Talk:Skiathos

Skiathos 2007 forest fire.

Regarding the article on the Skiathos 2007 forest fire! This article is actually non encyclopedic. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia not a news articles presentation. There are forest fires across Greece every year and thats a known fact, From the end of June to early September 2007, over 3,000 forest fires were recorded across the nation. Should we mention every single fire on every location on Wikepedia? Skiathos is internationally know for being an island covered with pine forests, and after the 2007 forest fire the geographical aspect has not changed. --Nick Karvounis (talk) 07:19, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

3PO A third opinion was requested. Listing this fire sounds at the moment to be unnecessary. Did it have any effect other than the evacuation? 3000 fires in Greece is a lot. What makes this fire so notable that it needs more weight given to it in this article than any other fire in Skiathos' history? NJGW (talk) 22:21, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

At the time, at least, it devastated the island. I was there the year before the fire and then immediately after it. The North side of the island had turned from a pine forest into a mass of charcoal. The military watchtower on the top of the mountain had burned down. In order to stop the fire spreading the Greeks had built firebreaks. The island had been a haven for walkers. Firebreaks had been built along some of the most important walking routes ruining their beauty. The question is not how many fires Greece suffers per year, but what effect they have on Skiathos. Keithbowden (talk) 21:00, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Spam links don't belong

The link to http://loveskiathos.co.uk/ is a spam link. The site in question is devoted mostly to advertisments for resorts, hotels and restaurants. Right in the middle of the site's home page, it says in big letters: "if you have a business on the island that you wish to have featured please head of to the contact us page for information on how we will add you to our site." You can't get more commercial than that. Commercial sites -- that is, sites devoted substantially to offering goods or services for sale, even if they also include other information -- are clearly inappropriate to WP. If you disagree with this judgement, the proper course is to discuss the issue here and try to reach a consensus on it before reverting the deletion again. Littlewindow (talk) 16:42, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

That link, which was put in repeatedly by an anonymous IP, has now been deleted by two different registered editors. Under the circumstances, it would very clearly be inappropriate for the anonymous IP to keep adding the link. If the anonymous IP disagrees, the proper procedure is to discuss it here. Littlewindow (talk) 15:03, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

WARNING !!!

SKIATHOS is a very unpopular airport among pilots ! Nothing which the Travelling Agencies informes their customers about.

My dad is a retired civil airliner captain who flew for Conair of Scandinavia 1967-1993 and Premiair 1993-1997 (the precise year Scanair and Conair merged into Premiair may have been a year later or sooner, I don't remember). During most of his 30 year long career, Funchal at Madeira was the most feared airport. This appears to be known and accepted at Wikipedia. (One obsticle at Funchal was the rather short mid-Atlantic airport, wasn't long enough for many aircrafts to reach rotate speed, depending of distance and type of aircraft. And typically a Boeing 720 bound for Copenhagen wasn't fueled at Funchal if remaining fuel was sufficient for a save "jump" to the nearby smaller island. An island which though had a far better runway) But also the landing at Madeira (which totally lacked ILS) was unpleasant. However towards the end of my dad's career, another NIGHTMARE airport appeared among the many Greek islands, SKIATHOS. According to my dad, the (only) runway could only be landed from one direction, as of 1997 the runway is very short (also for the at the time very modern Airbus A320), there is an annoying hill located little away from the runway. And in cloudy weather, there are sharp mountain peaks close to the suggested approach path, and it lacked ILS system. And due to the surrounding mountains, the wind can change enough to be unpleasant for the pilots. All dads collegues agreed on this. And sooner or later some kind of accident will happen at SKIATHOS, that it hasn't happened yet only depends on the very small size of the airport. It is possible that the airport 18 years later has been improved, but honnestly would recommend OTHER Greece islands instead. But my dad would NEVER travel to SKIATHOS, for given reasons. Boeing720 (talk) 00:22, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

This may all be true, and it would be relevant to the article, but it should only be in the article if it can be verified by citation to a respectable source: for instance, an article in a respected main stream newspaper or magazine, a book by a major publisher on airline safety, or published safety ratings of the Skiathos airport by government agencies or professional airline industry groups. Littlewindow (talk) 15:27, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

More spam

Once again we have an anonymous IP obstinately inserting and re-inserting a spam link into the article, this time http://www.skiathosisland.com/en/, a clearly commercial site which says, "skiathosisland.com presents the business and you are able to book directly with the owners,..." This is very clearly spam and does NOT belong in a Wikipedia article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Littlewindow (talk • contribs) 20:34, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Is the IPA correct? It seems to show [SKAH-thohs] is the pronunciation when it should be [SKYAH-thohs]. Yes? 69.113.151.63 (talk) 19:51, 19 August 2019 (UTC)corpho