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Comments
Comments are where you can, well, make comments about a place. If you wish to express your personal opinion, this is the right spot for it, and not in the place description. Information that is also outside the scope of Neutral Point of View information to the WikiMapia article is also welcome in the tag, although keep in mind that unwelcome, offensive, meaningless, talk between users, or unrelated comments will be removed. However, if you have information that should be in the description, please feel free to edit the tag.
Comments live at the bottom of each place tag, and they are supposed to be written in the same language as the main page. To add a comment, click directly on the “add your comment in <Language>” message and then type in your comment. If you have not registered you will also need to add your name. When you’re done, click the Send message button (or Cancel).
On existing comments you will also see the comment’s author, a couple of voting buttons (green up-thumb and red down-thumb), and the net good/bad vote count. If you created the comment yourself these buttons are greyed out, so you can’t vote for your own comment!
Comments Q & A
What can I write in a comment
The basic rules are the same as for what you can write in the place tag’s main description field, except that here you are welcome to express an opinion. What this means is that (for example) you can say that you think this pizza place has the best pizza in town, or you thought the art gallery was really worth visiting, or you didn’t like the way you were treated at the bus station. It does not mean that (for example) you can write offensive or abusive comments, or engage in political or religious discussions, or use it as a place where you exchange messages with your friends. The basic point here is that the comments are supposed to be about the place itself, and not something else entirely.
How do I delete a bad comment?
You can vote for or against a particular comment by clicking the green up-thumb or the red down-thumb. When a comment has enough negative votes it gets tagged as "abusive", and is not immediately displayed.
This does not actually delete the comment, however. Only advanced users are able to permanently delete comments (by clicking the “stop” button), and then only those comments with a net negative vote count. If you see a comment that should be deleted, please bring it to the attention of the Forum; there should already be a topic in the "Correction Support" section for this. Be specific about which place tag and which comment(s) are offensive and we’ll see what we can do, but please translate non-English comments for us.
Why are the authors of some comments shown as blue links, but others are just black?
The names in blue are registered users (and you can click on them to see that user’s profile), whereas names in black are unregistered users.
