Talk:Whistler, British Columbia
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[edit] Photo
This is an article about one of the premier ski destinations in the world and the best we can do is post a photo of what the street signs look like? No one cares what Whistler street signs look like. They care about the Village, the peaks, the forest, and the fun, and those should be displayed here. -Jackmont 75.153.95.43 (talk) 02:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] thanks wikipedia
Hi, it is nice to see that although Whistler has been faced with some difficultires in recent past. Whistler has been expereincing some up swings such as a full article in Wikipedia. Plus a new web site called www.whistler2020.ca that looks at Whistler's sustainability journey. Whistler needs our help - I hope you will in some way join Whistler's sustainability journey.
- this is NOT a full article; anything but (see below). I guess it's flattering, in an abstract regular-Wikipedian kind of way, that you think having an article is an "upswing" after all your "difficulties". I'm sure about 150 communities in BC would trade their difficulties for yours, however...."sustainability journey"...do people really talk like that?Skookum1 01:22, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Needs WAY more content
A bit stunned to see that this jumps from the founding of the Garibaldi Lift Company straight to an Olympics 2010 pitch, with nothing in between; please ref other BC municipalities to see what else an article should include, and always remember that this is not a platform for promotional materials for local companies (in fact due to WP:COI no one from the RMOW or the WRA should take part in editing it!!). There's a good thirty years of local history to account for in there, plust public facilities, the development issues that have faced the palce and certain subdividions, notably landmarks such as the Trollhouse, the destruction of the squats and heritage structures because of "construction frenzy", and more; I learned French in Whistler, for example, because of the high proportion of Quebeckers, franco-Ontarians and European French in town during the '80s. Also, "resort municipality" should be defined, as this is the only such BC municipality and the terms of what that mean should be in here (including the old Sunday drinking vs dry Sundays everywhere else, which was an RMOW exclusive until Expo '86).Skookum1 01:17, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Olympics politics and Hwy 99 politics
Both these topics are overbuilt on this page, and properly belong in their own articles (2010 Olympics and British Columbia provincial highway 99); I've added citation templates to some of the extraneous stuff, which will need citing wherever it goes; but it shouldn't go here. What's Eagleridge Bluff got to do with Whistler? What's the Vancouver referendum on the Olympics, and how it "humiliated" VANOC - what's that got to do with Whistler? This article from its start has been about Whistler-as-Olympics, even when it was a stub - in fact, somebody at one point tried to delete stuff about the town entirely and revert to an Olympics-only orientation. Talk about sustainability - you might try it with information and history sometime, too. I'll be back to see if these citations are filled out by the people who wrote those bits, and to see if they've been moved, or made somehow relevant to Whistler (which they're not, so that will be hard to do); discussing deletions/moves of this information here before doing it, so this is a heads-up to anyone monitoring this page that it currently doesn't meet Wiki content guidelines. There's this big gap, for one thing, between 1968 and the announcement of the 2010 Games. Like, huh? Nothing happened in all those years? There's no public facilities to list, a discussion of economics, housing and social issues, environment, climate? Just the Olympics??Skookum1 22:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Whistler Blackcomb link
I deleted the link to whistlerblackcomb.ca because it appears to be a commercial marketing link. Its inclusion can only be intended to drive wikipedia traffic to that site rather than as a source of information. If there is information on the site that can be added to the article, that is the way to go rather than take users to the commercial site. I referred to WP:LINKSPAM in deleting the link. The link was restored without comment. This link seems to me to be contrary to #3 and 4 at Wikipedia:External_links#Links_normally_to_be_avoided. Before deleting the link again, I invite discussion here. --KenWalker | Talk 18:30, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
- Hmm... seems we both intended to remove two specific external links ("whistlerclassifieds" and "whistlerbikeguide"), but my edit inadvertently restored a third that you took issue with. Sorry... although, actually, I think a good argument could be made for retaining whistlerblackcomb.com as the ski facilities are the primary reason for Whistler's international notability. (The link in question is actually ".com", not ".ca" as mentioned above - ".ca" wouldn't qualify at all.) Thoughts? --Ckatzchatspy 18:42, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
- BTW, I have restored the link in the Whistler-Blackcomb article, as per the external links guideline:
--Ckatzchatspy 18:59, 15 August 2007 (UTC)"Articles about any organization, person, web site, or other entity should link to the official site if any."
- Looking at it further, it makes sense to me the way we have nded up here.--KenWalker | Talk 02:27, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
- BTW, I have restored the link in the Whistler-Blackcomb article, as per the external links guideline:
