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User talk:(WT-en) Berru

Hello Berru!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec 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 need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.

Thank you for contributing to Vercors. -- (WT-en) Huttite 01:13, 3 Jul 2005 (EDT)

GFDL
Please be sure to check out Project:Copyleft. In particular, since we don't use the GFDL, we cannot share content from Wikipedia/Wikimedia unless the image/content is dual-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0. Thanks again for your contributions! -- (WT-en) Colin 15:09, 7 Jul 2005 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bertiedyer

Hello Bertiedyer! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. (WT-en) AHeneen 22:01, 29 December 2008 (EST)

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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User talk:(WT-en) Bertilivdet

Hi Bertilivdet! Thanks for your edits on Lebanon and Istanbul, they are much appreciated!

I thought I'd just drop by and (belatedly) welcome you 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 software look at the wiki markup to get an idea of how to use the wiki markup.

As you've previously worked on Wikipedia and commons, it might be worthwhile reading this. However, as you've been on here a while you might have picked up the subtle differences already!

If you need any help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub or on my talk page. -- (WT-en) Tim 16:26, 18 August 2006 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bertilvidet

Hello!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. 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 our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. – (WT-en) cacahuate  talk 03:21, 13 March 2007 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Berto

Hello, Berto! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page.

If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. - (WT-en) Todd VerBeek 11:23, 3 June 2007 (EDT)

Panama City Beach
Hi Berto - could you take a look at Panama City Beach when you have a chance? I added some listings in the Eat and Drink sections, but I don't live there and am not able to add good descriptions. Thanks. (WT-en) gamweb 00:53, 7 September 2008 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Besb

Hello Besb! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. (WT-en) AHeneen 00:33, 16 December 2008 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bestchoiceholidays

Please see Wikivoyage's Wikivoyage:Don't tout and policies on travel agencies, and note that using the site solely for advertising purposes is strongly discouraged. If you have questions please ask them on this talk page or in the Pub. -- (WT-en) wrh2 10:44, 10 October 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Besteyelashenhancer

Contributions from this account appear to have been made from a spambot and it has therefore been permanently blocked in accordance with Wikivoyage site policy. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 10:59, 10 May 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Besthomeloans1

Contributions from this account appear to have been made from a spambot and it has therefore been permanently blocked in accordance with Wikivoyage site policy. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 23:55, 2 May 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bestlyriccollection

Hello Bestlyriccollection! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page.

If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

If you are a Wikipedian, or have previously used Wikipedia, then you may notice some differences in the style of our articles. These include:
 * "Village pump" → travellers' pub
 * "be bold" → plunge forward
 * "sandbox" → graffiti wall
 * "stub notes" → Article status notes
 * "External links" → We do not use a separate external links section, but incorporate primary links only into the text itself.

Thanks for contributing! – (WT-en) cacahuate  talk 02:01, 16 July 2007 (EDT)

Userpages
I appreciate the time you took compiling your list of bookmarks, however, like Wikipedia, userpages on Wikivoyage aren't intended to be used as personal websites or blogs, so I've had to remove your links. Please see Project:User page help or contact me on my talk page if you have further questions. Thanks! – (WT-en) cacahuate  talk 02:01, 16 July 2007 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bestwesterncapitolskyline

Hello Bestwesterncapitolskyline! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. You might also have a look at our note for business owners.(WT-en) Texugo 00:25, 5 October 2007 (EDT)

Hotel descriptions
Hi there. Thanks for your contributions to Wikivoyage. Please have a look at our Copyleft license. You have been contributing hotel descriptions that are violations of copyright law. You'll save us a lot of deletion work if you'd write your own descriptions of these places, as we cannot allow those copied descriptions to stay. (WT-en) Texugo 00:22, 5 October 2007 (EDT)


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User talk:(WT-en) BetaMaxx11

Welcome
Hello, BetaMaxx11! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

Thanks a lot for your updates on the changing political situation in Libya! – (WT-en) Vidimian 05:08, 23 August 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bete

Hi Bete

With regard to your post on User talk:Tsandell, I deleted the two links in Estonia as I believed they were to third party websites, that is websites that are not government ones or ones of a specific hotel/attraction. On closer inspection, I still stick by that judgement that they don't belong there! The Budget Travel Link should defianately not be in wikivoyage, as it is a hotel booking service, see Project:External_links.

The Visit Estonia website could be the official tourism website for Estonia - I accept I may have been wrong to edit that one out, I followed the link and did not see anything on there to indicate it was the official govt site and so I removed it. If you believe that is the govt website, then please add it back in!

In future, feel free to plunge forward and edit thing back in yourself in future - I myself am no different to you in that I have no admin superpowers to revert edits easily! -- (WT-en) Tim 11:05, 14 August 2006 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Betford2

Hello Betford2! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

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User talk:(WT-en) Bethr

Hello Bethr! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. (WT-en) PerryPlanet Talk 16:22, 3 December 2008 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Betsu

Hello Betsu! Welcome to Wikivoyage. Thanks for plunging forward so far. I'm really exited about having somebody else here who's interested in contributing information about Lausanne. I've lived in Lausanne for a couple of years now, and love the place. You should probably know that Lausanne has been nominated as one of the Project:Destination of the Month candidates as well, and that the french version could probably use a little help.

If you're going to continue working on Wikivoyage, you may find the tips for new contributors helpful.

You should also make sure you understand our copyleft and policies and guidelines. Scanning the Manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted.

If you need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub or on the talk page for the most appropriate article.

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User talk:(WT-en) Betsythedevine

Hello Betsythedevine!

First, the boilerplate message: Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec 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 need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. --(WT-en) Ilkirk 12:49, 29 Nov 2005 (EST)

Next, suggested reading: Welcome, Wikipedians.

Finally, thanks! Really - thanks a ton for crossing over and taking a stab at preparing for Wikimania. I, for one, am very excited to see WikiPedians looking to WikiTravel for their information - I think its really cool.

However, I wanted to make sure you saw the differences in policies and styles. For example, the external links you added to the Boston page really don't work within the Manual of style and/or the External links policy. I've moved them to the talk page for safe keeping and later use instead of blasting them completely.

I'll see what I might able to do in an effort to contribute to those articles despite my lack of experience in the area.

Thanks again! -- (WT-en) Ilkirk 12:49, 29 Nov 2005 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Betterthanmyself

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) Andrew Haggard (Sapphire) 18:04, 4 July 2006 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Betty0brown

Hello, Betty0brown! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page.

If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. - (WT-en) Todd VerBeek 16:07, 14 May 2007 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Betty58

Hello Betty58! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. If you have any questions ask me, please! Keep smiling, (WT-en) edmontonenthusiast [ee] .T.A.L.K. 19:26, 18 November 2008 (EST).

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User talk:(WT-en) BettyAnne

Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. 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 our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. (WT-en) ::: Cacahuate 11:48, 19 January 2007 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bexy

Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. 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 our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.-- (WT-en) Sapphire 08:07, 18 October 2006 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Beyaz

Hello Beyaz! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page.

