User talk:Gocashiers

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[edit] Who, what, where am I

I started a web site called GoCashiers.com, which is an online guide to Cashiers, NC, a small town in the Western North Carolina mountains, where I lived immediately following college. I was doing an internship there at a small community newspaper called the Crossroads Chronicle, named for (guess?) the crossroads at the center of town and site of, until recently, Cashiers' only traffic light. What Cashiers lacks in size, it makes up for in character. If you like the outdoors, this is your place. Hiking, waterfalls, mountain climbing and biking, fly fishing, boating, whitewater and swimming are part of the life there. After looking for a good web site for hiking in the area, and finding lots of personal web sites with scattered content, I started GoCashiers (www.gocashiers.com) as a place where people could find information for all of the outdoors activities and businesses as well.

I'll add more later.--Gocashiers 05:08, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent addition to Cashiers, North Carolina

Nice start -- thanks:

"What makes Cashiers such an appealing destination -- and has caused nearly immesurable growth -- is its quaint seclusion in the mountains, relatively cool summer climate and opportunities to get outside and play. Hiking, fly fishing and waterfall watching are popular summer activities. As the trees change in fall and the rusty colors brighten, tourists from Atlanta and as far away as Charleston make the trip to see the autumn landscape. A small ski hill attracts visitors even in winter."

Some suggestions:

• Skim the Neutrality and the No Original Research policies -- there's some good stuff there. You'll want to edit down the boosterism some, even though I personally agree with everything you've written. Here's how I might write it:
  • "Cashiers has grown rapidly;visitors from metropolitan areas around the region are drawn by its relative seclusion in the mountains, relatively cool summer climate and outdoor recreation opportunities. Hiking, fly fishing and waterfall watching are popular summer activities. Fall foliage draws additional tourists and a small ski hill attracts visitors in winter."

You're a professional wordsmith and can probably improve on what I just wrote while keeping it "encyclopedic" in tone.

• Also be aware of the Verifiability Policy. You can read the whole thing another day, but here's a nutshell:

"Articles should contain only material that has been published by reputable sources. Editors adding new information into an article should cite a reputable source for that information, otherwise it may be removed by any editor. The obligation to provide a reputable source is on editors wishing to include information, not on those seeking to remove it."

As a practical matter, you don't normally have to footnote every little factoid if no one disputes it, but you can't add it if there's not something written somewhere in a "Reputable Source" as narrowly defined by Wikipedia (anything self-published such as your web site will normally not make the cut, but the local newspaper will since there's editorial supervision and fact-checking there).

It's just like ... when I used to work for the local newspaper! ;) I couldn't cut it as a reporter specifically because I like wordsmithing and have a tendency for disgusting sacharine (sp?) flamboyant prose, and I couldn't pare down my writing style. That, and I always felt like I was writing about people having the fun, not having the fun myself. I guess I need to find a Wikisacharine.com to write on. BTW, I wrote a new article (it had been ages) on GoCashiers.com, probably inspired by all of this writing talk. Go read it if you feel like it ... I'm guessing you're from around here? Here's the full article: http://www.gocashiers.com/index.php/content/view/71/ You can get a taste of that sweet fluff ... even though I wrote it on no sleep last night. Oh, well. --Gocashiers 01:13, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

This sounds very rule-bound and complicated, but you'll get the hang of it quickly. --A. B. ^(talk) 17:54, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] gocashiers.com

Hi. I deleted that link for now.

I thought you were going to contribute more to Wikipedia -- I was disappointed. --A. B. ^(talk) 19:56, 8 August 2007 (UTC)