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blue link to the article which presumable has a link to the site as well as other supporting references. When reviewing the changes I noticed that "The
Tourist Trap at Deep Creek Lake, Maryland" had a blue link to an external web page pretending to be a wiki link (and I probably made when I was a newbie) this is clearly not appropriate at most it should have been a red link with a ref
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both senses, depending on who is judging it. I think this makes the idea of a master list of tourist traps, as has been started on that page, rather tricky to maintain in any sort of objective way. Just my opinion, as someone marginally interested in tourist traps (from the camp perspective, I guess — I'm responsible for starting the
506:- not for its existance - the associated Wiki article demonstrates that it is there. If someone wants a ref for the nature of the place, then a presumably independent source would be required and should be added as a proper citation rather than an inline link to some promotional site. I hope the distinction is clear.
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Knowledge entry. I would look towards expanding the sections that are there as a begining. All things considered I think it is
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both have some good points here. This page has potential to be attractive to spammers for related business functions, as we know the goal of a tourist trap is to attract attention and dollars. Any trap listed here that has it's own article does not need link to the site location, there should be a
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Atomium from the list. The article describes a tourist trap as: "Because the tourist is on her or his way to a particular attraction, the tourist trap ....." . The Atomium is an attraction, maybe there are some tourist traps around the Atomium, but that doesn't make the Atomium
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trouble finding references for any of them, if you find a reference link please included it. Disambiguation - I would suggest that some one who knows something about building pages and such might like to build a
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has two contradictory meanings: a fun campy place (which is mostly what the article is about, and certainly started as), and a place of un-funny exploitation (about which people might justifiably express anger). And as the article does point out, the same place may be a tourist trap in either or
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Major update in place I could not find good references for "Yankee Trap" so I removed the reference, if it can be supported put it back with references. This is my first major edit in
Knowledge and my fist time writing an encyclopedia entery so There is lots of room for improvement on this page.
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Tourists go places and spend money both at their destination and on the journey in between. There are destinations and there are stops along the way. The impact of the tourism dollar can be significant. International tourism is estimated to have added 7.4 billion dollars to New
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I own pictures (i.e. I took them) of several of these tourist traps but I don't have the knowledge to put them on the page at this time. Single Tree tourist traps - there are a number of them in the redwood forests of
California (drive through tree, one log house, Tree house gift shop) but I had
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The single sentence currently given under the Europe section is unsatisfactory to say the least. Not quite as bad as the absurd "Examples of tourist traps" section, which could easily swell to literally thousands of entries and as such needs to be tightly controlled, but bad nevertheless. For
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As user:Mindys12345 just pointed out in their edits the image "Fremont Street 1986" and the image "Da
Yoopers Tourist Trap" are not doing well on the same page so close together. I don't think either works any place in the article except where they are so one should go. I am abstaining from
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IMO the section on mule rides speaks to the tourist exploitation that Scott mentions above. You are probably right that it might work better if it was not a sub of goods and activities. Feel free to move it or edit it, that is the wikipedia way :)
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This article is okay, but there is a strong U.S. bias. For example, a "tourist trap" in Europe means something subtly different to what is described here and the U.S. type described (and pictured) doesn't really exist here.
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itself one. If you don't agree, please add the Eiffel Tower, Mount
Rushmore, The White House, Buckingham Palace and any place with overpriced restaurants around to the lists. But that will make this article pretty useless.
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I actually meant, if you do not like my format then change it back to the way it was, I did fix it a bit to improve the spacing between the images. Maybe my edit summary didn't make sense. Thanks. 04:42, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
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have articles linked - the external links supporting those sites belong in the articles, not on this list. An existing Wiki article about a site is evidence of their existence - no need for promotional external links here.
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It looks better now. Still I am not sure if both pictures should be there. It wasn't your comments it just that when you started moving them around I realized they just don't look tight no mater where they are.
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