Talk:Tokara Islands

Inclusion of 2009 eclipse

Assertion: the Tokara Islands having the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century is the most interesting thing that has ever happened in this really obscure corner of Japan, and it's thus worth the two (2) sentences we have about it in the History section. If you disagree, please come up with a more interesting historical fact about the place :) Jpatokal (talk) 22:18, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Jpatokal, you need to drop the stick. You're the only one who's provided arguments for keeping it; everyone else (myself, Brycehughes, OhanaUnited, Mrkstvns) on User talk:Brycehughes#Please don't delete factoids (where the de facto discussion occurred) agrees it should be removed. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 22:26, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I agree. While it's a fact, travellers can't experience this 2009 solar eclipse anymore. Hence I recommend removing this info. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 03:02, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

I agree thst this doesn't belong here. Ground Zero (talk) 10:53, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Jpatokal, canvassing also does not help your case. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 00:00, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

RFC: Tokara Islands

Swept in from the pub

There's a slow-motion edit war on Tokara Islands over this edit. Please chip in. Jpatokal (talk) 22:58, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

I will say to both you [Jpatokal] and Mrkstvns – do not revert others' edits without an explanation. It's counterproductive to say the least. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 02:56, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

For the record, I did notify the user first removing the content at their talk page, and there's apparently been some further discussion there. Jpatokal (talk) 03:47, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

I was referring to your rollback on Mrkstvns' edit. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 04:07, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

I explained my edit on Jpatokal's talk page.

I'd welcome a wider discussion as to what kinds of content additions should be avoided due to their being irrelevant, boring, and/or off-topic for a travel guide topic. I'm sure we've all seen things going into articles that leave us scratching our heads wondering, "Why the heck didn't they put this in Wikipedia instead of here?" Hopefully we can all learn to focus better on putting the traveler first and removing distracting factoids. Mrkstvns (talk) 14:42, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

What's interesting and what's boring or not relevant enough is mostly a judgement call and should in those cases be discussed on the article talk page. I think this is such a case. Please start a discussion there. The discussion on the user pages can be linked, but is not very relevant: "the most exciting thing that has ever happened" answered with "utterly boring [with] no relevance whatsoever to travel." Listening to one another's arguments is fundamental, just dismissing them doesn't help. Instead concentrate on telling why you think or don't think the event is exciting/interesting/irrelevant/boring. Yes, there are some attempts, but the tone is not constructive and thus not inviting. –LPfi (talk) 06:09, 25 April 2024 (UTC)