Talk:Outer Banks

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It's a place where adventure is still possible, where romance thrives, and where tide charts, seagulls, and wild ponies take precedence over convention and pretense.

Touching, but unencyclopedic. -- Montrealais

[edit] external links

someone needs to post external links so people looking for current information on the Outer Banks can find it here. weather, local attractions, newspapers, chamber of commerce... something! MPS 17:15, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] OBX

I deleted the article [[OBX]] as per Vfd, because of a consensus to merge and redirect here. The text of OBX was:

According to a popular line of advertising merchandise, OBX stands for the "Outer Banks" of North Carolina, a popular tourist destination.

Any interested user is free to merge this in somewhere; I don't know where to merge it to. Ingoolemo talk 00:39, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright Thing

I was looking for some more material for a college paper, and I ran across a page with nearly identical text to the opening paragraph to this article at [1], so I've put up the Copyright flag. -T2X 03:39, 28 September 2005 (UTC).

[edit] copyright

I created this image in powerpoint.


OBX car stickers are common across the American Southeast
OBX car stickers are common across the American Southeast
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I am pretty sure that it is PD but does anyone have contrary information? MPS 16:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure you didn't mean Photoshop? Powerpoint is a presentation program. I would be really amazed if you did that in Powerpoint... if so, show me how!!! --TinMan 02:45, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Powerpoint has a standard set of drawing tools. I would be really amazed if you couldn't figure them out after giving it half a shot. —Ksn 21:13, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Restaurants

What's the purpose of listing the eateries? If the reader isn't in this location they won't be interested, and if they are they can simply look in the yellow pages. What's the encyclopedic value? -Will Beback 20:59, 31 May 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Shown Below

The last sentence in the main article before the Contents box states the following: The popular OBX sticker is shown below. No sticker is shown... ???

The sticker was removed because it was deemed to have been copyrighted, though I notice it's still on this page. -Will Beback 03:48, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OBX singular or plural?

I see inconsistency as to whether "the outer banks" is singular or plural. For example, "The Outer Banks consists" indicates singular while "The Outer Banks are also the site" indicates plural. Which is it? (I suggest singular.) —Ksn 00:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I've struggled with this as well. It can be used as either singular and plural, but for this article I think it's singular. The Outer Banks is a group of barrier islands. Although it sends off warning signals in the grammar part of my brain, at second look, it's more correct. It's the same as saying "The Marshall Islands is a republic." It should be treated like the word "people", which is singular, but describes a group. --TinMan 02:43, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I see your point, but in this case I think it's more appropriate to defer to local usage, which is plural. Andrew 00:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My Spanish Mustangs...

How can horses "wash" ashore???!!!??? --Carlon 23:27, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

The same way people do: by shipwreck. Remember, horses were re-introduced into the Americas by the Spanish conquistadores, who brought them across the Atlantic. RossPatterson 21:28, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Actually, the horses, aka banker ponies, came from ships that ran onto shoals. Horses had the least amount of value, compared to cows, pigs etc. They were "beast of burden". So they were thrown overboard so the ships could re float. The horses on ocracoke are from the same line as the horses on corolla. The Lifeguarding service used them to carry their equipment north, and left them near corolla. btw, remember that ocracoke and hatteras island at one time were connected, as was hatteras island and the mainland/bodie island. PGPirate 14:22, 23 July 2007 (UTC)