded as "SoHo" type real estate districts in order to be culturally relevant.

BIDs do not get to dictate local convention on neighborhood names. If BIDs would like to promote their branding, they can do so through paid advertising, not through Wikipedia. 66.44.124.16 (talk) 15:13, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Whether you like it or not, the moniker has usage by normal people, not just the BID (including myself, an AdMo resident for 5 years and not connected to the BID at all lol). The term is not universal, obviously, but has widespread usage enough to warrant inclusion in the article. You can easily find "non-official" usage online, from local news sites like Popville (see here) Reddit forums (like here or here), and even hyper local news accounts like Adams Morgan News on twitter like this one use the abbreviation. The Adams Morgan Day website uses the shorthand version for its url: https://www.admoday.com/. That is all to say, the common usage rational for inclusion is solid. Cristiano Tomás (talk) 16:24, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]