Wikivoyage talk:Should I merge two pages?

Local knowledge

This draft is fine by me, with one exception. The only issue I have is with "local knowledge". Wikivoyage just doesn't have a large enough pool of editors to have local knowledge about everywhere. Even where we have a local editor, they may choose not to contribute an article, as is their prerogative as a volunteer.

Articles have often been created years ago by well-intentioned contributors who believed that if they created a skeleton about a place they knew nothing about, someone else would populate it with useful information. What I am trying to address now are the cases where no-one has added information years and years later.

If article creation is not restricted by a local knowledge requirement, nor should redirecting skeleton articles. Editors should always, of course, defer to those with local knowledge when it comes to disagreements about the appropriate destination for a redirect.

The current version could be misinterpreted as being a requirement. I suggest that replacing:

"Local knowledge is important. You may know a destination does not deserve its own article because you have visited or live nearby."

By:

"Local knowledge is useful in determining whether a destination does not deserve its own article because you have visited or live nearby." Ground Zero (talk) 12:39, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Also fine by me, except that one point. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 12:50, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

@SHB2000, Ground Zero: I like the proposed wording as well, and have replaced it in the page. --Comment by Selfie City (talk | contributions) 11:36, 31 July 2021 (UTC)