User talk:TangaTourismAssociation

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Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:14, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Don't copy verbatim from other sites
Hi again. Your Tanga Region article had to be deleted because it was just copied and pasted from http://www.tanga-guide.com/pdfiles/Tanga%20Tourism%20Guide.pdf. Even though you might be in a position to prove that you have the authority to copy and paste all of that to Wikivoyage, it's not a good idea, for several reasons: (1) Wikivoyage has different goals from a 54-page guide to a region. When you have 54 pages, you can afford to be more encyclopedic. Wikivoyage doesn't require articles to be brief, but we simply can't focus with that degree of detail on a region. (2) Wikivoyage seeks to be original. That means we prefer not to use exactly the same words as other sites. This means that we absolutely welcome information that's summarized or well paraphrased from other sources, but we prefer to avoid articles that are copied in full, even with express permission from other sites. See Copyleft for some of this site's guidelines. (3) Here's an issue specific to the whole idea of a Tanga Region article on this guide: The way this site works is that for the purposes of this guide, regions do not get subdivided into smaller regions, regardless of the actual political or tourist association regions, unless their parent region has so many city and/or other destinations articles in the "Cities" and "Other destinations" sections that it is overloaded. That would mean well over some combination of 9 cities and 9 "Other destinations" (so 18 cities and 5 "Other destinations" would do it, too).

My suggestion would be, if you are so inclined, please write some great articles about the various cities and towns in the region and also the places listed in Northeast Tanzania. If there end up being well over 9 cities and 9 "Other destinations" meriting their own articles, then we can revisit the question of dividing Northeast Tanzania into smaller regions on Wikivoyage. But please don't copy everything directly from other sites. Summarize, paraphrase, etc.

Please let us know if we can help in any way, and thanks for working to help our readers. We desperately need better coverage of the entire continent of Africa and are grateful to have editors on the ground who really know about a region. Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:39, 20 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Please remove the copypasta from Tanga and any other article. I wouldn't want for it to be necessary for us to revert to the version before you added any content. Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:42, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Deletions
I have reverted all of the plagiarism in the Tanga article, and unfortunately, the Pangani article, which was solely plagiarism, had to be deleted. Please start again, and this time, please summarize and do not copy large swathes of text verbatim. Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:43, 21 February 2017 (UTC)