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[edit] External websites
The list is growing again, sort of. User:216.40.64.131 inserted Bermuda Secrets Articles and Forums about Bermuda from a Local's point of view, and delted an article link. Much as I have no issue with the article link being deleted (that section is bloated) the new link seems to be pretty much a one man blog, with the oldest entry about Wednesday last week. Above there is a discussion about a similar link that was removed, so for the moment I'll leave it back here. If there is a good reason why it should be on the front page, then let's have it back. LeeG 23:18, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- Agree, blogs have no place there anyway per WP:EL; I previously deleted Limey in Bermuda, etal, for the same reason... JGHowes 00:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
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- I've just removed it again. If BermudaLover wishes (s)he can come here and discuss why it's not a Blog, but to me it looks like one, and walks like one. I don't see what it adds. I'll pop a note on their talk page. LeeG 02:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Link to BermudaSecrets.com
Not sure why you removed this link. Great Source, Original Content and No advertising or money making purpose on the site. It's very friendly over there in the forums.
www.bermudasecrets.com
BermudaLover - There are a few reasons, if you have a look at WP:EL you'll see that Wikipedia is not about being a link farm, so in general lots of external links in any article are not a good thing. External links need to add something to the article. I think there are too many already listed already, and a few need to be rolled into "references" rather than being a link to an external site. Secondly, it's the applicability of the external site. I won't dispute it's a friendly place, but:
- it's owned and written by two guys in VA
- It only has a limited number of articles
- It is skewed to a US reader (i.e. about US dollars, only US airlines listed etc.)
Thirdly, it is essentially a blog, and external links to blogs are not encouraged. As JGHowes points out, we don't link to blogs such as Limey in Bermuda[1], Politics.bm [2], or imho.bm [3]. All of those have information on the place (agreed Limey is on sabbatical, but still). If you feel a bit put upon, please also note that black and coke [4] and (see above) Bermuda4U [5] don't get a look in either.
Oh, please "sign" your posts with four tilde (~) characters. This pops your name, a link to your pages, and the time after the quote, so we all know who said what and when. LeeG 22:05, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Archive time?
This page is getting a bit long - any objections to me archiving down to "External Websties"? LeeG 22:05, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Resounding silence, consider it done. LeeG 00:40, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] What colour ocean?
A citation request was placed about the claim that Bermuda has cerulean blue oceans. Well, if you look at the two photographs on the page, there you go! I can also assure you that, by looking out of my window, we have oceans ranging from a light turquoise over the sand (for example Whaler Bay or Tobacco Bay), through to deep blue once you fall off the atoll shelf and into deep ocean. It's down partially to algae, partially to the salts in the ocean, and partially to the pink sand close to the surface. Sadly "because I can see it" would count as original research, so I can't cite that as a source. Anyhow, what I'm heading for is that I've removed the citation tag, using the principle of Res ipsa loquitur. A copy of this is on the user concerned's talk page. LeeG 22:17, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
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- And are you sure that the citation request was for the colour of the ocean, and not the claim that "Bermuda is the only island in the world to boast pink sand...", in contradiction to La Orchila and Wikipedia guidelines? 02:16, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- No, which is why I popped the question back here on the talk page. I've removed the claim to only island. LeeG 10:34, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- And are you sure that the citation request was for the colour of the ocean, and not the claim that "Bermuda is the only island in the world to boast pink sand...", in contradiction to La Orchila and Wikipedia guidelines? 02:16, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Triangle
It should be mentioned somewhere in the article. --thedemonhog 03:42, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
- Why?02:18, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] John Rolfe
Do we really need this much information about his particular life in an article about Bermuda? It's almost word-for-word the article on Bermuda_Hundred_(Town), which itself contains too much inconsequential information. WMGoBuffs 14:39, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
