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[edit] Factbook import

For future reference the Wikitravel:CIA World Factbook 2002 import is at Talk:Barbados/CIA World Factbook 2002 import.

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[edit] Administrative divisions

The article poses the question Administrative divisions (Are these regions?). I'd say not; with an area of 400-odd square kilometers and 200,000 odd inhabitants, there doesn't seem to be much need to divide the island into regions. So I've rephrased the Regions and Cities to reflect this. -- Chris j wood 14:09, 19 Jul 2004 (EDT)

I think this article needs an overhaul to bring it in line with Wikitravel:How to de-factbook a country page. We shouldn't be trying to work the often not traveller-centric CIA stats into the templates, they just don't flow... that said, Barbados does have "regions" that are used both by locals and travel guides with common issues that can be addressed on region pages. I'll try and take a stab at it... Majnoona 14:26, 19 Jul 2004 (EDT)

Barbados is divided into Parishes. For that whole history you'd have to look up the history of the Church of England in Barbados or the Parliament which the Church of England was a part of. See: http://www.anglican.bb/hist -&- http://www.barbadosparliament.com/history.php 151.203.49.183 16:28, 6 May 2007 (EDT)

[edit] This is CaribDigita. Suggest you see Wikipedia

I've already written a great deal about Barbados. Although "WikiTravel" and "Wikipedia" are two different content licenses it may give some on here an idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados

By adding [[WikiPedia:Barbados]] to the page, I have provided a link in the sidebar. There is no need to add the URL to the page. The talk page is also linked in the same way. WikiPedia:Talk:Barbados -- Huttite 03:24, 19 Jun 2005 (EDT)

[edit] Cities?

I'm not sure if it makes sense to have separate city pages. For example, almost the entire stretch from Bridgetown to Speightstown via Holetown is full of resort hotels, restaurants and the like. From the perspective of a traveler living in Holetown, all these restaurants (including The Cliff, Daphne's, Sassafras on one side and Fish Pot on the other) are in the same area. Seems odd to have to list some restaurants in individual cities while others in the country page. In a sense, Bridgetown is just one of the attractions in Barbados rather than a separate city entry.--Wandering 14:42, 24 May 2007 (EDT)

If there are city articles, all of the restaurant listings should be in them, not in the country article. The country article's Eat section should (in most cases) just talk about the local cuisine. Whether or not it's worth dividing the island into city articles is a separate question. In terms of geographic size, its possible that a single article could cover the whole island, but since I've never been there, I really can't offer an opinion on that. - Todd VerBeek 14:59, 24 May 2007 (EDT)

I guess what I'm asking is what should we do with restaurants that are not in any city? In Barbados itself, restaurants tend to get listed by parish which corresponds (somewhat) to the wikitravel notion of district. Many of the top restaurants are not in any city - though they are by necessity in this village or that but we can't really have pages for each and every village. Perhaps, in this case, it makes sense to list restaurants in either place (city and country) depending on whether the restaurant is in an identifiable city. Alternatively, one could drop city pages in the case of Barbados and have country pages and parish (district) pages. Barbados, by the way, is 167 sq miles in area to, say, New York City's 303 sq miles (wikipedia).--Wandering 15:44, 24 May 2007 (EDT)

The idea behind Wikitravel's geographic hierarchy is that the "bottom" level is an article about the place where you get a hotel and spend your days/nights. If an island is small enough that you might have breakfast on the north side, spend the afternoon sightseeing on the east side, have dinner on the south side, and go back to your hotel on the west side, it makes the most sense to treat it a single destination. If it's larger than that (and Barbados probably is, even if it's only half the size of NYC), and the cities aren't a good way of dividing it, maybe a simple geographic division would make more sense. For example, maybe regions such as West Barbados, South Barbados, Northeast Barbados, and Central Barbados (or local names for these areas if there are any). Or the parishes might work, if that's a more useful way for a traveler to make sense of the territory. In that case I'd suggest giving the region article names like "Saint John Parish" to avoid conflicts with all the other "Saint John"s out there. - Todd VerBeek 17:14, 24 May 2007 (EDT)

If no one objects, I'll divide Barbados into parishes and delete the individual town pages. (Should I be looking for objections elsewhere as well.) The reasons are that sights, hotels, and restaurants are strung out all over the island, more often than not they are not associated with any of the major towns. Also Bajans think in Parishes rather than towns (their phone directory is divided into parishes).--Wandering 20:32, 15 June 2007 (EDT)

Well, I started working on the Parish pages but now think that eleven pages, one per parish, is a bit excessive. Perhaps it would be better to divide Barbados into five or six districts: Western Barbados, Southern Barbados, Bridgetown, Eastern Barbados, Central Barbados, and perhaps a separate Northern Barbados. Needs some mulling over, this.--Wandering 15:40, 10 July 2007 (EDT) Divided into five districts. I included St. Lucy in Western Barbados because I figured there is not much point in making a Northern Barbados page. I clubbed St. James and St. Peter into Western Bbd because most visitors probably view them as seamless. And, I put St. Phillip into Eastern Bbd (though SE would be technically better) because visitors tend to think of Crane on the Eastern or 'other' side of the island.--Wandering 11:52, 16 July 2007 (EDT)

[edit] List of hotels

I am from India and I am looking for a list of 3,4 or 5 star hotels in barbados and their contact nos and websites. could anyone please list it here. Thanks. Anonymous