If you are a Wikipedian then you may notice some differences in policies and the style of our articles. These include:
 * NPOV → be fair (not quite the same thing!)
 * be bold → plunge forward
 * Village pump → travellers' pub
 * External links → We do not use a separate external links section, but incorporate primary links only into the text itself.
 * sandbox → graffiti wall
 * stub notes → Article status notes

If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. Thanks for contributing!

Please read Project:What is an article? and our Project:Article templates information for guidance on what kinds of content should have its own article and how to set it out. - (WT-en) Huttite 06:11, 25 January 2009 (EST)

 * Jup a very warm welcome indeed, hope to see some solid contributions from you, other than just links to an alternative, and commercial, travel guide. Could i maybe make a polite request that you keep it to one link? --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) Talk 20:41, 18 March 2009 (EDT)

Hi, Thank you, could i at least leave the links that i have already placed?

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User talk:(WT-en) Beykite

Hello, Beykite! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. (WT-en) LtPowers 20:38, 1 December 2011 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Beyou224

Hello!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. 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 our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. - (WT-en) Todd VerBeek 22:09, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bfbenalover

Hey there! Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec to look at our copyleft and policies and guidelines, but feel free to plunge forward and edit some pages. If you need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. I hope you enjoy working on the site. -- (WT-en) Evan 18:18, 4 Sep 2003 (PDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) BGS-Chur

Hello, BGS-Chur! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.--(WT-en) Burmesedays 04:26, 12 July 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bhagyanath

Hello, Bhagyanath! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub., --(WT-en) ClausHansen 07:03, 30 April 2011 (EDT)

Comoros
Thank you for your contributions to Comoros, --(WT-en) ClausHansen 07:03, 30 April 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bharat

Hello!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. 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 our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. (WT-en) Upamanyuwikivoyage • ( Talk ) • ( (WT-en) Travel ) • 10:00, 19 March 2007 (EDT)

Any doubts? Feel free to edit User talk:(WT-en) Upamanyuwikivoyage and ask.

P.S. If you speak Hindi, please consider joining the Hindi Wikivoyage Expedition. Just sign up for membership on Wikivoyage Shared and add your name to wts:Hindi Wikivoyage Expedition. (WT-en) Upamanyuwikivoyage • ( Talk ) • ( (WT-en) Travel ) • 10:00, 19 March 2007 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bharath

India travel guide

http://ahmedabad.indcity.com/  http://bangalore.indcity.com/  http://chandigarh.indcity.com/  http://chennai.indcity.com/  http://delhi.indcity.com/  http://goa.indcity.com/  http://hyderabad.indcity.com/  http://jaipur.indcity.com/  http://kochi.indcity.com/  http://kolkata.indcity.com/  http://mumbai.indcity.com/  http://pune.indcity.com/  http://www.esslindia.com/  http://www.gecsindia.com/  http://www.indcity.com/

Welcome Bharath
Hello Bharath!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec 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 need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.

Please read Project:External links before adding links to other travel guides. We prefer to have the information listed here, not linked to another travel guide. -- (WT-en) Huttite 06:19, 12 Jun 2005 (EDT)

External links to India Travel Guide Reverted
I have reverted the edits you made to Pune, Calcutta, Cochin, Hyderabad, Bombay, New Delhi, Bangalore and India. Please read Project:External links then explain here why links to these guides should be added. Saying that another guide has more information is not one of our goals. We aim to be the most complete, so the information should be here, not in another travel guide, where our readers may not be able to access it when they are reading this off-line (one of our goals). -- (WT-en) Huttite 07:07, 12 Jun 2005 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bhart

Hello Bhart! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. -- (WT-en) AHeneen 19:09, 12 November 2008 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) BHcrafts

Hello. Read wbo and Project:What is an article?. Note that advertising is banned on this site. (WT-en) Ikan Kekek 03:35, 14 June 2012 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bhennes1

Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec 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 need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. Thank you for your contributions to Cleveland! -- (WT-en) Jonboy 15:20, 14 April 2006 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bherbert

Hello Bherbert!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec 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 need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.

Thank you for contributing to Louisville. Did you take Image:Louisville-skyline1.jpg yourself, or do you have the rights to publish it? Please read the Project:Image policy which explains what images are acceptable and how to release them for use by Wikivoyage. Unreleased images will be deleted. -- (WT-en) Huttite 16:50, 5 Jan 2006 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bhny

Welcome
Hello Bhny!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec 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 need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.

Thank you for contributing to Sydney/Bondi Beach, Travel topics, Naturist Destinations and Nude beaches near New York City. -- (WT-en) Huttite 08:38, 2 Jun 2005 (EDT)

Naturism
Hi Bhny. Your article "Nude beaches near New York City" was deleted per the site's deletion policy, but the information has been integrated into the Naturism, Sandy Hook and Fire Island articles. Please note that the article wasn't deleted due to its content, but due to the fact that it didn't really meet the Project:What is an article? criteria. That said, it would be great if you could add to and enhance the three articles, and include any beach information where appropriate elsewhere on the site, including the Naturism article. -- (WT-en) Wrh2 22:57, 24 Oct 2005 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) BHtraveler

Welcome
Hello, BHtraveler! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

Thanks for your contributions to Iguaçu Falls! -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 11:52, 30 March 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bhutan eagle

Dzongkha Wikipedia
Hi! Help us write Dzongkha Wikipedia. http://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/མ་ཤོག། --(WT-en) Impro 02:08, 18 August 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bhutanmajestictravel

Hello Bhutanmajestictravel! Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec 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 need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.

Please see the external links policy for what are considered valid external links. Your company's info would be useful in the "Get in" section of the Bhutan article, but is probably not as relevant elsewhere and will likely be reverted by other users. -- (WT-en) Wrh2 00:10, 4 Aug 2005 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bhutanscenic

Thanks for completing the sections on Dzongkha and Bumtangkha
Thanks for completing the sections on Dzongkha and Bumtangkha. It is very useful to travelers in Bhutan. However, I'm afraid that I had to revert your edits on the main Bhutan page as advertising is not permitted on this site. Before you proceed with any future edits, I recommend that you read these articles: Project:External links and Project:Tips for new contributors. They will advise you on the what is allowed and what is not. This will save you the time of adding something that will be deleted and also save other people the effort of deleting it. Thanks a lot. Your contributions are appreciated. (WT-en) WindHorse 07:07, 1 December 2006 (EST)

Dzongkha Wikipedia
Hi! Help us write Dzongkha Wikipedia.
 * http://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/མ་ཤོག།

--(WT-en) Impro 02:14, 18 August 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bianchessi

Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. You can also ask me for help anytime by visiting my Talk page and leaving a message. -- (WT-en) PerryPlanet Talk 18:12, 30 November 2008 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Biawak Komodo

Hello Biawak Komodo! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

Please see also:Project:Welcome, Wikipedians. -- (WT-en) OldPine 10:28, 14 October 2007 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bibabienglish

Hi! Please see welcome, business owners, Welcome, tourism professionals, don't tout and tours before you reenter in Granada your business for the third time. (WT-en) jan 07:44, 31 May 2010 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bibliophibian

Welcome
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Thanks for your contributions to Dar es Salaam guide! – (WT-en) Vidimian 10:52, 9 November 2010 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bicoldivecenter

Hi! Please see wbo and don't tout. Also don't overwrite existing business with your own. That is not accepted at Wikivoyage. (WT-en) jan 03:41, 18 January 2011 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bicov

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-- (WT-en) Tim (writeme!) 08:37, 1 September 2007 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bicycle rental

Hello, Bicycle rental! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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As you are a business owner, you might also want to read Welcome, business owners and Project:don't tout. — (WT-en) globe-trotter 22:22, 26 January 2010 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bidgee

Hi and Welcome to Wikivoyage.

