Talk:Westin Hotels & Resorts

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While I am a devoted customer of Westin Hotels, this reads like a rather overstated advertising piece. It would be perfectly valid to speak of Westin's positioning vis-a-vis other hotels, but with less emotional words. The chain indeed does differentiate itself from others in a comparable price range. --Hcberkowitz 04:29, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Howard Berkowitz, happy to be avoiding business travel.[reply]

agreed, the use of the word 'upscale' in the first sentence grabbed me.--Bridgecross 02:36, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- never mind, I have found independent sources that rate Westin as 'upscale' --Bridgecross 14:43, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to Mean as custard for taking out some of the advertising stuff. More remains to be done though, especially in the "Notable hotels" section which already bears the tag.

For one thing, superlatives and unique selling points should never go unsourced in Wikipedia, and there is quite a number of those in that section: the only, the oldest, the tallest (the tallest what, by the way: the tallest building? the tallest hotel? the tallest Westin?)... those claims absolutely require citation.
The "highest hotel lobby" is in fact also an unsourced claim, as the cited article only mentions the hotel's own claims to this superlative but no evidence of this actually being so.

Also, there is a number of flowery terms which are really unencyclopedic unless quoted from a source: "iconic", "grande dame". The adjectives "historic" or "famous" also appear like unencyclopedic advertisement unless supported by a good source.

As English is not my native language, I would ask that someone else do this. Thanks. --84.190.83.223 (talk) 06:18, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Name change

I work for a Westin Hotel and was told by the company that the name change from Western to Westin happened in 1969. While the company can say that and it may be another thing altogether, I also noticed no citation for the 1980 year. Can we figure this out? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.62.29.178 (talk) 22:38, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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