Talk:Orcas Island

A fact from Orcas Island appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 April 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Orcas Island, named for the area's killer whales, is the largest of Washington state's San Juan Islands?

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207.118.8.160—I edited this article heavily because it read like a visitor's brochure. Also, I took out much of the information from the parts on Moran State Park because this article duplicated that one verbatim for a full paragraph. The old article included phrases like "each different and worth a leisurely sightsee" and "great for swimming". It had information on the "Lieber Haven Resort and Marina" (not the only resort on the island, of course, but the only one mentioned in the article) and "a free public phone". If you think these are NPOV and worth mentioning in an encyclopedia, please let me know why. I don't mean to antagonize anyone (I really do enjoy Orcas Island) but the old article was purely intended to get people to visit the island, which isn't what we are supposed to be doing here. Shayborg 18:07, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Response There are several people who wrote information, some of your facts are not accurate. The camps still listed, even include lodging type etc. Reads like brochures..

Rosario Resort and Lieber Haven Resort was included by someone? I believe important info. and historical info. It may read like a brochure in your opinion, however we must start somewhere. There is alot of info that can and will be included. As far as the only public dock, it is not at Obstruction Pass State Park, but at Obstruction Pass, and the small public dock is often full. The importance of including Lieber Haven is the fact that there is short term use of their dock, information centers and scheduled mainland and interisland passenger ferries, water taxi landings, this info. enables people to learn of other modes of transporation to Orcas Island, throughtout the San Juan Islands, and for boaters to know there is a landing dock available especialy at no charge. All those who contributed to this page including me must have some idea of what info. could or should be written, probably some live on the island and know what interests people.

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Fair enough, thank you very much for the good explanation. I'll clean up the article a little bit but leave most of the information I took out. I will take out some of the bits about Moran State Park because they are also in the Moran State Park article. Hopefully we can agree on a fair compromise. Thanks again. Shayborg 00:58, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violation[edit]

I've removed a copyright violation that came directly from www.thefunhouse.org. Looking at the IP Address history, someone from 64.119.5.167 made the additions. This IP address is close to the web site's IP address (64.119.6.126), so perhaps it came from someone at the site itself. However, no permission was granted, so I removed it as required by copyright policy. It seemed like it was advertising to me anyway.—Ram-Man ^{(comment) (talk)} 16:40, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Demographics section[edit]

While the much needed sectioning looks pretty good, it seems that the Demographics section could maybe be split into a Demographics and Geography section, as much of the info has to do with the form of the island, instead of just the makeup of its residents. Thoughts? Murderbike 04:25, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, and was bold and simply changed the section to "Geography". It mostly reads as geography, and anyway, demographic population stuff is a subcategory of geography, so... feel free to change if desired. Pfly 04:32, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Orcas Island Heritage"[edit]

link returns a 404. 172.56.42.59 (talk) 23:34, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

History section, needs the native-Spanish-British-American claims[edit]

This article tells a good story about the islands way up there, so close to British Columbia, with a Spanish name. The British chose the Spanish names for their navigational maps, rather than the US chosen names, which as a collection marked a US defeat of a British ship in the War of 1812. Do I have that? But it seems the history should include when the US claimed these islands as part of the US. Not in 1791, as that is when the Spanish navigator was mapping and naming the islands. Did they come as a package with what is now Washington state? This Colony section of another article seems to say that, and perhaps could be the basis for a better history relative to this island. History of Washington (state)#Colony Perhaps a book or two could make clear how that treaty in 1848 worked. --Prairieplant (talk) 04:35, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]