Thanks for your contribution to Wagga. If you need any help, you can see the tips for new contributors and Project:Help.

If you can't figure anything out, you can ask for help in the travellers' pub.

Have fun. --(WT-en) Inas 20:51, 7 December 2008 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bielkm

Hello Bielkm! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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User talk:(WT-en) Bienchida

Welcome!
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. Thank you for contributing to Mexico! -- (WT-en) Jonboy 20:58, 4 August 2006 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Big Adamsky

Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. Thanks for plunging forward so far. If you're going to continue working on Wikivoyage, you may find the tips for new contributors helpful.

You should also make sure you understand our copyleft and policies and guidelines. Scanning the Manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted.

If you need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub or on the talk page for the most appropriate article. --(WT-en) Evan 21:09, 15 Feb 2006 (EST)

P.S. Why would you want any of those links on your home page when you have the free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide right here? B-)

 * Hey Evan! I just noticed this, hence the belatedness of response. I'm nit particularly active in WikiTravel right now - but I do reserve the right to start participating more constructively in future! =} //(WT-en) Big Adamsky 13:06, 6 March 2006 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) BigAl

Welcome, BigAl. Glad to see you're here. Normally I'd post some helpful links and stuff and I promise to do so later, but for right now I have a request. There's some pretty heavy vandalism going on right now at this moment and if you can spare the time it would be great if you could help fix things. All you have to do is pick a vandalized/spammed article and view it's history. Find the version last saved before today's date, and then pick the one before that (it's a bug). Edit and save.

I know this is sort of like "welcome to town, you're on the fire brigade." Sorry. You don't have to do it, just asking. -- (WT-en) Mark 06:15, 9 Oct 2005 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bigbluedahab

Welcome
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Thank you for contributing to Dahab. -- (WT-en) Tom Holland (xltel) 07:23, 16 September 2006 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bigbook45

Welcome to Wikivoyage
Hello!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. 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 our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. -- (WT-en) Tom Holland (xltel) 22:09, 25 November 2006 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bigbub

Welcome
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Thank you for contributing to Kanchanaburi. -- (WT-en) Tom Holland (xltel) 10:43, 27 February 2006 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Big-chad

Hello and welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a look at Welcome, business owners and Project:Don't tout.

Wikivoyage is not meant to be a yellow pages, nor an advertising brochure, so please do not add listings for your business that have flowery, promotional language or that lack any useful information, in particular price ranges for rooms. Also do not list your listing more than once, and do not list it in a city other than the one it actually is in. Lastly, please do not include the city, state, and zip code in the address field. While yes, this is good for your search engine optimization, this is straightforwardly inappropriate on Wikivoyage, since the article name should indicate what city it is in.

Edits that do not follow these guidelines will be reverted. --(WT-en) Peter Talk 19:05, 1 July 2009 (EDT)

 * Thanks for your edits, but please avoid copying the same listing to multiple articles, and have a look at Project:Accommodation listings - the rental agency you've been adding is inappropriate per Wikivoyage guidelines, and many editors will see copying the same link to multiple articles as spamming, whether that is your intention or not. Note that many of the hotel listings you've added are OK (with the caveats about language and formatting noted by Peter). -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 19:42, 1 July 2009 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) BigDanB

Hello, BigDanB! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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User talk:(WT-en) Bigdgarcia

Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. 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 our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. ::: (WT-en) Cacahuate 09:54, 19 January 2007 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bigdon

Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. 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 our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.-- (WT-en) Sapphire 12:47, 19 October 2006 (EDT)

Are you...
User:(WT-en) Traveler2006 and User:(WT-en) Mainer2006? -- (WT-en) Sapphire 13:00, 19 October 2006 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) BigEast55

Hello, BigEast55! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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User talk:(WT-en) Biggfishny

Welcome!
Hello!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. 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 our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.

Thank you for catching the spelling errors on Tulum and Ocho Rios! -- (WT-en) Jonboy 09:44, 5 January 2007 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Biggie54

Hello Biggie54! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub.

 * Yes, welcome! Also, you can sign your posts on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ) – (WT-en) cacahuate  talk 01:31, 24 June 2008 (EDT)

Hotel spamming
Hi, I see you are quite the prolific hotel spammer! I've just finished going through your contributions history, and have removed a good deal of the hotels you added, and reformatted and detouted the rest. You hit so many pages yesterday that the costs in time and effort of cleaning them up outweighed the benefits in keeping any useful info, so I just reverted them en masse.

Please take a good hard look at Project:Welcome, business owners and Project:Don't tout.

Wikivoyage is not meant to be a yellow pages, nor an advertising brochure, so please do not add listings for your business that have flowery, promotional language or that lack any useful information, in particular price ranges for rooms. Also do not list your listing more than once, and do not list it in a city other than the one it actually is in.

Edits that do not follow the guidelines in the linked policy articles and in this message will be reverted. --(WT-en) Peter Talk 16:34, 17 April 2009 (EDT)

 * I'm pretty sure this is mentioned in Project:Don't tout, but please avoid describing your hotels as being "near area attractions." If it's across the street, or on the same block, note that. Otherwise just describe what the hotel is. --(WT-en) Peter Talk 16:18, 20 April 2009 (EDT)

All categories spamming
OK, now I see you are spamming touting listings for all sorts of sections of our articles, restaurants, shops, etc. What sort of company do you work for, anyway, that would own so many establishments? In any rate, stop touting—knock it off. I've been trying to clean your contributions, but the work is getting too onerous, and I'm starting to think it might be net advantageous to just revert everything you add, the good with the bad. --(WT-en) Peter Talk 04:04, 21 April 2009 (EDT)

 * Thank you very much for your message—I was rather dreading the thought of going through your numerous contributions to clean them up. Especially since there is a lot of good legitimate content there. I'll keep an eye on your fixes and try to give you any necessary guidance. On an unrelated note, you can auto-sign your name when commenting by typing four tildes ( ~ ). --(WT-en) Peter Talk 16:40, 7 May 2009 (EDT)

Hi Peter, How are you? I have a question... I have a hotel that I would like to add in Dallas, however I can't figure out which District to add it to. Will you please let me know which District my hotel with the address: 4150 Independence Drive, Dallas, TX, US, 75237 belongs to? Thank you... (WT-en) Biggie54 19:28, 9 October 2009 (EDT)

