Oaklawn Casino Age
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Today, Oaklawn is Arkansas’ #1 tourist destination. The state-of-the art casino offers live craps, live blackjack, popular slot games, live music, and the award-winning Silks Bar & Grill. Oaklawn began a multi-phased expansion in May 2019. The owner of Oaklawn Racing & Gaming on Monday announced a plan to spend more than $100 million the next two years to build a 200-room hotel and expand its casino by 28,000 square feet.
--12.74.61.48 20:48, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
My name is Matthew C., I am the digital media coordinator for Oaklawn and I am responsible for the accuracy of our information across all digital platforms. Our official name after our expansion in 2010 is 'Oaklawn Racing & Gaming'
I would appreciate any assistance with changing this, and I will verify the content on this page to ensure its accuracy.
If you would like to verify this information or reach me then please email webmaster@oaklawn.com
Oaklawn Racing and Gaming (talk) 18:48, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Matt, I am sending you a welcome message at your talk page, where, first off, I recommend you change your user name, because Wikipedia does not allow corporate accounts. It's a pain for businesses, but I would like to help you out by walking you through the various policies and guidelines. WikiProject Horse racing has some good folks willing to help out as well, but the basic thing is that we require reliable sources for all content, so if you can provide URL links to verify material, that is particularly helpful. That said, wwe als need to be sure to NOT copy and paste straight off your promotional materials (because most are copyrighted and WP cannot plagiarize copyrighted materials in most cases) and the other is to do what you are dong here, which is to disclose your connections and have others look over the content. I'll try to help you the best I can. Montanabw(talk) 02:02, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
- For the 2010 name change, can you provide a news story or some outside source? Clearly the website does show the new name, but it's helpful to have a third party source for the 2010 date and such. Local newspaper would be fine, or perhaps if they ran a story in Blood-Horse. Montanabw(talk) 02:08, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you Montanabw! I am very much still in the learning stages but I greatly appreciate the help. My goal is to add objective/factual data with reliable sources. We did not have a news release highlighting the name change however here are two recent articles from local sources. [1][2] You will also find the full name Oaklawn Racing & Gaming on the Oaklawn.com homepage under the paragraph 'Welcome to Oaklawn'.
Mccoldmc (talk) 15:21, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Mccoldmc! Sorry for the long delay getting back to you, the article title move looks legitimate, so I'll move it. Let me know if there is information you think this article needs, particularly about the history of the track. We are an encyclopedia, not a promotional tool, but we always are glad to improve and expand the encyclopedia. Montanabw(talk) 22:05, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
- Montanabw, you are my new online hero! I have been trying to update our name on Google for 2 months now and it had to be updated here as the two are tied together! I am willing to provide factual well-sourced data and history for you or an editor to approve in the coming months. Please note that my goal here is to correct any false names/dates or info on wikipedia about Oaklawn in order to improve the accuracy of our page. Thank you for helping me do that and I look forward to talking with you in the future. Mccoldmc (talk) 18:47, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
OK. You just might be a good guinea pig here. I'm a little busy on- and off-wiki (I have a real-life job and I'm also trying to take Secretariat's article to good article status) so I'm not in a place where I can put a lot of front line work into this article, but you can do some of the legwork and I am willing to review it. My suggestion is that you propose what you want to add here on this talk page, (even just write it out here as if you were putting it into the article) and I will review it with a neutral eye, make suggestions, and when it is good to go, add it into the article itself. I suggest doing this in small chunks, starting with replacing anything inaccurate that's currently there. Would that work? Montanabw(talk) 20:24, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Just so you know the problem we face, on Wikipedia we have a lot of genuine problems with puff pieces by undisclosed paid editors, which is never OK (they ban editors and delete articles), but our conflict of interest policy, does allow disclosed interests (like you) to be involved in working on article improvement. The COI 'unwritten rules' lean strongly to discouraging people from directly writing articles about their employer or themselves, etc., but don't prohibit it -- the actual rule is kind of fuzzy and is governed by a lot of unwritten rules that around here we call 'consensus.' (basically, someone argued about it and wrote it down on wiki, somewhere, but good luck finding the page that had the discussion that led to the 'consensus.') I'm hoping we can work together here. Montanabw(talk) 20:24, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
'TV personalities' section[edit]
I've moved this text here until someone explains who these people are and what their connection is to Oaklawn. PRRfan (talk) 12:57, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
- Frank Mirahmadi (2012–2015)
- Gary Weir (1985–2013)
- Terry Wallace (1975–2011)[3]
- Nancy Ury (2005-present)
- Vic Stauffer (2017-present)
Hotels Near Oaklawn Casino
- ^'Joe Diffie to headline Oaklawn's Spa Blast'. Oaklawn Racing & Gaming - www.hotsr.com.
- ^'Oaklawn Promotes Bruce Jones to Gaming Director'. Oaklawn Racing & Gaming - www.arkansasbusiness.com.
- ^'Oaklawn Park'. Stride Magazine. 17 March 2010.
Oaklawn Casino Age
A gay man says he faced anti-gay discrimination and rigid gender stereotypes when he went to a casino in Hot Springs, Arkansas with his Louis Vuitton purse.
“Men don’t wear purses,” a security guard allegedly told him.
Related: This fierce lesbian got revenge on her childhood tormentor by stealing her purse
Jordan Kirk tried to walk purse first into the Oaklawn Casino with his husband on Friday, August 7, but the guard told him to leave his purse in his car.
Kirk says he saw women going into the casino with purses and asked why he was being told to leave his.
“I was like well she is taking her purse inside and the lady behind us was like ‘Do I need to take my bag to the car?’ and he was like ‘No, purses are allowed,'” Kirk recounted.
The guard’s supervisor came over and said that the casino’s policy is to ban all bags… but purses are allowed. And the difference appears to be the gender of the person holding it.
“I asked him if a woman was carrying my bag could she take it in the door and he told me yes – but because I wasn’t, I couldn’t take it inside,” said Kirk.
He pointed out that some of the purses women were carrying were bigger than his, and one woman carrying a purse stood up for him and called the policy “discriminating.”
Kirk said that a manager eventually let him in with his purse, but he had to hand it over so that it could be searched for explosives. No one else’s purse was searched.
He later wrote about the incident on Facebook.
“They were worried that a man carrying a ‘bag’ may have explosives,” he wrote. “EXPLOSIVES? You’re kidding me? Because I’m gay, I’m carrying a man purse; now I may carry explosives?”
“Who is going to blow up their Louis Vuitton on purpose?”
Joan Botts, Oaklawn Casino’s director of marketing, sent him an apology on social media.
“On behalf of Oaklawn, I’d like to apologize for the incident and the (in)convenience last night. The situation has been addressed with our team members. Thank you,” she wrote.
Oaklawn released a statement that said they have “appropriately addressed Mr. Kirk’s incident with the team members who were involved along with their supervisors.” The statement did not discuss specific steps being taken or any policy changes made.
“Anyone and everyone over the age of 21 are welcome at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort as long as they adhere to our security requests and guidelines, as well as our COVID-19 precautions and have a valid ID. Safety is and always has been one of our top priorities at Oaklawn – for both our guests and our team members.”