User talk:Biggie54

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[edit] Hotel spamming

Hi, I see you are quite the prolific hotel spammer! I've just finished going through your contributions history, and have removed a good deal of the hotels you added, and reformatted and detouted the rest. You hit so many pages yesterday that the costs in time and effort of cleaning them up outweighed the benefits in keeping any useful info, so I just reverted them en masse.

Please take a good hard look at Wikitravel:Welcome, business owners and Wikitravel:Don't tout.

Wikitravel is not meant to be a yellow pages, nor an advertising brochure, so please do not add listings for your business that have flowery, promotional language or that lack any useful information, in particular price ranges for rooms. Also do not list your listing more than once, and do not list it in a city other than the one it actually is in.

Edits that do not follow the guidelines in the linked policy articles and in this message will be reverted. --Peter ^Talk 16:34, 17 April 2009 (EDT)

I'm pretty sure this is mentioned in Wikitravel:Don't tout, but please avoid describing your hotels as being "near area attractions." If it's across the street, or on the same block, note that. Otherwise just describe what the hotel is. --Peter ^Talk 16:18, 20 April 2009 (EDT)

[edit] All categories spamming

OK, now I see you are spamming touting listings for all sorts of sections of our articles, restaurants, shops, etc. What sort of company do you work for, anyway, that would own so many establishments? In any rate, stop touting—knock it off. I've been trying to clean your contributions, but the work is getting too onerous, and I'm starting to think it might be net advantageous to just revert everything you add, the good with the bad. --Peter ^Talk 04:04, 21 April 2009 (EDT)

Thank you very much for your message—I was rather dreading the thought of going through your numerous contributions to clean them up. Especially since there is a lot of good legitimate content there. I'll keep an eye on your fixes and try to give you any necessary guidance. On an unrelated note, you can auto-sign your name when commenting by typing four tildes (~~~~). --Peter ^Talk 16:40, 7 May 2009 (EDT)

Hi Peter, How are you? I have a question... I have a hotel that I would like to add in Dallas, however I can't figure out which District to add it to. Will you please let me know which District my hotel with the address: 4150 Independence Drive , Dallas, TX, US, 75237 belongs to? Thank you... Biggie54 19:28, 9 October 2009 (EDT)

I think this is what you're looking for Dallas/South_Dallas, otherwise try User talk:Texugo, he came up with the districts. --Stefan (sertmann) ^Talk 19:38, 9 October 2009 (EDT)

Heya, you are forgetting price ranges in your listings, I know other corporate users have gotten away with this previously, but we are trying to take a more hard line approach to make sure the listings you guys add are useful. Otherwise it looks good! --Stefan (sertmann) ^Talk 17:48, 12 October 2009 (EDT)

Hi Stefan, I apologize for not putting the prices in the listings. However, the prices fluctuate heavily depending on seasonality. Also, hotels may run promotional prices for upcoming events in their area. Because of the rate that the prices would change, we figure it might be easier to omit them. Thank you and let me know if you see anything else that could be improved in our listings. Biggie54 18:02, 12 October 2009 (EDT)

Nope, price info should always go in listings. When I go through a crowded article and trim sleep listings, I usually delete all those without price info without even looking at them—it's the most basic, useful detail we can provide about a hotel, especially chain hotels. We all know that rates vary, which is why we use price ranges (for a standard double room). $100-250 is a fine price range, and will contrast just fine with $130-300. --Peter ^Talk 19:06, 12 October 2009 (EDT)