 * I think this is what you're looking for Dallas/South_Dallas, otherwise try User talk:(WT-en) Texugo, he came up with the districts. --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) Talk 19:38, 9 October 2009 (EDT)

 * Heya, you are forgetting price ranges in your listings, I know other corporate users have gotten away with this previously, but we are trying to take a more hard line approach to make sure the listings you guys add are useful. Otherwise it looks good! --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) Talk 17:48, 12 October 2009 (EDT)

Hi Stefan, I apologize for not putting the prices in the listings. However, the prices fluctuate heavily depending on seasonality. Also, hotels may run promotional prices for upcoming events in their area. Because of the rate that the prices would change, we figure it might be easier to omit them. Thank you and let me know if you see anything else that could be improved in our listings. (WT-en) Biggie54 18:02, 12 October 2009 (EDT)

 * Nope, price info should always go in listings. When I go through a crowded article and trim sleep listings, I usually delete all those without price info without even looking at them—it's the most basic, useful detail we can provide about a hotel, especially chain hotels. We all know that rates vary, which is why we use price ranges (for a standard double room). $100-250 is a fine price range, and will contrast just fine with $130-300. --(WT-en) Peter Talk 19:06, 12 October 2009 (EDT)

Touting
Your edits to Rochester (New York) veer dangerously close to violating our touting policy, especially when you describe hotels miles from a location as being "near" that location (See this edit; 2729 Monroe Ave is at least five miles from the University of Rochester). This one is a problem, too, because every single hotel listed in the article is "minutes from" the attractions you mention. Writing such things may help your favorite hotel, but it doesn't help the traveler one bit. (WT-en) LtPowers 15:02, 6 July 2010 (EDT)

 * Thanks (WT-en) LtPowers for responding to my recent changes and providing the feedback. It was not my intentions to tout. In the future, I will take your recommendations into much consideration before editing listings. I am not trying to show favoritism to our properties; my intentions were to list additional lodging options for traveling guests to Rochester. If you notice that I am doing anything wrong again, please let me know immediately. Thank you

 * Please note the changes I made here to some of your entries (and others that existed before) and try to follow similar formatting and information guidelines. Please only describe the location of a hotel if the location is particularly notable (literally next door to an attraction, inside an attraction, etc.) or in the context of providing directions ("I-81 to exit 26").  "Less than five miles from the airport" is a useless phrase that serves only to increase the hotel's search ranking.  Please also abbreviate street names, per our guidelines.  Thanks.  (WT-en) LtPowers 21:17, 7 July 2010 (EDT)

 * I noticed your changes - I will keep them in mind with my future work on www.wikivoyage.org Thank you, again

Please note that per our guidelines for hotel marketers, all listings should have a non-promotional description. While you've done a good job with proper formatting for addresses and price ranges, an edit such as this one is missing a description that contains any information about amenities, hotel staff, ambiance, etc that would help a traveler differentiate between hotels. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 17:54, 26 July 2010 (EDT)

 * And bizarrely, this edit has descriptions but improperly formatted addresses and no price ranges?!? -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 18:18, 26 July 2010 (EDT)

 * (WT-en) Ryan, I looked at the addresses for the Tallahasse listing and realized they were, indeed, improper. I deleted the city, state, and zip-codes. I will begin adding description to the Pensacola listings now. Likewise, I will keep everything you've said in mind with my future work on the site. Thank you.

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User talk:(WT-en) BigHaz

Hello BigHaz!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec 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 need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.

Thank you for contributing to Turkish phrasebook, Norfolk Island and Brisbane. -- (WT-en) Huttite 05:29, 31 Jan 2005 (EST)

 * Thanks for all your edits to Dubai, Yemen, Fujairah, etc! One tip: please don't use HTML markup like  , but instead use "*" to make lists, or leave a line empty to create a paragraph break. (WT-en) Jpatokal 08:37, 5 Feb 2006 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bighead8806

Hello, Bighead8806! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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User talk:(WT-en) Bigiain

Welcome!
Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. 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 our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. Thank you for your contributions to Sydney. -- (WT-en) Jonboy 09:59, 10 October 2006 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) BigmouthRobin

Hello BigmouthRobin!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec 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 need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.

Thank you for contributing Business to Business Travel. -- (WT-en) Huttite 18:58, 5 Mar 2005 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) BIGNIZZLE

Welcome
Hello BIGNIZZLE!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. 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 our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. -- (WT-en) Ryan 15:25, 7 February 2007 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bigntz

Hello, Bigntz! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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I'm a little confused as to why you removed all the "understand" content from Eindhoven. In any rate, in-article links to Wikipedia are prohibited by our Project:External links policy. See also Project:Links_to_Wikipedia. --(WT-en) Peter Talk 11:49, 4 May 2009 (EDT)

 * The greatly reduced version of the understand section you added appears to be a copyright violation from uk.holidaysguide.yahoo.com . Is there a reason why you object so vehemently to the section as written?   --(WT-en) Peter Talk 17:58, 4 May 2009 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bigp3anut

Hello!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. 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 our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.

--(WT-en) NJR_ZA 07:08, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

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User talk:Bigpeteb

Welcome
Hello, BigPeteB! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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Thanks for your contributions to Lexington (Kentucky). -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 13:23, 30 March 2011 (EDT)

 * My pleasure. It gave me something to do while I was on vacation there last week. :-) --Peter

Long vowels
Say, what method are you using to type the long Japanese vowels with a bar over them? (WT-en) texugo 12:14, 23 August 2011 (EDT)

 * I just use Windows Character Map to get the character and paste it in. It's tedious. :-( Or, if I know the characters are elsewhere in the document, I copy/paste them from there. (WT-en) BigPeteB 12:32, 23 August 2011 (EDT)

UserMerge
Your old WT account has now been merged into your WMF one. Your name now has a small b, which matches your WP account (I think to get the large B back, you would have to do a global account rename). --Peter Talk 19:51, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Dynamic maps Expedition
Hello Bigpeteb,

Thanks for your interest in Dynamic maps Expedition!

Could you please help by selecting a few articles (places you know), and inserting lat/lon to all restaurants/hotels/see/etc as explained here?

Thanks a lot! Nicolas1981 (talk) 07:29, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

 * Sure thing! I already did part of Lexington (Kentucky). I could do Atlanta/Midtown as well. I'll see if I can find one or two other articles that would make good test cases. Bigpeteb (talk) 13:58, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Great work on these two articles, feel free to do cities you don't know as well, using Google or review websites to check whether locations are correct. These articles will be in the initial trial perimeter when Dynamic Maps are deployed :-) Cheers! Nicolas1981 (talk) 06:01, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Haha, all I did so far was run them through the GeoMap batch updater. When I have more time at home I'll check that the locations are accurate and manually do the ones that the batch updater couldn't locate. Bigpeteb (talk) 14:59, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

New portal implemented
Thanks for your changes to the /temp version! Feel free to fix anything else there and I'll see if I can sync it. PiRSquared17 (talk) 16:34, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Joke articles/Time travel
Wikvoyage started early this year.. I note you'd added to the Japan article recently, able to add anything to the Far East section? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:49, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Et al.
From an edit summary by you: ''usually "et al." is for lists of people, and "etc." is for lists of inanimate things''

What's your source for this? To my understanding, in Latin "et alii" simply means "and others". I have never seen the claim you made, and I'm pretty skeptical about it.

