Talk:Vilnius

certainly like your internet web site but you have to take a look at the spelling on quite some of your posts. Several of them are rife with spelling problems and I in discovering it extremely bothersome to inform the reality then once again I will surely come once again again.

Hi. This isn't "your" website; it's everyone's website. And the way things work here is that everyone is a volunteer editor, and people are encouraged to plunge forward and add content, even if their spelling is poor. Everyone else is encouraged to plunge forward and fix incorrect spelling. So if you notice something is wrong, please fix it. Also, just a point of Wikivoyage style: On talk pages like this one, please sign your username by typing 4 tildes in a row (the "~" key) before pressing enter.

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you stay and help improve the quality of this guide!

Best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:37, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

redirects

Please add redirect from Wilno because many people cannot find this city typing that name. —The preceding comment was added by 85.202.44.245 (talk • contribs)

Good idea. But I thought anyone could create a redirect. Are you unable to create the redirect because you are not a registered user? Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:40, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Inaccuracies

First, regardles what clever people imagine about the other people - i don't know how to fix those inaccuracies and not because i didn't create account. Clubs - info about "Pogo" is added to "Prie Universiteto". "Prie Universiteto" is linked to the map - to the actual pharmacy. Address of "Prie Universiteto" is Domininkonų str. 9. See - numbers 2, 3, 11, 14 are separate branches of 1 institution - National Museum. Its objects are Upper Castle, Old Arsenal, New Arsenal. And some other objects. So most of these external links here doesn't work. It would be useful to sort out at least those practical things, like external links, links to the map, and maybe correctly identify the key objects. Others can wait. Buy - "Vilnius is famous for its amber, wool socks, hats and flaxware". Is it a joke? Amber is in Palanga and Klaipėda, these are famous for their amber. Elswhere amber can be found in amber studios and jewelry stores, nothing famous exclusively in Vilnius - it is some jewelers workshops that are famous across the country. If it makes sense in such website, of course. I'm not that clever to know that. What is famous in lithuania, it is ceramics and some traditional craft products. Everything else is same as in any other country. Connect (internet cafes) - external links are wrong, cafes doesn't exist anymore, maybe somewhere in some smaller towns but not in Vilnius. Should i delete them? How can i prove that they must be deleted, clever people may decide that i'm some vandal or something... :D . And I thought anyone could delete :D . Get around by bus or trolleybus - van-taxis ceased to exist probably 2 years ago - I think anyone can delete so i just point what to. There are some new routes served by van-taxis, but the system now is different, in case somebody heard some rumours. City bus numbers and routes also seem out of dated, but it maybe is not so relevant. Why i'm lecturing? Idea to link the text with map is cool, but any inaccuracy makes it misleading. At the same time it is very uncomfortable to deal with clever people who know everything whilst you are able only to indicate inaccuracies but don't know how to do this or that. —The preceding comment was added by 198.7.58.98 (talk • contribs)

Hi. Please just edit everything you mentioned here. You have current information. Absolutely feel free to delete everything that's no longer true, and just note in your editing summary that you've deleted outdated information or/and entries for closed businesses. Ikan Kekek (talk) 12:27, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Good evening, anonymous. We do not have locals in each and every city and town we have articles for and therefore all of the articles cannot be completely up to date. That has nothing to do with “cleverness”. You might have better knowledge of the city than anyone else here. I, for example have been to Lietuva but never to Vilnius. This is not a site owned by experts thinking nobody else would know better about the destinations than them. Every "outsider" is allowed and encouraged to contribute. Heck, I'm editing here almost every day, but there might be places in our guides for my home city that don't exist any longer.

You can edit articles without creating an account or asking permission or having to feel uncomfortable. You probably know how to edit text. How to edit the points on the map: open the map in another tab, click where you want to place a new point, mark the text and copy the coordinates and finally paste them into the listing for the particular sight, restaurant, bar etc. and save your edit.

I added the locations of all Points of Interest that are in the article to the map two weeks ago by using the addresses stated in the listings, Google maps for a coarse location and our map for fine tuning expecting that the addresses are correct. I’ve done the same for some other destinations too where I’ve never been.

