Talk:Carl G. Fisher

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Contents 1 What happened to this article? 2 Did You Know 3 Dealership with Oldfield? 4 astigmatism != myopia

[edit] What happened to this article?

This article has disappeared? Even though there is text that can be edited in the article? What gives?

• • I can see it. Maybe it was a server glitch. Please try again and send me a message on my Talk page if you wnat to discuss this. WP Admin Vaoverland 21:27, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

The "article" page for this entry for me, either logged in or not, is the "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name." error page. (Sobesurfski 17:07, 18 September 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Did You Know

This article was listed in Did You Know section of the main page (March 8, 2005).

[edit] Dealership with Oldfield?

Interesting article on Carl. I enjoyed it. I do a lot of research on Carl, Barney Oldfield, early American auto racing and the founding of the Indianapolis 500. One point I highlighted that I have never seen before and therefore question its accuracy. I am talking about the reference to Oldfield helping Fisher found his auto dealership. I do not believe that is true. However, Oldfield did become the first man to complete a mile on a circulate a track in less than a minute in a race meet that Fisher promoted June 17, 1903. The resulting fervor did boost sales at Fisher's dealership. I'd be interested to know more if there is a credible source that Barney helped Carl with the founding, but at the time that dealership started, Barney had not yet risen to fame and had few resources to be of assistance to anyone.

Mark Dill, June 3, 2005.

Thanks. Here is the source for that statement: [1] "He went into partnership with his friend, Barney Oldfield and opened what was probably the very first auto dealership in America." I will modify the text in the article to indicate the source. Vaoverland 07:23, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] astigmatism != myopia

The article claims that he was astigmatic, then (used to) claim "a sensory disability commonly known as extreme nearsightedness". The two optical problems are entirely different. He may have had both, or his astigmatism may have been called nearsightedness, but something's wrong. --Andrew 04:32, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

I see the article has been revised to limit it to saying what we know from several sources. More details of his visual problem do not seem to be readily available, so this seems a wise change, since we do not want to misinform. Thanks. Vaoverland 17:15, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)