Talk:Edelweiss Lodge and Resort

Is this article intended to be free advertising space for this facility? I ask because it's nowhere near "encyclopedic in nature". The detailed current eligibility requirements for staying in this facility (which are highly subject to change) have no place here. Nor does the naming of a particular travel agency currently located in the facility. There is no mention of the great expense incurred in maintaining this arguably underutilized US DoD leisure facility, estimated to run in the millions of $US each year. It would seem that the entire article was written by the facility's (or its parent organization's) PR department.

Just as with the Wikipedia article on United Services Organization, Wikipedia unfortunately allows too much discretion in allowing the entities themselves to toot their own horn (and to remove derogatory, yet truthful information) at will, greatly damaging the reputation of Wikipedia.

--JJ--  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:6:2347:D433:2CF1:BE2B:54D0:802C (talk) 15:16, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Not only does it seem a bit like an advert, some of it seems to be copypasted from what I guess is military boilerplate. oatco (talk) 21:29, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 05:12, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

History of AFRC facilities
Is there some place where some of this history is located? It is a storied history that is also worthy of cataloging here at WP.

Probable copypasting
The long list of eligibility requirements in the lead section of this article seem first of all to be pretty irrelevant for a general audience encyclopedia (it could basically be summarized as "active duty US military, their families, and employees of the military") and second of all it seems copypasted. Surely enough, I found that contains basically the same list, in a page with "© 2020 Army MWR" in the footer, with extra details that were. I'm also inclined to agree with the above that this article in general seems quite like an advertisement, although admittedly not exactly ready to be printed in a brochure. — oatco (talk) 21:50, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
 * And an archive.org link to the site in question: — oatco (talk) 21:52, 4 October 2020 (UTC)