Talk:Vacation rental

message: This site is being seriously spammed just like real estate with commercial spam. With your permission and cooperation I would like to clear this article of the external links MKS 03:26, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Without having the proposed link available, it's impossible to review.  For a general guideline, see WP:EL which discusses which types of articles are and are not appropriate. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 02:41, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Basically, since this is an article about the general concept of vacation rentals, no actual provider of rentals would be acceptable.  About the only thing I can imagine is something similar to the one already on the page--some sort of link to a national/international group that is representative of a very large number of vacation rental companies.  Note that I don't mean just a simple aggregator (like a generic travel site, or a company that helps coordinate a lot of various rentals).  Rather, I mean an actual trade organization. Qwyrxian (talk) 12:01, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

text: Wikipedia is not the place to promote your personal blog.  See WP:ELNO, WP:NOT#REPOSITORY, and WP:COI. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 02:41, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia isn't here to "get information to the community", at least not in the sense that you mean. The point is to provide encyclopedic information. Blogs are almost never acceptable external links. You would need to be a very clear expert, as in most people with specialty knowledge of the field would be familiar with you. We used to even say that you should be notable enough for your own Wikipedia article. Qwyrxian (talk) 03:29, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

text: If you wish to make qualitative improvements to the article content, particularly any that utilize sources that meet Wikiedia's definition of a reliable source, feel free to work on making those improvements. However, Wikipedia is not an internet directory nor linkfarm (see WP:NOT#REPOSITORY).  Additionally, the site you are adding fails Wikipedia's inclusion criterias at WP:ELNO.  It's simply not an appropriate external link. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 15:25, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

text: Well, it's possible that the VRMA should be removed as well. We do consider national/international trade organizations to sometimes be legitimate EL for topics of this nature, but if there's dispute about including it, we should remove it.  As for your questions to me the reason that I doubt that you qualify as an expert is the evidence you yourself gave: being interviewed on radio and quoted by the media. That's probably not enough. But are you claiming that you are so famous in the field that you would be widely recognized as an expert by the majority of people in the Vacation Rental industry? One thing that might help would be a link (here, on the talk page) to some of those media interviews you gave; that would help evaluate to what extent you were relied upon as an expert. Qwyrxian (talk) 22:10, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

text: Actually, I did answer your question. I said that 1) an expert would be someone widely recognized across the field by any regular member as being well known and of opinion of substantive weight (that's expanding what I said, but the basic idea was there before). Additionally, I specifically asked you if you could provide evidence that verifies your expertise (i.e., some links to the times you said you've been interviewed or quoted). I didn't notice your question sabout NAAVR; I'd have to take a look (or have others take a look) at the site to find out if it's okay as an EL. Qwyrxian (talk) 12:17, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: The article Villa holiday covers the same concept with different terminology, and would be better merged into this article.  --Mhockey (talk) 22:44, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur, especially since that article is entirely unsourced.  Qwyrxian (talk) 06:01, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks--I totally forgot about this. Qwyrxian (talk) 11:44, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: The short term rental article should not be solely focused on apartments for the purpose of vacations. Nearly anything can be rented short term, from tools to commercial and recreational vehicles, jets, housing for vacation or non-vacation uses, and so on. The topic of short term rental should cover the various rentals, not just one type. I'm bringing this up here for input/ideas. For example: Should it be a disambiguation page, or an article as a definition? ---- DrGvago (talk) 11:52, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge parts of [[Short-term_rental]] into this? 

message: Pardon me, but the first image of this Wikipedia entry is a very misleading one. The depicted cottages are not vacation rentals, they are guest houses of the Internationale Naturschutzakademie on  Vilm Island. Tourists and other average travellers don't have any access options to this buildings. So it is very silly to present this as an example of a vacation rental. Therefore I will remove it now. J.-H. Janßen (talk) 12:22, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading image