Talk:2010 UCI Road World Championships
Latest comment: 13 years ago by Severo in topic Marketing hype does get in the way of sense at times
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Marketing hype does get in the way of sense at times edit
We have "Over 400 of the world’s best cyclists will descend on Melbourne to compete in Time Trial and Road Race events based in Geelong." Now, Melbourne and Geelong are separate cities, around 75 km apart. The sentence makes no logical sense. Surely they would descend on Geelong to compete in Time Trial and Road Race events based in Geelong.
I know the marketing people want to use the name Melbourne because it is better known, but can they please stop mangling the language, and feeding garbage into article like this. HiLo48 (talk) 11:08, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
- That exact wording appears in numerous websites. Are they all copying us? I tend to doubt it. Nosleep (Talk · Contribs) 23:44, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
- I note that User:Severo has been bold and removed the offending text, on the grounds of "probable copyvio". A good move. HiLo48 (talk) 08:12, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
- As per Nosleep, looks and reads like it was taken directly from a press release and in turn copied by some media. Probably a copyvio, but if the media were copying us, then it's in the page history anyway. SeveroTC 08:27, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
- Oh and we can note that the offending text was added by Melbourne 2010 (talk · contribs) who has no other edits on Wikipedia. I'd say no comment was needed on that. SeveroTC 08:32, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
- I note that User:Severo has been bold and removed the offending text, on the grounds of "probable copyvio". A good move. HiLo48 (talk) 08:12, 16 September 2010 (UTC)