Talk:List of islands of the Maldives

Advertising
I am aware that the tag advertising is a bit harsh, but the newly added "table of islands" has a lot of characteristics of advertising. For example the island of "Kaohera", that is uninhabited but has as capital "Kaohera Beach". Or the island "Madoogali" that has just 51 inhabitants and has "Madoogali resort" as capital and "Haruge beach" and "Mariyadehe beach" as "Other Cities". Beaches are clearly not cities and in most cases also not even permanent human settlements. A major clean up is needed because it feels like a covert tourist advertisement. The Banner talk 09:58, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Advertising - Respond
1. The Maldives are undergoing a political demography administrative change. Tourism ministry has established a new "council" for resorts. They have realised that many resorts have internet connection and resort islands of more than 100 staff need to appoint a representative for this council. Creating this council will hopefully end the many strikes during the past year and bring more comfort to the employees union. This is why the plan is now to add the resort islands to the 2014 census.

2. In order to identify between uninhabited islands, there is a field "other" where uninhabited islands which has no use are listed, and, if an island is used as a picnic island, or has some different amenties/activities such as Maldives Military training base or Agricultural farms, fisheries, airports, than it is listed within the list.

3. There are no links to the websites of the islands, so this is deffinitely not an advertisement. there even are no pictures of the resorts or information on the prices etcetrra....

Sorry, but we will leave it like this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HonorTheIsland (talk • contribs) 22:13, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I have cut out all beaches, resorts, clubs, picnic island and a few other tourist destinations. Wikipedia is not a tourist guide. The Banner talk 12:28, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

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Substituted at 03:14, 3 May 2016 (UTC)