User talk:Martin van Baal

Hello Martin van Baal! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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Thanks for starting a Bonn/Beuel article. However, Bonn is not districted on Wikivoyage, so your new article will have to be turned into a redirect. If you'd like to keep your work on a subpage of your user page, say so, and it can be moved to, for example, a User:Martin van Baal/Beuel page. The article is also irregular compared to Wikivoyage article templates and in several other ways, but that's not so relevant in this case.

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Best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:20, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Dear Ikan Kekek! Thank's for your helpful information! As you have noticed, I am a new editor in the wiki-universe and appriciate feedback and help of any kind. The page I created was actually just a translation of the Bonn/Beuel page in the german wikivoyage I have been working on. This one already exists since 2004 and was still in a pretty basic shape. I (as a local) updated it with fresh information over the last week. Eventually I found out that its counterpart was non existent in the english wikivoyage and thought it might be a quick win to just perform a translation. Style and most of the content are derived from there and not so much my genuine ideas. Of course I realized that the german Bonn-page and the english Bonn-page are not at all the same content and there is no sub-structure by districts. So, I am absolutely fine with the move of this page to my personal section for the moment. best regards --Martin van Baal (talk) 16:39, 18 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Excellent. Of course, en.voy and de.voy are similar, but it's understandable that on a German-language site, cities in the German-speaking world are more commonly districted than here. I think there is also just generally a tendency to district more extensively there than here, as has been discussed at Talk:Berlin. I'll create the page and do the move.


 * Best,


 * Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:59, 18 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Done. The article has been moved to User:Martin van Baal/Beuel. If there's ever a decision to district Bonn on this Wikivoyage, it can be a basis for one of the district articles. Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:03, 18 March 2018 (UTC)