All the best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:50, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

 * Nevermind: I just did a web search for "et al usage" and got a bunch of results restricting its usage to a list of people. So the moral of the story is that I went through school with honors and fellowships through the Doctorate without ever knowing or being told about this restriction. I probably never used the abbreviation in a non-standard way in any academic writing, so no-one ever thought to explain that a seemingly all-inclusive Latin expression is reserved for people, by convention. Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:19, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

 * Haha, no worries Ikan Kekek. I'm glad I could teach you some minor thing today. :-) --Bigpeteb (talk) 15:25, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

 * :-) Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:31, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Punctuation
Regardinging this edit, the Chicago Manual of Style recomends distinguishing between ellipsis within a sentence (three dots) and ellipsis at the end of a sentence (four dots):
 * Section 13.53 in the Spotlight
 * When words are left out of a quotation, an ellipsis of three dots (. . .) takes their place. When this works correctly, the reader can skip over the dots and the sentence continues smoothly on the other side.
 * Quotation 1: “With a sensation of horror . . . I saw at the open window a figure.”
 * If the first segment of the quotation could be read as a complete sentence (grammatically speaking), a period comes before the ellipsis (for a total of four dots).

As far as "... etc.)." goes, there isn't any need for another full stop after you've already used one full stop:
 * "never double up periods. If a statement ends with “etc.” the period in the abbreviation does double duty, serving as the full stop to end the sentence."

Regards, Ground Zero (talk) 12:45, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
 * @Ground Zero: Hmm, thanks for pointing this out.
 * You're right about the first instance. It can be read as a complete sentence, so an extra period is appropriate. I'll change that one back.
 * In the second instance, the parentheses affect the rule. The CMOS FAQ for this topic isn't the most clear (and I don't have my copy of CMOS handy as I'm replying). A better Stack Exchange Q&A is, which explicitly cites CMOS and other style guides, all of which agree that two periods are necessary: one for the  inside the parentheses, and one outside the parentheses to end the sentence. (To use the old grade-school trick: if you deleted the parenthetical, what remains would still need to be a complete sentence, and thus needs a period.) The Wikipedia MOS also agrees with this rule, and an example ending in   is the first example it gives.
 * (P.S. "Regardinging" isn't a word. That made me LOL when I noticed it just now.) --Bigpeteb (talk) 17:39, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you
I wanted to drop you a note to thank you for two things: one, your recent vigilance on English language varieties, and two, your recent additions to Fukuoka. As the one who originally nominated Fukuoka for Destination of the Month a while ago, it's frankly kind of embarrassing to me in retrospect how incomplete the article was at the time of its nomination. Sometimes it takes someone with local familiarity, as you obviously have, to fully illustrate that sort of thing. Anyhow, anything else you can do to add to the article would be hugely appreciated, especially in the realm of adding geo coordinates to listings that currently lack them. -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 00:51, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

 * Happy to help! I spent half a summer studying in Fukuoka, although that was 15 years ago so I wouldn't say I know the city in too much detail anymore. But between the request for updates for DotM, and some friends having recently visited Fukuoka and re-sparking my interest in the city, I'm happy to contribute what local knowledge I do have. Geocoding listings is not my favorite chore as it's pretty tedious :-/ but I'll definitely have a go at it. --Bigpeteb (talk) 17:27, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

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Thank you for leaving the long message on my students talk page, I may indeed use it for discussion material. The problem here is that said student is one of the 'quiet' people (she never speaks, she chose to work by herself instead of a group like I advised everyone to do), and I don't know if she is super shy or as is not uncommon in classes full of ESLs, her English skills are just low. In all honestly, I doubt she will participate in or enjoy the discussion about this incident, particularly if my hunch is right and she cannot communicate well in English on top of being shy. Sometimes there is no good solution :( --Piotrus (talk) 03:13, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Indeed, I know the type. Regardless, I'm happy to contribute. Cheers! --Bigpeteb (talk) 16:23, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Priority seats in Tokyo
Just to reply to your comment, I'm not sure there are priority seats in the trains in either Chicago or New York City, so I don't think you can say they are "common" worldwide. The dog2 (talk) 01:49, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Do you mean priority seating for elderly and disabled people? Then yes, we have those on New York City Transit Authority trains and buses. Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:26, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Will people actually give them up for the elderly and disabled? The dog2 (talk) 04:46, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Sometimes. And also for pregnant women and people with really heavy loads or holding children. And on the bus, if someone on a wheelchair comes on, the bus driver tells whoever is sitting in the wheelchair area he chooses for them to get up and move. I presume if they refused, s/he'd call the police if necessary, but I haven't seen anyone refuse. Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:55, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * In any case, it's already pointed out on Japan, so there's no need to duplicate it in Tokyo. Even the note about not talking on phones is redundant, although it doesn't hurt to have a quick reminder. There's also signage in English on Japan's trains and buses for both priority seats and not talking on phones, so we really don't need to bog down a city article with reminders. --Bigpeteb (talk) 18:07, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

New York City
Please do not fully revert. I want there to be a mention that in Staten Island there is no subway system. So please revert that edit. Thanks. 2600:387:5:805:0:0:0:6A 21:01, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

 * The better place to discuss this is on Talk:New York City. I've copied your question and will give a response there. --Bigpeteb (talk) 21:34, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Shouting
Hiya, with regard to this edit summary ALL CAPS comes across as angry shouting, especially when you're correcting somebody. If you want to emphasise parts of an edit summary, I recommend using asterisks *like this*. It's not a rule or anything, but something to think about. Best wishes, ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 17:48, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I should have done so. Does it actually display it with different formatting if you use asterisks like that, or is that markup for human eyes only? --Bigpeteb (talk) 18:19, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * No different formatting, unfortunately; it's just for the eyes as you said. You could equally use tildes or underscores, I guess.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 18:25, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Seattle
But surely we should have a caution (not a warningbox, which wasn't what it was) when someone leaves the United States while in one of the country's largest cities. I made clear the protests were not violent, but nonetheless an autonomous zone (with armed guards, from what I've heard, though correct me if there's evidence to the contrary) surely requires a caution to travelers per ttcf.

Have you entered or otherwise been inside CHAZ? I haven't, but judging from the reports this is important, not only because of the zone itself but what might happen if the police/military enter it, which President Trump has implied he will do.

