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Formatting and language conventions
Please show prices in this format: COP$100, and not 100 pesos, or COP 100. Although "$" is commonly used to denote pesos, Wikivoyage uses this notation for clarity because prices in tourist areas are sometimes listed in US$. Please use American spelling. |
Phone numbers
[edit]A few phone numbers in the format "(601) 7654321" were recently added. Is that a common way to tell the numbers? I couldn't see how to change that into a diallable form using the advice in Colombia#Dialling. Is it just +57 601 7654321? Or is the 60 some prefix used just from landlines, so that the real number is +57 1 7654321? The format used locally should be explained in the Dialling section. –LPfi (talk) 22:29, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
Scopalamine
[edit]It looks like a 2016 edit in Talk:Bogotá got ignored
- The medical community is not convinced that scopolamine has the ability to lower a human's inhibitions enough for them to be mind controlled, zombified, or any of the other ridiculous claims that are attributed to it. Here's an example. It seems a bit sensationalist to continue to referring to the drug this way in articles about Colombia. Vantine84 (talk) 10:02, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
I know nothing about this drug, but the language Vantine84 alludes to is still in this article (not in Bogotá, where they removed it in 2016). Should it be? Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:26, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- The example story tells about exaggerations that I don't find in our article. We could tone it down a little more, and some of the details (such as about CIA's experiments) could be left out, but if incidents are common, then a warning is appropriate. Whether it is this drug or some other that has been used is mostly irrelevant for the traveller. You don't have to become a zombie for such crimes to be a hazard. –LPfi (talk) 08:35, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
- What you wrote in your last sentence is certainly true. Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:44, 13 February 2023 (UTC)