Talk:Red Mountain Resort

Red Resort's advertising campaign
I just heard the ad on TV the other night - they identified Red as being in the "Kootenay Rockies". Well, the Kootenay Rockies would have to be the ones east of Cranbrook and Invermere, and this is two whole mountain ranges away (the Purcells are in between, and Red's in the Rossland Range of the Monashee Mountains, NOT the Rockies). This should be in the article somewhere - that the resort's ad company got it wrong - but not sure how to put it without being sorta POV (resort marketing people take note, and also pls note guidelines at WP:COI.Skookum1 20:47, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Response: the "Kootenay Rockies" term used is not geographical, it is the term used by the BC Government to define an area for tourism purposes. Lots of marketing brochures out there with the "KR" name on them, it's not an error by Red itself. I'm a bit of a newbie or I'd figure out how to include a link to the BC government site. Try Googling Kootenay Rockies and I think you'll find it. Basically, the Kootenay Rockies is everything in southern BC from the Alberta Border to the Okanagan Valley. Your average die-hard skier types will recognize the name "Kootenays" but the Moms, Dads and kids from Eastern Canada, the USA and Australia pay the bills at the hill, and they recognize the name "Rockies." 24.71.4.61 (talk) 04:21, 10 January 2008 (UTC)Paul Meyer


 * Yeah, but so what who cares? Wikipedia Notability does not take in government rebranding campaigns as factual or meaningful in any other way than being marketing agendas.  If Mom & Pop and the Kids think thsee are the Rockies, and are told by the govenrment that they're Rockies, they'll start to think that they ARE the Rockies.  In any case, othegr C Govt ministries/agencies have other names for vaiorus areas, and all ahve different boundaries, and few of them jibe with tourism-ministry promotiona areas.  Wikipedia is not going to model itself on what hte BC Government's advertising agencies tell them to call itself.Skookum1 (talk) 13:20, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

De-brochurized
Slavish content from resort brochure materials deleted and converted to wikistyle.Skookum1 (talk) 13:22, 7 June 2008 (UTC)