As a side note, the definition of a cautionbox is "non-life-threatening warnings," not "a warning about protests last week...[pertaining to] police escalation." (the latter of course being a life-threatening warning)

Not to be too confrontational, because I don't intend to be, but these are the facts. --Comment by Selfie City  ( talk  |  contributions ) 17:15, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

 * I say this with a laugh, because I'm usually not quick to blame the media, but: Don't believe the media's lies!
 * I live less than a mile away. I attended protests multiple times last week, and have been to CHAZ several times this week.
 * The name "autonomous zone" is perhaps poorly chosen. "Free speech block party" would be a more accurate description. They're not declaring independence or anything like that, and you're certainly not "leaving the United States". There are no ID checks or armed guards, and there is not a protection racket taking place. In fact the mayor and police chief have taken some flak for making those unsubstantiated claims, as have local media for repeating it without doing any fact-checking. is a fairly comprehensive and neutral overview of the situation;  is a more boots-on-the-ground view.
 * How it's going to play out moving forward is very difficult to predict. The police would no doubt like their precinct back, but that's likely to spark more protests if they try to simply return to the prior status quo without making any concessions towards defunding or reforming the police. But so far, it's just a peaceful occupation (for lack of a better word) of a few blocks, with little practical impact in terms of public services available (fire/ambulance/police, garbage, utilities, etc.) and no apparent threat to a visitor's safety or freedom.
 * Practically speaking (and this probably belongs better on Talk:Seattle, but since we're discussing it anyway) I don't think a caution/warning does much good here. Even if WV was the #1 travel guide in the world, which it isn't, there just aren't many travellers here these days due to COVID-19. If there were, one would think they would apply Captain Obvious and avoid any large crowds to avoid exposure to coronavirus, which includes protests and block parties. If they don't, one would again think they would apply Captain Obvious and avoid protests anyway, as it should be obvious that there's a potential threat to one's safety no matter how peaceful the protest is (or appears to be) at the moment. We should also assume our readers aren't ignorant and have at least a smidgen of awareness of the state of the world, and may have already heard about the protests happening in Seattle. And then on top of all that, WV is not a news service and we often have enough trouble as it is keeping up with "current" events here, so I think it's a waste of our time to try to describe a rapidly-evolving situation in one city which extremely few people will read or be affected by.
 * (Come to think of it, as a supporter of the movement, I'm now tempted to say we should put something in to help spread the truth that it's peaceful and safe, although that's countered by my own arguments that too few people will see it anyway.) --Bigpeteb (talk) 17:55, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

 * Fair enough, as you have local knowledge of the situation. --Comment by Selfie City  ( talk  |  contributions ) 18:50, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Interstate 294
If you look very closely at a map, you will see that just south of Exit 40, it is in Chicago for mere feet, when connecting western Chicago to the rest of the city.Interstate 80 is not in at all. It would be just like saying Interstate 80 enters New York City. In reality it doesn’t though-it ends to Interstate 95 within ten kilometers of the city. It could also be viewed as entering Cleavland, which is also not true. You either have to have it so it is in none, or in all 3. Plus for New York City, Interstate 80 does something none of the others do. Interstate 78 connects to Newark and central Pennsylvania, Interstate 95 to Philadelphia, and Interstate 87 to Albany and evantually, Montreal as A-15. Interstate 80, though, connects to the Poconos. In the NY Metro Area also lies Interstate 84, Interstate 91, Future Interstate 86, and potentially more. Regards, 2600:387:5:807:0:0:0:16 14:26, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately, since you haven't created a username and logged in, there's no way to give you a notification. I'll just have to reply here and hope that you see this.
 * Firstly, this is better discussed on Talk:Chicago, not on my user page.
 * Secondly, if you disagree and think your change needs to stay, you should discuss it on the Talk page for that article. Don't reapply the change without discussing.
 * Thirdly, Chicago is one of our star articles, the best we have on this site. It's been continually maintained at that quality for years. I'm not saying we're incapable of mistakes, but for a new editor like yourself to come here and tell us we made what seems to you to be an obvious factual mistake by mentioning a highway that isn't actually in the city... doesn't that seem a bit presumptuous? Did you consider that maybe it's not a mistake, and that we mention it on purpose?
 * This brings me to the last and most important point... You don't seem to be familiar with the policies we use here on Wikivoyage. One of those is that the traveller comes first. We use that guideline to shape a lot of our decisions we make. On Wikipedia, being factual and accurate and verifiable are all important, but on WV we prefer a human approach that sometimes simplifies things in order to be more useful as a guide for travelling. For example, we don't constrain ourselves to only following the official borders of a city, as those are subject to sociopolitical whim. For example, on NYC we mention Newark airport as one of the 3 main airports in the area, even though it's in a different state! It would be absurd for us to not mention it as a primary way of getting to NYC just because it doesn't fall within the legal boundary of New York City. WV's article on Chicago is not about the "City of Chicago" (meaning the one incorporated according to state law, with an area of exactly 227.63 sq mi), it's about the abstract urban area called "Chicago" as a traveller normally thinks of it.
 * What does this have to do with highways? Well, I-80 is one of the primary routes in the Interstate Highway System (as are all Interstate highways divisible by 5). Imagine someone from Iowa City asked you, "How do I get to Chicago?" Which answer would you normally give them:
 * "Oh, you can't get to Chicago directly from Iowa City. I know the signs say I-80 goes to Chicago, but that's a lie because it only goes near Chicago. You actually have to take I-80 to an unincorporated part of Illinois and then get on I-55. It's near Joliet, but you'll only be in Joliet for a portion of the on-ramp."
 * "From Iowa City? That's easy, just take I-80."
 * I'm being sarcastic and exaggerating to demonstrate my point, but this really is exactly why we say the traveller comes first. Adhering to strict legal boundaries of cities is not useful for travellers, and so we don't do it. We think and write as though we're giving colloquial advice to friends and family, not as though we're writing an encyclopedia that needs to pass fact-checking and peer review. Even going to Google Maps and searching "Iowa City to Chicago" gives you several options which it glosses as simply "via I-80 and I-88", "via I-80", and "via I-80, I-88, and I-90". Why would you expect us to not do the same?
 * This is the reduction to absurdity counterargument I was sarcastically making about I-294. (You overlooked that it is mentioned in the second paragraph.) You're correct, technically it does pass through the City of Chicago for about 300 feet in the Rosemont Corridor.  And technically, the gore is within that strip, so you could certainly say that there's an exit from I-294 that's in Chicago. But that exit only takes you to Balmoral Avenue, which at that intersection is not inside the legal boundary of the City of Chicago. Except this is all completely absurd, because of course the whole reason I-294 exists is that there's some massive freaking city called "Chicago" in the way! I certainly hope you wouldn't tell someone taking a car from O'Hare to somewhere in south Chicago (say, Mt. Greenwood Park) that they have to get on I-190, leave Chicago, get on I-294, enter Chicago, leave Chicago 300 feet later, exit onto S Cicero Ave, and then enter Chicago on W 115th St.
 * I'm not saying all this to be mean, and I really do hope that you'll stick around and continue to work with us. I assume this edit to NYC was also yours, and I would have said "thank you" except that, as I said, it's impossible to guarantee that someone who doesn't log in will ever see replies. (The software doesn't even permit sending a "thanks" (the wiki equivalent of a "like") on edits done by anonymous editors.) We always love to have new editors join us, as many hands make light work, and there's no substitute for people with local knowledge of places they've lived or visited. But please remember, this is an established community with 15 years of decisions about what we want to say (or not say) in our travel guides. Try reading and using our guides first to get a better feel for how we present information, and then maybe reading WV:Tips for new contributors, which has links to our WV:Manual of style and WV:Policies. (They're not long, you don't have to memorize or even read all of them, and they're actually pretty casual and fun to read — much like we hope our travel guide content is.) But please, keep contributing! Nobody is perfect, everyone here was new at some point, sometimes even experienced editors only learn about a policy when someone else corrects them, and occasionally these kinds of discussions lead to policies getting changed. So please don't feel discouraged; I hope you're willing to stick around and become a lasting member of our community.
 * --Bigpeteb (talk) 19:25, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * understood. Can you mention Interstate 80 goes in NYC though-it is basically the same. 2600:387:5:80D:0:0:0:8A 21:29, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Update-I already did. Updated to say I-80. But there is many things we can fix. I am taking a 7-month Wikibreak however, so good luck, on behalf of 2600:387:5:800::/60(if anyone edits on this IP until at least February, unless I say so, it’s not me)2600:387:5:80D:0:0:0:8A 21:42, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I am leaving because, while I’d love to be a lasting member of the community, I need ~7 months to re-assess everything and with all of these crazy policies, I feel like after 7 months I can be one of the top contributors! Also, there is a way to get to Chicago from I-80 not involving I-55. In South Holland, IL, I-80 and I-94 split up. I-80 continues onto I-294 but, I-94 goes into the city. That is why for a few dozen miles, Interstates 90 and 94 are “incorrect”, that is, Interstate 90 is north of Interstate 94. I will be making my last 2 edits before leaving. 2600:387:5:80D:0:0:0:8A 8:09 PM, 29 June 2020 (UTC-4)
 * I am leaving because, while I’d love to be a lasting member of the community, I need ~7 months to re-assess everything and with all of these crazy policies, I feel like after 7 months I can be one of the top contributors! Also, there is a way to get to Chicago from I-80 not involving I-55. In South Holland, IL, I-80 and I-94 split up. I-80 continues onto I-294 but, I-94 goes into the city. That is why for a few dozen miles, Interstates 90 and 94 are “incorrect”, that is, Interstate 90 is north of Interstate 94. I will be making my last 2 edits before leaving. 2600:387:5:80D:0:0:0:8A 8:09 PM, 29 June 2020 (UTC-4)

