User talk:(WT-en) Traveler7277

Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. If you want to specialize your experience you may want to consider editing your preferences. Please take a second to look at our copyleft and policies and guidelines, but feel free to plunge forward and edit some pages. Scanning the Manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted. If you're new to the whole wiki community look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to use the wiki markup. If you need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.-- (WT-en) Sapphire 15:55, 10 August 2006 (EDT)

To sign your name automagically all you have to do is type ~~~~ which should be on your keyboard somewhere. Then it magically produces this -- (WT-en) Sapphire 16:19, 10 August 2006 (EDT)

thanks you so much for this (WT-en) Traveler7277 16:26, 10 August 2006 (EDT)

Exernal links

The reason we don't like to link to other websites is 1. the information should be in Wikivoyage and we shouldn't be lazy or whatever to say 'go look at this website because we're too lazy to add the info in the article.' 2. The only websites that we link to are those we're cooperating with like Wikipedia or World66 and primary sources. For example if there's a Marriott Hotel in Las Vegas we'll link to Marriott's website. Here's the low down on external links. -- (WT-en) Sapphire 16:35, 10 August 2006 (EDT)

Thank you for these comments but I do not think we are being too consistent with this policy. In many of the Hawaii pages we have links to clothing, food and other sites. Does not fit what you said.

I personally know that when I was looking for a trip to Hawaii (or anywhere else for that matter) Wikipedia would have helped a lot if there was relevant and "experienced" information about accommodations (people have to sleep) and the service that goes along with that. Agencies provide tons more service than calling a hotel reservations or reception desk and speaking to a clerical person about your $4,000 trip to a far off land.

Finally, as I wrote in the Discussion part of the Maui document: "I have looked at Goals etc and found the item "For on-line use by travellers still planning to review destinations, plan itineraries, make reservations, and get excited about their trip;" particularly interesting. Don't you think that helping people with their online searches for Maui (and Hawaii generally also) would suit that goal? I would like to reinstate but I do not want to be rude - what do you recommend?... (WT-en) Traveler7277 19:41, 10 August 2006 (EDT)