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Am I the only one who thinks its bizarre this article makes no mention of Saltspring's greatest claim to fame: its reputation for being a bastion of hippies and other "alternative" culture, Freedom Camp etc.? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.232.51.23 ( talk) 02:11, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
You might add Dr. Michael Colgan to the list of famous residents of Saltspring Island, especially as he is already featured in a Wikipedia article.
Melanie Cline 66.245.83.167 ( talk) 08:43, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
The notable residents list is not in keeping with wikipedia policy deprecating lists of informationm and so should be removed. At least it needs some references. For instance, does Ellen Page really live on Saltspring Island? She is from Halifax, and her wikipedia page says she still lives there.
Grant Gussie (
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16:11, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Because the notable residents list is both a list, and unreferenced, and highly dubious (Ellen Page and Robin Williams are not residents as far as I can ascertain from any published source), I am removing it. Grant Gussie ( talk) 21:31, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
This article was tagged as a suspected copyright infringement of http://www.vancouverisland.com/regions/towns/?townid=257 and listed for investigation at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2009 February 21. See the first edit. Note the question in that first edit, "Is the island named Saltspring or Salt Spring?" This question has been absent from the article for almost two years (being revised out shortly after this), but appears in the suspected source. This does seem to support the original taggers concerns.
The copyright tag was removed out of process. It has been restored and the clock reset to allow time for contributors to this article to respond to these concerns. It may be necessary to create a new article in temporary space that does not infringe on the copyright of prior contributors. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:35, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
The phrase "draft evaders" was the choice of the source, which says, verbatim, "Salt Spring is now a 'commuter island' to Victoria, full of 1960s American draft evaders and artisan food producers."(Hill, Kathleen Thompson (2005). Victoria and Vancouver Island: A Personal Tour of an Almost Perfect Eden (5 ed.). Globe Pequot. p. 242.
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Moonriddengirl
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11:54, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Re the material in the previous section, it occurred to me while looking at this article last night that there were an awful lot of in-text mentions of certain books which have been published about hte island. These constitute plugs for those books; fine to have them in the refs, but to insert their names into text in an article about the island is very much a sales pitch for them (rather than a simple write up about the island). All should be migrated into the refs, unless it's an item from a "major history" like Walbran or the Akriggs or another non-commercial/non-tourist-market work. Skookum1 ( talk) 12:57, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
User:Dazed but not confused changed many instances of "Saltspring" to "Salt Spring", which yes is a very common usage; "Saltspring" is the official one in CGNDB and BCGNIS. This probably needs a discussion and a decision on which is the most common usage, since the official isn't necessarily the correct one to use....so I didn't change them back, other than the category where it's necessary, pending a CfD once the proper usage is decided on....unless this has been discussed before? Skookum1 ( talk) 00:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
A clear majority of reliable sources, especially official organisational names and bureaucratic designations:
I could go on and list more, but the fundamental thing is this: if you live here, you can use either spelling, but it's guaranteed that if you use 'Saltspring' sooner or later some local will correct you. It isn't just a "very common usage", it is the overwhelmingly dominant local usage, so Dazed is in the right, and the redirect should be in the other direction. -- Wreford ( talk) 23:20, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
I agree that the spelling I observe most commonly is "Salt Spring", two words; that most sources use the "Salt Spring" spelling, and that the redirect should go the other way. The official source which the article cites to justify the place name, http://ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca/bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=13666, give an error 404 as of May 2013. The government Geo BC place names search should be a reliable source, but that search function isn't working for me now. I vote to move this article to Salt Spring Island and redirect from here to there. JimDeLaHunt ( talk) 09:18, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
"Saltspring" is unquestionably the official spelling. https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/13666.html C. Burd, 15 Feb 2019. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.86.141.141 ( talk) 17:47, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
Why all the flags? What are the specific problems on this page? -- Kayoty ( talk) 01:22, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
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A good bit of space here is dedicated to a list of books written about this area. They're not used as citations - it's just a collection of titles on the topic. This seems like a very non-standard inclusion. Is it necessary? Jessicapierce ( talk) 19:56, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
What is Native name for the island? Kaiyr ( talk) 20:02, 2 August 2024 (UTC)