Talk:Stokmarknes

Merge with Vesterålen

I don't see the purpose of having a region article with only one article categorised beneath it. It would be more beneficial for travellers to have a single rural area article with all the relevant information than bits and pieces of information scattered across red links and outline articles. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 12:17, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Except that there are now listings here. listings don't belong in region articles. I don't think that this works well as a rural area article because it covers a lot of islands. Ground Zero (talk) 10:38, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

I guess so – my plan was to convert Vesterålen into a rural area article similar to Lofoten (which works very well – I've spent some time there and can attest that the layout on Lofoten works well), but we could also leave it as-is and create articles for all the other islands. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 10:44, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, never mind, thanks for the expansion! I like the article as it is now – this proposal can be safely regarded as withdrawn. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 11:24, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

I think the issue is that we have information for Stokmarknes, but not for Vesterålen. (German Wikivoyage has no travel info on Vesterålen either.) The latter is just a list of island and municipalities for which we don't have articles. I think Vesterålen should be merged and redirected into Stokmarknes. Ground Zero (talk) 11:38, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

I have passed through this area, though it was early in the morning 6 years back and don't remember much; it would be a fairly big area if we were to merge Vesterålen into this. I'll see if I can find any salvageable travel info for the other towns in the area. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 11:53, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

It wouldn't be a useful travel guide for Vesterålen, but what we have now isn't either. Merging and re-directing would be about taking readers more directly to the useful information that we do have. Also: so very jealous! Ground Zero (talk) 12:21, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

I think I've found the motivation to create articles for all the islands that can sustain content – already done so for Andøya (and yes, 10/10, would highly visit again but in winter). Hopefully, it doesn't fall into the same category of past projects (i.e., Chilean national parks...). --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 12:56, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Fantastic! I'll look forward to reading them. Ground Zero (talk) 13:04, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

It's nice that this region is already divided into 5 articles, and now we have articles for two of them (Hadseløya, which is covered by Stokmarknes, plus Andøya, created yesterday). Langøya seems straightforward to me, but I'm not sure how to handle Hinnøya and Austvågøya. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 00:49, 1 June 2024 (UTC)