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IMO, the Wikivoyage link is a better one: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Avoiding_travel_through_the_U...

In general I'd recommend Wikivoyage over Wikitravel - the material seems fresher and it is run by a community rather than a corporation with heavy-handed policies.

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For anyone new to the distinction, Internet Brands bought Wikitravel and the community didn't like that, so they forked to Wikivoyage. IB tried suing Wikivoyage for this despite it being allowed under the content license -- either IB didn't do their due diligence on the license of the content they bought, or they thought they could bully the community fork through the cost of fighting it alone. It was eventually thrown out of court, as it should have been.

Wikivoyage is now hosted by Wikimedia, the same nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia.

Thank you for the context.

Just to really emphasize this... Internet Brands literally sued one of the volunteer admins for this[1].

Please use Wikivoyage instead!

[1] Disclosure: As an admin, I may or may not have been one of the "unnamed co-conspirators" in the lawsuit before IB dropped the suit

Thanks for fighting for what's right! I was not involved and was mostly recalling on memory, did I get any details wrong?

I wasn't the one who actually got sued. He had to deal with the mountain of nonsense, not me

That reads like vBulletin vs XenForo to me. Funny.

> recommend Wikivoyage over Wikitravel

Seconded. Wikivoyage was a fork of Wikitrsvel. The history is... interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Brands#Wikitravel_a...

Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Brands#Wikitravel_and...

Are there any community guidelines around linking to sources when making claims about what a party might have said? On that very page is the claim:

> US officials have said Canadians may be banned for life from entering the US for legally smoking it, or for working for or investing in the legal companies involved.

Which may very well be true, but cannot be verified without a source.

Just checked the article Talk page and the editor who added it linked to https://www.thestar.com/amp/news/cannabis/2018/09/13/canadia... from there.

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