Concerning the separate sights - if they are officially branches of the same institution but located elsewhere I absolutely see no harm in including them as points on the map. And if external links don’t work - feel free to remove them, or better, fix them. Many times it’s just the sub page that has moved and the main page of the establishment is still there.

If you have knowledge about the current situation of public transportation, go ahead and fix it. Is such information "relevant"? Well, if you travel somewhere yourself, would you care about up to date information about the public transport there? I usually do.

As I said I haven’t been to Vilnius, but at least in Kaunas there were several shops and street vendors selling amber trinkets in 2009. And, they weren’t hard to find in the old town of Warsaw either which btw is further away from the sea. Is it really that amber products are not prevalent in Vilnius at souvenir shops? Finally, if there aren't any Internet cafés, go ahead and delete them. And if you know about WiFi networks and other possibilities where one can get connected, do add them to the section.

So, you’re welcome to fix the things yourself and it's even preferable as you have first hand information. I could do it as well, but in the case I’ve misunderstood something it will obviously be reflected in the edits like with the coordinates. ϒpsilon (talk) 18:34, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Get in - By train - Vilnius-Warsaw line

Updated the expected date of completion to summer 2016 as stated here http://www.seat61.com/Lithuania.htm#Warsaw-Vilnius%20by%20train I do not believe that this is an absolutely reliable source; if I find better or more reliable information, I will update it again. Y4cy (talk) 12:58, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Alternative banner for this article?

Banner currently used in this article

Suggested new alternative banner

I created a new alternative banner for this article (I initially created it first and foremost so that it would be used at the top of the parallel article in the Hebrew edition of Wikivoyage, yet I later decided to also suggest that the English Wikivoyage community would consider using it here as well). So, which banner do you prefer having at the top of this article? ויקיג'אנקי (talk) 08:28, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

I vote for the current banner, which has a scene visitors will likely gravitate toward more. Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:01, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

So difficult! My favorite here is the current banner, since the alternative banner shows the typical big city scene that is better known in other cities than Vilnius. --Comment by Selfie City (talk about my contributions) 14:18, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Table of contents

I miss one to click on. --Stephanie OM (talk) 08:42, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

You mean like "Understand" - "Get in" - "Get around" - "See" - "Do" - etc. at the bottom of the pagebanner? Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:59, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:

• Vilnius International Airport.jpg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 12:22, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Not visible on the page; doesn't matter. Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:09, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:

• Vilnius TV Tower by Augustas Didzgalvis.jpg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 16:23, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

There are plenty of images in this article. I don't see why we shouldn't just go ahead and delete this image. --Comment by Selfie City (talk) (contributions) 17:40, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

OK with me. Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:28, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

I've deleted it. We can always restore the image if it is kept on Commons. --Comment by Selfie City (talk) (contributions) 21:25, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Districts?

Like I said on the DotM nomination thread, the article now has a ton of POIs in See and I would suggest we should districtify the article before running it. Perhaps along the lines of: 1. Old town, 2. New town (down to the railway) to south (southern suburbs too), 3. Uzupis and East, 4. North of Neris. When the article was expanded I think I remember the editor deleted some places to eat further out, so they could be included too, to make sure all articles would have usable status. What do you think? Ypsilon (talk) 13:18, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

I agree. This article has become too long to easily navigate (and particularly to print). --Comment by Selfie City (talk) (contributions) 17:49, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

No other comments? I'm not comfortable making such large changes to articles just before they're on the Main Page without some further input, also there's now just about two weeks to go. Maybe we will have to run it in its current unwieldy shape anyway... --Ypsilon (talk) 09:17, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

We probably will; I also don't feel comfortable districtifying a city just 14 days before it's on the main page. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 09:21, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

If the city's feature were delayed to work on districts, is there another place that could be run in 14 days? Ikan Kekek (talk) 14:41, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Possibly one of the four other nominated European articles, but let's just run the article as it is. --Ypsilon (talk) 15:01, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Vilnius' area of most interest is compact and districts here would mean artificial boundaries that make little sense on the ground. Grahamsands (talk) 08:26, 21 April" i 2023 (UTC)

Okay, but this article is still very long and WV:ALL. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 09:00, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

I think you are creating too many obscure abbreviations. No-one knows what "WV:ALL" is, because you probably just created it. Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:41, 21 April 2023 (UTC)