User talk:Bestuse

Hi Bestuse,

My name is Lara Kaufmann and I am the Public Relations Director for the Greenville Downtown Airport. I see that you have added some information about the Greenville Downtown Airport to its Wikipedia page. Wikipedia has a Neutral Point of View policy that states that all users must be "Editing from a neutral point of view (NPOV) which means representing fairly, proportionately, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources'''. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV

I feel that your edits do not follow the spirit of this rule. I have looked on the website and they say that I should ask you to make changes to your edits first. For example several of your statements are not sourced and don't appear to be from a neutral point of view.

For example:

You state that the airport is "operated primarily for the benefit of a private religious institution, Bob Jones University". While they are currently a tenant of the airport. They by no means own or run it. (published by what reliable sources?)

The City Council exempts the airport from complying with local noise ordinances despite thousands of complaints each year which go undocumented (published by what reliable sources?)

You say that the other airports in the area are "safer" (published by what reliable sources?)

You state that the other airports are "professional jet-certified airports" (this isn't a classification that I have ever heard of)

You state that "There is a current proposal to consolidate downtown operations with a new general aviation center at SCTAC, ten minutes away, thereby opening the property for private investment and infil while improving economic development potential for ICAR and the Donaldson area. http://www.greenvillecounty.org/County_Council/boards_commissions/airport_commission... ((published by what reliable sources?)

You state that "Resident aircraft at the downtown airport may avoid property taxes by hiding or parking aircraft elsewhere during the annual tax audit period or classifing their aircraft as tie-down or university exempt" (published by what reliable sources?)

You state that "A simple time-on-tarmac tax and a 50 landing fee to compensate for public land use has been opposed by University interests and Commission associates" (published by what reliable sources?)

The airport opened in 1928 not 1937

"to close the airport to minorities" (published by what reliable sources?)

It has operated as a private airport since that time (published by what reliable sources?)

The contract FAA officials serve at the pleasure of the Commission so enforcement if any is lax. (published by what reliable sources?)

Private university students provide security and late night smuggling by undocumented aircraft and persons has reportedly been a problem covered-up (published by what reliable sources?)

City law enforcement does not regularly patrol or have access to the airport area (published by what reliable sources?)

Cargo is not inspected and passengers are not required to be documented(published by what reliable sources?)

It was from this airport that the fatal flight of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Convair 240 departed on October 20, 1977. Other crashes have occured involving loss of life but no efforts have been made thus far, to consolidate operations at the safer SCTAC away from highways, lights and dense population (published by what reliable sources?)

"four strip clubs along the paremeter" (published by what reliable sources?)

"In July 2008 DayJet announced nonstop per seat VLJ service on twin pilot, twin jet planes to 14 hubs in 3 states bolstering the Air Taxi component of the airport's flights. DayJet discontinued operations later in 2008 after declaring bankruptcy and having its assets seized." (Dayjet was never a tenant of the downtown airport)(published by what reliable sources?)

The Airport Commission doesn't operate a golf course or a snack bar. It leases land to a private company, who runs the golf course. They in turn pay rent and taxes. The airport, as do many other airports, has many tenants who all pay rent and taxes. The airport like all airports is a government entity that is exempt from taxes. The rents collected pay the airport's bills so the airport doesn't have to rely on any local tax money to operate.

Please change your edits to reflect the above information.

Thanks, Lara Kaufmann