Talk:Orcas Island
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207.118.8.160 — I edited this article heavily because it read like a visitor's brochure. Also, I took out much of the information from the parts on Moran State Park because this article duplicated that one verbatim for a full paragraph. The old article included phrases like "each different and worth a leisurely sightsee" and "great for swimming". It had information on the "Lieber Haven Resort and Marina" (not the only resort on the island, of course, but the only one mentioned in the article) and "a free public phone". If you think these are NPOV and worth mentioning in an encyclopedia, please let me know why. I don't mean to antagonize anyone (I really do enjoy Orcas Island) but the old article was purely intended to get people to visit the island, which isn't what we are supposed to be doing here. Shayborg 18:07, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Response There are several people who wrote information, some of your facts are not accurate. The camps still listed, even include lodging type etc. Reads like brochures..
Rosario Resort and Lieber Haven Resort was included by someone? I believe important info. and historical info. It may read like a brochure in your opinion, however we must start somewhere. There is alot of info that can and will be included. As far as the only public dock, it is not at Obstruction Pass State Park, but at Obstruction Pass, and the small public dock is often full. The importance of including Lieber Haven is the fact that there is short term use of their dock, information centers and scheduled mainland and interisland passenger ferries, water taxi landings, this info. enables people to learn of other modes of transporation to Orcas Island, throughtout the San Juan Islands, and for boaters to know there is a landing dock available especialy at no charge. All those who contributed to this page including me must have some idea of what info. could or should be written, probably some live on the island and know what interests people.
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Fair enough, thank you very much for the good explanation. I'll clean up the article a little bit but leave most of the information I took out. I will take out some of the bits about Moran State Park because they are also in the Moran State Park article. Hopefully we can agree on a fair compromise. Thanks again. Shayborg 00:58, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Copyright violation
I've removed a copyright violation that came directly from www.thefunhouse.org. Looking at the IP Address history, someone from 64.119.5.167 made the additions. This IP address is close to the web site's IP address (64.119.6.126), so perhaps it came from someone at the site itself. However, no permission was granted, so I removed it as required by copyright policy. It seemed like it was advertising to me anyway. — Ram-Man (comment) (talk) 16:40, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
