User talk:(WT-en) Patricia Bromirsk

Hello Patricia! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

Please take a sec to look at our copyleft and policies and guidelines, but feel free to plunge forward and edit some pages. Scanning the Manual of style, especially the article templates, can give you a good idea of how we like articles formatted. If you need help, check out Project:Help, and if you need some info not on there, post a message in the travellers' pub.

Please be aware that blatant advertising is not one of Wikivoyage's purposes. The real-estate advertisement on your (WT-en) User Page has been hidden for this reason. We would welcome your contribution to travel related articles such as Ipanema, Zona Sul, Rio de Janero and Brazil to explain why people should travel there. Nice places to live can be found almost anywhere in the world. Please tell us why people should travel to your part of the world, and where they can stay for a couple of days before they move on, not that you just have a place to let (presumably forever).

By the way: Wiki's almost never forget anything unless they are told to. Placing your personal contact details on this website means they are here in the page history until your user page is deliberately deleted by an administrator. If your flat is let you cannot subsequently remove your advertisement - only hide it from immediate view. -- (WT-en) Huttite 18:47, 7 May 2004 (EDT)


 * Totally agree. This is very easily spin out of control. --(WT-en) Nzpcmad 04:03, 8 May 2004 (EDT)


 * I somewhat disagree. Blatant advertising about places to eat drink and sleep is one of our goals insomuch as it serves the traveler.  Patricia's listing was way off of our Project:Manual of style but nonetheless was a listing for a place to sleep.


 * Now it's quite possible that she means to rent this out long term rather than short term, which would make it not appropriate anymore, but we just don't know that. Did anybody bother to ask her before just blanking the page?


 * As for the contact details, if you look at the Project:Manual of style for sleep listings they are in there, even the email. We all know that having her email published here will increase her spam load, but I think we should offer advise on that sort of thing, not scolding. -- (WT-en) Mark 05:25, 9 May 2004 (EDT)


 * Uh, I'm not sure if the MoS applies to how user's use their user pages... I think it's more a general-use, or even a bandwidth use, issue. What if she put up an ad for a non-travel thing? Would that be OK since it's "her" page or a mis-use of wikivoyage servers and bandwidth? This really isn't a "sleep" listing, it's not part of an article, but the issue of proper user-page use needs to happen (elsewhere)... too bad we have to spell things like this out... (WT-en) Majnoona 15:52, 13 May 2004 (EDT)


 * My point wasn't in regard to wether or not she's using the page right, nor for that matter wether this is a correct sleep listing. Obviously it isn't where it is.  That said we do often use user pages for developing stuff before putting it out into the correct article.


 * It's pretty clear that this is in fact an unwanted contribution. Fine, I still think new contributors should be given the benifit of the doubt, at least until they prove that they can't be reasoned with, and don't intend to make any wanted contributions.  If that means putting up with somebody's stupid apartment ad for a couple of days, fine by me.


 * As for this particular user, at least she's (inadvertently) provided us with an opportunity to discuss this issue. -- (WT-en) Mark 15:41, 17 May 2004 (EDT)

Apartment listing
Patricia: I've moved your apartment listing to the Rio de Janeiro (city)/Zona Sul page. --(WT-en) Evan 14:06, 18 May 2004 (EDT)