Talk:Seneca, South Carolina

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I don't feel like this section is very encyclopedic. Similar articles like

• I put that there. The DMV is a government office, and one that is more important to your average resident than most other government offices, and one that anyone relocating to Seneca from out of state will need to visit shortly after arrival. If it bothers you that it's there by itself, you'd be better served by including directions to the police department, fire department, and city hall. Vidor 05:45, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think that it detracts from the overall article to have this section at all. I don't that encyclopedia entries are aimed primarily at people moving to a city or even residents of that city (and I think every Seneca resident that needs to know where the DMV is could open the phone book, or check out the SC DMV website); they're designed to give people information of general interest (which could be very specific information about a place, just something that an average reader would find interesting). I think that the chamber of commerce site should have that particular information, not Wikipedia. I'm thinking that a history section would improve the article, a list of historic districts and places would be good, and I'm planning on working on those sections.

I looked at a dozen entries of nearby or South Carolina towns and cities, and none that I saw had this kind of information, information for people moving to the area. An article that shows the direction that I think this article should move in was Gaffney, South Carolina. Darkspots 19:10, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I don't really care what other articles say. But it doesn't matter--I'll take it out. Vidor 21:51, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey how about leaving the article alone.. Seneca is a place that retirees move too, and a little moving to SC information is more than a little handy. You people need to relize that the wikipedia is less a enclolopedia and more information super highway. Some one needs to ad the info to Clemson, SC.. The info is almost the same.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.127.107.11 (talk • contribs) 15:56, 12 December 2006

• Looks like spam to me. Please see
  WP:SPAM for more information about Wikipedia's policy on commercial content. I'm going to remove it from the article, and leave the state park links in for now. Darkspots 22:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply
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I wrote this article and have been adding to it. When you damage it by making corrections to it that you belive are useful it make me angry. LEAVE THIS SITE ALONE. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.127.107.12 (talk • contribs) 12:28, 13 December 2006

• Hi! I think you have a very different understanding of what Wikipedia is than the community at large does. To address the issues that you've raised, here are my thoughts. You feel like you own the article,
  WP:NOT#DIRECTORY, "Wikipedia is not a resource for conducting business". All the content about which we disagree is commercial in nature--the specific DMV information is clearly present only to lead in to the list of auto insurance agencies, and so on. You did not revert any of my edits improving the education and external links. I'm going to revert you one more time, so you read this. And then we'll figure out how to resolve this dispute, if you disagree with me. Cheers, Darkspots 01:52, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply
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The link to www.oconeecountry.com was deleted almost immediately after it was added to the article. I think this could be argued both ways--it is a commercial website, but on the other hand the advertising is not (currently) over the top. And it seems like it may have some useful information in the future. I'm considering restoring the link. Thoughts? Darkspots 14:09, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted the link in the process of cleaning up the city pages linked to from here. I had previously added links to commercial websites in the "External links" sections of many of these pages, and was subsequently informed that they were inappropriate because they did not have a "symmetric relationship" with the subject of the article (i.e. the city). Thus, my understanding is that only "Official" links should be included, i.e. those of the city itself, the local public schools, libraries, chambers of commerce, etc. Basically, the city government has to have some measure of control over the content of the page, either because it is the official city page or the page of some organization they either directly control or over which they have significant influence. --Bill Clark 18:01, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The presence of a list of Seneca's restaurants on this page is unnecessary at the very least and bordering on spam at worse. Besides, having been in Seneca last weekend, I can testify about the presence of other restaurants in town like Los Amigos and the usual Arby's & co. However, listing a town's restaurants (on Wikipedia) satisfies only the vanity of their owners. It should not be allowed and, as long as control of Wikipedia's content is distributed among its users, it *will not* be allowed. Klod 04:43, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good point about the restaurants. I'll remove them--they always seem to sneak back in. Bill, your point is well taken about oconeecountry.com, so I won't restore that. Darkspots 13:50, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article is very unencyclopedic. I am going to try to work on it as much as possible. If anyone will help me, I would appreciate it. Philipnelson99 (talk) 02:25, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]