Talk:San Pedro Town

message: With regards to this being the San Pedro mentioned in "La Isla Bonita", Madonna herself has never stated what San Pedro she speaks of in the song (and she was in fact staying in an American city of the same name in that time period).  As such, there is no certainty that this is the La Isla Bonita San Pedro.N Yo FACE 19:01, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As per the La Isla Bonita article, the song was not originally written by Madonna and was in fact, written about San Pedro, Belize. It absolutely deserves mention in this article. --Mezaco (talk) 03:00, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Madonna Song

message: RE: uncited claims that conflict with neutral reporters, OR, POV, uncited accusations against a LIVING PERSON (libel issues) -- and most likely from a source w/COI. (phew)
(specific reasons for removing each bit of the following are noted in PARENTH below):
* San Pedro has a problem with development.( opinion as to what is a "problem" and whether most San Pedranados agree it's a "problem," and without this opinionated statement being supported by WP "core content" guidelines: verifiable, reliable, objective (unless cited _as_ a non-objective source). The Google Group "ACCSDbze" contained several claims, accusations, etc. which are similar (unsourced accusations, hyperbole, etc.) to the writing style of this entire section: therefore, COI issues, also?  I don't think it's worth checking unless this editor or his op-ed / POV-pushing writing style re-appears on this page.)
* Different developments include; (sic: colon versus semi-colon usage) South Beach Development, Sugar Caye Development, and The North Road.
* (The rest has an uncited accusation against a living person, AND apparently false as well, given 2 things: #1 The ACCSD questioned the project in 2008 (just google ACCSD + South beach), but "In December, the first phase of South Beach Belize on the southern end of the island was approved by the National Environmental Appraisal Committee," which appears to be from a neutral & dispassionate source is dated 2009, and #2... the southbeachbelize.com website is still up...and advertising, today in Sept 2010! Odd that they'd be advertising this long after 2008 IF the claim is true that in 2008 attempt had successfully killed the project. Anyway, WP policy is that the onus is on the person adding this uncited info to prove it, not for me to make the attempt, as above, to disprove it.) The South Beach Development was a development that was under consideration. The developer's name is Jeff Pierce and he intended to destroy 500 acres of mangroves to build  a "South Beach" identical to the one in Miami. (The bigger issue here is to confirm it's 500 acres & provide a balanced POV such as: .  The smaller issue is that Pierce actually says Miami is only an inspiration or basis for his concept, never said he's attempting to be "identical" to Miami, e.g. replicating each and every building in South Beach or doing building the way that LAs Vegas has a mini Eiffel Tower, pyramid, etc...but I think this is a very minor straw man due to sloppy semantics: two entities are similar, not identical.) This development was stopped by the ACCSD.( is apparently untrue after a quick search on google as noted above, and... the last sentence is possibly just {outdated} ?? or else possibly a purposeful / legally-actionable attempt by a NIMBY/enviro/etc activist to make the project suffer financially, by using Wikipedia to convince retirees or other potential buyers to believe the project is dead...at which point some of those potential buyers might choose to buy into a different BZ or LatAm community ?? ) 24.155.51.226 (talk) 07:31, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controvertial developments