Talk:Franelero

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- The definition of Franelero is heavily biased and it doesn´t acknowledge the problem as a consequence of unemployement, poverty and social exclusion in México, which leads to rampant corruption. The writting on this article is heavily biased and very discriminatory. The article ignore the fact that the problem was created too by the overwhelming amount of cars in Mexico City and the total lack of vision about mobility by the present and past governments of Mexico City. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SinkDeep (talk • contribs) 23:38, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

You are right that the article has some bias, I am going to remove some of the statements without sources. However, don't be naive. Walk the streets of Mexico City and you will see "help wanted" signs everywhere... you can be a waiter, or work in construction, or sell candy on the street. Nobody forces you to do an illegal activity, a type of "mild" extortion, and nobody makes you (implicitly) threaten citizens with damaging their cars, if you don't give them a tip.Keizers (talk) 18:19, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Merge to car guard?

It seems that this article, trapito and car guard are all about the same phenomenon in different countries. (Other language versions of Wikipedia give some additional local names and details, e.g. es:Cuidador de automóviles, pt:Flanelinha, it:Parcheggiatore abusivo.) I'd like to merge these into car guard, which appears to be a reasonably common English term for the practice. Things seem to be pretty quiet here so if nobody squawks fairly soon I will go ahead and boldly merge. -- Visviva (talk) 05:21, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Seconded. As addressed way back in 2012, this article has various significant issues, not the least of which is only has one citation—a URL to a website that's offline. The second sentence in particular is a highly contested claim, and of course, lacks a citation. --Nolangray (talk) 01:54, 11 December 2020 (UTC)