Talk:Bicycle uses

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[edit] Bicycle activism, or bicycling activism?

Should the heading of the subsection bicycle activism be changed to bicycling activism? I think of bicycle activism as more what bicycle manufacturers do... sell bicycles, while bicycling activism is what those of who promote the activity of bicycling do. No? --Serge 17:07, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

QUICK! I NEED HELP "In which country were bicycles first used?" >x<ino 10:17, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Why?

Why this article? When I use a bicycle, I'm cycling, and vice versa, right? As far as I see, there are too many bike articles and not enough thoughts to go around among them. Jim.henderson 04:19, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Because the Bicycle article was "Very Long". I guess all the text about bicycle uses that I removed from the Bicycle article could go into the Cycling article, but I didn't see that excellent suggestion anywhere in the long-standing discussion on Talk:Bicycle. Since May 2006, the only suggestions made were about moving text into new articles, and every previous move has been applauded.-AndrewDressel 04:38, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Applause I'll grant for getting this material out of bicycle which indeed still ought to be trimmed of most social, economical, political, historical, physiological and other non mechanical material. Now the best course is to move the every interesting non machine material that's here, into where it actually belongs, which for the most part is in cycling. I have done this a number of times elsewhere, moving larger articles into smaller ones that had the correct name (still plenty small enough to avoid any automated or human warnings about "Too big"). It does take some editorial effort to flatten out the seams when merging, but that's why we took on the job of editorial seamstresses, right?

I mean, bikes are mainly two things, a machine and an action. So, cycling ought to be the headquarters and link root for the action, as bicycle is the link root for gearshifts, frames, tires, speedometers and other machinery. Once this article has had its material stripped out and sent to cycling or elsewhere, it ought to be reduced to a redirect. Jim.henderson 06:50, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like a great plan. -AndrewDressel 14:36, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Probably section 3, Social and historical aspects, including Economic implications, Female emancipation, Other social implications, and Cycling and public health, of the bicycle article could all be moved into the existing cycling article as well. -AndrewDressel 06:03, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Gone now. All that was here has been moved to Cycling. Jim.henderson 03:29, 23 January 2007 (UTC)