Talk:Girdwood, Anchorage, Alaska

Alyeska Resort
I created a page for Alyeska Resort Which can also be expanded on. Alyeska 00:14, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Girdwood Rocks!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.112.186.14 (talk) 00:02, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

DO NOT RENT FROM SCOTT KIRK WITH GIRDWOOD REALTY! ..snaked my entire $825.00 deposit saying that I ran up about a thousand dollars in utilities for 2 months in a two bedroom apartment. Bad business practice.


 * This is not the place to vent such frustrations. Alyeska (talk) 20:10, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Why? What better place to make sure innocent and unknowing potential renters don't get ripped off? I mean it is very obvious that he is cooking the books, and if he does it to me he'd do it to anyone. I did nothing to deserve that, but he DID do something to deserve this. The last thing we all need in this faltering economy is some scammer targeting the working class. I am proud of having the constitution to express what I did. Maybe it will help other people. Any suggestions as to why to not 'talk' about bad business practice under the 'talk' section under a city listing? This guy operates a public business, therefore he is subject to public scrutiny regardless the medium. Conjecture is welcome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Artifact81 (talk • contribs) 04:59, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


 * You are soap boxing your personal opinions on an irrelevant business that has little to do with Girdwood and have not presented a shred of evidence to back up your claims. Alyeska (talk) 06:01, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

It has as much to do with Girdwood as the very vitality of the people living there. As far as evidence, I am waiting for my complaints with the Better Business Bureau, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Alaska Attorney General to come back. Meanwhile, I've not attested that my opinion, was any more or less verifiable than anything else on the web that does not cite sources, the corresponding article for example. This is not encyclopedic content, and I have not proposed it to be. Hence my only posting it in this section and not the article which would require verification. Nonetheless I can do that in time.

I agree that this content may be more appropriate in an article about negligent and fraudulent businesses in Girdwood, but no such article exists. If you would like I can write an entire article about socially irresponsible business in Girdwood like Girdwood Realty and post a link to it in your article.

Lisa Murkowski
In response to, I spent all of two minutes or less finding this published seven-and-a-half years ago. Similar offline sources exist dating as far back as 2011 which state the same thing. So what exactly is being accomplished through editing activity such as this? Does this move the project further in the direction of being a useful information resource? The message it sends me is that someone with years and years of time here and a bunch of edits is expecting a new user making their second edit to do all the heavy lifting and to not bother contributing anything until they're ready to do that. In case anyone is in denial, the state of encyclopedic content on Wikipedia lags far, far behind both its activity level and maturity level. If you read this all the way through, you'll understand that taking 20 years to accomplish approximately five percent of the total goal is really nothing to brag about. Admins more concerned with control than with building a useful information resource have plenty to do with that situation. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 17:16, 14 August 2021 (UTC)