User talk:Fedcba098

Hello, Fedcba098! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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An article that might interest you

You might want to have a look at budget travel Hobbitschuster (talk) 16:04, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

What to link to and what not to link to

Hi, Fedcba098, and thanks for adding information in the Pokhara article! Also, please have a look at external links, specifically the "What to link to" and "What not to link to" sections. We don't use 3rd-party links on this site, so hotel listings should have the hotel's own URL in their "url" tabs, not reviews or listings anywhere else.

All the best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:46, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

September 2022

Hello Fedcba098, a few pages you recent created, namely Template:Citation needed, Template:Fix, Template:Category handler, Citaiton needed, and Citation needed, have been speedily deleted as out-of-scope. Please keep in mind that Wikivoyage is a travel guide, not an encyclopedia, and therefore does not use citations. Please refrain from creating such pages in the future. Thank you. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 22:57, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, @SHB2000 but I disagree. The article on Manta said that there was heavy metals in the water, and it was not safe to drink. IMHO, that is an important claim that should be cited.

Things like heavy metals in water is especially important to travelers who wild camp (eg Cycle touring) and drink filtered water from streams. Backpacking filters can easily filter-out most bacterias that cause many dangerous water-borne diseases like things like Cholera, Typhoid, E coli, , Giardia, etc. But filters will *not* remove heavy metals like mercury, lead, etc.

Therefore, it's extremely important that such claims are cited, so the traveler can do further research and stay safe. Fedcba098 (talk) 15:36, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

If you want to argue that Wikivoyage should change our practices for the entire time it's existed and start using Wikipedia's citation style, you need to do so at Wikivoyage talk:External links. I don't think you'll be successful, and you may not deviate from existing Wikivoyage policies and guidelines during the discussion. There is another route open to you, which is to argue for particular exceptions to the guidelines on the talk pages of the articles in question, and you might be able to convince a consensus of that, but to do that, you have to understand the policies in the first place, so read up. Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:27, 25 September 2022 (UTC)