Talk:Sort, Lleida

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I cut this from article:

Although Sort only has a population of less than 2000, Sort, which means 'Luck' in Catalan, is well known inside and outside of Spain for containing one of the 'winningist' lottery shops. The shop is known as the 'La Bruixa d'Or' which is Catalan for 'The gold Witch'. People are known to queue for its tickets and also to order them from as far away as the Americas.

I'm not completely averse to the possibility of restoring this, but I'd like to see a good citation of them being "one of the 'winningest' lottery shops". http://83.175.206.50/2005-01-04/vivir/vivir11.htm says that 70% of their business is on the Internet, so I'm a little concerned about the possiblity, even without a link to their site, that this is wikispam self-promotion. -- Jmabel | Talk July 4, 2005 17:01 (UTC)

Moved from my talk page:

Hi, the addition I made to the 'Sort' entry about the lotery shop in Catalunya was NOT intended to be any kind of self-promotion but was an example of something culturally interesting about the town (i.e. that the town is called "LUCK" and many believe believe it to be so). I am English, and was fortunate enough to teach English there back in 1995, so I thought I was adding something of interest to the wiki. I apologise if the content was innapropriate, that was my first wiki entry. Please feel free to drop the lottery reference :-D RJ.

• Glad to know it wasn't spam. I'll try to come up with a more appropriate way to put the info in there. -- Jmabel | Talk July 5, 2005 15:15 (UTC)

I've now restored related content, but with a less promotional wording. Good citation would still be welcome. -- Jmabel | Talk July 5, 2005 15:41 (UTC)