User talk:Iainh

Poros

Iainh, welcome to Wikipedia! Though I do appreciate your efforts on Poros, I'm afraid they don't really fit in with Wikipedia policies. For more background on Wikipedia's aims and policies, you might want to consult:

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Some additional relevant guidelines are: WP:MOS and WP:NOT.

As for the particular content on Poros, I certainly don't object to mentioning sailing in the Poros article. It would be fine to mention that sailing is a major tourist attraction, that there are multiple (how many) yacht chartering operations in Poros, etc. -- with WP:Reliable Sources, of course.

However, I'm afraid that your edit didn't fit in with our aims and policies: promotional puffery about sailing out of Poros e.g. "This all makes Poros an ideal sailing location", advice like "you only need to sail east to...", and subjective, unencyclopedic language like "It's not a bad description!" and "far enough away to feel like a different world". It also isn't really appropriate to discuss the many interesting things which are within sailing distance of Poros, as they have no direct connection with Poros at all, like Epidauros, Monemvasia, etc. That's quite different from discussing things the main sights actually in Poros. Finally, our policies are rather strict about external links to particular commercial enterprises.

You ask whether I know Poros at all. As a matter of fact, a friend of mine used to have a house in Galatas and I visited often.

Again, welcome to Wikipedia. I look forward to your contributions about sailing in Greece and other topics. --Macrakis (talk) 23:52, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]