Talk:Personal luxury car
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[edit] US-specific?
(Moved to "American personal luxury car". I think Europe already got there by 1955. "Invented by Ford". Yeah. Whatever. "Introduced to the US market", maybe. How is copying others "inventing?")
Well, I don't necessarily dispute the edit as a minor clarification, but I do think the reasoning given is shaky. I would like to encourage Tagishsimon to give us an article on European Personal Luxury Cars, Pre-1955. I doubt there being anything to put in it, frankly, but if I'm wrong I will be happy to learn something new and stand corrected. RivGuySC 02:34, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I personally dispute the move. The word 'American' already existed in the article, so it wasn't as if there was any ambiguity in the article. Does every article about an American phenomenon now have to have 'American' in the title, lest it be mistaken for a worldwide phenomenon? Do Europeans, or anyone else, use the exact phrase "personal luxury car" to describe something else? Given that I lived in England until 7 years ago, I doubt it; I've never heard the term used for other than the North American car classification. In general, we only disambiguate articles by nation when there is actual ambiguity to overcome, as in multiple things called the same name.
- I'm moving it back, in the absence of any (IMO) adequately justified reason for it. If you disagree, let's discuss here.
- Yes, it's certainly the case that there were European cars that were somewhat similar before the mid 60s. Though I'd argue that many of them were not exactly comparable and could not have been sold successfully in that market segment in the US. —Morven 08:10, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)
Just added some minor wikification as requested on the Clean-up page. Was going to edit as them requested but it's a bit more than I can handle at this hour. Not written in a very "straight-forward" style (but not necessarily bad.) Long, Tall Texan 06:15, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)
- As I recall, the initial revision of this article was copied from my Everything2 article of the same name. Everything2 has a rather different 'house style' and thus it doesn't read quite 'Wikipedially'. There's a lot that needs to be tightened up and perhaps a revising into more of a 'news style' would be better. —Morven 08:21, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)
