User talk:Whoville

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Hello, Whoville, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Links to fan pages

Can we discuss the removal of links to all fan sites. (I'm not talking about the removal of links to the Disney Trivia book/webpage, which clearly appears to be linkspam. Nice job there.)

I understand the guidelines that discourage the use of fan sites. In many cases, however, the unofficial sites describing attractions contain a lot more information and pictures than our articles do, which, to me, justifies the existance of a small number of links to pages that deal with individual attractions. The obvious solution to the problem is to improve the articles, so that we no longer need the additional sites to suppliment the article, but I simply don't see that happening in the forseeable future.

In any case, I welcome your feedback. ManoaChild 04:48, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. DoomBuggies.com is a good example; an exhaustive encyclopedia about Disney's Haunted Mansion attraction. Many of the "fan site" links in the Wikipedia entries for Disney's theme park attractions have been pointing to more mundane sites that are more like online guidebooks with little more than the basic who/what/where facts already covered by the parent entry. If you feel a useful link has been lost put it back, as is your right. Whoville 13:05, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Okay. I do understand your concern about "guidebook sites". My main concern is that some of the attraction pages have so little content on them, that any additional information is an improvement. I'll be restoring some of those links. If you have any objections, feel free to discuss it on the attraction talk page or on my talk page. ManoaChild 22:24, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Cars

See [1] and [2] for lengthy discussions. The Copyeditor 02:59, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I replied on the talk page. 65.222.216.15 00:52, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disney Park

I just find it strange that it's nowhere online to be seen. I saw it with my own eyes, and even if it was fake, I still think it would've been noticed by someone else. I didn't see that the link I provided was so old, though. Sorry about that. But maybe we should add a bit in the article about Beijing's hopes to construct a new theme park, using the link your provided as a source? --The monkeyhate 17:30, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, this is rather embarassing. That was indeed what I saw (our guide said it was a Disneyworld under construction, though). Sorry about this whole mess, I should've checked my sources better. --The monkeyhate 15:30, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removing external links to the Disney World page

Whoville, you removed an external link in the Disney World page and tagged it as linkspam. I would respectfully ask why. My wife wrote the site. She is a Florida resident and she goes to Disney World at least twice a month. I think she has a better perspective than many other guides who claim to know everything about the parks etc, but in fact are just gathering information from other written sources. I believe the mission of Wikipedia is to give reader facts and also the option to visit external sources as long as they are legitimate and (in this case) marked as unofficial. Although there are adwords ads on the site, they are clearly marked as such. The site itself does not sell any services. I have been travelling around the world all my life and the very first thing I learned is to ask locals when I get there. Nobody knows better. I think readers can benefit from a local's perspective which is fresh and continuosly updated. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fabiob62 (talk • contribs) on 20 November 2006.

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