New York City
First off there are 7 highways in NYC Metro. The three in NYC, Interstate 80, Interstate 84, Interstate 91 and Interstate 81. In the future, Interstate 86 will be expanded into the metro, but NYSDOT has no plans to do that in the near future. I agree with -Interstate 84 is too far north to be relevant. Interstate 80, though, is within ten kilometers or six miles of New York City, so its relevant. Honestly if we were to include US Routes, US 22, which ends in Newark, in my opinion, is close enough to be relevant. Interstate 495, the NSP and the SSP also only begin in Long Island. More people are coming into NYC on 80/95 then on 495. Furthermore, I-81 and I-91 are only barely in the metro area. The only people coming on I-91 into NYC are people in western New England(Hartford, Springfield)and for I-81 manly deals with the Cumberland Valley(even then, most people take 76/95 or 78). Enough people are coming on I-80 near enough to NYC for it to be relevant. Pinging User: ThunderingTyphoons! for his input on the manner. 2600:387:5:80D:0:0:0:49 23:24, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

 * I do think I-80 is relevant, but I also think it's fine to keep the "By car" section of "Get in" at the current length, because the main point of the section is to discourage people from driving to New York. I don't agree that Route 22 is relevant. It's not a superhighway and as you said, it ends in Newark. It's relevant to getting around New Jersey, not getting into New York. Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:32, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * if that’s the case we shouldn’t have a “By car” section. The train is preferred anyway. We should also mention the historic Lincoln Highway, which goes on 42nd St to Broadway, and down to the Holland Tunnel on Interstate 78 to US 1-9. In either case, more people are going to NYC on 80/95 then people going to Chattenoga on 59/24. 2600:387:5:80D:0:0:0:49 23:39, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * US 22 is relevant as it is the only highway that goes into Cincinatti, OH. New York City, by interstate, only directly connects to E Coast Cities, Albany, and a couple of other cities. Cincinatti has 300,000 residents and deserves a mention. US 46 also ends right on the NY Border, so it’s relevant. 2600:387:5:80D:0:0:0:49 23:50, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I maintain that 22 is too far from New York to be relevant, especially as it's not a superhighway. Route 46 is a highway, but IMO not that important, and it's unnecessary to mention every highway in the article. The Lincoln and Holland Tunnels and the George Washington Bridge should be mentioned, sure. Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:55, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * @Anonymous: Once again, you've brought this to my talk page, when this ought to be discussed on Talk:New York City. (Or if you think more people need to participate in this discussion, you could take it to WV:Pub.)
 * You still seem to be confused about the differences between Wikivoyage and Wikipedia. Here on WV, we don't include every possible detail about a destination, even if it's factually true, because our goal is to make a travel guide that provides enough information to help travellers without boring them to death with minutia. Some of our articles about large, important, and/or popular cities and countries have had to be very carefully pruned to limit their length. This does remove some information, but hopefully the information that's removed is some of the less important bits. A list of which highways do or don't enter the boundary of NYC is, in that view, not important. Approaching from most directions, there are only a handful of bridges and tunnels by which to enter NYC, and we describe those. Getting to those bridges and tunnels is, as they say, left as an exercise for the reader, as there are myriad ways they could do so. (Coming from the remaining cardinal directions, we do mention specific highways that are useful, but we don't go into much detail because it's assumed the reader can find their own way given a basic orientation.) In fact, some of our policies point out that part of the joy of travel is in the process, and sometimes it's better to not give the reader all possible information and let them discover things for themselves.
 * You also still seem to be focused on what's literally and factually correct versus what's helpful for travellers. Yes, there is a highway connecting NYC (or near enough) to Cincinnati, but when planning a trip by car, travellers don't think in terms of the furthest city they can reach; they think in terms of adjacent large cities. If we were going to mention cities connecting to NYC by car, even though San Francisco is connected directly by an Interstate highway (I-80, notwithstanding any bypasses it makes) while Pittsburgh isn't, we would absolutely mention Pittsburgh before we mentioned San Francisco. --Bigpeteb (talk) 02:09, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

 * I don't know why I was pinged into this conversation, but I don't have anything constructive to add.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 08:14, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Travel photography/Full systems
Thanks for the edits there. They definitely improve readability. Pashley (talk) 01:49, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Taking a break
Just dropping a note to say that I'm alive and well :-) but will be taking a break from WV for a while. I've been idly wasting my time here re-reading and nitpicking the same few dozen pages without contributing much new content. It's become a bad habit, much like endlessly scrolling social media sites, and I need to take some time off from that. Plus, I started a new job a few weeks ago, so I don't have as much free time as I used to, not to mention I can't edit any Wikimedia sites from my company network. I'll check back in occasionally, but I won't be a regular fixture for a while.

