Talk:San Miguel de Allende
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There have been several modifications concerning the percentage of foreign nationals in San Miguel, for some it is 50%, for others it is 5%, and after one correction that sets the data near the 50% comes another correction that sets its near 5%. Since this has been a matter of dispute, and no consensus has been reached, I propose that the last person who changed it, and future changes be accompanied by a link to a reliable reference (could be INEGI, if they have that information, or the city's official web page). If no data can be found, then it would be safer not to write any percentages, and just say "a considerable percentage of the population is foreign, mainly from the United States". --J.Alonso 14:52, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
There have been several recent modifications to the history of san miguel which seem to promote a particular political/social agenda which is not neutral and certainly is not in keeping with encyclopedic content. Furthermore these changes are quite dramatic and really have nothing to do with the history of the town, which is the title of the section in which they are published. Someone needs to do a major clean-up of the article, because, franky, it is pretty much unreadable at this point, due to the addition of a large quantity of self-promotional trivia.--Tomasdiazh 15:51, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
The website Falling In Love with San Miguel -- a free web blog, forum and hints for those interested in living or living in San Miguel, has been removed several times. The site is free and forums are extensive--wmhwilson
- (Remember to sign posts to talk pages with ~~~~.) That particular link has been inserted several times by someone closely related to it, a conflict of interest that is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia. Aside from that it has several problems: its aimed is to promote a book, blogs fail the WP:EL guideline, as do forums, and Wikipedia is not a travel guide nor does it give advice (WP:NOT#TRAVEL). I removed the link. ✤ JonHarder talk 23:35, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
I added this and have no interest-- monetary or personal -- in the book. I am a retired newspaper editor (40 years experience) and feel this link is being removed because of personal vendettas against the writer because she is gay. The link to Atencion is for a commercial business (newspaper)as well as the link to the film which is also for sale. The forums and the blog give a the reader especially the gringo living or planning to live in San Miguel de Allende and idea of what happens in the town. I will keep posting it until we resolve this matter. The book written by Ms Schmidt has also been trashed on Amazon. The point of a reference article is to give the reader more information hence the external links. Most external links are in Spanish and the links of the paper, the film and the book provide.--Wmhwilson (talk) 16:29, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
