Talk:Other World Kingdom

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[edit] Notability

• I seriously challenge the speedy deletion of this article. I think that OWK is quite notable for the BDSM subculture. Any honest googling will show that. Now you can negate the BDSM subculture, but that's another point. If you have really a problem with this article, let's go for an Afd. But then I will show this example Yab Yum: and this one : Atlantis (brothel) Hektor 18:14, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Speaking only for myself as the one who placed the speedy tag: It's not about censorship in the slightest--indeed, I have quite a few friends in the BDSM community where I'm at. Can you provide independent references to reliable sources to establish that OWK meets the notability guidelines? --Finngall ^talk 18:28, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Google it. You have 36000 hits of so. I think that my proposal, to do an Afd is fair. Hektor 18:34, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Provide the appropriate references, and I'll revert the tag. With that many hits, it shouldn't be that difficult. --Finngall ^talk 18:38, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Here is an independt source Hektor 18:41, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Fine, fine, but the refs should be in the article. I'll remove the tags. Take care. --Finngall ^talk 19:01, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

By the way, there's an existing article Owk on an entirely different subject. I've added disambiguation links to both articles. --Finngall ^talk 19:18, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Example of source

The OWK is quoted in the German BDSM dictionary, the book SM-Lexikon by Arne Hoffmann, a notable German journalist and author, as demonstrated in its amazon.de entry : http://www.amazon.de/SM-Lexikon-Arne-Hoffmann/dp/3896025333
Here is a quote from amazon.de : "typische Einrichtungen der deutschen und internationalen SM-Szene (Datenschlag, AG S/MÖff, Schlagworte, Folsom Street Fair, Other World Kingdom, Society of Janus)" This excerpt puts OWK at the same level of notability as Folsom Street Fair and Society of Janus, both of which have wikipedia entries.
Could you please revert the tag ? Hektor 18:54, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Company or Community

Do you think OWK was built to maximize profit? Reading the web site gave me the feeling that it is more like a social and communal environment for people interested in female domination. The business aspects seemed more like a side-effect. Maybe it also works as a guild for professional dominant females.

At first glance OWK appears to be the Disneyland of BDSM, but Disneyland closes at night, people go home and the attendants vary. It is not a gathering place for the Disney fanatics. It was clearly built for profit. Where as the service that OWK offers have been available for a long time in various parts of the World. I refuse to believe that OWK was built to attract tourists.

Maybe the article could be changed to "OWK is ... and offers various related commercial services." The article seems to currently be very one-sided. It doesn't really mention the social and political aspects that the web site emphasizes. Did you know that OWK has a flag, coat of arms, their own currency (Disneyland has also ;-), some sort of council built up of the people who spend lots of time at the resort and also a queen. I find it odd that the article doesn't mention anything about such details.

--Easyas12c 17:26, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

• I started a few BDSM related articles, some were unlucky such as Dolcett which got deleted, and some more lucky like OWK. I am no specialist and you are welcome to improve it. It is true that I wrote it with the angle that it is a BDSM-themed "brothel", which is using the relatively low cost of Czech real estate in the countryside and Czech dommes to break even. Maybe I am wrong.Hektor 19:00, 11 November 2007 (UTC)