I've enjoyed being a part of this small community, and I hope to come back someday when I can set better limits for myself and am motivated to rediscover the joy of travel and travel-related research.

Until then, bons voyages,

--Bigpeteb (talk) 22:35, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

 * Take care, also note to other users that I'll be away next week (25 April/Anzac Day til 1 May) as I'll be away SHB2000 (talk) 23:20, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

 * All the best, Bigpeteb, and thanks for everything. I dare say the Atlanta Airport star nomination will still be under review when you return ;-) --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 10:53, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

 * With probably a third star nomination up there (Stratford (Victoria)) SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 11:15, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Enjoy your holiday! 82.3.185.12 10:55, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

 * It's not a holiday, it's for some other stuff but still looking forward to this. Although thanks for the message, take care and see you in 2 weeks (or earlier or later) SHB2000 (talk | contribs | en.wikipedia) 10:59, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

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Welcome
Hi, thanks for your help in editing Houston. I did some minor changes to it to format better. You help is appreciated and welcome! Below is the standard welcome splash with some useful links. -- (WT-en) Tom Holland (xltel) 12:42, 12 Feb 2006 (EST)

Hello Xltel! Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec 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 need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. -- (WT-en) Tom Holland (xltel) 12:42, 12 Feb 2006 (EST)

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Why are you deleting Mona Lisa's? (WT-en) Butwhatdoiknow 17:38, 27 October 2007 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Big-tex

Hello Big-tex!

Ha hA ha ha ........ you have them rolling on the floor out here in cyberspace! I can't even type straight. But your article about Taco Bell is such wonderful nonsense we are going to delete it. (sorry)

Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec 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 need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. -- (WT-en) Huttite 17:28, 20 Jan 2006 (EST)

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Great (and fast!) work on Göttingen. It's quickly going from an outline to a usable guide-- next stop star!

I just wanted to welcome you and point you to our copyleft and policies and guidelines. Scanning the Manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted. 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) Majnoona 15:13, 25 Jan 2006 (EST)

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Hi. You are welcome to describe who you are, but it is not OK for you to advertise here. Thank you.

(WT-en) Ikan Kekek 05:46, 3 February 2012 (EST)

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Hello Bijee!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec 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 need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.

Thank you for all your contributions. Please be aware that a lot of the pre-existing HTML, especially on country pages, is due to WikiTravel being developed using earlier versions of MediWiki that did not have such cool features to eliminate the need for most HTML.

I also made some comments about your (good) changes to Project:Article naming conventions on the talk page --(WT-en) Huttite 07:28, 21 Oct 2004 (EDT)

Copyvio
Hi, please don't cut-n-paste stuff from Wikipedia unless you are the sole author of the stuff on WikiPedia. See Project:Cooperating with Wikipedia. Thanks. -- (WT-en) Colin 20:22, 25 Oct 2004 (EDT)

Frame
Thanks for the note about frame markup. I only learned about it today actually ;) -- (WT-en) Hypatia 11:52, 1 Nov 2004 (EST)

also work ~ (WT-en) Bijee 17:36, 1 Nov 2004 (EST)

Nice job on the country maps! --(WT-en) Evan 13:33, 3 Nov 2004 (EST)

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Hello Biju.K!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. Please take a sec 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 need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.

Thank you for contributing to the Malayalam phrasebook. -- (WT-en) Huttite 22:36, 4 Feb 2005 (EST)

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Hello!

Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. 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 our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub. One bit of etiquette, I'd like to mention: We encourage business owners to add information about their services, but it's strongly frowned upon for a business to remove information about competitors. Presumably another editor thought the other place was worth mentioning, and converting that recommendation into a pointer to your business instead is unfair to that person's opinion. If you really think the other place shouldn't be recommended, bring it up on the discussion page for that article, and let a more neutral editor make that decision. - (WT-en) Todd VerBeek 22:10, 2 May 2007 (EDT)

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Hello. I'm sorry for the inconvenience to you, but advertising is not allowed on this site, even on user pages. You can briefly describe who you are on your user page, but you cannot pitch (try to sell) your company. Here are some guidelines to read: Project:Don't tout.

All the best,

(WT-en) Ikan Kekek 13:28, 22 July 2011 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bikestats

Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. Thanks for your additions to the Northampton (Massachusetts) article.

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User talk:(WT-en) BIL

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 the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.-- (WT-en) Andrew Haggard (Sapphire) 17:44, 22 August 2006 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bil2303

Hello Bil2303! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. (WT-en) AHeneen 22:04, 29 December 2008 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bilegt

Hello Bilegt! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. Images need to be uploaded to Wikivoyage Shared, not here. Also, I removed 1 of the drink images, because we only need one. (WT-en) AHeneen 15:38, 12 December 2008 (EST)

Images
You are making a couple of mistakes we need to correct... And please only use capital letters in our guides, when it's called for by grammar. --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) Talk 23:58, 13 December 2008 (EST)
 * You need to upload to our shared server, and not here - this is so other language wikivoyage sites can use the same images.
 * You must specify a license, we have to delete pictures without a license, including yours - if you need help, write me on my talk page.

Mongolia
The great information you've posted, should really go in the Ulaan Bataar article (i've copied it onto your (WT-en) user page - and please make sure to specify a license to those great images! --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) Talk 00:48, 14 December 2008 (EST)

Also, please make sure to read our Manual of style for tips on how we want our articles to look. Those images are a bit of a mess. --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) Talk 00:58, 14 December 2008 (EST)

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User talk:(WT-en) BillAlexander

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) Andrew Haggard (Sapphire) 22:45, 21 June 2006 (EDT)

Pasporta Servo
Hi Bill... check out Hospitality exchange where Pasporta Servo was already listed. If you want to add some of your text from Pasporta Servo into there, you can retrieve it from this link. Cheers! -- (WT-en) Colin 23:56, 21 June 2006 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Bill Alexander

Hello! Welcome to Wikivoyage. You can edit your preferences to change how the software works for you. 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 our wiki software, MediaWiki, look at the Wiki markup to get an idea of how to edit a page. If you need help, check out the help desk, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.

I'm glad you volunteered to be the liaison (ĉu ligulo?) for eo:. I think we're ready to get started there (see http://eo.wikivoyage.org/wiki/ ), so: please create an account on that wiki (you can also try, which lets you use your en: account to log in). When you've got an account, let me know, and I'll add you as an administrator on the eo: wiki.

I think the big thing now is to make an announcement on en: and shared: about eo: launching, and to start making some travel guides! We'll probably need to translate some help and policy texts; see Project:How to start a new language version. --(WT-en) Evan 23:11, 6 October 2006 (EDT)

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User talk:(WT-en) Billbeee

Hello, Billbeee! Welcome to Wikivoyage. Thanks for uploading those photos of Huay Xai.

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