User talk:TravelingVan

Hello, TravelingVan! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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A question about Camping in British Columbia: Is it a travel topic? (See also Category:Travel topics.)

All the best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:09, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Ikan and thanks for the greeting. I'll admit I skimmed over some of the rules. I did try to read them, but then I got to the "dive in" part, so I did. :) Right now I'm trying to figure out how Talk works and if this is the correct place to respond! Its really not clear. Anyway, I think you are correct, it is a topic. Its BC specific, but its a topic. TravelingVan (talk) 03:35, 25 April 2018 (UTC)TravelingVan


 * Yes, this is definitely the correct place to respond. I think it's great that you plunged forward! I don't think any of us would like for new users to feel paralyzed by not yet being up on the rules and guidelines, as none of us were when we joined, either. Learn those at your leisure, and happy editing! Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:05, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd like to echo Ikan Kekek's welcome and advice. Your contributions are more important than following rules and guidelines at this point. Most of us learn by making mistakes. There are other editors who will clean stuff up while you're learning how things work here. And thanks for the Driving... article. It looks really good. Ground Zero (talk) 13:03, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Ok great. Thanks for the encouragement. I find that people need a lot of "how" information for travel, as much as "where" information, so you will probably find that my contributions focus on how to sort out your itinerary (probably because I find that's the difficult bit). TravelingVan (talk) 13:54, 25 April 2018 (UTC)TravelingVan

Coquitlam
If you don't mind, I have a couple of minor questions about this edit: What did you mean by Do: " * Poirier Recreation Centre also provides"? What does it provide? Did your comment get cut off mid-paragraph? Unfortunately, I'm from Onterrible and don't know Coquitlam well enough to fix the listing. Also, the edit summary accuses earlier contributors of "editorializing" as if that were a bad thing. Wikivoyage is not Wikipedia and its perfectly OK to express travel opinions or present first-hand information, just so long as those opinions are fair, serve the voyager and are not self-promotional. A statement that "Anyville's AnyBus service is useless to anyone but commuters" is less valuable than "Anyville's AnyBus provides one-way commuter service to BigCity in weekday peak hours and nothing at all off-peak or on weekends; the voyager may try X, Y or Z as alternatives..." but there is no requirement that Wikivoyagers remain neutral. K7L (talk) 12:59, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

--Whoops, I'll look at the Poirier reference. I just saw that one pool was mentioned, so I thought I should add the other. -- Ok, not necessary to be neutral, check. However, when the comment is essentially "there's nothing here and there's no point in going", well, I'd say that's in the eye of the beholder. I prefer to list facts in terms of what is here, and then the reader is in a position to decide if its something they want to spend time on or not. I thought the editorializing was not helpful to planning. Travelers may have a range of reasons for visiting a location that have nothing to do with tourism, but once they are there, well, they may be interested in playing tourist as well. Saying that there's nothing to see doesn't help these people who may be visiting family or in the area for business or educational reasons. It makes more sense to list options. Maybe its not enough to draw you to Coquitlam if you are in Vancouver for example, but if you don't have the information, you can't decide for yourself.

Thanks for the guidance! TravelingVan (talk)TravelingVan