Wiki Travel: 3 Tips

    After reading the basic guidelines from the Wiki site, I realized that there are many things in particular to pay attention regarding your entry.  The first link addressed the fact that the "Tone" of the site is to be somewhere in between casual and formal.  You don't want to use slang that makes you seem immature, but at the same time you don't want to sound too formal.  When you sound too formal, it makes the reader feel as though they are reading an academic essay.  You want the reader to feel excited when they are reading what you have to write.  My tip:  Write as though you are talking to someone face to face.  It makes your writing come off as more natural.
    The second site stated that we need to "Be Fair" in our writing.  It tells us to tell the facts and basically the truth.  If one restaurant is better than another for example, tell your reader that.  Just make sure that you don't completely "bash" the lower end restaurant.  Instead of saying "Restaurant A has really bad food compared to Restaurant B.", say-"Restaurant A may appeal to some visitors, but most people prefer Restaurant B on a summer day."  My tip  " Tell the truth in the nicest way possible.
    The third site told us not to "tout".  In other words, don't advertise in your writing.  Don't try and force your opinions on the reader.  Don't make them feel as though one place is better than another.  My tip:  Give all the possible information you know and then let the reader decide based off of your info.  The fourth site informed me what topics deserve their own article.  Topics that deserve their own article are topics regarding certain Cities, Districts, National Parks etc.  whereas topics such as Companies, People, Bodies of Water etc do  not deserve their own articles.  My tip:  Write about the most important places (i.e. Districts, Cities etc) and then make the article interesting with other supporting topics (i.e. people, companies etc).
    There were a total of six sites to look at and I gave you my own personal four tips that I thought were most important when creating the wikitravel site.  I hope to make a great addition to my wikitavel site (Bristol RI) by using these tips correctly!