Talk:Locomotive Act

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[edit] Suppress Motor Cars?

Suppress motor cars in the 1860s? Pull the other one. Norvo 15:33, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it was dumb. I took it out. --61.214.155.14 (talk) 04:44, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

He was notable, he wrote it, it is a significant view. It should stay in. -- de Facto (talk). 09:00, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

The major issue is that we provide no way for the reader to assess the validity of the claim. If the claim itself is notable, then there should be some other sources either supporting it or refuting it. If no such sources exist, then the claim has a notability problem. If such sources exist but we ignore them, then we have a NPOV problem. As Norvo originally pointed out, the claim is pretty absurd on its face. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" --61.214.155.14 (talk) 05:10, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Locomotives"

The use of the term "locomotive" seems to be confusing a few editors. Here it refers to "road locomotives" - a common term for motorised vehicles in the age before internal combustion engines were common place. It does not refer to locomotive trains that run on rails. I have therefore reinstated a WikiProjectRoads class but removed an earlier WikiProjectTrains class. Ephebi (talk) 18:39, 28 April 2008 (UTC)