User talk:Smerus

Welcome

Hello, Smerus! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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-- Ryan • (talk) • 22:24, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Levoca

Regarding your comments about Levoca on my talk page, you might want to look at Wikivoyage:Cooperating with Wikipedia, which has more detailed information about using text from Wikipedia. The key point is that anything taken from Wikipedia must be attributed in accordance with the CC-SA license. The simplest way to do this is to add Template:Wikipedia to the bottom of the article. If you are the sole author of the material being copied then you could note that in the edit summary ("text copied from Wikipedia, I am the sole author of the information being copied") and that would also be sufficient, since you are the copyright holder and can thus copy your work wherever you like.

Hopefully that answers your question! -- Ryan • (talk) • 22:24, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

How to deal with hotel restaurants

Hi, Smerus. I read your editing summary on your reversion of Jjtk's edit in Levoča[1]. On the face of it, I don't think I agree with your reasoning, but I haven't been to Levoča, myself, so rather than to just re-revert your edits on the basis of the general case, I would like you to please look at the relevant policy page, consider the criteria there, and make some decisions about the degree of separate fame of the hotel restaurants in question. The rule is shown in Wikivoyage:Don't tout - namely, that no business gets more than one listing:

Yes, a guesthouse may have a restaurant, a bar, an internet cafe and a dance show, but you need to pick one of "See", "Eat", "Drink", "Sleep" and "Contact" to slot it under.

But here's the exception:

That said, exceptions can be made on a case-by-case basis if, for example, a hotel has a famous, separately named bar or restaurant that also draws significant numbers of non-resident customers (use the article's talk page to discuss these rare instances).

The general case is that when a hotel has a restaurant, it is mentioned and described in the hotel listing itself. I have no idea if you're at all familiar with New York, but some exceptions here are restaurants like Jean Georges (a Michelin 3-star and New York Times 4-star) and Ai Fiore (also a Michelin-starred upscale restaurant, and a New York Times 3-star) that happen to be on the 1st and 2nd floor of hotels, respectively, but are well-known (arguably as well known or better known than the hotels where they are located) and extensively patronized by non-patrons of the hotels. The bar for a separate listing should be fairly high, as we don't want duplicate listings all over the place. And one of the usual - though not completely inflexible - criteria is that the restaurant should have a separate name from the hotel.

If once you've read and considered these guidelines, you conclude that these hotel restaurants should not in fact have separate listings, please copy and paste all relevant portions of your listings to their hotel listings and delete the "Eat" listings. If not, I'd suggest that you please explain on Talk:Levoča why these restaurants are all separately notable, because otherwise, this could turn into an unproductive edit war.

Thanks a lot.

All the best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:52, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Default address info

Hello, Smerus and welcome back!

One small thing: If you have a look at Wikivoyage:Listings, you'll see that the style on this site is to omit default address information from addresses of listings. 054 01 Levoča is default information in the Levoča article, so please omit it.

Thanks, and all the best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:44, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

• Noted, thanks--Smerus (talk) 14:17, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for adding content! Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:46, 2 June 2020 (UTC)