Talk:Outer Banks/Archive 1

It's a place where adventure is still possible, where romance thrives, and where tide charts, seagulls, and wild ponies take precedence over convention and pretense.

Touching, but unencyclopedic. -- Montrealais

OBX
I deleted the article OBX as per Vfd, because of a consensus to merge and redirect here. The text of OBX was: According to a popular line of advertising merchandise, OBX stands for the "Outer Banks" of North Carolina, a popular tourist destination. Any interested user is free to merge this in somewhere; I don't know where to merge it to. Ingoolemo  talk 00:39, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)

Who in the hell is Ross Patterson and why do you think you have the authority to decide about info on the Outer Banks.

Copyright Thing
I was looking for some more material for a college paper, and I ran across a page with nearly identical text to the opening paragraph to this article at, so I've put up the Copyright flag. -T2X 03:39, 28 September 2005 (UTC).

copyright
I created this image in powerpoint.

I am pretty sure that it is PD but does anyone have contrary information? MPS 16:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Are you sure you didn't mean Photoshop? Powerpoint is a presentation program. I would be really amazed if you did that in Powerpoint... if so, show me how!!! --TinMan 02:45, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Powerpoint has a standard set of drawing tools. I would be really amazed if you couldn't figure them out after giving it half a shot. —Ksn 21:13, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Restaurants
What's the purpose of listing the eateries? If the reader isn't in this location they won't be interested, and if they are they can simply look in the yellow pages. What's the encyclopedic value? -Will Beback 20:59, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Shown Below
The last sentence in the main article before the Contents box states the following: The popular OBX sticker is shown below. No sticker is shown... ???


 * The sticker was removed because it was deemed to have been copyrighted, though I notice it's still on this page. -Will Beback 03:48, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

OBX singular or plural?
I see inconsistency as to whether "the outer banks" is singular or plural. For example, "The Outer Banks consists" indicates singular while "The Outer Banks are also the site" indicates plural. Which is it? (I suggest singular.) —Ksn 00:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I've struggled with this as well. It can be used as either singular and plural, but for this article I think it's singular. The Outer Banks is a group of barrier islands. Although it sends off warning signals in the grammar part of my brain, at second look, it's more correct. It's the same as saying "The Marshall Islands is a republic." It should be treated like the word "people", which is singular, but describes a group. --TinMan 02:43, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I see your point, but in this case I think it's more appropriate to defer to local usage, which is plural. Andrew 00:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't know what that means, local usage. If you look at the Visitor's Bureau website, they use singular. So I'm gonna change it. It makes more sense geologically as well. Civil Engineer III (talk) 17:35, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Local means the locals who were born here and live here use OUTER BANKS. That is the only way to say it. Some unknown nobody does not have the right to come to a site with the correct usage of the word and change it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.1.209.66 (talk) 03:11, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

My Spanish Mustangs...
How can horses "wash" ashore???!!!??? --Carlon 23:27, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


 * The same way people do: by shipwreck. Remember, horses were re-introduced into the Americas by the Spanish conquistadores, who brought them across the Atlantic.  RossPatterson 21:28, 22 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, the horses, aka banker ponies, came from ships that ran onto shoals. Horses had the least amount of value, compared to cows, pigs etc.  They were "beast of burden".  So they were thrown overboard so the ships could re float.  The horses on ocracoke are from the same line as the horses on corolla.  The Lifeguarding service used them to carry their equipment north, and left them near corolla. btw, remember that ocracoke and hatteras island at one time were connected, as was hatteras island and the mainland/bodie island.   P G  Pirate  14:22, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

This is a horrible page
Can nobody fix this? I'm not an article writer, but this article is horrible in many ways, including being cut off. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.166.95.245 (talk) 01:26, 22 June 2009 (UTC) I agree...virtually all of the articles regarding the Outer Banks and Eastern North Carolina are very misleading..I am pretty much planning on rewriting all of them some day when I can get my facts straight and reference the sources because otherwise everything I write will be deleted by the commercial interest which dominate these articles..btw..the Roanoke colonist did not disappear or relocate to Buxton and merge with the Hatteras Indians...they moved to mainland Dare oounty which is where the Hatteras Indians had already relocated to to shelter themselves from white encroachment where the two cultures eventually merged and evolved into the people who live there now and probably the Lumbee Indians. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lonepilgrim007 (talk • contribs) 03:02, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

History
This is a self reference to organize the future history section of the article

-Geological Formation- -Pre Colombian Era- -American Colonial History- -19th Century- -Early 20th century- -World War II- -Contemporary Development-