Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-01-14/Investigative report

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Hello, you wrote: "Compared with the Wikipedia readership, visitors to Wikivoyage are likely to be younger [...]." This is an interesting question. If one can believe the demographics at Alexa.com, WV rather has its peaks at the middle age and especially at the elderly (65+) columns... (unsigned)

The self-promotional edits are easy to spot; use wikivoyage:project:words to avoid to generate some BINGO cards. Once you've reverted five edits in a row for vague, self-laudatory terms (like "our friendly staff" and "beautiful sunsets" claimed by every venue, good or bad) call BINGO! A good listing is factual, a self-promotional listing will often be missing key facts such as pricing, hours and contact info but be bloated with self-laudatory opinion. A Convention and Visitors Bureau might even try to do this to an entire town's article. The traveller comes first. The hôtelier who submits an entire section of an article as self-praise (where one article is normally a city or region) is reverted, much like the articles about my great garage band that no one's heard of seem never to get featured on the front page of Wikipedia. K7L (talk) 18:23, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

K7L, thanks, that's very useful info. We all need to skill up on this, and perhaps there are analogues in en.WP. Tony (talk) 08:14, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]