User talk:Visitbuffalo617

Greetings! Welcome to Wikivoyage. My name is André Carrotflower; I'm the docent for Wikivoyage's articles on Buffalo and Clarence, New York.

I take it from your username that you're an employee of Visit Buffalo Niagara. Wikivoyage values the contributions of tourism professionals like yourself, and on a personal note, it's nice to have an extra set of eyes - I know a lot about Buffalo, but I won't always hear about a restaurant closing, new opening hours for a museum, etc., as someone in your capacity would.

A few notes about the Buffalo article: I'm proud to say that under my docent-ship, it is now the longest article on Wikivoyage by a wide margin. This is both a good and a bad thing: visitors should have access to as much information as possible, of course, but a 337K article might be too long and unwieldy for many readers. The solution that we've come up with is to break the article up by district, which will allow us to go into even greater detail - describing the individual shops in the Elmwood Village, for example. I'm about halfway through this process as of this writing.

Finally, you may be interested to know that Buffalo is tentatively scheduled to be Wikivoyage's Destination of the Month for May 2013. I am proud to have played the key role in bringing the article up to snuff.

Again, welcome! I look forward to seeing many more useful contributions from this account in the future. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or one of our other editors.

-- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 21:28, 5 February 2013 (UTC)