Talk:Vancouver Aquarium

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[edit] "referred to as 'Vanaqua' by visitors?"

I've lived in Vancouver all my life and have never heard anyone refer to it as anything other than "the aquarium." Please either cite this or change it to "ambitious city planners refer to it as Vanaqua, believing the name to sound more appealing so as to cash in on more tourist dollars." Vanaqua... How utterly ridiculous. Jackmont Feb 5, 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.80.123.34 (talk) 03:41, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree. That is just a branding attempt by the aquarium. I've never heard anyone say Vanaqua - it's always The Aquarium.Bob98133 (talk) 14:55, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Yep, and I don't even know if the city planners and aquarium PR people call it that. Kla’quot (talk | contribs) 17:08, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:27, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] needs references

I have gone through the beginning of this article, but really it sounds as if it were written by the PR department of the aquarium, full of excellent, largest, most important, and other unsupported weasel words. It really needs refernces and some balance. In just the first part, I made these changes:

  1. Removed “one of the largest” – not true, many are larger – addressed in history section
  2. Removed – “most important” – to whom, who says? Weasel word
  3. Removed “well respected” – by whom – weasel words
  4. Removed “aquarium is recognized” – by whom, weaseling
  5. “first facility to incorporate professional naturalists” – added fact tag

Bob98133 (talk) 15:36, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Info from Aquarium inaccurate, biased

I have been looking over this article and it seems that information from the official Vancouver Aqurium website should be taken lightly. They tend to gloss over information and present their view of the facts. I don't think that web site is a reliable source of info.

For example, their website states that they are the first aquarium to have naturalists in the galleries. I added a reference that the first aquarium ever, built in part by the person who made up the word aquarium, had regular meetings of naturalists to discuss the exhibits. Their web site states that the sea otters Tinu and Elfin were orphaned as pups and implies tha the Aquarium rescued them. There is no evidence whatsoever to support this. They were found abandoned in Alaska and rescued by a local organization, but scientifically that says nothing about their parents, only that they didn't happen to be there at the time. These instances are sloppy writing to support an essentially commercial enterprise and should not be used as accurate info. The aquarium does publish some peer reviewed papers, so those would certainly be acceptible references, but their web site is just fluff to increase revenues. Bob98133 (talk) 14:05, 8 June 2008 (UTC)