Talk:Isle of Arran

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[edit] Lochranza convenience store?

Is there a convenience store in Lochranza any more? If not, where can you get a key to the castle? From the hostel, maybe?

[edit] City/Town/Village?

The cities and other destinations should be split off into their own articles (assuming they're large enough for a tourist to stay in). Jpatokal 23:52, 6 Feb 2005 (EST)

The cities heading should be renamed towns / villages. Psychofox 03:18, 20 Mar 2005 (GMT)

The definiton of a City is rather loose concept on Wikitravel and is also a standard template heading. Basically read City to mean any community large enough to support places for visitors, not just the locals, to eat, drink, sleep, buy necessities and communicate with the outside world. If it has a Police Station, a Post Office, Internet Cafe and a local Community Council it probably qualifies as a City. Having its own community website and Library probably also rates too. Destinations are normally places or communities that you can sleep at, in a commercial sleeping place not a private home, and each should have their own page. Does this help size things? -- Huttite 23:43, 19 Mar 2005 (EST)

I agree with Psychofox. The template saying "City" is a bit confusing - surely it would be better to start with Huge City, then City, then Towns, Villages. DanielC 15:38, 20 Mar 2005 (GMT)

The "Cities" section is standard for all regions (see the Wikitravel:region article template). Dividing the "Cities" section into multiple sub-sections is unnecessarily complicated and error-prone (how big is a town? how big is a village? how many people, how many hectares? if a big town feels like a small city, do we put it under "cities" or "towns"?). There's no other word in English besides "city" that applies for communities of 10,000 to 10 million. It's easy to add a brief description of each city to describe it ("huge megalopolis known for sorghum production", "teensy hamlet by the sea"), which is probably more descriptive than using different headings. --Evan 11:08, 20 Mar 2005 (EST)
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